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A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare’s Plays Teach Us About Justice

After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California

Alcatraz: The Gangster Years

American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution

American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own

Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong

Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders

At the Dark End of the Street

Before Roe v. Wade: The Struggle to Define Abortion Rights

Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy

Big Weed: An Entrepreneur’s High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Blindness

Book of Jargon: US Corporate and Bank Finance

California: A History

Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice

Chief: The Quest for Justice in California

Choosing the Future for American Juvenile

Circle of Greed

Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned

Close to the Bone

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Law, Policy and Practice

Confessions of a Francophile and other essays from the Kevorkian Newsletter, 1980 to 2000

Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law

Contempt of Court

Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling

Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture

Crisis and Command

Dangerous Women: Why Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters Become Stalkers, Molesters, and Murderers

Daughter’s Keeper

Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century

Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, and the Right to Dissent

Desistance from Sex Offending: Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys

Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays

Disabled Education: A Critical Analysis of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights

Drinking Water: A History

Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives

Eudora Welty: A Biography

Failing Law Schools

Fair Deal for All Clients: How to Rekindle Pride in the Legal Profession

Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys

First Amendment Institutions

First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life

Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

For Common Things

For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence

From the Closet to the Courtroom

Fury

Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America

Gods Go Begging

Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation

Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond

Hidden Truth: Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison

Home Town

How Judges Think

How to Fix Copyright

Humboldt: Life on America’s Marijuana Frontier

Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens

In Defense of Flogging

In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics

Jewish Life in the American West: Perspectives on Migration, Settlement, and Community

Judging Addicts: Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System

Judicial Restraint in America: How the Ageless Wisdom of the Federal Courts

Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion

Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

Justice for Hedgehogs

Keeping Faith with the Constitution

Keeping It Civil: The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts from the Files of a Family Lawyer

Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room

L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America´s Most Seductive City

Law Makers, Law Breakers, and Uncommon Trials

Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television

Lawyers’ Poker: 52 Lessons that Lawyers Can Learn form Card Players

Letters to a Young Lawyer

Let´s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice

License to Wed: What Legal Marriage Means to Same-Sex Couples

Life After Murder: Five Men in Search of Redemption

Lincoln and the Court

Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage

Lives of Moral Leadership

London: The Biography

Losing Twice: Harms of Indifference in the Supreme Court

Louis D. Brandeis: A Life

Lying

Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations With Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity

Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View

Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

Mapping the Mind

Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom

Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier

Murder at the Supreme Court: Lethal Crimes and Landmark Cases

Negotiating Justice: Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change

No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship

Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire

On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation

One Case at a Time

Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror

Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities’ Private Lives, Media, and the Law

Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court

Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman’s Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones

Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration

Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America

Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality

Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott

Reef Dance

Republic.com

Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror

Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

Should Trees Have Standing? Law, Morality, and the Environment

Should You Really Be a Lawyer? The Guide to Smart Career Choices Before, During and After Law School

Silent Spring

Sin and Syntax

Smart on Crime

Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice

Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier

Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering

Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul

Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court

Surfing the Law and Technology Tsunami

Test Tube Families: Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation

The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders

The Assignment

The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption

The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning

The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption

The Best American Science and Nature Writing

The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto

The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government

The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle

The Counselors: Conversations with 18 Courageous Women Who Have Changed the World

The Cultural Defense

The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law

The Divorce Papers

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery

The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas

The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

The First Crusade: A New History

The Glass Bead Game

The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court

The Great Dissent

The Holocaust on Trial

The Invisible Constitution

The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire

The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber

The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis

The Limits of Privacy

The Little Book of Plagiarism

The Man Who Seduced Hollywood: The Life and Loves of Greg Bautzer, Tinseltown’s Most Powerful Lawyer

The Marriage Buyout: The Troubled Trajectory of U.S. Alimony Law

The Morality of Law

The Myth of the Liberal Media

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The Nuremberg Legacy: How the Nazi War Crimes Trials Changed the Course of History

The Peloponnesian War

The Penguin Essays of George Orwell

The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime

The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America

The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption

The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse

The Right to Be Parents: LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood

The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

The Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today

The Software License Unveiled

The Unwanted Gaze

The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine

The West and the Rest

The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

The Will of the People

The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

To Establish Justice for All: The Past and Future of Civil Legal Aid in the United States

Toxic Sludge is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public Relations Industry

Trailblazer: A Biography of Jerry Brown

Trials of a Forensic Psychologist: A Casebook

Ultimate Judgment: A Story of Emotional Corruption, Obsession and Betrayal

Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution

Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century

Unmarried Couples, Law, and Public Policy

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda

When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan

Who Will Tell the People, The Betrayal of American Democracy

Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain

Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Constitutional Action

Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs

Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior

Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz

Women Who Kill Men

You Can’t Win