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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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America's Constitution: A Biography
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Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975
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Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
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The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000-1800
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Transgender Employment Experiences: Gendered Perceptions and the Law
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Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization in the United States
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Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
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Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
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Misconceptions: Unmarried Motherhood and the Ontario Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-1969
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The Case Against the Supreme Court
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King John and the Road to Magna Carta
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Between the World and Me
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Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement
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The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race, and Law in the American Hemisphere
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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Governing Immigration Through Crime: A Reader
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You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
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A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights
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The Informant
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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
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4.19 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
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Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 36,723 ratings
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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
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3.82 avg rating — 1,303 ratings
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Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy
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Law in America: A Short History
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3.63 avg rating — 330 ratings
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The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Civil Rights Stories
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My Own Words
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Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
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Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
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Storming the Court: How a Band of Law Students Fought the President--and Won
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3.83 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903
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Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
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Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
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4.11 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
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The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation
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3.44 avg rating — 1,671 ratings
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New York Times v. Sullivan: Civil Rights, Libel Law, and the Free Press
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3.55 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution
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3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Civil Action
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3.99 avg rating — 17,058 ratings
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Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections
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3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
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4.14 avg rating — 747 ratings
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Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
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3.84 avg rating — 5,378 ratings
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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
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4.31 avg rating — 300 ratings
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A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution
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4.06 avg rating — 1,505 ratings
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The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law
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No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
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3.99 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
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4.41 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
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3.42 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
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4.09 avg rating — 3,264 ratings
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
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3.89 avg rating — 2,406 ratings
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Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
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Environmental Law Stories
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Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong
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The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII
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Denial: Holocaust History on Trial – The Memoir of a Legal Battle in London That Resulted in Formal Denunciation
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White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
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Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
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Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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4.47 avg rating — 3,649 ratings
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Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
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4.25 avg rating — 826 ratings
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1867: How the Fathers Made a Deal
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
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The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
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Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
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The Majesty of the Law: Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
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Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600–2000
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Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy
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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
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The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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Women and the Law: Stories
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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
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Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which It Gave Rise
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My Beloved World
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
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Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution
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Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism
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Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law
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Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
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4.31 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
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4.33 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law
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The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
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Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution
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The Nuremberg Trial
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Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
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The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays
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Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry: Loving v. Virginia
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The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise
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The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)
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American Legal History: A Very Short Introduction
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The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
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The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All-White Primary
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