Most Read This Week In Law

Law is the set of enforced rules under which a society is governed. Law is one of the most basic social institutions-and one of the most necessary. No society could exist if all people did just as they pleased without regard for the rights of others. Nor could a society exist if its members did not recognize that they also have certain obligations toward one another. The law thus establishes the rules that define a person's rights and obligations. The law also sets penalties for people who violate these rules, and it states how government shall enforce the rules and penalties. However, the law ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Law"

The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #40)
Her Cold Justice (Keera Duggan, #3)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Keera Duggan, #2)
The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)
The Exchange (The Firm, #2)
The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)
The Boys from Biloxi
Prima Facie
Presumed Guilty (Kindle County #13; Presumed Innocent #3)
Sparring Partners (Jake Brigance, #4)
The Trial (Adam Green #1)
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
V13
The Suspect (Adam Green #2)
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
La Décision
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Rich Blood (Jason Rich, #1)
Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12)
The Intern
Lovely One: A Memoir
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Southern Man (Penn Cage, #7)
Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
Not a Very Good Murderer
The Local
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
A Matter of Life and Death (Robin Lockwood #4)
Dunkle Momente
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
The President's Lawyer
The Favorites
The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal About American Justice
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
Central Park West
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
The Sun Sets in Singapore
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
One Way Back: A Memoir
The January 6th Report
The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice
Free Speech And Why It Matters
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
The Perfect Lawyer (Ike Thompson #1)
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show
Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Freedom’s Dominion:  A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
The Defense Lawyer: The Barry Slotnick Story
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist – A Fascinating True Crime Book Featuring the Harvey Weinstein and El Chapo Trials
Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
The Majority
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
The Deadline
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

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Jeff Cooper
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
Jeff Cooper, The Art of the Rifle

Howard Zinn
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
Howard Zinn

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