Content provided includes: oral history project, videos, links/resources and documents. The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa and John Tusa: “Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. 28 ratings — He hadn't been accused of murder yet." Contains over 126 items totaling 3,534 pages from the Historical and Special Collections of the Harvard Law School Library. This catalogue focuses on all currently known colonial cases appealed to the Privy Council from the future United States, a number totaling nearly one-third of the more than 800 heard from the Americas. Similarly, Harlan was called the people’s judge for favoring income tax and antitrust laws, yet he also upheld doctrines that benefited large corporations.”, 75. 17,814 ratings — Rather than offer a straight chronological history, the book instead traces important threads woven throughout our nation’s past, looking at how law shaped Native American affairs, slavery, business, and home life, as well as how it has dealt with criminal and civil offenses. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts: “In Killing the Black Body, Northwestern University professor Dorothy Roberts exposes America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies, from slave masters’ economic stake in bonded women’s fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s.”, 77. Yet by the end of the 1960s, vagrancy laws were discredited and American society was fundamentally transformed. Subscribe to get articles about writing, adding to your TBR pile, and simply content we feel is worth sharing. Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience by Lawson Fusao Inada: “In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country.”, 47. Also available on HeinOnline. 50,766 ratings — An excellent guide to conducting court records research for Minnesota courts including District (trial), Probate, Appeals Court, Supreme Court and various other Minnesota courts. But Thomas – he’s just tellin’ it all. until a group of inspired Yale Law School students vowed to free them.”, 35. But he also tells the story of those individuals who were willing to make waves by fighting for those rights, taking enormous personal risks at a time when the tide of public opinion was against them.”, 28. published 1991, avg rating 3.78 — The WCRO website offers a wealth of documents and publications from the WCRO's research projects. He also happens to be the half-brother of Michael Connelly’s other iconic creation: LAPD detective Harry Bosch. Set in a small New Mexico town in 1923, this New York Times bestseller dramatizes the clash between frontier justice and the ethical imperatives of the modern courtroom. Read 91 246 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Mickey Haller is a Los Angeles attorney whose “office” is the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car. Features William H. Manz’s, Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, brings together materials reflecting congressional concern with the composition and structure of Article III Courts. From the whimpering of Kaltenbrunner and Ribbentrop on the stand to the icy coolness of Goering, each participant is vividly drawn.”, 93. The documents comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance. A person could be arrested for sporting a beard, making a speech, or working too little. Records for Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Abe Fortas, Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan, Jr., and Hugo Black available. This collection provided by the Legal Information Institute and Cornell University Law School contains opinions (including concurring and dissenting opinions) of all the justices that have served on the Court arranged by name of Justice. Trial transcripts, critical court documents, and trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials, as well as biographies of many trial lawyers are included in this library. published 1998, avg rating 3.98 — This selection mirrors the development of the field of environmental law, from the first, heady days of its creation to its current conflicts with other laws and values, including some embedded in the Constitution.”, 56. In 1946, with the support of the NAACP, Heman Marion Sweatt applied for admission to The University of Texas School of Law. A 13-part scholarly work which provides insight into the forces which created and shaped the United States Tax Court, its procedures, and its jurisdiction through the present day. It’s no wonder, then, that this beloved coming-of-age classic contains some of the most riveting courtroom scenes in American fiction, as Atticus Finch defends his client, Tom Robinson, from the false accusation that he raped a white woman. Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas: “Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Lauren Cahn Updated: Dec. 13, 2018. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era.”, 86. Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler: “Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight—until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn’t commit.”, 11.