Titoli in Legge

Jury duty happens to everyone. When the call came to Graham Burnett, a young historian, he had a shock in store. A Trial by Jury is his startling account of how performing this familiar civic duty challenged him in ways he never thought possible and turned into one of the most consuming...

From the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer comes a "dazzling and stimulating" exploration of how the creation of the ten commandments provides the origins to today's law (Library Journal). Alan Dershowitz is one of America's most famous litigation experts. In the Genesis of...

Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: On a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At the "Body Farm," nature takes its course, with corpses buried in shallow graves, submerged in water...

What was it in Sandra Day O'Connor's background and early life that helped make her the woman she is today-the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America? In this beautiful, illuminating, and unusual book, Sandra Day O'Connor, with her brother...

World-renowned women's rights attorney and civil rights advocate Gloria Allred shares empowering life lessons learned while fighting on the front lines for victims' rights Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time as ""one of the nation's most effective...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme...

في مسار معاكس للرأي السائد للمجتمع المتزوج وما قبل المتزوج.. أرى أن الزواج ليس بمرحلة تبدأ من النقطة "صفر" بل هو الاستمرار الطبيعي لسُنة حياة البني آدم باختلاف العرق والثقافة والجنس والخصال والعادات وما غلى ذلك بما يحمله الزواج كم استقرار نفسي مصاحب لقدسية لها سحرها الخاص. وهذا ليس بالدليل القاطع على تلك الحياة الوردية في خيال البعض.. أو نظيرتها الكحلية في خيال البعض الآخر . إنما هي رحلة كفاح وصمود لابد أن تستمتع بها لترى نفسك تتغير من أجل الوصول إلى المثالية الواقعية والمنطقية وبكل ما فيها من اجتهادات لفك طلاسمها وتخطي عقابتها ..

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice For decades, affirmative action reshaped not just American higher education but the broader society, opening doors that had been closed for centuries and transforming who entered the pathways to power. But the Supreme Court in 2023 killed...

“Fans of the forensics-oriented novels of such mystery writers as Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell...not to mention television series like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, will make an eager audience for this one.”—Booklist On a patch of land in the Tennessee hills, human corpses...

Until he joined the U.S. government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar without going to college and after completing only one year of law school. Jackson became, in rapid succession, United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, where he successfully defended New Deal programs before the Supreme Court.

Trata-se de um estudo voltado ao reconhecimento do Direito Processual Constitucional brasileiro. Apesar da sua aura científica ser plena, seu corpo formal carece de reconhecimento. Mostrou-se aqui a autonomia científica do novel ramo de Direito Público, imbricado numa necessidade não só acadêmica, mas profissional. O processo constitucional precisa e deve ser codificado, trazendo assim objetividade, clareza e celeridade no seu modus operandi. Finalmente, o Direito Processual Constitucional é sim ramo de Direito Público, líquido e certo.

A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall. For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials...

In Cartel Nation, listeners are taken deep inside the hidden machinery of Mexico’s drug cartels—a world where criminal networks rival governments, warlords command armies, and pop culture glorifies the very violence that terrorizes entire regions. Through gripping storytelling and meticulous investigation, this book unveils how cartels moved from the shadows into the center of politics, business, and everyday life.

In the book Fatal Chemistry, one gets to know the frightful reality of the rise of fentanyl, which is a synthetic opioid that has changed the face of addiction, broken families, and put the limits of medicine, policy, and even human nature to the test.

Jedes Mal, wenn das Telefon klingelt, hofft May auf einen Klienten. Sie hat sich vor Kurzem als Strafverteidigerin selbstständig gemacht, doch bisher ist es ihr nur gelungen, kleinere Mandate zu erringen. Da geht der Fall des Unternehmers Rickleffs durch die Medien: Er hat für eine Werbeaktion sein Genom in eine Herkunftsdatenbank eingespeist; nun wird ihm vorgeworfen, vor Jahren ein Mädchen ermordet zu haben. Keiner stellt den DNA-Abgleich infrage.

Skilled lawyers who open their own firms can quickly find their dream career turning into a nightmare. When the firm doesn't grow as fast as you expected, the money doesn't come like you'd hoped despite working long hours, and your less-capable peers are passing you by, it can be demoralizing and deeply frustrating.

If you're the victim of an accident involving a semitruck, the fallout will be unlike anything you've ever experienced. Whether you're mourning the loss of a loved one or dealing with catastrophic injuries as a survivor, the way forward is not always clear. You need a guidebook written by someone with decades of experience representing truck accident victims in multimillion-dollar cases to explain what happens next.

El 15 de diciembre de 2022, Ciro Gómez Leyva, el periodista más escuchado de México, sorteó su propia muerte y sobrevivió a un atentado en su contra. Estas páginas relatan su poderoso testimonio y la visión del autor sobre la fragilidad de la vida y la cercanía con su fin.

In Plunderphonics, Matthew Blackwell tells the story of a group of musicians who advocated for changes to the copyright system by deploying unlicensed samples in their recordings. Though the legal terrain did not shift in the favor of plunderphonic musicians, they changed public perception of fair use and enabled more widespread sampling in underground music.

Francisco del Pozo, juez en activo, nos enseña de forma amena y divertida los entresijos del estudio de unas oposiciones: cómo afrontarlas, cómo superar las diferentes etapas por las que pasa un opositor y las técnicas para llegar a buen puerto, es decir, para aprobarlas.