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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws ...
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Servants of the Damned: The Dark Side of American Law
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /National Bestseller "A powerful and important picture of how mega law firms distort justice."—David Cay Johnston, Washington Post The NYT's Busin...
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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.” —P.J. O’Rourke Hailed as the “first freedom,” free ...
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Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in...
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Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The Salem witch hunt of 1692 is among the most infamous events in early American history; however, it was not the only such episode to occur in N...
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl...
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The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century Lon...
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Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war po...
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The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jefferson was a bitterly con...
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The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Before the famed Nuremberg Tribunal, there was Rüsselsheim, a small German town, where ordinary civilians were tried in the first War Crimes Tria...
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That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right. Revised and Updated Edition.
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /That Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has played a significant role in constitution...
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The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolt...
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Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights l...
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Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the "Bitch of Buchenwald"
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /An authoritative reassessment of one of the Third Reich’s most notorious war criminals, whose alleged sexual barbarism made her a convenient scap...
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • “A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.”—Orlando Senti...
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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A masterly work of military and judicial history.” —New York Times. Telford Taylor’s book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an eng...
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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a legal icon. In more than four decades as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and Associate Justice of the US Supreme ...
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Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted ...
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The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr ConspiracyIn 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice p...
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True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /The little-examined genre of legal case narratives is represented in this fascinating volume, the first collection translated into English of cri...
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Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Required to sign away their legal rights as authors as a condition of employment, professional writers may earn a tidy living for their work, but...
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Mary Ann Cotton: Britain's First Female Serial Killer
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /As one of the UK's leading commentators, David Wilson shows how some serial killers stay in the headlines whilst others rapidly become invisible ...
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Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh gave the European sovereigns who "discovered" North America rights to the land, con...
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A Law Dictionary of Words, Terms, Abbreviations and Phrases Which are Peculiar to the Law and of Those Which Have a Peculiar Meaning in the Law Containing Latin Phrases and Maxims with Their Translations (1916)
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Along with those of Black and Anderson, Ballentine's is one of the most important American dictionaries of the modern era. Originally published: ...
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