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, #41)
The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)
The Exchange (The Firm, #2)
The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)
The Boys from Biloxi
Her Cold Justice (Keera Duggan, #3)
The Cut Throat Trial
Prima Facie
The Trial (Adam Green #1)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Keera Duggan, #2)
Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America
Rich Blood (Jason Rich, #1)
The Suspect (Adam Green #2)
V13
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Presumed Guilty (Kindle County #13; Presumed Innocent #3)
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Mit Männern leben: Überlegungen zum Pelicot-Prozess
The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
La Décision
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Central Park West
While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)
The Intern
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Lovely One: A Memoir
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Dunkle Momente
Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
Paying the Bratva's Debt (Bratva's Claim, #1)
Southern Man (Penn Cage, #7)
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters
Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12)
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Not a Very Good Murderer
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy
The Sun Sets in Singapore
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice
The Favorites
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
The Perfect Lawyer (Ike Thompson #1)
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
A Matter of Life and Death (Robin Lockwood, #4)
The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
City Dark
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
The President's Lawyer
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
Sister in Law: Shocking True Stories of Fighting for Justice in a Legal System Designed by Men
Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution
Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth
The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal About American Justice
21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Government: A Conversation About Dismantling the Indian Act
The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning
The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
Love and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
The Local
The Defense Lawyer: The Barry Slotnick Story
There Are No Accidents
Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison
The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
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 Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
The Majority

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Plato
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
Plato, The Republic

Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
Aristotle

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