Law

Legal Eagles is an exciting listen for all the budding lawyers and for all those who are interested in knowing about the life and struggle of great lawyers and how they achieve success in life through sheer grit and hard work....

The Secret Barrister returns to debunk the biggest legal lies of our time. Taking you from your own home to the halls of Westminster, this is the truth about justice in an age of fake law....

Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking book - and a chilling profile of today's criminal emerges....

The judiciary has been the one sturdy dyke that has saved us from the excesses of rulers. But recent events remind us of the cracks that have formed: the quality of individuals apart ....

When Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman, News Corporation, blew up more than $870 million buying Star TV from Richard Li in the early 1990s, analysts were dismayed. Why on earth had Murdoch invested in a pan-Asian broadcaster that was neither fish nor fowl? Find out....

As early as 2014, after the fall of Mosul, maps of ISIS showing a desire to take over South Asia started to appear on social media. One of the shortcomings of our understanding of ISIS in India is that neither the media nor the public discourse seems to know what ISIS itself is....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small-town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet....

A hidden set of rules governs who owns what - explaining everything from whether you can recline your airplane seat to why HBO lets you borrow a password illegally - and in this lively and entertaining guide, two acclaimed law professors reveal how things become 'mine'.... 

This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" and "The Law of Peoples"....

You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor....

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the English philosopher, writer on law and political radical, was an extraordinary individual. His preserved body can still be seen seated in a case in the South Cloisters of University College, London....

The book wants to provide an analytical review of the implications of data in many different contexts. As a matter of fact, data are correlated...

Three experts in immigration law offer a comprehensive examination of the rise and demise of the US asylum system. Beginning with the Refugee Act of 1980, they describe how Congress adopted a definition of refugee based on the UN Refugee Convention and prescribed equitable and transparent procedures for a uniform asylum process. The authors then chart the evolution of this process, showing how Republican and Democratic administrations and Congresses tweaked the asylum system but maintained it as a means of protecting victims of persecution - until the Trump administration. 

With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period, Abortion and the Law in America illuminates an entirely different and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Drawing on unexplored records and interviews with key participants, Ziegler complicates the view that the Supreme Court is responsible for the escalation of the conflict.

"Ach, dieses leidige Thema. Das machen wir irgendwann." So oder so ähnlich denken viele Menschen, wenn es um Vorsorgemaßnahmen für Krankheits- oder Todesfälle geht. Und ehe man es sich versieht, ist der Ernstfall eingetreten und man hat - du errätst es sicher - nicht vorgesorgt. Schon hängt das Amtsgericht in deiner Privatsache drin und die dadurch ausgelöste, zusätzliche Behördenrennerei ist erst recht nicht das, was man in solchen Situationen braucht.

"That's not my fingerprint, your honor", said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification". They were wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day....

Eine Frau aus Lübeck soll ein Bußgeld in Höhe von 178 € zahlen, weil sie einen Spaziergang am menschenleeren Strand in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gemacht hat. Was nach einem schlechten Aprilscherz klingt, ist nur ein kleiner Teil einer langen Reihe irrwitziger Ereignisse und Meldungen, die seit Frühjahr 2020 die Tagespresse kennzeichnen. Die gegenwärtigen Grundrechtseinschränkungen zur Bekämpfung der Covid19-Pandemie sind die schwersten, die der deutsche Bürger seit Inkrafttreten des Grundgesetzes ertragen musste.

Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an "insane" Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians kidnapped and locked up in a Texas jail during World War II, a prison uprising by Mariel Cuban refugees in 1987, and a Salvadoran mother who grew up in the United States and has spent years incarcerated while fighting deportation.