Juristyrken
3 324 produkter
3 324 produkter
- Nyhet
274 kr
Skickas
"A bombshell new biography." —People MagazineA revelatory portrait of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chronicling his battles with addiction and his astonishing journey from entitled scion to environmental activist to a prominent member of the president's cabinet, based on RFK Jr.’s secret journals and the author’s interviews with dozens of sources close to him.Born into one of the most storied families in American history, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was fourteen years old when his father was assassinated. He has since spent his life grappling with the weight of his family’s legacy. Like his martyred father, RFK Jr. longs to be a hero, but he has struggled with his demons. “I knew daddy was watching me, and that he loved me,” he wrote in a diary entry, “But I also felt I was disappointing him.”Those thoughts were set down in his diary when he was serving out a monthlong prison term in Puerto Rico for civil disobedience. The experience changed his life. Alone in his cell, he was forced to grapple with his personal conflicts—his addictions to drugs and women—but also to question everything that he and his family once held sacred, including their allegiance to the Democratic Party, which had sustained the Kennedy family for generations.RFK Jr. became disillusioned with many of the party’s leaders even as he committed himself to carving out a distinct identity as a public servant. He would vow to step up his environmental crusade, later establishing himself as a public health critic with controversial views on vaccines. He became a political maverick.But even now, in his seventies, and after an unexpected pivot into the national spotlight as a political and cultural figure at odds with both the Democratic Party and his family, RFK Jr. is still fighting to live up to the legacy of his father.Award-winning journalist Isabel Vincent draws on exclusive access to RFK Jr.’s personal diaries, candid interviews, and previously unreleased material, providing an unparalleled view of the life and mind of one of the most divisive individuals in America today, a deeply flawed man whose public life has often been in conflict with his private battles.
209 kr
Svenska advokater i kostym och dräkt har gått från rättens väktare till brottslingarnas förtrogna. Med personlig inblick och avslöjande detaljer skildrar kriminalreportern Fredrik Sjöshult den svenska advokatröta som breder ut sig – en värld där girighet, makt och lojalitet mot gängkriminella suddar ut gränsen mellan rättvisa och brott.
Genom skandalösa exempel, från ”Kungen och Prinsen” i Encrochat-skandalen till kärleksrelationer mellan advokater och gängledare, avslöjas hur Sveriges rättssystem utnyttjas av de som borde försvara det. Hur kunde det gå så långt? Och vad krävs för att stoppa gangsteradvokaternas framfart?
Advokatrötan är en skakande berättelse om maktmissbruk, rättsstatens kris och gängkriminella i kostym.
Nominerad till Guldspaden 2025 för bästa bok.
"Med flera intressanta exempel som Encrochat-fallet eller fall som beskriver kärleksrelationer som utvecklats mellan en advokat och någon mäktig figur i kriminalkretsar erbjuder boken ett högkvalitativt granskande reportage blandat med Sjöshults personliga insikter."
BTJ
"Med tanke på att det handlar om brottsbekämpning är det djupt tragisk läsning som visar att gemene man knappast kan lita till 100 procent på att advokatbyrån som åtar sig civilmålet är hederlig. Samtidigt är berättelserna lika spännande läsning som en påhittad deckare. Återstår en undring: När får Fredrik Sjöshult stora journalistpriset?"
Ölandsbladet
418 kr
Skickas
Advokaters tystnadsplikt är en grundläggande och avgörande princip som formar den juridiska yrkesetiken och stärker tilliten mellan klient och advokat. Denna förtroendebas tjänar inte bara till att värna den personliga integriteten utan är också en förutsättning för en effektiv rättslig representation och en fungerande rättsstat. Genom tillgång till och användning av allt relevant processmaterial som klienten i förtroende kan och vill bidra med säkerställs en rättvis rättegång.
I denna bok behandlas de olika dimensionerna av advokatens tystnadsplikt. Författarna diskuterar de rättsliga ramarna som styr den och beskriver dess roll i olika delar av det svenska rättssystemet, inklusive dess praktiska tillämpningar i nationella domstolar, Europadomstolen och EU-domstolen samt i advokatsamfundets disciplinnämnd. Genom att fördjupa sig i ämnet vill författarna öka förståelsen för varför denna princip är så central för rättssäkerheten.
