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  • Sir Robert Falconer

    A Biography

    de James G. Greenlee ...
    Series series Heritage
    Biblical scholar, social critic, and internationalist, Robert Alexander Falconer was also the foremost Canadian university leader of his generation, serving as president of the University of Toronto from 1907 to 1932. James Greenlee's biography chronicles his development as an academic leader and a public man. ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • Another Country, Another Life

    Calumny, Love, and the Secrets of Isaac Jelfs

    de J. Patrick Boyer ...
    Quiet Isaac Jelfs led many lives: a scapegoated law clerk in England; a soldier in the mad Crimean War; a lawyer on swirling Broadway Avenue in New York. His escape from each was wrapped in deep secrecy. He eventually reached Canada, in 1869, with a new wife and a changed name. In his new home — the remote wilderness of Muskoka — he crafted yet another persona for himself. In Another Country, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Louis D. Brandeis

    A Life

    de Melvin I. Urofsky ...
    The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.A huge and galvanizing biography, a revelation of one man’s effect on American society and jurisprudence, and the electrifying ... Leer más

    Antes $14.99 USD Ahora $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • The Majesty of the Law

    Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice

    de Sandra Day O'Connor ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”—Michael BeschlossIn this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through ... Leer más

    Antes $13.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Memoirs and Reflections

    de Roy McMurtry ...
    From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • John J. Robinette

    Peerless Mentor: An Appreciation

    de George D. Finlayson ...
    John J. Robinette, Canada’s greatest trial lawyer, was admired and respected by the bench and his fellow lawyers alike. A quiet, unassuming man outside the courtroom, he was a consummate performer when appearing before a judge and jury.Robinette became a household name as the defender of Evelyn Dick, who was charged with killing her husband and infant son in Hamilton in 1946, and of Steven Suchan, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Breaking In

    The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice

    de Joan Biskupic ...
    "I knew she'd be trouble."So quipped Antonin Scalia about Sonia Sotomayor at the Supreme Court's annual end-of-term party in 2010. It's usually the sort of event one would expect from such a grand institution, with gentle parodies of the justices performed by their law clerks, but this year Sotomayor decided to shake it up—flooding the room with salsa music and coaxing her fellow justices to dance ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Justice Brennan

    Liberal Champion

    de Seth Stern, Stephen Wermiel ...
    "Will likely be the definitive biography. . . . a detailed and fascinating account of how the Supreme Court functioned during Brennan's long tenure." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)This is a compelling inside look at the life of William Brennan, a champion of free speech who is widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century. Before his death, Brennan ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reason and Imagination

    The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand

    Edición de Constance Jordan ...
    Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country's highest court, Hand is nevertheless more frequently quoted by legal scholars and in Supreme Court decisions than any other lower court judge in our history. He was the model for all judges who followed him, setting the standard for the bench with a matchless combination of legal brilliance and vast ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story

    Statesman of the Old Republic

    de R. Kent Newmyer ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story’s greatest objective was to fashion a national ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • Judging Bertha Wilson

    Law as Large as Life

    de Ellen Anderson ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian legal and political history. This engaging, authorized, intellectual biography draws on interviews conducted under the auspices of the Osgoode Society for Legal History, held in Scotland and Canada with Madame Justice Wilson, as well as with her ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Miles Lord

    The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice

    de Roberta Walburn ...
    The life of a crusading federal judge who stood up and fought for “the little guy”This is the story of Miles Lord (1919–2016), who rose from humble beginnings on Minnesota’s Iron Range to become one of the most colorful and powerful judges in the country, described as “an unabashed Prairie populist” and “a live-wire slayer of corporate behemoths.” He cut a wide swath through history on his path to ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD