The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates (Kaplan Classics of Law) by Morris B Kaplan $2.99
Logic is a lawyer's best weapon. To this day, Socrates is the master of rhetoric. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon recorded the great philosopher's dialogues, which are read to this day as a guide for finding weakness in arguments and uncovering hidden truths. Law students have been reading Socrates as long as there have been lawyers. Like an attorney in a courtroom, Socrates used...
The Law by Constitution Society $1.00
Classic treatment of one of the main challenges to the survival of democratic government. 1850.
Enemies: A History of the FBI by Random House $30.00
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI as the most formidable...
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. $21.95
Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922. 307 pp. Pound's Introduction outlines the philosophy of law from Antiquity to the twentieth century. A written version of the Storrs Lectures delivered at Yale University during the academic year 1921-1922.
John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster by Skyhorse Publishing $24.95
For the first time Gacy’s lawyer and confidant tells his chilling tale of how he defended an American serial killer."Sam, could you do me a favor?" Thus begins a story that has now become part of America’s true crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga—the story of a young lawyer fresh from the Public...
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Holt Paperbacks $17.00
An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggleIn 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a...
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World: The Code of Laws Promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242 by C. H. W. Johns $60.00
Johns, C.H.W., Translator. The Oldest Code of Laws in the World: The Code of Laws Promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1926. xii, 88 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-053070. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-061-9. ISBN-10: 1-58477-061-9. Cloth. $60. * The text, in English, of the Code of Hammurabi, which is the earliest code of laws....
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Twelve $30.00
A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented, tall-tale Westerner who narrowly missed the...
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Harvard University Press $23.50
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" marked a watershed in our national discussion of science and religion. In addition to symbolizing the clash between evolutionist and creationist camps, the trial helped shape the development of both popular religion and constitutional law in the United States, serving as a precedent for more recent legal and political battles. Pairing new archival material from both the...
The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law by University Of Chicago Press $25.00
There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum. In The Legal Analyst, Ward Farnsworth brings together in one place all of the most powerful of those tools for...