401 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Annointed , Sowell, one of America's most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. He warns that society suffers from an ever-widening gap between firsthand knowledge and decision making,a gap that threatens not only our economic and political efficiency, but our very freedom because actual knowledge gets replaced by assumptions based on an abstract and elitist social vision f what ought to be. Knowledge and Decisions , a winner of the 1980 Law and Economics centre Prize, was heralded as a "landmark work" and selected for this prize "because of its cogent contribution to our understanding of the differences between the market process and the process of government." In announcing the award, the centre acclaimed Sowell, whose "contribution to our understanding of the process of regulation alone would make the book important, but in reemphasizing the diversity and efficiency that the market makes possible, [his] work goes deeper and becomes even more significant."
Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor
Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
445 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The remarkable life of one of the twentieth century's great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal CourtOn September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached the lectern to deliver the prosecution's opening statement against Hitler's brutal henchmen of the Einsatzgruppen—the SS killing units responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths during the Holocaust—in what the Associated Press dubbed "the biggest murder trial in history." As the field of international criminal justice was being born in the aftermath of World War II, only Ferencz led in all its phases: investigation, prosecution, and restitution—an extraordinary feat given his humble origins as an impoverished immigrant escaping antisemitic persecution in Eastern Europe and growing up in New York's Hell's Kitchen. A Harvard Law scholarship student, Ferencz had been General Patton's lead war crimes field investigator before becoming a chief prosecutor at Nuremberg. Horrified by what he encountered, he dedicated his career to Holocaust survivors, pioneering key restitution efforts and helping negotiate the landmark reparations treaty between West Germany, Israel, and Jewish civil society. Later, he became a peace advocate and driving force behind the creation of the International Criminal Court, remarkably joining the prosecution for the Court's first trial as the last living Nuremberg prosecutor.Gregory Gordon, a former war crimes prosecutor himself and the first scholar with full access to Ferencz's personal papers, has produced an expansive, page-turning biography that uncovers incredible, and previously unknown, details about Ferencz's remarkable life. In this first major biography of the Nuremberg prosecutor in English, Gordon reveals fascinating missing links running through Ferencz's career which throw into a whole new light his landmark achievements.
219 kr
Skickas
Jag har aldrig ångrat att jag blev advokat. Det är särskilt stunderna i rättssalarna som blivit höjdpunkter. Rättssalen är tillvarons mest fascinerande rum. Här kan varje ord, en pausering, nära nog varje rörelse ha betydelse.
Hösten 2026 har Peter Danowsky arbetat på advokatbyrå i 50 år. Uppdragen har varierat. Mycket har handlat om att vara ombud i tvister. Det mesta av advokatens arbete sker i det fördolda. Så har det varit också för Peter Danowsky, men här lättar han något på förlåten.
Flera av hans mål har fått stor uppmärksamhet. Girjas-målet gällde samebyns rätt att bestämma över jakt- och fiske i området i stället för att staten skulle göra det, Spelmålet där Justitiekanslern hävdade att tidningen Expressens uppgifter om läggmatcher kränkte vissa ishockey- och bandyspelare, The Pirate Bay, som utmanade musik- och filmindustrin och HQ, som gällde intrikata aspekter på värdepappers redovisning.
Ett särskilt intresse har varit yttrandefrihet och andra medierättsliga frågor. En vidsträckt yttrandefrihet behöver alltid försvaras, anser Peter Danowsky, som har haft många tillfällen till detta, bland annat som Expressens advokat.
I boken ges inblickar i rättssalen och möten med personligheter som bland andra Bo Strömstedt, Ilon Wikland, Björn Borg, Mikael Persbrandt, Leif Silbersky och Henning Sjöström skildras.
Intressant, lättsamt, eftertänksamt och med självdistans och glimten i ögat. Boken är mycket läsvärd och bör både välkomnas och läsas av jurister och andra. Därför önskar jag att hans trevliga och lättsamma bok läses av många, både jurister och samhällsengagerade.
