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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

$35.00
By Jane Sherron de Hart In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality,...
Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961

$105.00 – $255.00
  By Mark V. Tushnet *Signed Bookplate From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery...
The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America

The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America

$31.00
Jeffrey Rosen (Author) *Signed Bookplate The bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness shows how the opposing constitutional visions of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton have defined our country for 250 years, influenced...
The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-2012, 3rd Edition

The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-2012, 3rd Edition

$100.00 – $190.00
Hardcover Edited by Clare Cushman The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies 1789-2012, Third Edition provides a single-volume reference profiling every Supreme Court justice from John Jay through Elena Kagan. An...
Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

$18.00
Richard Gergel’s Unexampled Courage details the impact of the blinding of Sergeant Woodard on the racial awakening of President Truman and Judge Waring, and traces their influential roles in changing the course...
Law of Judicial Precedent

Law of Judicial Precedent

$49.95
By Bryan A. Garner (Author), Carlos Bea (Author), Rebecca White Berch (Author), Neil M. Gorsuch (Author), Harris L Hartz (Author), Nathan L Hecht (Author), Brett M. Kavanaugh (Author), Alex Kozinski (Author), Sandra L Lynch (Author),...
The Birth of American Law An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution

The Birth of American Law An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution

$75.00
By John Bessler (Author) The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution tells the forgotten, untold story of the origins of U.S. law. Before the Revolutionary War,...
Glass and Gavel - The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol

Glass and Gavel - The U.S. Supreme Court and Alcohol

$41.00
By Nancy Maveety In Glass and Gavel, noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nation’s highest court of law, the United States Supreme...
Casey At The Bat & The Supreme Court

Casey At The Bat & The Supreme Court

$35.00 – $65.00
By Ross E. Davies The early 20th century also saw the beginning of the long and ongoing run of Casey at Bat as an analogical-metaphorical-comical device in commentary about the...
The Poetic Justice: A Memoir

The Poetic Justice: A Memoir

$29.95
By John Charles Thomas (Author), W. Taylor Reveley III (Foreword) This inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black―and, at...
Genius for Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Reform of American Law

Genius for Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Reform of American Law

$39.00
By Jose Anderson (Author) Dr. Charles Hamilton Houston was an outstanding Harvard-trained Supreme Court lawyer for the NAACP. As Dean of Howard University Law School, he mentored future Supreme Court...
Leaving the Bench - Supreme Court Justices at the End

Leaving the Bench - Supreme Court Justices at the End

$24.99
The first comprehensive historical treatment of resignations, retirements and and deaths explaining when and why justices have stepped down.

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