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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