Torulf Arwidson i Magasinet Paragraf
326 kr
Skickas
234 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Denna bok handlar om hur politik och juridik påverkar och påverkas av varandra. Författare är Sten De Geer, först förbundsjurist vid LO Rättsskydd och sedan advokat under mer än tre decennier med inriktning på arbetsrätt, asylrätt och mänskliga rättigheter. De Geer har samtidigt under många år verkat som juridisk rådgivare för Vänsterpartiets riksdagsgrupp. I boken blandas personliga iakttagelser med beskrivningar av politikens och rättsväsendets sätt att fungera. Svensk slavhandel på 1600-talet får via demokratins återupprättande i Brasilien en överraskande koppling till dagens svenska skattemyndighet. Upprinnelsen till Sveriges genom tiderna största rättegång, genom författarens anmälan till riksåklagaren om misstänkt medhjälp till grovt folkrättsbrott mot företrädare för Lundin Oil, ges en detaljerad beskrivning. Förlag: Empowering Books • Digiteach Sweden https://empoweringbooks.se
180 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
217 kr
Skickas
VEM FAN ÄR DU? skildrar Peter Althins resa från uppväxten och ungdomsåren i Lund till livet som en av Sveriges mest omskrivna och anlitade brottmålsadvokater. Vi får följa några av vår tids mest uppmärksammade rättegångar och ta del av kampen för rättvisa i såväl domstolar som i den kriminalpolitiska debatten. Men här finns också en annan och hittills okänd kamp. I boken berättas hur den framgångsrika advokatens rädsla för att misslyckas blev så stark att den fick honom att avsluta sin karriär.
Peter Althin var under flera år även politiskt aktiv som KD:s talesperson i kriminalpolitiska frågor. Vad var det som fick honom att träda in på den politiska arenan och som senare fick honom att lämna samma arena?
PETER ALTHIN har arbetat som advokat sedan 1974 och varit offentlig försvarare i många uppmärksammade rättegångar. I början på 2000-talet var han under några år riksdagsledamot. Han har också varit ordförande i Republikanska föreningen, styrelseledamot i Brå och i Sveriges Advokatsamfund.
JACK ÅGREN är docent i straffrätt och arbetar som universitetslektor. Han är en ofta anlitad föreläsare såväl inom som utanför universitet. Han är författare till såväl facklitteratur som läroböcker i juridik.
"Det är en bok som varje ung juriststuderande borde läsa, antingen han eller hon tänker bli brottmålsadvokat eller inte. Därtill var och en som ställt sig undrande till hur en advokat kan åta sig att försvara misstänka mördare, knarklangare och våldtäktsmän."
Dick Sundevall, Advokattidningen Paragraf
226 kr
Det vi kan stå för : Anders Behring Breiviks advokat om rättegången, pressen, sitt arbete och sina värderingar
Inbunden, Svenska, 2013
69 kr
Skickas
»En fascinerande inblick i Breviks tänkande och de svåra moraliska avvägandena i arbetet att företräda honom.« EXPRESSEN»En mycket stark bok, med en debatt som vi måste våga ta.« KRISTIANSTADSBLADETGeir Lippestad var Anders Behring Breiviks huvudförsvarare i rättegångarna efter attacken mot regeringskvarteren och massakern på AUF:s sommarläger i juli 2011. Det vi kan stå för beskriver rättegången ur hans perspektiv.Lippestad inleder boken med att skildra hur han kör till sitt sista möte med Breivik efter rättegångens slut, för att sedan gå tillbaka till frågan om vad som fick honom att åta sig uppdraget. Därefter beskriver han hela rättegångsförloppet, med personliga reflektioner och utvikningar som ger en fördjupad bild av skeendet och hans hållning som försvars.Lippestad resonerar inte minst kring de svåra moraliska utmaningar som han och de andra försvarsadvokaterna stötte på i sitt arbete. Det vi kan stå för är därför ingen renodlad rättegångsskildring, utan också en bok om människovärde och demokrati, och om juristens roll i det rättssamhälle som måste omfatta alla till och med de som vill förgöra det.GEIR LIPPESTAD [född 1964] är den norska advokat som den 23 juli 2011 på den åtalades egen begäran tog på sig att vara försvarsadvokat åt Anders Behring Breivik, den värsta massmördaren i Norges historia. Inledningsvis bemöttes han med misstänksamhet: Vad var det för sorts människa som till synes utan betänkligheter kunde tacka ja till ett sådant uppdrag?Mediepressen under rättegången var enorm, både från norska och utländska medier. Lippestad valde att bemöta journalisterna med vad han kallar värdebaserad kommunikation. I slutet av året valdes han till »Årets person« i flera av Norges rikstäckande tidningar.»En fascinerande inblick i Breviks tänkande och de svåra moraliska avvägandena i arbetet att företräda honom.