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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago
from Harper
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From the first chapter:
"It was a good location and an auspicious time gambling was then unregulated in the city and there were at least a dozen gaming houses within a block of Jacob Franks's pawnshop."
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Gideon's Trumpet
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This book gives a great account of how a simple criminal case made its way to the Supreme Court, but also explains a lot about the court's reasoning when it comes to criminal cases and stare decisis. Also helps show how a brilliant legal minds works, and highlights the differences between a lawyer... more info

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The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Here is an astonishing story in which two unlikely and oddly paired attorneys (read heroes) take on the United States government on behalf of a Yemeni citizen detained at Guantanamo. Neither Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, the navy lawyer assigned to the case, nor Neal Katyal, the Georgetown law professor... more info

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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won (Vintage)
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Well I will concede that this staple of civil procedure classes in law school is a good read, but let's do the math. When you see what Stern's firm took and you see what the victims got, we know that the law firms were the winner's here and the people who lost their lives and homes with all their... more info

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Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $10.88

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I'm a second-year JD/MBA student at one of the nation's best law and business schools, and I picked up on the conservative bias in the book by about 50 pages in.
I have three reasons so far for saying the book is biased in favor of the right. The book sets out to portray the court's shift... more info

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In Our Defense
from Harper Perennial
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This is a nicely readable look at the U.S. Bill of Rights in action. Authors Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy provide 20 concise real-life stories that define our rights and freedoms. These case studies deal with such issues as free speech, gun control, government powers, the rights of the... more info

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Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia
from Oxford University Press, USA
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This incisive work illuminates Virginia's colonial history in personal detail: legal procedures, community structures, and economic and political relationships. Researching primary sources, Professor Pagan brings the narrative to life with persuasive insights into decisions and events as the... more info

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Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law
from Scribner
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Of course this book is going to be subjective simply because there is no way to determine (via a point system or rating scale) which cases have the best closing arguments. With that being said, in response to Jerry Saperstein's review of the book, I have to say that it only takes a 2nd year law... more info

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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
from Henry Holt and Co.
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I read "The Day Freedom Died" during a family "Backroads" vacation in Wyoming visiting our national parks. Members of our group would often have to arouse me from my deep inhalation of Lane's words to see sights along the way, "Yeah, nice," I'd mutter, as The Grand Tetons, Yellowstone Lake, and Old... more info

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Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 (New Narratives in American History)
from Oxford University Press, USA
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I would probably rate this in at 3.5 stars...but I rounded up to 4 stars.
'Escaping Salem' tells the story of the 'witch hunt' in Stamford, CT. We have all grown up hearing about the witch hunts in Salem. There have been movies and there have been discussions of the blood thirsty people in that... more info

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