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  • Starving for Freedom

    The Pelican Bay Prison Strike That Transformed Solitary Confinement

    de Jules Lobel ...
    **A groundbreaking, insider account by the attorney who represented the prisoners who risked their lives to end an inhumane form of punishment—with lessons for resisting government oppression“The obstacles to organizing a statewide hunger strike seemed insurmountable. Their only means of communication was to shout through cell doors, drainage pipes and vents, and then only to the eight other men ... Leer más

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  • Success Without Victory

    Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America

    de Jules Lobel ...
    Series Libro 70 - Critical America
    Winners and losers. Success and failure. Victory and defeat. American culture places an extremely high premium on success, and firmly equates it with winning. In politics, sports, business, and the courtroom, we have a passion to win and are terrified of losing.Instead of viewing success and failure through such a rigid lens, Jules Lobel suggests that we move past the winner-take-all model and ... Leer más

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  • Solitary Confinement

    Effects, Practices, and Pathways toward Reform

    Edición de Jules Lobel, Peter Scharff Smith ...
    The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the death penalty ... Leer más

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    Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law

    From the authors of the acclaimed Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, and featuring some of the most important cases in criminal law, The Devil's Advocates is the final volume of a must-have trilogy of the best closing arguments in American legal history.Criminal law is considered by many to be the most exciting of the legal specialties, and here the authors turn to the type of dramatic crimes and ... Leer más

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  • Dallas and the Jack Ruby Trial

    Memoir of Judge Joe B. Brown, Sr.

    The question of why Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald was the central issue of his trial by Judge Joe B. Brown, Sr. With compelling immediacy and exhaustive detail, the judge's memoir is a vital contribution to the quintessential murder mystery of the 20th century. Here for the first time, we get to know what really went on in Ruby's trial and in his mind. Judge Brown had access to previously ... Leer más

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  • Lawyers as Leaders

    No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession, yet it has done little to prepare them for this role. Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of powerful law firms, businesses, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Two of the last three presidents have been lawyers. And yet almost no occupation rouses greater public distrust. This paradox raises ... Leer más

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  • And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

    Greatest Closing Arguments Protecting Civil Libertie

    The second volume in a must-have trilogy of the best closing arguments in American legal historyEvery day, Americans enjoy the freedom to decide what we do with our property, our bodies, our speech, and our votes. However, the rights to these freedoms have not always been guaranteed. Our civil rights have been assured by cases that have produced monumental shifts in America's cultural, political, ... Leer más

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  • The Moral Compass of the American Lawyer

    Truth, Justice, Power, and Greed

    These are perilous times for Americans who need access to the legal system. Too many lawyers blatantly abuse power and trust, engage in reckless ethical misconduct, grossly unjust billing practices, and dishonesty disguised as client protection. All this has undermined the credibility of lawyers and the authority of the legal system. In the court of public opinion, many lawyers these days are ... Leer más

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  • Lawyers' Poker

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    Great poker players are master tacticians. Not only do they calculate odds with lightning speed and astonishing precision, but they also cunningly anticipate and manipulate the actions of their adversaries. In short, they boast skills that every lawyer can envy. This highly entertaining work might best be summed up as "better lawyering through poker." Steven Lubet shows exactly how the tactics of ... Leer más

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  • Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom: Justice and Judgment in American Culture

    Coauthored by W. Lance Bennett and Martha S. Feldman, 'Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom' explains what makes stories believable and how ordinary people connect complex legal arguments and evidence presented in trials to assess guilt and innocence. The explanation takes the core elements of narrative—the who, what, where, when, how, why—and shows how average people who hear hundreds of ... Leer más

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  • Three Strikes and You’re Out!

    The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law

    This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately.It is the story of one family’s heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes political maneuvering by consistently soft-on-crime, liberal politicians in an effort to eviscerate the law, and it’s the story of the ultimate victory by ... Leer más

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  • War Crimes and the Culture of Peace

    de Louise Arbour ...
    Series series Senator Keith Davey Lectures
    In 1996, Louise Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Reflecting on these experiences, she argues in War Crimes and the Culture of Peace that the level of public awareness and understanding of the significance of these events is minimal in part as a result of the way in ... Leer más

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