« KARIN OLSSON, EXPRESSEN»Ett innerligt, lågmält, välformulerat och intelligent försvarstal för demokratin. En mycket stark bok, med en debatt som vi måste våga ta.« ÅSA CARLSSON, KRISTIANSTADSBLADET»Lippestad ska ha beröm för att han erkänner både sina tvivel kring uppdraget och sina felsteg under det. Det visar hur unikt vansklig denna händelse har varit att hantera, även för de professionella.« VERDENS GANG»Lippestad argumenterar skickligt mot rasism och främlingsfientlighet, för jämlikhet och rättvisa.« MORGENBLADET
134 kr
Skickas
A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall. For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both in Britain and abroad.Among many cases as a QC, he prosecuted Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called ‘Yorkshire Ripper’. He successfully defended six officers of the Air Force of Zimbabwe at their trial in Harare, where they faced a charge of treasonable sabotage.As a judge, he presided over the trial of Colin Stagg (the alleged ‘Wimbledon Common murderer’), the trial arising from the Lyme Bay canoe tragedy and the trial for the first time in the United Kingdom of a doctor’s alleged involvement in euthanasia.Thoughtful and provocative, Sir Harry has advice for the aspiring young advocate, and invests this penetrating memoir with warmth, humour and understanding. His frank portrait of a lifetime in the criminal law offers unique perspectives on some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century, as well as fascinating insights into a colourful professional life and the burdens and responsibilities that come with the privilege of high judicial office.
In Harm’s Way
The Memoir of a Child Protection Lawyer from the Most Secretive Court in England and Wales – the Family Court
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
295 kr
Skickas
‘Should be required reading for those who care about how society treats our most vulnerable citizens.’ Louise Allen When the system fails the parents, how can it protect the children? Welcome to the secretive world of the Family Court. What's it like to act for a father who has recently overcome his drug problem but risks losing his beloved son to foster care?Or to represent a young mother whose abusive childhood has left her depressed and struggling to cope, to the point where the local authority is seeking to persuade the Family Court to place her small children for adoption?The Family Court makes life-changing decisions about the most vulnerable children in England and Wales behind closed doors. It's an institution tasked with protecting the youngers most at risk, but how often does it make the right decisions?In this hard-hitting account of her work representing parents in care proceedings in the Family Court, child protection lawyer Teresa Thornhill conveys the dilemmas inherent in the job and shows how our under-resourced system of child protection – in both its social work and legal aspects – often fails to provide support that could enable the most vulnerable parents to continue to care for their children.‘A vivid account of all the terrible things that can happen to children and all the challenges facing lawyers and social workers in our child protection system which is meant to help and protect them but which struggles to do so. It doesn’t have to be this way so what can be done about it?’ Rt Hon Lady Hale DBE, Formerly President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.‘This timely book resonated with my experiences as a children’s social worker and probation officer; it’s a refreshingly honest account of our dysfunctional child protection system.’ Joanna Hughes, former children’s social worker and probation officer.
