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An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions—and the next looming case In The Court v. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting...

Justice Clarence Thomas: The compassionate heart beneath the robe. No Supreme Court justice has come from humbler circumstances than Clarence Thomas, yet critics denounce him as the "cruelest justice," a heartless traitor to his race who cynically sacrifices justice to ideology. In this...

Plongez dans l'histoire politique américaine à travers les crises majeures qui ont forgé cette jeune démocratie. De la Convention de Philadelphie aux luttes acharnées pour la ratification, suivez l'évolution tumultueuse d'un pacte juridique fragile. Ce récit historique captivant vous...

Ein tiefgründiges historisches Sachbuch entschlüsselt die tödliche Dynamik aus Massenpanik, Angst und Machtmissbrauch. Wenn sich Nachbarn plötzlich in Todfeinde verwandeln und bloßer Verdacht schwerer wiegt als Fakten, entsteht ein rasantes Klima des Schreckens. Perfekt für die abendliche...

Plongez dans une page sombre de l'histoire où la peur collective et l'injustice transforment la rumeur en bûcher. Cette analyse historique captivante décortique les mécanismes implacables de la persécution en Europe et dans ses colonies. Idéal pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens, ce...

Trace the gripping true crime history of humanity's darkest act, exploring early forensic science and criminal justice. Whether you are commuting or seeking a thought-provoking deep dive, this analytical journey reveals how deliberate killing functions as a mirror of our shifting moral codes...

Step into the dark history of colonial America, where mass hysteria transformed ordinary neighbors into condemned witches. Perfect for a gripping commute or a suspenseful true crime deep-dive, this atmospheric narrative plunges you into the paranoid heart of 1692 New England. Experience the...

You would think that when the United States of America was formed, our citizenry could finally enjoy a plethora of hard-won liberties. But that was not the case. While the new Americans no longer suffered from taxation without representation, many of the liberties we enjoy today were not part of their lives. In Liberty on Trial in America: Cases that Defined Freedom, you will learn how liberty increased in our country when individuals sued for those freedoms, when cases were brought specifically to test the limits of the Constitution with its Amendments....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O’Connor, America’s first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O’Connor’s archives—as seen on PBS’s American Experience...

A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court.   

Can the government seize your house to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what control you have over your own body? Can police search your cellphone? The answers to those questions come from the Supreme Court, whose rulings have shaped American life and justice and allowed Americans to...

Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech - except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.

Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls barely missed his heart and spinal cord. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age 61, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court's reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.

Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright - and its violation - a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and Google is completely new, the copyright wars in fact stretch back three centuries - and their history is essential to understanding today's battles.

Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime.

“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.”—P. J. O’Rourke Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and...

Discover the big ideas behind more than 90 of history's most important legal rulings and milestone laws - from the earliest civilizations to the 21st century. From the philosophical, religious, and moral codes of the world's earliest societies, such as the Law Code of Hammurabi and the Ten...

O que há em comum entre acontecimentos tão distantes no tempo como a Revolução Protestante, a Revolução Francesa e a Revolução Americana? Fácil: a presença fundamental de advogados….

A far-reaching examination of how America came to treat street and corporate crime so differently. While America incarcerates its most marginalized citizens at an unparalleled rate, the nation has never developed the capacity to consistently prosecute corporate wrongdoing. Dual Justice unearths...

Experience an immersive narrative history uncovering the grim reality of medieval Europe’s most misunderstood outcasts. Perfect for an educational commute, this atmospheric journey strips away horror myths to expose the executioner as a trapped worker within a rigid political system. Through...