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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