In Harm’s Way
The Memoir of a Child Protection Lawyer from the Most Secretive Court in England and Wales – the Family Court
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
134 kr
Skickas
‘Should be required reading for those who care about how society treats our most vulnerable citizens.’ – Louise Allen When the system fails the parents, how can it protect the children? Welcome to the secretive world of the Family Court. What's it like to act for a father who has recently overcome his drug problem but risks losing his beloved son to foster care?Or to represent a young mother whose abusive childhood has left her depressed and struggling to cope, to the point where the local authority is seeking to persuade the Family Court to place her small children for adoption?The Family Court makes life-changing decisions about the most vulnerable children in England and Wales behind closed doors. It's an institution tasked with protecting the youngers most at risk, but how often does it make the right decisions?In this hard-hitting account of her work representing parents in care proceedings in the Family Court, child protection lawyer Teresa Thornhill conveys the dilemmas inherent in the job and shows how our under-resourced system of child protection – in both its social work and legal aspects – often fails to provide support that could enable the most vulnerable parents to continue to care for their children.‘A vivid account of all the terrible things that can happen to children and all the challenges facing lawyers and social workers in our child protection system which is meant to help and protect them but which struggles to do so. It doesn’t have to be this way so what can be done about it?’ – Rt Hon Lady Hale DBE, Formerly President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.‘This timely book resonated with my experiences as a children’s social worker and probation officer; it’s a refreshingly honest account of our dysfunctional child protection system.’ – Joanna Hughes, former children’s social worker and probation officer.
Any One of Us
Stories of Ordinary People, Unintentional Crimes, and the Law at its Limit
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
203 kr
Kommande
What happens when an ordinary person, one of us, commits an unspeakable act without any memory of it? It’s a cold, grey morning. You open the front door, slightly hungover and fairly exhausted, and stop in your tracks. Lying bloodied and beaten on the driveway is the motionless body of your father. He is dead – killed in a violent frenzy. You don’t remember what happened, and in fact you never will, but, you will soon discover, you are the one who killed him… In Any One of Us, barrister Ramya Nagesh reveals that the line between good and evil can be far more blurred than we care to admit. Through the lens of gripping real-life cases, Nagesh challenges our perceptions of conventional morality and culpability, reveals the limitations of the justice system, and invites us to ask the question: could it happen to me?Drawing on trial documents, personal experience, and expert testimony, Nagesh navigates the complexities of sleepwalking, hormonal imbalances, and other unforeseen circumstances that have led to tragic outcomes. Cases include a woman who was found by a court to have been suffering from severe pre-menstrual syndrome when she accelerated her car at her boyfriend and crushed him to death. Or a man who could never have predicted that his night terrors would make him unconsciously strangle to death the love of his life.From the courtroom to the crime scene, Any One of Us invites readers on a thought-provoking journey that confronts uncomfortable truths about human nature.
Any One of Us
Stories of Ordinary People, Unintentional Crimes, and the Law at its Limit
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
180 kr
Kommande
What if you committed a crime that wasn't your fault? It’s a cold, grey morning. You open the front door, slightly hungover and fairly exhausted, and stop in your tracks. Lying bloodied and beaten on the driveway is the motionless body of your father. He is dead – killed in a violent frenzy. You don’t remember what happened, and in fact you never will, but, you will soon discover, you are the one who killed him… What happens when an ordinary person, one of us, commits an unspeakable act without any memory of it? How do we reconcile their perceived innocence with the heinous acts they have committed?In Any One of Us, barrister Ramya Nagesh reveals that the line between good and evil can be far more blurred than we care to admit. Through the lens of gripping real-life cases, Nagesh challenges our perceptions of conventional morality and culpability, reveals the limitations of the justice system, and invites us to ask the question: could it happen to me?Drawing on trial documents, personal experience, and expert testimony, Nagesh navigates the complexities of sleepwalking, hormonal imbalances, and other unforeseen circumstances that have led to tragic outcomes. Cases include a woman who was found by a court to have been suffering from severe pre-menstrual syndrome when she accelerated her car at her boyfriend and crushed him to death. Or a man who could never have predicted that his night terrors would make him unconsciously strangle to death the love of his life.From the courtroom to the crime scene, Any One of Us invites readers on a thought-provoking journey that confronts uncomfortable truths about human nature.
