Academic legal writing

Academic legal writing

Designed to help law students write and publish articles, this text provides detailed instructions for every aspect of the law school writing, research, and publication process. Topics covered include law review articles and student notes, seminar term papers, how to shift from research to writing, cite-checking others work, publishing, and publicizing written works. With supporting documents available on the book helps law students and everyone else involved in academic legal writing: professors save time and effort .

Eugene Volokh

The jury

The  jury

The American system of trial by jury is unique. No other nation relies so heavily on ordinary citizens to make its most important decisions about law, business practice, and personal liberty - even death.

Stephen J. Adler

Government by judiciry

Government by judiciary

The judiciary (also known as the judicial system or court system) is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state. The judiciary also provides a mechanism for the resolution of disputes.....Raoul Berger

Raoul Berger

The Nature of the Judicial Process

The Nature of the         Judicial Process

The Nature of the Judicial Process was written by Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and New York Court of Appeals Chief Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo in 1921. It was compiled from The Storrs Lectures delivered at Yale Law School.

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously

Taking Rights Seriously is a 1977 book on philosophy of law by Ronald Dworkin. In this landmark book, Dworkin argues against the dominant philosophy of Anglo-American legal positivism.

Ronald Dworkin

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice

A Theory of Justice is a work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls. It was originally published in 1971 and revised in both 1975 and 1999.

Rawls believes that parties would find his favoured principles of justice to be especially attractive, winning out over varied alternatives

First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

Second: a) they are to be of the greatest benefit to the least-advantaged members of society, consistent with the just savings principle. (the difference principle)

(b) offices and positions must be open to everyone under conditions of fair equality of opportunity.

 Rawls

Simple Justice

Simple Justice

Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, written by Richard Kluger and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976, was a finalist for the 1977 National Book Award in the History category

The book has been called "a classic of legal history.On January 18, 1993, a documentary based on the book was broadcast as an episode of the American Experience Series.

Richard Kluger