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Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom by Leonard Elizabeth D
epub |eng | 2018-06-13 | Author:Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Anticipated and Unanticipated Costs of War Meanwhile, back in Washington, DC, as the war came to an end and federal occupation and Reconstruction began, the persistence, patience, unflinching courage, and ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 14,2019 )
Love & Courage by Jagmeet Singh
epub |eng | | Author:Jagmeet Singh

When it came time to consider universities, my school counsellor helped me put together a thorough application for a bachelor of sciences, majoring in biology. My goal was still to ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges June 11,2019 )
Oliver Wendell Holmes by Stephen Budiansky
epub |eng | 2019-03-16 | Author:Stephen Budiansky

It was far from Holmes’s clearest or most-well-written opinion, either. But it reflected, fundamentally, his view that while a conspiracy by two competitors to keep a third company from entering ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges June 1,2019 )
The Nonsense Factory by Bruce Cannon Gibney
epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Bruce Cannon Gibney

Pandemic or Pandemonium? Judging by public opinion, America has experienced an unrelenting increase in crime since 1989, when Gallup began polling the issue.99 Curiously, August 2000 to October 2001 was ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges June 1,2019 )
The Making of a Justice by John Paul Stevens
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:John Paul Stevens

It was also in 1992 that the Northwestern Law School established a professorship in my name. That action was especially gratifying because it was financed by my classmates. October Term ...
( Category: Political May 20,2019 )
Connecting the Dots by Harry W. Arthurs
epub |eng | 2019-05-19 | Author:Harry W. Arthurs

8 Adventures in Pedagogy Over my forty-plus years as a legal academic, I had a lot to say about the governance, curricula, and scholarly cultures of law schools, but relatively ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges May 19,2019 )
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution by Myron Magnet
epub |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:Myron Magnet

A NOTE of icy scorn runs through Thomas’s opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 case in which the Court upheld affirmative-action admissions to the University of Michigan Law School. ...
( Category: Constitutions May 9,2019 )
Finding My Voice by Valerie Jarrett
epub |eng | 2019-04-02 | Author:Valerie Jarrett

* * * — From his 2004 keynote in Boston to his rousing “Yes, we can” rally in New Hampshire to his honest and uplifting speech on race in Philadelphia, ...
( Category: African-American & Black April 29,2019 )
The Search for Justice by Robert Shapiro
epub |eng | 2019-01-31 | Author:Robert Shapiro

In the wake of the KNBC report about blood tests on the socks, the court ’s concern about news leaks became increasingly apparent. Ito showed us an article from Newsday ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges April 22,2019 )
The Torture Machine by Flint Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-03-06 | Author:Flint Taylor

Armstrong’s profile also captured how the news swept down Pontiac Penitentiary’s death row, from Aaron Patterson to Ronald Kitchen to numerous other clients and friends: Louva Bell, Kitchen’s mother, would ...
( Category: Local April 20,2019 )
First by Evan Thomas
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Evan Thomas

Four days later, the O’Connors were packing for summer vacation when they got word that President Reagan had nominated Robert Bork, a conservative judge, to replace Justice Powell. Bork had ...
( Category: Women March 20,2019 )
Together by Judy Goldman
epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Judy Goldman

* * * . Our instruction involves holding Henry while he takes one step from the wheelchair into the car; then we lift his legs around to the front. Why ...
( Category: Lawyers & Judges February 27,2019 )
A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades by Marie Brenner
mobi |eng | 2018-10-23 | Author:Marie Brenner

* * * As his father had had Bunny Lindenbaum for his fixer, Donald Trump had Roy Cohn, the Picasso of the inside fix. “Cohn taught Donald which fork to ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic October 29,2018 )
Love Wins by Debbie Cenziper
epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Debbie Cenziper

14 TWENTY-ONE YEARS FROM MIDNIGHT AL LOVED to sue people. It was the surest way to make the law work for the weak, the most satisfying kind of advocacy. On ...
( Category: United States April 6,2018 )
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Rosalind Rosenberg

Adding “Sex” to Title VII Murray faced not just divided women’s and civil rights movements but also a problem inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause covered only ...
( Category: Women March 18,2018 )

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