#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.
As he digs...

This collection is a captivating look at the subset of American jurisprudence that illustrates the unique character of cowboy culture. But even with the freedom and relative lawlessness we associate with them, the cowboy - like the rest of society - was never far from the courthouse, and the book you have before you contains some fascinating legal disputes that have made their way to the bench.

A torts casebook reflecting the law in a majority of states. This majority rule approach should provide students with the law they need for the torts portion of the bar exam. The casebook does not contain notes or explanations, and is suited for a course supplemented with problems.

This comprehensive volume presents a sketch of the history of tort development in the law, the general principles determining tort liability, tort remedies, and the manner in which tort liabilities may be discharged. Then the most important classes of torts are discussed, presented in the order by those principally directed against the person of the victim, those aimed at his property, and finally the invasions of both personal and property rights....

Novelist Raymond Chandler once said, "The Law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer." This book takes you a century back in time to dive into the faults of the American judiciary system. You'd think after all this time, the problems must have been fixed, but even today it's still a matter of public criticism and political satire. Charles H. Hartshorne...