Law Biography

Senator Thomas Dodd began his career in public service as a prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials. His son, Senator Christopher Dodd, recently discovered his mother's collection of letters his father wrote during that time. Through his father, Chris Dodd learned not only the scope of the Holocaust but also the importance of the rule of law.

In 1996, an unprecedented decade-long courtroom battle was waged in Florida to help bring justice and hope to the family of a young boy born with no eyes after his mother was doused outside of a local u-pick farm by a chemical fungicide believed to have caused his birth defect and the birth defects of many other children. It was a battle that nearly everyone but attorney Jim Ferraro deemed unwinnable. After all, it involved one of the world's most powerful industrial giants.

Er ist der Mann, der auf der Seite des Bösen steht - stehen muss. Denn Stephan Lucas ist Strafverteidiger. Er verhilft Mördern und Vergewaltigern vor Gericht zu ihrem Recht. Hier berichtet er von seinen spektakulärsten Fällen, von seinem spannenden Alltag zwischen Verhandlungen und Knastbesuchen und natürlich davon, wie es ist, tagtäglich mit dem Bösen konfrontiert zu werden. Wie geht man mit Menschen um, die jemanden ermordet haben? Muss man einen Vergewaltiger hassen? Und: Sieht man es einem Menschen an, wenn er ein schlimmes Verbrechen begangen hat?

On November 23, 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor - some leads put Parkman at sea or in Manhattan - but a Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never even left the Medical School building. His shocking discovery engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials.

So offen und persönlich wie noch nie: die Autobiographie! Gregor Gysi hat linkes Denken geprägt und wurde zu einem seiner wichtigsten Protagonisten. Hier erzählt er von seinen zahlreichen Leben: als Anwalt, Politiker, Autor, Moderator und Familienvater. Seine Autobiographie ist ein Geschichts-Buch, das die Erschütterungen und Extreme, die Entwürfe und Enttäuschungen des 20. Jahrhunderts auf sehr persönliche Weise erlebbar macht.

In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief Justices - Fred Vinson, Earl Warren, Warren Burger, William Rehnquist, and John Roberts - that he interacted with. He reminisces of being a law clerk during Vinson's tenure; a practicing lawyer for Warren; a circuit judge and junior justice for Burger; a contemporary colleague of Rehnquist; and a colleague of current Chief Justice John Roberts.

In 1856 Abraham Lincoln was a former congressman who had grown bored with his work as a lawyer, until he was drawn into the murder case that would define his career. This book reveals not only the mystery of the murder case as investigated by Lincoln but also the mystery of Abraham Lincoln as investigated by the author.

In Breaking In, veteran journalist Joan Biskupic tells the story of how two forces providentially merged - the large ambitions of a talented Puerto Rican girl raised in the projects in the Bronx and the increasing political presence of Hispanics, from California to Texas, from Florida to the Northeast - resulting in a historical appointment. And this is not just a tale about breaking barriers as a Puerto Rican. It's about breaking barriers as a justice.

As William Faulkner said, “The past is not dead, it’s not even past.” This observation seems especially true in matters of family, when the fury between generations is often never resolved and instead secretly carried, a wound that cannot heal. For David Berg, this is truer than for most, and once you listen to the story of his family, you will understand why he held it privately for so long and why the betrayals between parent and child can be the most wrenching of all.

Peter Brandt, a litigator at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has been at the forefront of some of the toughest cases of animal abuse in the last 10 years - including supervising a team of lawyers working to protect the interests of farm animals. In this revelatory and often surprisingly funny memoir-cum-manifesto, Brandt describes his growing awareness of the extent of the cruelty of animals in concentrated animal feeding operations (a.k.a. factory farms) and the manifold harms to human health, local communities, and the environment for those who live near them.

In this captivating, humorous memoir, Joe Field rises from abject poverty with a single parent Hispanic mother to become a lawyer. But gnawing at him throughout his life is not knowing his father. A life resembling Forrest Gump meets the Pursuit of Happyness, Finding Joe Adams is a candid, true tale of a man innocently trying to make sense of life, and to make something of himself. He presents, without much judgment, a struggling, survivalist mother who often made mistakes but provided as she could for her broken family.

Spies on Trial brings the listener fast-paced stories of foreign spies engaged in daring deeds of sleuthing that undoubtedly have more than their fair share of intriguing moments. But nowhere is this suspense more intense than inside the courtroom, where the drama of intense covert activities is fully unfurled, offering fascinating glimpses into this vast and nefarious underground world of international espionage.

Life In Death is an inspirational story of the loss of Gibson's brother on the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. But rather than becoming bitter, she chose to take the road less traveled and responded in forgiveness and love. She is overcoming this act of evil with good by serving the people of Libya, the country found responsible. Gibson takes the reader on an emotional 20 year journey as she wrestles through grief and anger of loss and how she ultimately finds justice, forgiveness and inner peace.

Sonia Sotomayor es la primera mujer de origen hispano que se convierte en la III juez de la Corte Suprema. Su origen Puertorriqueño y su gran capacidad para los estudios, en universidades como Yale, la catapultaron a tan importante puesto. En este libro, los editores de El diario la prensa y La opinión ofrecen una de las mas importantes coberturas de este acontecimiento histórico.

From a cop’s life on the streets of Brooklyn to hobnobbing with celebrities in the resorts of Las Vegas, Michaels delivers intriguing insights and nonstop laughs. He’s seen it all, from tracking the Son of Sam serial killer in New York to record shopping sprees with Michael Jackson in Las Vegas. Along the way, Michaels has met many of the world’s most famous and interesting people, encounters that inevitably yielded fascinating stories.

Højesteretssagfører Bernt Hjejle ser tilbage på nogle af de store personligheder, han gennem et langt liv har mødt, og leverer en række erindringsportrætter af otte "enere", der på mange måder skiller sig ud fra mængden. De otte enere, der beskrives i denne bog, er Ebbe Munck, Eigil Knuth, Johannes Brøndsted, Karl Hude, Oskar Bondo Svane, Guy Shaw, Sascha Wamberg og Hans Nikolaj Hansen. Bernt Hjejle (1901-1994) var dr.jur. og højesteretssagfører.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginburg is for many a truly iconic Supreme Court Justice. This volume reviews some landmark cases, in which she was a key participant. Justice Ginsburg was a fierce advocate for sexual equality, and was the founding director of the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU including arguing cases before the Supreme Court on many occasions.

As an accomplished Microsoft executive, Bruce Jackson handles billions of dollars of commerce as its associate general counsel while he plays a crucial role in the company’s corporate diversity efforts. But few of his colleagues can understand the weight he carries with him to the office each day. He kept his past hidden from sight as he ascended the corporate ladder but shares it in full for the first time here. Never Far from Home reveals the ups and downs of an incredible journey and the valuable lessons learned along the way.

The Gwinnett County, Georgia, Police Department was formed by tough, honorable men who were brought in to clean up the county after the sheriff made moonshining his personal business. Late one night in spring of 1964, the police in Gwinnett County - and everywhere - learned just how far that respect would go in saving their lives in a tight spot. Officers Jesse Gravitt, Ralph Davis, and Jerry Everett responded to a report of suspicious activity on a desolate country road named Arc. What they found was a kind of criminal they were completely unprepared for.

A short, accessible collection of key historic writings about presidential impeachment, as part of a new Penguin Classics series on liberty and constitutional rights.