Michael Ratner (1943-2016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) becoming first the Director of Litigation and then the President of what Alexander Cockburn called "a small band of tigerish people." He was also the President of the National Lawyers Guild. Ratner handled some of the most significant cases In American history. This book tells why and how he did it. His last case, which he worked on unti...
From a former top-level insider - whom the Los Angeles Times has called `the most influential career lawyer in CIA history' - comes an unprecedented memoir filled with revelatory stories about the US government's intelligence program. In 1975, fresh out of law school and working in a mind-numbing job at the US Treasury, John Rizzo took `a total shot in the dark' and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that, more than 30 years later, he would become a notorious...
How have the legal careers of twenty-five American presidents shaped their presidencies? Of America's forty-three presidents, twenty-five have been lawyers. John Adams, the first lawyer-president, combined a twenty-year law practice with significant contributions to our nation's founding charters. His son, John Quincy Adams, argued landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases both before and after his presidency. He was one of eight lawyer-presidents to appear as counsel before the highest court in the lan...
A Lawyers Life (Thorndike Biography)
by Johnnie L Cochran, Jr and Kent M. Keith
Lawyer, judge, pastor, civil rights activist, trailblazer, and great humanitarian, Dr. Benjamin Hooks recounts the extraordinary experiences of his life of service in The March for Civil Rights. This is the fascinating story of a man prevented from attending law school in his home state and later often degraded in court, who nevertheless persevered. He worked side-by-side with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to organize and fight against racial discri...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his own words: the definitive collection of his opinions, speeches, and articles on the most essential and vexing legal questions, with an intimate foreword by Justice Elena Kagan “[Scalia’s writings] are as readable today as they were when they first appeared. . . . Especially illuminating to anyone who wants to unlock the mystery of why Ginsburg admired Scalia—or who wants to get a sense of where the Supreme Court may be headed.”—The Wall Street Journal...
Die Anwaltliche Taetigkeit Waehrend Der Nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft (Rechtshistorische Reihe, #235)
by Friedo Schroeder
Der Verfasser zeigt mittels der Prozessakten verschiedener Zivilrechtsstreitigkeiten der Jahre 1928 bis 1945, dass auch die Argumentation von Rechtsanwalten und judischen Konsulenten in Zivilprozessen nicht frei von nationalsozialistischer Propaganda war. Die Darstellung ihrer Rechtsansichten weist eine zunehmende Gleichgultigkeit gegenuber der Segregation in der Gesellschaft auf, zu der sie beitrugen, indem sie - freiwillig - im Laufe der Zeit zunehmend auf eine den Wertewandel berucksichtigend...
Company Man: Thirty years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA
by John Rizzo
From a former top-level insider whom the Los Angeles Times has called 'the most influential career lawyer in CIA history' comes an unprecedented memoir filled with revelatory stories about the US government's intelligence program. In 1975, fresh out of law school and working in a mind-numbing job at the US Treasury, John Rizzo took 'a total shot in the dark' and sent his resume to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than 30 years later, he would become a notorious public...
From Amanda Knox to O.J., Casey Anthony to Kyle Rittenhouse, our justice system faces scrutiny and pressure from the media and public like never before. Can the bedrock of "innocent until proven guilty" survive in what acclaimed Seattle attorney and legal analyst Anne Bremner calls the age of judgement? When unscrupulous Italian prosecutors waged an all-out war in the media and courtroom to wrongly convict American exchange student Amanda Knox for a murder she didn't commit, family and frien...
The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter—Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice—is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and the Warren Court’s principal villain. And yet none of these characterizations rings true. A pro-government, pro-civil rights liberal who rejected shifting political labels, Frankfurter advocated for judicial restraint—he...
From the Texas Cotton Fields to the United States Tax Court
by Mary Theresa Vasquez and Anthony Head
The inspirational biography of Juan F. Vasquez, the first Hispanic American appointed to the United States Tax Court. The book depicts his journey surmounting numerous challenges such as poverty, manual labor, and discrimination. It explores his pursuit of education to build -- with the support of family, friends, and mentors - -a professional career serving family, community, taxpayers, and the tax system. Judge Vasquez’s story demonstrates that one can excel in the practice of tax law and se...
Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don’t know exists—one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off—and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. “We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our destruction.” That grim reality—gleaned from personal experience and twenty years of trauma work—is a fundamental principle of Carrie Goldberg’s cut...
Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world, from the trailblazing Julia Banks. Julia Banks shocked Australia when in 2018 she announced she would stand as an independent MP, resigning from the Coalition Government’s Liberal Party, having experienced a toxic workplace culture in the country’s centre of power. Julia doesn't just know what power looks like in a political sense; she made it to the top of her game in the legal and corporate sec...