Because Each Life Is Precious
Why an Iraqi Man Risked Everything for Private Jessica Lynch
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
168 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
125 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
180 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow: The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
254 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
256 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
256 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Genocide—the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people.TIME's 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019Book Riot's 50 of the Best Books to Read This FallAs seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous truth in Open Season: Whether with a bullet or a lengthy prison sentence, America is killing black people and justifying it legally. While some deaths make headlines, most are personal tragedies suffered within families and communities. Worse, these killings are done one person at a time, so as not to raise alarm. While it is much more difficult to justify killing many people at once, in dramatic fashion, the result is the same—genocide.Taking on such high-profile cases as George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and a host of others, Crump witnessed the disparities within the American legal system firsthand and learned it is dangerous to be a black man in America—and that the justice system indeed only protects wealthy white men.In this enlightening and enthralling work, he shows that there is a persistent, prevailing, and destructive mindset regarding colored people that is rooted in our history as a slaveowning nation. This biased attitude has given rise to mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, unequal educational opportunities, disparate health care practices, job and housing discrimination, police brutality, and an unequal justice system. And all mask the silent and ongoing systematic killing of people of color.Open Season is more than Crump’s incredible mission to preserve justice, it is a call to action for Americans to begin living up to the promise to protect the rights of its citizens equally and without question.
157 kr
Skickas
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The authors make this unassuming, most studious woman come pulsing to life...Notorious RBG may be a playful project, but it asks to be read seriously...That I responded so personally to it is a testimony to [its] storytelling and panache."- Jennifer Senior, New York Times Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame-she has only tried to make the world a little better and a little freer. But nearly a half-century into her career, something funny happened to the octogenarian: she won the internet. Across America, people who weren't even born when Ginsburg first made her name as a feminist pioneer are tattooing themselves with her face, setting her famously searing dissents to music, and making viral videos in tribute. Notorious RBG, inspired by the Tumblr that amused the Justice herself and brought to you by its founder and an award-winning feminist journalist, is more than just a love letter. It draws on intimate access to Ginsburg's family members, close friends, colleagues, and clerks, as well an interview with the Justice herself.An original hybrid of reported narrative, annotated dissents, rare archival photos and documents, and illustrations, the book tells a never-before-told story of an unusual and transformative woman who transcends generational divides. As the country struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stands as a testament to how far we can come with a little chutzpah.
189 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform. Over his career, Jerome F. Buting has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms representing defendants in criminal trials. When he agreed to join Dean Strang as co-counsel for the defense in Steven A. Avery vs. State of Wisconsin, he knew a tough fight lay ahead. But, as he reveals in Illusion of Justice, no-one could have predicted just how tough and twisted that fight would be-or that it would become the center of the documentary Making a Murderer, which made Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey household names and thrust Buting into the spotlight. Buting's powerful, riveting boots-on-the-ground narrative of Avery's and Dassey's cases becomes a springboard to examine the shaky integrity of law enforcement and justice in the United States, which Buting has witnessed firsthand for more than 35 years.From his early career as a public defender to his success overturning wrongful convictions working with the Innocence Project, his story provides a compelling expert view into the high-stakes arena of criminal defense law; the difficulties of forensic science; and a horrifying reality of biased interrogations, coerced or false confessions, faulty eyewitness testimony, official misconduct, and more. Combining narrative reportage with critical commentary and personal reflection, Buting explores his professional and personal motivations, career-defining cases-including his shocking fifteen-year-long fight to clear the name of another man wrongly accused and convicted of murder-and what must happen if our broken system is to be saved. Taking a place beside Just Mercy and The New Jim Crow, Illusion of Justice is a tour-de-force from a relentless and eloquent advocate for justice who is determined to fulfill his professional responsibility and, in the face of overwhelming odds, make America's judicial system work as it is designed to do.
