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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition: Discover How the Pros Uncover the Facts and Get to the Truth - Paperback

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by Steven Kerry Brown (Author)The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business. At the same time, individuals want to learn investigative techniques to solve their own personal and legal problems. In The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Private Investigating, Third Edition, private investigator and former FBI agent Steven Kerry Brown shares his hard-won expertise on everything you need to know to track down people and informatio...

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Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science - Paperback

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by Nigel McCrery (Author)Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over the past two centuries. The book weaves dramatic narrative and scientific principles together in a way that allows readers to figure out crimes along with the experts. Readers are introduced to such fascinating figures as Dr. Edmond Locard, the "French Sherlock Holmes"; Edward Heinrich, "Wizard of Berkeley," who is credited w...

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by Louis Nizer (Author)2012 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this title Nizer recounts some of his significant civil and criminal cases. The tension of the courtroom and the fervor of the advocate pervaded his books, including "My Life in Court", which made him nationally famous. It rose to the top of The Times's best-seller list and logged 72 weeks as a sales leader. One critic praised it as "entertaining a...

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by Mba Cfp Ely (Author)The certainty of uncertainty is as true for managing investments as it is for potty-training toddlers; if you are not careful you could end up with a real mess This is especially true for anyone responsible, even indirectly, for money belonging to a relative, friend, trust, charity, pension or other entity. Being a fiduciary is a very serious legal obligation but this book makes learning how to be one actually fun If you ever need to serve as or hire a trustee, execut...

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by Dale C. Carson (Author), Wes Denham (Author)What do you say if a cop pulls you over and asks to search your car? What if he gets up in your face and uses a racial slur? What if there's a roach in the ashtray? And what if your hot-headed teenage son is at the wheel? If you read this book, you'll know exactly what to do and say.More people than ever are getting arrested--usually for petty offenses against laws that rarely used to be enforced. And because arrest information is so easily avail...

Crime and Custom in Savage Society - Paperback

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by Bronislaw Malinowski (Author)2014 Reprint of 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Crime and Custom in Savage Society" represents Bronislaw Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice and theory. Methodology steps forward as a core element of the refashioned anthropology, o...

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by Ann Tusa (Author), John Tusa (Author)Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law. From the whimpering of Kaltenbrunner and Ribbentrop on the stand to the icy coolness of Goering, each participant is vividly drawn. Includes twenty-four photographs of the key players as well as extens...

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by Aristotle Aristotle (Author)Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students. Athens, however, was a particularly important state, and where Aristotle was living at the time; it is plausible that, even if students did the others, Aristotle did that one himself, and possible that it was intended as a model for the rest. Number of Pag...

The Economics of Regional Water Quality Management - Hardcover

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by Allen V. Kneese (Author)First Published in 2011. How clean should a stream be? And what represents an efficient way of bringing about desired conditions? These are the basic issues that confront those who are concerned with the husbandry of water resources through pollution control. This book offers form and substance to the concept of water quality management. It is unique in that it provides specific illustration of how theory and methodology of resources allocation may be employed in th...

Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian - Paperback

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by William S. Holdsworth (Author)Holdsworth proves that historians should study the novels of Charles Dickens as source material about the workings of English law and legal institutions. He shows how Bleak House highlights the procedures of the Court of Chancery, and Pickwick Papers illuminates the procedure of the common law. The addresses contained in this book were delivered in the William L. Storrs Lecture Series, 1927, before the Law School of Yale University. "The distinguished English ...

The Development of International Law - Paperback

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by Geoffrey Butler (Author), Simon Maccoby (Author)"One of the Most Valuable Contributions to the History of International Law Yet Made" J.P. Bullington, Yale Law Review This history is divided into three sections. The first, The Age of the Prince, gives the history of fundamental doctrines of international law regulating the intercourse between states on land and sea in peace and war. The second, The Age of the Judge, is chiefly devoted to commercial relations, the development of neutrality ...

A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law - Paperback

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by John a. Rockwell (Author), Peter L. Reich (Introduction by)With a New Introduction by Peter L. Reich Professor of Law and Sumner Scholar, Director, Mexico City Program, Whittier Law School Rockwell's Compilation addressed the needs of miners and other individuals who needed to reconcile Mexican land titles with the new U.S. laws that went into effect in the territory acquired by the United States in the recently concluded Mexican-American War (1846-48). An impressive achievement and a nota...

Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence - Paperback

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by Frederick Charles Von Savigny (Author), Abraham Hayward (Translator)The Book That Launched the German Historical School of Jurisprudence. Written in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Vocation proposed a common legal code for the newly liberated German states and attacked Thibaut's advocacy of a code based on natural law. Though he aimed in part to improve the administration of justice, Savigny hoped that a common legal system would promote a larger goal: a spi...

A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations - Paperback

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by Thomas McIntyre Cooley (Author)This classic treatise by one of the greatest commentators on the Constitution examines the construction of state constitutions and the enactment of laws. Probably the best- known legal treatise of its time, it went through six editions by 1890. Its treatment of such subjects as the protection of property by the "due process" clause of state constitutions and the protection of individual rights from arbitrary regulations dominated American constitutional think...

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States - Paperback

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by Charles a. Beard (Author)A CONTROVERSIAL INTERPRETATION OF THE FOUNDERS' INTENTIONS Beard's interpretation proposes that the Framers of the Federal Constitution were motivated primarily by economic concerns. This argument was widely held until the late 1950s, when it was gradually undermined by later research, much of it stimulated by Beard's work. Although most scholars today see the origins of the revolution in terms of the history of ideas, especially republicanism, Beard's work remains...

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by H. B. Clark (Author)Biblical Law: Being a Text of the Statutes, Ordinances, and Judgments Established in the Holy Bible with Many Allusions to Secular Laws: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Documented to the Scriptures, Judicial Decisions, and Legal Literature Clark offers a systematic presentation of the commandments, precedents and customs found in the King James Version of the Bible. Following the organization of a legal text, the work is divided into sections on General Principles, Polit...

Elements of International Law - Paperback

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by Henry Wheaton (Author)Written when the author was a diplomat posted in Berlin, this distinguished treatise went through several American and English editions, and several more in French, Italian, Spanish and Chinese. A standard work during the nineteenth century, an edition was published in England as late as 1936. "Mr. Wheaton's early familiarity with the jurisprudence and foreign relations of the United States, his long experience in diplomacy, his intimate acquaintance with European lan...

The Constitutional History of England: A Course of Lectures Delivered - Paperback

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by Frederic William Maitland (Author)Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908. xxviii, 547 pp. Although Maitland never intended to publish these lectures, they have long been regarded as one of the best introductions to the English Constitution. Delivered in the winter of 1887 and spring of 1888, and edited and published in 1908 by one of Maitland's students, Herbert A.L. Fisher, they cover the period from 1066 to the end of the nineteenth century. Rather than a narra...

Through the Codes Darkly: Slave Law and Civil Law in Louisiana - Hardcover

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by Vernon V. Palmer (Author)A path-breaking and masterly study of Louisiana slave law, this fascinating study offers an examination of the complex French, Spanish, Roman and American heritage of Louisiana's law of slavery and its codification, a profile of the first effort in modern history to integrate slavery into a European-style civil code, the 1808 Digest of Orleans, a trailblazing study of the unwritten laws of slavery and the legal impact of customs and practices developing outside of ...

The Most Excellent Hugo Grotius, His Books Treating of the Rights of War & Peace - Hardcover

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by Hugo Grotius (Author), William Evats (Translator), William E. Butler (Introduction by)REPRINT OF THE RARE EVATS TRANSLATION The second English translation of Hugo Grotius' landmark work, De Jure Belli Ac Pacis (1625), translated by William Evats (c.1606/7-1677) and published in London in 1682. As William E. Butler points out in his introduction to this reprint: "The early English translations of the works of Hugo Grotius on the law of nations are not the product of legal scholars or legal ...

A View of the Constitution of the United States of America Second Edition - Paperback

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by William Rawle Jr. (Author)This treatise was the first comprehensive study of the United States Constitution, and one of the most important. Originally published: Philadelphia: Philip H. Nicklin, 1829. viii, 349 pp. Though concise, Rawle provides a systematic analysis of the Constitution's articles, as well as its historical background and philosophy. It is also a historically significant work because it suggests that states have a right to secede from the Union. A popular textbook used in...

An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States - Paperback

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by John Taylor (Author)Originally published in 1814, this is a reprint of the Yale University Press 1950 edition with an introduction by Roy Franklin Nichols. 562 pp. Taylor wrote this important work in 1814 as a reply to John Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. Unlike Adams, he rejects the concept of "a natural aristocracy" of "paper and patronage" and a federal government based on a system of debt and taxes. He considers the American governmen...

Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty - Paperback

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by Harold J. Laski (Author)An influential study of political power. Originally published: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1917. x, ii], 297 pp. This volume (Laski's first) addresses aspects of the theory of the state, a topic he developed further in Authority in the Modern State (1919) and The Foundations of Sovereignty and Other Essays (1921). Laski's theoretical ideas are elaborated through examples drawn from recent political and religious movements, such as the Catholic Revival and the...

The Unsigned Essays of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Early American Views of Law - Paperback

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by Valerie L. Horowitz (Author), Morris L. Cohen (Editor)xxx, 387 pp. Written anonymously for the Encyclopedia Americana and now gathered in one volume, this work presents eighteen articles about major legal subjects by Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and the first Dane professor of law at Harvard Law School. The articles are virtually unknown today because they were unsigned and never republished in any other form. Ranging from "Law, Legislation and ...

Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo - Paperback

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by Benjamin Cardozo (Author), A. L. Sainer (Editor)A Collection of Cardozo's Important Opinions. Edited by A. L. Sainer, with a foreword by Hon. Robert F. Wagner. Originally published: New York: Ad Press Ltd., 1938]. Frontispiece. xv, 441 pp. A collection of notable opinions by the great judge in the areas of civil rights, crime, contractual relations, injuries, estates, labor and social matters, and international relations. Cardozo's opinions bear the mark of careful preparation, of patient...

The Creation of the Common Law: The Medieval

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by Thomas Lund (Author)Foreword by Richard Epstein, New York University School of Law. In this modern compilation and commentary, the most important medieval cases are paraphrased and analyzed, making this interesting and entertaining litigation accessible to everyone. Although Maitland's classic History of English Law ends at Henry III's death, until now no one has explained in clear modern language the transformative events that followed. After Edward I became king, Chief Justice Bereford t...

Crime's Nemesis (Historical Forensics and Criminology) - Paperback

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by Luke S. May (Author)CSI: 1930s. Luke S. May (1892-1965) was one of the earliest consulting scientific detectives, specializing in forensic investigations. He was integral in the development of techniques, instruments, and facilities for scientific criminology. In Crime's Nemesis, May recounts the methods solving a variety of crimes, including murder and forgery. True crime fans will find these precursors to modern criminology a fascinating window to the development of crime-solving. Number...

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Who Says You're Dead?: Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned - Hardcover

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by Jacob M. Appel (Author)"An original, compelling, and provocative exploration of ethical issues in our society, with thoughtful and balanced commentary. I have not seen anything like it." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams Drawing upon the author's two decades teaching medical ethics, as well as his work as a practicing psychiatrist, this profound and addictive little book offers up challenging ethical dilemmas and asks readers, What would you do? A daughter gets tested to see i...

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Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration - Hardcover

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by Greg Berman (Author), Julian Adler (Author)As heard on NPR's Fresh Air Recommended by The New York Times' Sam Roberts "Start Here is an urgent and timely primer on the approaches that are working and don't require federal approval or political revolution to end one of the most pressing justice issues the country faces today."--Brooklyn Daily Eagle A bold agenda for criminal justice reform based on equal parts pragmatism and idealism, from the visionary director of the Center for Court Inno...

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Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire - Paperback

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by Eric Berkowitz (Author)The "raging frenzy" of the sex drive, to use Plato's phrase, has always defied control. However, that's not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not tried, wielding their most formidable weapon: the law. At any given point in time, some forms of sex were condoned while others were punished mercilessly. Jump forward or backward a century or two (and often far less than that), and the harmless fun of one time period b...

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Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns - Hardcover

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by Igor Volsky (Author)One of Mashable's 17 books every activist should read in 2019Join the conversation about creating a future with fewer guns and finally make a difference--this smart, thoughtful, commonsense plan (Donna Brazile) shows you how Ninety-six people die from guns in America every single day. Twelve thousand Americans are murdered each year. The United States has more mass shootings, gun suicides, and nonfatal gun injuries than any other industrialized country in the world. Gun...

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Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America - Hardcover

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by Erik Nielson (Author), Andrea Dennis (Author), Killer Mike (Foreword by)A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor ...