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Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong by Raymond Bonner Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize–winner Raymond Bonner, the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of... (read more) Available February 21, 2012 Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover 
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A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts & the Law (University Center for Human Values) by Antonin Scalia Publisher Comments We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan Publisher Comments Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world's dominant economic institution. Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful by Glenn Greenwald Publisher Comments From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in America From the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime & Less Punishm by Mark Kleiman Publisher Comments "This is very good. It's not quite as good as Einstein predicting light bending around the sun, . . . but it's a step in the right direction."--James Q. Wilson "Absolutely buy this book. Dedicate some time to it. . . . This is the most important social... (read more) List Price $24.25 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights: Fourth Edition Synopsis Since the first edition of Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights in 1978, this book has become a reference in the field of human rights in Europe. It provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the functioning of the... (read more) Your price: $68.75 New - Trade Paper
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Canon of American Legal Thought (06 Edition) by David Kennedy Publisher Comments "Legal thought is a much broader category, and one of more general interest to law students, than jurisprudence, but until now there has been no collection available to readers. By bringing together these classic pieces exemplifying the main themes and... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $45.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir by John Paul Stevens Publisher Comments When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010)--only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol Publisher Comments Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court"s conservative majority left much of FDR"s agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal, but democracy itself, that stood on... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Republic.com 2.0 by Cass Sunstein Publisher Comments "Republic.com enraged many because it asked a set of uncomfortable questions that few had a way of answering. In this beautifully revised edition, Sunstein continues to press these difficult questions, not as an attack on new technologies but as a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law by Richard Hyland Publisher Comments Gifts: A Study in Comparative Law is the first broad-based study of the law governing the giving and revocation of gifts ever attempted. Gift-giving is everywhere governed by social and customary norms before it encounters the law and the giving of gifts... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Trade Paper
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer Publisher Comments Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham Publisher Comments In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Rons home, a young... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Criminal Law (10TH 11 Edition) by Joel Samaha Publisher Comments Clear, concise, and cutting edge, Joel Samaha's best-selling CRIMINAL LAW, 10e helps you apply criminal law's enduring foundations and principles to fascinating court cases and specific crimes. With a balanced blend of case excerpts and author commentary,... (read more) List Price $168.45 Your price: $135.00 Used - Hardcover
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Reading Humanitarian Intervention by Anne Orford Publisher Comments Humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions during the 1990s. This book argues that humanitarian intervention had far more exploitative effects and draws on... (read more) Your price: $177.95 New - Hardcover
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Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 by Lawrence Goldstone Publisher Comments A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era. In the years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law #7: The Law and Politics of Wto Waivers: Stability and Flexibility in Public International Law by Isabel Feichtner Publisher Comments Despite being an important legal instrument in the law of the WTO, the waiver has hitherto been the subject of little scholarly analysis. Isabel Feichtner fills this gap by challenging the conventional view that the WTO's political bodies do not engage... (read more) List Price $134.95 Your price: $130.00 New - Hardcover
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Illegal Peace in Africa: An Inquiry Into the Legality of Power Sharing with Warlords, Rebels, and Junta by Jeremy I. Levitt Publisher Comments African states have become testing grounds for Western conflict-resolution experiments, particularly power-sharing agreements, supposedly intended to end deadly conflict, secure peace, and build democracy in divided societies. This volume examines the... (read more) List Price $102.75 Your price: $99.00 New - Hardcover
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Digest of United States Practice in International Law, 2010 (Digest of Us Practice in Int Law) by Elizabeth R. (edt) Wilcox Publisher Comments Co-published by Oxford University Press and the International Law Institute, and prepared by the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Department of State, the Digest of United States Practice in International Law presents an annual compilation of documents... (read more) Your price: $206.25 New - Hardcover
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Civil Procedure : Examples and Explanations (6TH 08 Edition) by Joseph W. Glannon Book News Annotation Glannon (law, Suffolk University Law School) demystifies civil procedure by providing concrete examples of procedural doctrines and rules in operation, together with full explanations of how these abstract concepts apply to each example. Each chapter (... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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