Legal Issues Books
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Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,857 ratings — published
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.73 — 9,566 ratings — published 1977
My Life in Court (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.15 — 338 ratings — published 1961
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,324 ratings — published 2014
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,038 ratings — published 2018
Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.89 — 428 ratings — published 2013
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,000 ratings — published 2019
Without a Doubt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,342 ratings — published 1997
The Story of My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.09 — 352 ratings — published
A Civil Action (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,434 ratings — published 1995
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.57 — 6,288 ratings — published 2020
Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,314 ratings — published 2020
When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.35 — 946 ratings — published 2020
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.56 — 900 ratings — published 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,023,316 ratings — published 1960
Change of Heart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.95 — 129,155 ratings — published 2008
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,853 ratings — published 2017
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.87 — 86,217 ratings — published 2006
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse (Vintage)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,849 ratings — published 2005
Slender Is The Thread: Tales from a Country Law Office (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.30 — 27 ratings — published 1986
Rehab: An American Scandal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.95 — 681 ratings — published 2025
False Claims: One Insider’s Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption – A Mother and Whistleblower's Decade-Long Fight for Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.07 — 388 ratings — published
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,795 ratings — published 2025
Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid (Adams 101 Series)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.53 — 116 ratings — published 2016
Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.88 — 421 ratings — published
Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.78 — 364 ratings — published 2024
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.37 — 42,220 ratings — published 2024
Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 887 ratings — published
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.19 — 709 ratings — published 2024
The Disabled & Their Parents: A Counseling Challenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.24 — 21 ratings — published 1983
Beyond the Grave: The Right Way and the Wrong Way of Leaving Money to Your Children (and Others)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.09 — 236 ratings — published 1995
The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.99 — 545 ratings — published 2010
Patriot: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.51 — 16,483 ratings — published 2024
On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.86 — 240 ratings — published
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,875 ratings — published 2022
Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,201 ratings — published
We the Poisoned: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.34 — 155 ratings — published 2024
Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,401 ratings — published 2000
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 948 ratings — published 2022
Taxes 101: From Understanding Forms and Filing to Using Tax Laws and Policies to Minimize Costs and Maximize Wealth, an Essential Primer on the US Tax System (Adams 101 Series)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.70 — 64 ratings — published
Guilty?: Crime, Punishment, and the Changing Face of Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.94 — 87 ratings — published 2014
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,534 ratings — published 2023
Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.98 — 151 ratings — published 2015
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,457 ratings — published 2024
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,014 ratings — published 1992
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,463 ratings — published 2018
The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,043 ratings — published 2004
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,371 ratings — published 2024
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,084 ratings — published 2024
A Measure of Endurance: The Unlikely Triumph of Steven Sharp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as legal-issues)
avg rating 4.04 — 24 ratings — published 2003
“Appropriately last on the liability list is the legion of so-called animal lovers who really just love the sound of their own voice proclaiming that nothing justifies bite training. They're as wrong as they are out of touch, of course, but they get plenty of air time nonetheless.”
― Manstopper!: Training a Canine Guardian
― Manstopper!: Training a Canine Guardian
“It struck Linda suddenly that this was the middle of the night. Even here, in the city that never slept, most people now were sleeping. Law firm time was like casino time, only instead of an endless cocktail hour it was always a neon-bright afternoon. The dead center of the workday, all night long.”
― The House Girl
― The House Girl
