Law

A “compelling” (New York Times) and personal daily account of the experience of the Great Depression in the mid-west, full of anxieties about the economic future, with powerful echoes for today.

Candid and compelling, A Bigger Picture is the definitive narrative of Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership....

Judge Caprio, known as “the Nicest Judge in the World,” brings to the page the same wisdom and spirit of decency that viewers around the world have come to treasure.

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. They are sometimes funny, often moving and ultimately life-changing....

In Nothing Like the Truth, Nigel Lithman, QC, provides an entertaining and irreverent insight into life in the criminal courts as barrister, QC, and Crown Court judge. Using his experience in true crime, he mixes tales of horror with humor....

On a crisp January morning in 2000, Héctor E. Quiroga bid farewell to his native Colombia, with nothing but a suitcase and a dream of building a life in America.

A fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America's most influential women....

With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites listeners into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.

In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven-year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council workers. How the law should deal with the trauma of the family’s loss was one of the most complex cases to reach Australia’s High Court....

Justice in the Age of Judgement is Bremner’s unparalleled and unflinching look at the captivating cases tried on Twitter and TV, where the burden of proof and fundamental legal tenet of “innocent until proven guilty” is under assault from the court of public opinion....

Crammed with colour, adventure, achievements and some diversions, too David McBride leads a big life....

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon....

Nearly a half century into being a feminist and legal pioneer, something funny happened to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The octogenarian won the Internet....

Christmas 1975 and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody is riding high in the charts. In a residential street just outside Cardiff a loud knocking breaks the stillness of the evening. When Rob Parsons, a young lawyer, opens his door, he finds a homeless man, clutching a bag of belongings and a frozen chicken.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., inherited his assassinated father's piercing blue eyes and Brahmin style, earning a reputation as the nation's foremost environmental activist and lawyer....

Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....

Authored with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this audiobook is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the '60s, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity....

Through the great set-pieces of the legal struggle against apartheid—cases which made the headlines not just in South Africa but across the world—this biography is a portrait of enduring moral stature....

Straight from the bowels of back street police stations, locked psychiatric wards and the criminal courts, these are the brazen tales of a bare-knuckle barrister....

Ginsburg and Amanda Tyler, Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk, bring together RBG's most penetrating opinions - many previously unpublished - sharing details from Justice Ginsburg's family life and long career....

Special Agent Edwin Woodriffe was one of the first African-Americans to integrate the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1960s....

Justice Neil Gorsuch reflects on his journey to the Supreme Court, the role of the judge under our Constitution, and the vital responsibility of each American to keep our republic strong....

Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words....

In this unique, profoundly inspirational memoir, Divorce Court star Judge Lynn Toler shares her mother's wisdom for learning to conquer anger and become immune to insult....

Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In his four-time Emmy-nominated show Caught in Providence, Judge Frank Caprio’s courtroom became a worldwide beacon of compassionate justice—and an unforgettable watch for millions of fans. Now, Judge Caprio, known as “the Nicest Judge in the World,” brings to the page the same wisdom and spirit of decency that viewers around the world have come to treasure.

In the early 1920s, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer fresh out of the army. He settled in Youngstown, Ohio, a booming Midwestern industrial town. Times were good—until the stock market crash of 1929. After nearly two years of economic crisis, it was clear that the heady prosperity of the Roaring Twenties would not return quickly.

‘Het was een bekend geintje in misdaadkringen. Wie wat betekende in de Nederlandse onderwereld liep met het telefoonnummer van advocaat Piet Doedens op zak. Het nummer was makkelijk te onthouden. Twee keer 310. In het Wetboek van Strafrecht staat artikel 310 voor diefstal. Twee keer diefstal dus.’ Je hebt advocaten, topadvocaten en je hebt Piet Doedens. Mr. Piet Herman Doedens (Utrecht 1942), strafpleiter met gedwongen rust als gevolg van een hersenbloeding, was volgens veel van zijn confrères in zijn hoogtijdagen de beste in zijn vak..

Per quasi trent'anni giudice della Corte suprema statunitense, Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) è stato tra i giuristi più noti e influenti al mondo. La sua fama è legata all'elaborazione e alla difesa di un particolare metodo di interpretazione giuridica conosciuto come "originalismo" o "testualismo", in forza del quale le leggi – compresa la Costituzione – devono essere interpretate secondo il significato che alle loro parole avrebbe attribuito un cittadino medio al tempo della promulgazione.

In this stirring memoir, Lisa Printz Roday begins her narrative with the sudden death of her forty-seven-year-old father. Rather than crush the twenty-one-year-old Printz Roday, it is the pivotal moment that sustains her in each new crisis she faces, including two harrowing preterm births. With remarkable candor, a little dry humor, and plenty of heart, Printz Roday explores how the experiences that shake us to our core can make us stronger than we could ever imagine.