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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin Publisher Comments In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most importantand secretlegal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - 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 "The most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years."---Bill MoyersThe founding principle of the United States was that the rule of law would be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey Into the Inferno of American Justice by David Feige Publisher Comments A young lawyer's outrageous and heartbreaking long day's journey into night court. If M*A*S*H took place in the Bronx instead of Korea and was about lawyers and judges, not doctors and officers, it would look a lot like INDEFENSIBLE, David Feige's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis Publisher Comments A history of the landmark case of James Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More than 800,000 sold since its first pub date of 1964.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Advice and Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary by Sarah A Binder Publisher Comments For better or worse, federal judges in the United States today are asked to resolve some of the nation's most important and contentious public policy issues. Although some hold onto the notion that federal judges are simply neutral arbiters of complex... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Its Origins and Development by R H Helmholz Publisher Comments Challenging the accounts of John Henry Wigmore and Leonard W. Levy, this history of the privilege against self-incrimination demonstrates that what has sometimes been taken to be an unchanging tenet of our legal system has actually encompassed many... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Personal Legal Forms Simplified by Daniel Sitarz Publisher Comments Everyday legal issues that confront every family can now be easily handled using this detailed reference.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $7.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Fight Back and Win: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Injustice--And How You Can Win Your Own Battles by Gloria Allred Publisher Comments The World-renowned women's rights attorney and civil rights advocate shares empowering life lessons learned from her career fighting on the front lines for victims' rights Fearless lawyer, feminist, activist, television and radio commentator, warrior... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Ultimate Guide to Your Legal Career: What Every Young Lawyer Must Know to Avoid the Mistakes and Maximize the Value of a Career in the Law by K Charles Cannon Publisher Comments The world doesn't need another book about how to ace law school. But prospective and young lawyers do need the information and insight in this book to equip them with the expertise to make the right choices and fully develop a legal career, from law... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N Rakove Publisher Comments From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on one question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who understands its meaning best? In Original Meanings, Jack N. Rakove chronicles the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain by Steven Greenhut Publisher Comments While governments are authorized to invoke eminent domain - the power to take property by force - only when the property is to be employed for public uses, such as highways, schools and courthouse, local governments routinely seize private homes, small... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Liberty of Contract: Rediscovering a Lost Constitutional Right by David Iii Mayer Synopsis This book shines a powerful light on a fundamental constitutional right that the Supreme Court abandoned more than 70 years ago-the freedom of individuals to bargain over the terms of their own contracts. Vital to economic and personal liberty, this... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America by David K Shipler Publisher Comments An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms. With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $21.95 Used - Hardcover
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Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Bryan A Garner Publisher Comments In Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. The book encourages legal writers to challenge conventions and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench by Vincent Crapanzano Publisher Comments Brilliantly observed and persuasively argued, Serving the Word, now in paperback, is an unprecedented look at the prevalence of literalism and the unexpected forms it takes in modern America's religious and secular life.<P>Hailed as "thoughtful... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty by Randy E Barnett Publisher Comments "Step by step, Randy Barnett constructs an intriguing case for a moderately libertarian natural-rights Constitution that allows government action only when, and because, doing so protects the generously defined liberties of each person. Along the way he... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnerships & Civil Unions (Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic) by Frederick Hertz Publisher Comments F11,000 couples have married in California since the Supreme Court legalized marriage in May of 2008, and nearly as many married in Massachusetts between May of 2004. Further, nearly a quarter of the U.S. population lives in a state with some form of... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Veteran's Ptsd Handbook: How to File and Collect on Claims for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by John D Roche Publisher Comments From the author of The Veteran's Survival Guide, The Veteran's PTSD Handbook addresses the obstacles that veterans face when filing for benefits related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One of the greatest obstacles, John Roche writes, is... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View by Stephen Breyer Publisher Comments The Supreme Court is one of the most extraordinary institutions in our system of government. Charged with the responsibility of interpreting the Constitution, the nine unelected justices of the Court have the awesome power to strike down laws enacted by... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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When Courts & Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System by Charles Gardne Geyh Publisher Comments "This is quite simply the best study of judicial independence that I have ever read; it is erudite, historically aware, and politically astute."<BR>-Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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