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“A riveting tale told with care and expertise.” —David Simon, creator of The Wire The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in...

The first Chief Justice of the United States, John Jay faced many unique challenges. When the stability and success of the new nation were far from certain, a body of federalized American law had to be created from scratch. 

Born into dire poverty in the segregated South and abandoned by his father as a child, Justice Clarence Thomas triumphed over seemingly insurmountable odds to become one of the most influential justices on the Supreme Court. Yet after three decades of honorable service, few know him beyond his contentious confirmation and the surrounding media firestorm. Who is Justice Clarence Thomas, in his own words? Created Equal builds on dozens of hours of groundbreaking one-on-one interviews with Thomas to share a new, expanded account of his powerful story for the first time.

Højesteretssagfører Bernt Hjejle ser tilbage på nogle af de store personligheder, han gennem et langt liv har mødt, og leverer en række erindringsportrætter af otte "enere", der på mange måder skiller sig ud fra mængden. De otte enere, der beskrives i denne bog, er Ebbe Munck, Eigil Knuth, Johannes Brøndsted, Karl Hude, Oskar Bondo Svane, Guy Shaw, Sascha Wamberg og Hans Nikolaj Hansen. Bernt Hjejle (1901-1994) var dr.jur. og højesteretssagfører.

The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter―Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice―is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and the Warren Court’s principal villain. And yet none of these characterizations rings true.

Joining us at Audible Studios is high profile human rights and civil liberties barrister Leslie Thomas QC. Thomas was called to the bar in 1988 and has represented some very high-profile cases, including families of the Hillsborough disaster, the family of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked the 2011 London riots, and more recently, the families of the victims of Grenfell Tower. It's clear that Thomas has a passion for supporting the voiceless and vulnerable, and is an expert in claims against the police and other public authorities.

How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with 20 of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory for the first time. Through vivid interviews amplified by the author's responses and commentary, these attorneys reveal aspects of their internal experience that they have never talked about until now.

"You’ll inhale this tell-all book about the tobacco industry and never look at a No Smoking sign the same way again!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter Mad Men meets Bad Blood in this addictive, behind-the-scenes globe-trotting narrative of moral ambiguity, law, public policy, and big tobacco...

A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. In 1922, Major Herbert Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic. Armstrong's case has all the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete. Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion...

Suppose one day, your son or husband, while serving in the military or working as a journalist, is taken hostage by a terrorist group - and you have no idea whether your loved one is dead or alive. It’s a nightmare scenario. Here for the first time is the story of Ory Slonim, the one man in Israel who, for more than two decades, was known as the “door knocker.” He had been a private Israeli lawyer when he was asked to undertake, on behalf of the Israeli government, secret negotiations to find out the whereabouts of Israeli soldiers who were taken alive.

As one of our leading campaigners for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients—from detainees in Guantánamo Bay to prisoners facing execution on Death Row—and finding out, in his own words, 'what makes them tick'. But for much of his life, closer to home, there was a man whose mind remained off limits: his own father. It was only years after Dick's death, when Clive inherited more than 3,000 of his letters, that he could finally take a breath and start to piece together the obsessive personality behind them.

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. Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginburg is for many a truly iconic Supreme Court Justice. This volume reviews some landmark cases, in which she was a key participant. Justice Ginsburg was a fierce advocate for sexual equality, and was the founding director of the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU including arguing cases before the Supreme Court on many occasions.

Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate—his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize—Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Lutuli. Already world-famous for his landmark cases, he then became England's premier advocate.

Una mattina di aprile del 1984 una chiamata cambia per sempre la vita del giudice Leonardo Guarnotta. Al telefono il consigliere istruttore Antonino Caponnetto: gli chiede di far parte del pool antimafia, costituito pochi mesi prima in un bunker del Tribunale di Palermo, al fianco di Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino e Giuseppe Di Lello. È l'inizio di una stagione investigativa e giudiziaria intensa e appassionante, che porterà alla celebrazione del maxiprocesso e a importanti condanne contro i boss di Cosa nostra.

Il libro presenta il percorso autobiografico di un protagonista delle grandi inchieste degli anni Ottanta e Novanta. I valori di famiglia, l'educazione e le tappe formative sfociano nella decisione di entrare in magistratura: la narrazione scorre rievocando la cultura del Sessantotto, gli omicidi dei colleghi Alessandrini e Galli; l'adesione a Magistratura Democratica; la clamorosa inchiesta su Licio Gelli e la Loggia P2 e gli altrettanto clamorosi "tronconi" derivati dell'inchiesta.

Boulin, Urba, Elf, les frégates de Taïwan, Clearstream, Kerviel, Cahuzac, Karachi, Balkany... Le juge Van Ruymbeke a instruit pendant plus de quarante ans les grandes affaires financières qui ont secoué notre République. Tenace et libre, il est la figure emblématique de la lutte anticorruption. Dans ces mémoires vibrantes, animé par sa si chère indépendance, il raconte la manière dont il s'est attaqué aux sphères du pouvoir et au financement illégal des partis politiques.

From the Number One bestselling author, a memoir full of hilarious, personal and surprising stories from their working life in the law. * The Sunday Times Bestseller * * A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* ‘The SB is a gifted writer. Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed off high buildings, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who...