2 943 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Ethics for the Legal Professional, 8e by Deborah Orlik sets the standard for professional responsibility textbooks. Written for the paralegal, its upbeat tone encourages students to stay engaged in the reading. Margin "Challenge Assignments" invite students to research and apply their own state laws to common ethical problems. Video cases are available online and offer a contemporary approach to class discussion. Additional cases and vignettes fill each chapter and help students apply concepts to real situations. This edition includes more on online self-testing and research assignments, while referencing the latest case law for each of the 50 states. With its lively narrative and state-specific approach, this book tackles important ethical issues and builds marketable research and critical-thinking skills.
354 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
1 285 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
When people pay bribes to foreign public officials, how should the law respond? This question has been debated ever since the enactment of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, and some of the key arguments can be traced back to Cicero in the last years of the Roman Republic and Edmund Burke in late eighteenth-century England. In recent years, the U.S. and other members of the OECD have joined forces to make anti-bribery law one of the most prominent sources of liability for firms and individuals who operate across borders. The modern regime is premised on the idea that transnational bribery is a serious problem which invariably merits a vigorous legal response. The shape of that response can be summed up in the phrase "every little bit helps," which in practice means that: prohibitions on bribery should capture a broad range of conduct; enforcement should target as broad a range of actors as possible; sanctions should be as stiff as possible; and as many agencies as possible should be involved in the enforcement process. An important challenge to the OECD paradigm, labelled here the "anti-imperialist critique," accepts that transnational bribery is a serious problem but questions the conventional responses. This book uses a series of high-profile cases to illustrate key elements of transnational bribery law in action, and analyzes the law through the lenses of both the OECD paradigm and the anti-imperialist critique. It ultimately defends a distinctively inclusive and experimentalist approach to transnational bribery law.
398 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology can now handle routine legal tasks like drafting incorporation papers and wills, reducing the need to hire lawyers; tort reform and other regulations on litigation have had the same effect. As in all areas of today's economy, there are some big winners; the rest struggle to find work, or decide to leave the field altogether, which leaves fewer options for consumers who cannot afford to pay for Big Law.It would be easy to look at these enormous challenges and see only a bleak future, but Ben Barton instead sees cause for optimism. Taking the long view, from the legal Wild West of the mid-nineteenth century to the post-lawyer bubble society of the future, he offers a close analysis of the legal market to predict how lawyerly creativity and entrepreneurialism can save the profession. In every seemingly negative development, there is an upside. The trend towards depressed wages and computerized legal work is good for middle class consumers who have not been able to afford a lawyer for years. The surfeit of law school students will correct itself as the law becomes a less attractive and lucrative profession. As Big Law shrinks, so will the pernicious influence of billable hours, which incentivize lawyers to spend as long as possible on every task, rather than seeking efficiency and economy. Lawyers will devote their time to work that is much more challenging and meaningful. None of this will happen without serious upheaval, but all of it will ultimately restore the health of the faltering profession.A unique contribution to our understanding of the legal crisis, the unconventional wisdom of Glass Half Full gives cause for hope in what appears to be a hopeless situation.
1 361 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to "a method of recording and preserving oral testimony" which results in a verbal document that is "made available in different forms to other users, researchers, and the public." Ordinarily such an academic process would seem to be far removed from legal challenges. Unfortunately this is not the case. While the field has not become a legal minefield, given its tremendous growth and increasing focus on contemporary topics, more legal troubles could well lie ahead if sound procedures are not put in place and periodically revisited. A Guide to Oral History and the Law is the definitive resource for all oral history practitioners. In clear, accessible language it thoroughly explains all of the major legal issues including legal release agreements, the protection of restricted interviews, the privacy torts (including defamation), copyright, the impact of the Internet, and the role of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). The author accomplishes this by examining the most relevant court cases and citing examples of policies and procedures that oral history programs have used to avoid legal difficulties. Neuenschwander's central focus throughout the book is on prevention rather than litigation. He underscores this approach by strongly emphasizing how close adherence to the Oral History Association's Principles and Best Practices provides the best foundation for developing sound legal policies. The book also provides more than a dozen sample legal release agreements that are applicable to a wide variety of situations. This volume is an essential one for all oral historians regardless of their interviewing focus.