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A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts & the Law (University Center for Human Values)
A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts & the Law (University Center for Human Values)
by Antonin Scalia
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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)

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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
by Joel Bakan
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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)

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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer
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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)

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Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
by Jeff Shesol
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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)

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Digital Evidence and Computer Crime (3RD 11 Edition)
Digital Evidence and Computer Crime (3RD 11 Edition)
by Eoghan Casey
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Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science, Computers and the Internet, Third Edition by Eoghan Casey cmdLabs, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Technical Editor Brent E. Turvey, Forensic Solutions LLC, Sitka, Alaska, USA Contributors:  Susan W... (read more)

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The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court
The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court
by Peter Irons
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An "extraordinary book reveal[ing] the live faces behind the masks of constitutional law; to read it is to understand the inner dynamics of law's outward development."—Laurence H. Tribe.... (read more)

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Fix (99 Edition)
Fix (99 Edition)
by Michael Massing
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Massing confronts the failure of the "war on drugs" and documents the much greater potential for reclaiming drug addicts that can be had by treatment and support rather than criminalization, and at a lower cost than building ever more prisons and... (read more)

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Civil Procedure : Examples and Explanations (6TH 08 Edition)
Civil Procedure : Examples and Explanations (6TH 08 Edition)
by Joseph W. Glannon
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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)

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Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Paralegals (5TH 08 - Old Edition)
Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Paralegals (5TH 08 - Old Edition)
by Therese A. Cannon
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Designed as a textbook for paralegals on the subject of ethics and professional responsibility, the fifth edition of this volume was revised to include recent changes to the ABA Model Rules, and to discuss recent case studies which illustrate key... (read more)

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A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of the Juvenile Court
A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of the Juvenile Court
by William Ayers
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Most people know juvenile offenders only from daily headlines, and the images portrayed by the media are extreme and violent: predators and even "superpredators." Distorted and incomplete, these pictures shape the way Americans think and feel about city... (read more)

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Race, Crime, and the Law (97 Edition)
Race, Crime, and the Law (97 Edition)
by Randall Kennedy
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"Rarely if ever has anyone systematically and cogently addressed as many of the vexing issues persisting in American society as Randall Kennedy does in "Race, Crime, and the Law"". ("The New York Times"). In this groundbreaking, powerfully-reasoned work,... (read more)

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Introduction To Bankruptcy Law (5TH 07 Edition)
Introduction To Bankruptcy Law (5TH 07 Edition)
by Martin A. Frey
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Introduction to Bankruptcy Law, fifth edition, is designed for paralegal courses in bankruptcy law. This new edition corresponds to the changes in bankruptcy law after enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005... (read more)

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Basic Bankruptcy Law..., Abridged - With CD (09 - Old Edition)
Basic Bankruptcy Law..., Abridged - With CD (09 - Old Edition)
by David L. Buchbinder
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This abridged edition of the full sixth edition is intended for paralegals assisting in bankruptcy practice; the intention of an abridged version was to provide a description of routine events that occur in bankruptcy proceedings as opposed to give an... (read more)

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Leftmost City (09 Edition)
Leftmost City (09 Edition)
by Richard Gendron
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Almost all US cities are controlled by real estate and development interests, but Santa Cruz, California, is a deviant case. An unusual coalition of socialist-feminists, environmentalists, social-welfare liberals, and neighborhood activists has stopped... (read more)

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Constitutional Law and Politics: Struggles for Power and Governmental Accountability
Constitutional Law and Politics: Struggles for Power and Governmental Accountability
by David M Obrien
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Ample primary source material includes case excerpts with introductions, headnotes, and Special Feature boxes that give students additional context for the cases. This Seventh Edition has been updated with many new cases, including some classics and a... (read more)

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Invitation To Law and Society (10 Edition)
Invitation To Law and Society (10 Edition)
by Kitty Calavita
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Law and Society is a rapidly-growing interdisciplinary field that turns on its head the conventional, idealized view of the “Law” as a magisterial abstraction. Kitty Calavitas Invitation to Law and Society brilliantly brings to life the ways... (read more)

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Death of Josseline (10 Edition)
Death of Josseline (10 Edition)
by Margaret Regan
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Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others   For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the... (read more)

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Little Book on Legal Writing (2ND 92 Edition)
Little Book on Legal Writing (2ND 92 Edition)
by Alan L. Dworsky
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This is an invaluable tool for students to use in conjunction with the main text. The book is geared toward the kind of writing done by first-year law students in a standard legal writing course: memorandums and briefs. The book offers the legal writer a... (read more)

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The Judiciary: The Supreme Court in the Governmental Process
The Judiciary: The Supreme Court in the Governmental Process
by Henry Julian Abraham
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"Mortensen...uses drawings of the human figure as a means to assess the psychological and intellectual development of children...relating the different aspects of figure drawing to different theoretical frames of reference, which include developmental... (read more)

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Black's Law Dictionary, Pocket Edition (3RD 07 - Old Edition)
Black's Law Dictionary, Pocket Edition (3RD 07 - Old Edition)
by Bryan A. Garner
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For the first time, definitions in this edition have been reviewed by a panel of scholars and expert practitioners under a review process similar to that for the other editions of this reference. Definitions of terms and cross-referencing have also been... (read more)

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