Legal Classics
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Against the Death Penalty
$79.95In 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its center is a rejection of the […] -
The Trial of Jesus
$74.95Probably no trial in history has been the subject of as many books – not to mention films – as that of Jesus of Nazareth. […] -
The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession
$74.95In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished. Nonetheless, professional lawyers suddenly reappeared […] -
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Hue and Cry: The Story of Henry and John Fielding and Their Bow Street Runners
$29.95Hue and Cry is the story of Henry and John Fielding, the two pioneers and reformers who created London's police force and brought law and order […] -
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The American Constitution As It Protects Private Rights
$39.95“…this constitution of ours is nor a mass of dry rules, but the very substance of our freedom; not obsolete, but in every part alive…The […] -
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The Collaborator
$29.95Should a literary collaborator with the worst of evils be punished? Executed? Martyred? These are the questions raised by the remarkable case of Robert Brasillach […] -
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The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation
$39.95Charles Howard McIlwain, a professor of history and government at Harvard University from 1911 to 1948, wrote scholarly works with such clarity and style that […] -
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The Queen v Louis Riel
$29.95"The treason trial of Louis Riel in 1885 was the Canadian equivalent, in many ways, of the trial of Aaron Burr in the early history […] -
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
$19.95The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case is one of the most notorious cases of the 20th century. Sidney B. Whipple’s The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann is […]