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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.

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.

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.

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.

彼女の一つのツイートが私の人生を変えた……この裁判は私の存在証明だった。

This is the remarkable story of how a boy from rural Welcome, North Carolina grew up to become an innovative judge, global citizen, and go-to guy for court-building in emerging African nations. Along the way, he organizes the first-ever judicial conference in Tanzania, jogs with children in Lusaka, dances with a python, and has adventures ranging from the harrowing to the hilarious. In the end, he discovers the distance between Welcome and Windhoek is not as great as he imagined, and that both places now occupy adjoining spaces in his heart.

The “gripping” (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past—from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer. “Compulsively...

A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the presidency or...

The architect of O.J. Simpson's Dream Team tells the inside story of the Simpson murder trial from the beginning. In this book, the man who created the defense strategy answers the questions of fact, law, and ethics that were fired at him before and after the jury's verdict. With candor, wit, and compassion, Shapiro brings to light the details of The Trial of the Century, giving us revealing glimpses of O.J. Simpson, Johnnie Cochran, Marcia Clark, Chris Darden, Judge Lance Ito, Barry Scheck, F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, and many others.

An appreciation of the “greatest common law jurist of the 20th Century,” these two lectures also include a comparison and contrast of the Parliamentary system of Commonwealth countries within which Lord Denning operated and American Constitutionalism.

Widely known as the "poor man's lawyer" in antebellum Boston, John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) was involved in nearly every cause and case that advanced social and racial justice in Boston in the years preceding the Civil War. Inspired by the legacies of John Quincy Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mentored by Charles Sumner, Andrew devoted himself to the battle for equality. In this revealing and accessible biography, Stephen D. Engle traces Andrew's life and legacy, giving this important, but largely forgotten, figure his due.

The Smartass rides again. After retiring from police work, Norman Duchesneau returns to continue his story.

Many may think that 1917 and 2017 do not have much in common. Though times have changed, what is essential often stays the same. These memoirs are a thrilling narrative of Alphonso A. Christian I, a barefoot boy in the most remote and undeveloped district of the United States Virgin Islands. He never had the opportunity to attend a university. He defied the odds to rise to be a judge, a commissioner, and an executive secretary of the Virgin Islands Legislature, one of the most influential United States Virgin Islands legislature positions.

No matter what your challenge is in life, remember that you’re going to shine. No one can dim your light unless you give them permission to do so. We all have been equipped with gifts and talents that will shine through and be a blessing to those in our workplace, at home, and in our community.

More than 35 years of being a police officer gave Phil Eastwood a ringside seat to one of the most entertaining shows on earth—the one with humans! Handcuffs to Handshakes is a personal story that win through the violent but fascinating streets of London in the 1980’s and into the present day on the west coast of Canada.

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.

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil -...

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Abuso do Direito. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Natural e personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Capacidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Emancipação. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Morte. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Direitos da Personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Jurídica. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Domicílio. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Bens: conceito e classificação.

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Abuso do Direito. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Natural e personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Capacidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Emancipação. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Morte. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Direitos da Personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Jurídica. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Domicílio. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Bens: conceito e classificação.

Direito Civil - Parte geral - Introdução. Conceito de Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Elementos do Direito Subjetivo. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Abuso do Direito. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Natural e personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Capacidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Emancipação. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Morte. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Direitos da Personalidade. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Pessoa Jurídica. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Domicílio. Direito Civil - Parte geral - Bens: conceito e classificação.