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"

Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #41)
The Exchange (The Firm, #2)
The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)
The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
The Boys from Biloxi
Prima Facie
Her Cold Justice (Keera Duggan, #3)
The Trial (Adam Green #1)
V13
The Suspect (Adam Green #2)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Keera Duggan, #2)
Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival
The Cut Throat Trial
Rich Blood (Jason Rich, #1)
Presumed Guilty (Kindle County #13; Presumed Innocent #3)
Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
Dunkle Momente
La Décision
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Paying the Bratva's Debt (Bratva's Claim, #1)
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Central Park West
While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Lovely One: A Memoir
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President
The Intern
Prima Facie
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Southern Man (Penn Cage, #7)
An Expert Witness: The Story of Forensic Science in the Courtroom
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution
Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12)
Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
The President's Lawyer
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
The Sun Does Shine
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist – A Fascinating True Crime Book Featuring the Harvey Weinstein and El Chapo Trials
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
The Perfect Lawyer (Ike Thompson #1)
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
The Defense Lawyer: The Barry Slotnick Story
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
The Family Roe: An American Story
A Matter of Life and Death (Robin Lockwood, #4)
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution
Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
Not a Very Good Murderer
Laatste man: Over schuld, straf en sterfelijkheid
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI
The Favorites
The Sun Sets in Singapore
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
The January 6th Report

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

Tacitus
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

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