Titres dans Droit

Drugs. Riots. Shanks. Dirty Protests. Violent Freemason guards. Self-mutilation and suicides. Welcome to the brutal truth about life as a prison officer.

Judge Gilbert Merritt and his circle of young lawyers and journalists in Nashville were among the South’s earliest Kennedy Democrats in the late 1950s. Their brash political strivings, though not always victorious at the polls, affected the shape of many things, including the rise of modern Nashville. As a young legal scholar in his twenties, Merritt was one of the nation’s youngest U.S.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus, inspiration for the Oscar-winning sensation Oppenheimer, a biography of Roy Cohn – arguably the mastermind behind the current arc of American political life, including the ascent of Donald Trump. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the...

A Powerful Voice Brings Change to the Supreme Court

Combination biography and call to justice, this book follows Randy Liberty’s journey from maximum-security prison Warden to Maine’s Commissioner of Corrections. When Randy Liberty was seven years old, he traveled to the Maine State Prison to visit his incarcerated father. Forty years later...

William Howard Taft was perhaps not a great president, although his limited view of the president’s role looks better today than it did at the time. But Taft’s true claim to greatness lies in his work before and after the White House: five decades of selfless public service culminating as...

Dans la vie d'un avocat, il y a des plaidoiries qu'on n'oublie pas. Elles vous obsèdent des mois, vous réveillent la nuit, vous rendent malade puis vous marquent pour toujours. C'était le 8 février 2007, il a fallu sauter dans le vide. Un tribunal est une arène, un théâtre du réel, le cadre de l'Histoire qui s'écrit, mais le sait-on ? Pour ce « procès des caricatures », nous étions passionnés, complices, angoissés, heureux de défendre notre cause. Charlie Hebdo a gagné contre les intégristes, le droit à l'irrévérence a triomphé, mais les dix années qui ont suivi ont été tragiques.

‘Should be required reading for those who care about how society treats our most vulnerable citizens.’ – Louise Allen When the system fails the parents, how can it protect the children? Welcome to the secretive world of the Family Court. What's it like to act for a father who has recently...

Wieder ein Buch von Astrid Wagner, das die Leser durch packende Schilderung, Authentizität und Empathie mitreißt. Die in diesem Buch versammelten wahren Verbrechen zeigen die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele. Es sind unfassbare Geschichten von Liebe, die in Hass umschlägt, und Leidenschaft, die zu Mordlust wird.

Ein Toter auf einer Berliner Straße – Opfer eines heimtückischen Mordes oder ein tragischer Unfall? Eine grausam verstümmelte Frauenleiche – war es ein brutales Sexualverbrechen? Ein Ehepaar mit schweren Vergiftungssymptomen – standen die beiden auf der Todesliste des russischen Geheimdiensts? Der Rechtsmediziner Michael Tsokos wird immer dann von den Ermittlungsbehörden um Hilfe gebeten, wenn sie mit ihrer Aufklärungsarbeit nicht weiterkommen. Er soll herausfinden, was die Toten nicht mehr erzählen können.

Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age. A judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes provocative books as a public intellectual, receives frequent media attention, and has been at the center of some very high-profile legal spats. He is also a member of an increasingly rare breed—judges who write their own opinions rather than delegating the work to clerks. Now, for the first time, this fascinating figure receives a full-length biographical treatment.

Special Agent Edwin Woodriffe was one of the first African-Americans to integrate the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the 1960s. On January 8, 1969, while attempting to apprehend an escaped fugitive, he and partner Anthony Palmisano were mortally wounded, making Woodriffe the first African-American FBI agent to be killed in the line of duty.

In July of 1987, Judge Robert H. Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, but by late October that year, his confirmation was denied. In this candid account of his experiences, Bork describes the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing from his point of view. He also expounds on his view of politics versus the law, which he was able to see in action during this period. A warning against the politicization of American law, The Tempting of America is a fascinating, insider's perspective about the nominating process and its impact on the Supreme Court.

Joy Fererh was three and a half when her father walked out. When she and Sol met, he was fifty-five and nearing the pinnacle of his legal career. She was a thirty-something stay-at-home mother who, with Sol’s help, made a career for herself as a Republican Party fundraiser. They kept their affair a secret—until an explosive mix of sex, power, betrayal, and prescription-drug abuse set the stage for the tabloid headlines of the decade.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present.”—Jon Meacham “History at its most delicious.”—The New York Times Book Review (front page review, Editors’ Choice)...

Bertha Wilson et Claire L’Heureux-Dubé ont été les premières femmes juges à la Cour suprême du Canada. L’une représentait le Canada anglais, l’autre le Québec. De milieux et de tempéraments opposés, les deux femmes ont affronté des défis similaires. Leurs nominations judiciaires dans les années 1980 ont ravi les féministes et bousculé l’establishment juridique. Constance Backhouse plonge ici au cœur des obstacles sexistes que les deux femmes ont affrontés en éducation, en pratique du droit et dans les cours de justice.

Die Rechtsanwältin Astrid Wagner, bekannt durch zahlreiche Sensationsprozesse, gewährt Einblick in ihre spektakulärsten Fälle: Tödliche Beziehungsdramen, aufwühlende Schicksale, aber auch stille Tragödien, manchmal mit skurrilen Wendungen.

When I attended Jefferson Elementary School in Charlottesville in 1960, I was selected to recite the poem "The Path" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the noted black poet. That poem captured the story of my life. I had no idea when I first learned it by memory and recited it many times before the class that it would later have such a direct and dramatic application to my life. I recited the words not knowing their true meaning back then, but I know what they mean now, and who would have imagined how appropriate they would be.

October, 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond recognition. Two days later, he dies in the hospital. His name is John Gilbert Hartman and he's just turned 15 years old. The police quickly arrest four suspects, all under the age of 21 and of Alaska Native and American Indian descent. Police lineup witnesses, trials follow, and all four men receive lengthy prison terms. Case closed. But journalist Brian Patrick O'Donoghue can't put the story out of his mind.

But this is not a book just for lawyers, although any lawyer worth her or his salt will find it hard to put it down. Anyone interested in what it's really like to receive an unexpected phone call late at night after a long day in court and have to face a sudden legal emergency which requires you to drive across the state to provide urgently needed legal services to desperate clients who have nowhere else to turn should listen to this book.