A renowned legal historian at UVA and author of 14 books republishes his collection of astute and timeless essays on such subjects as the method and debates of legal history; the truth about Holmes and Brandeis; the legal realism school and its critics; the development of gay rights in constitutional law; and the origins of tort law. IN DIGITAL FORMATS AND NEW PAPERBACK.
Did U.S. Judaism Lose its Way As it Became Led By Lawyers?
That is the provocative question posed by historian Jerold Auerbach in Rabbis and Lawyers: The Journey From Torah to Constitution. Most of the people he vividly describes are considered great or heroic, and the events all good, but by thorough research he reveals that the canonization is not always appropriate. Their devotion to law and [...]
Cardozo’s Nature of the Judicial Process Adds New Foreword by Harvard’s Andrew Kaufman
Judges don’t discover the law, they create it.
Justice Cardozo’s premier biographer, Andrew L. Kaufman, brings the classic study of judicial decision-making to a new generation. Now in eight quality digital formats and Kindle, plus affordable paperback.
Slow Fire: A U.S. Philosopher’s Account of Divided Berlin in the 80s
Susan Neiman went to learn more about morality and reason, which she did, but she also came to terms with being Jewish in a city that did not always welcome her, as if her presence was a guilty reminder. (Or they did not know she was Jewish and said some amazing stuff.) The memoirs–through the [...]
Discretion to Disobey: a classic of law & society
Discretion to Disobey is a truly interdisciplinary inquiry into the idea of departing from the strict letter of the law in a way that, the authors argue, actually comports with both law and morality.
Sometimes you have to break the law to make the law.
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK. Buy it in as an ebook from Amazon, Sony, Barnes & Noble, Apple iTunes, and Smashwords.
I Saw Them Die: historical and occasionally bizarre account from a WWI nurse
Shirley Millard’s harrowing and fascinating account of her MASH-like experience in WWI France gives insights she intends and many more that she does not. Reading it is an experience on several levels. One of the best personal accounts ever of the Great War from just behind the lines, first published in 1936.
Kitty Calavita goes Inside the State, with the rise and fall of the Bracero INS Program
The classic study of the rise and demise — among controversy and abuse — of the INS farmworker program of Braceros is now Digitally Remastered and available for classrooms and other interested readers, with a new Foreword. Available in ebook formats for Kindle, Sony, Nook, & iPad — and in new paperback, including bulk sales.
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The annotated Common Law: Holmes Gets Decoded for a New Generation
The only corrected and annotated version available of this foundational work on law and legal reasoning, read by generations of law students, scholars, and historians — now in a 2010 edition with an explanatory Foreword, active contents, linked and numbered footnotes, and clarifying annotations throughout. AVAILABLE in print and in eight digital versions, plus an edition without annotations for Kindle and in paperback.
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Grandfather J. B.: Letters to My Grandson offers strong characters and longings for education and philosophy
From the family of Mary Grossman and Joel Grossman (she the coeditor of Law & Change in Modern America, he a chaired professor of political science at Johns Hopkins), comes the witty, acerbic, and sweet correspondence by grandfather Joseph Bercovici, a self-taught Romanian immigrant who produced a “clan” of novelists and academics. This is his [...]