Legal Studies

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Stacey Abrams’s While Justice Sleeps in 23 minutes or less. In While Justice Sleeps (2021), Stacey Abrams narrates a thrilling tale of a brilliant young lawyer with an eidetic memory who saves the world through her loyalty to a man others had deemed insane. The novel follows Avery Keene as she deciphers the cryptic messages left to her by Supreme Court Justice Howard Wynn before he went into a coma. Avery discovers shocking secrets of biological warfare and genetic engineering that had been kept hidden.

Historian Orville Vernon Burton and civil rights lawyer Armand Derfner shine a powerful light on the Court's race record - a legacy at times uplifting, but more often distressing and sometimes disgraceful. For nearly a century, the Court ensured that the 19th-century Reconstruction Amendments would not truly free and enfranchise African Americans. And the 21st century has seen a steady erosion of commitments to enforcing hard-won rights.

In On Your Case, Lisa Green finally fills a gap in women's bookshelves with a thorough, compelling and occasionally hilarious guide to the range of legal issues women can expect to navigate in their busy lives. Leveraging her experience as a lawyer and a television journalist and legal analyst, Green explains common, even complicated, legal issues in practical, easy-to-understand terms. She uses court cases and personal anecdotes to illustrate how listeners can make smart decisions when problems arise. And legal problems will arise, so women need to get smart, and get ready.