Brief Courtroom Techniques For The Non-Lawyer

This book is a compilation of several brief courtroom strategies. Most of them are regarding traffic violations. Some of them are very sim...

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Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder

How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state? In Police State, legendary ...

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Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties from Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali

Black Muslims and the Law: Civil Liberties From Elijah Muhammad to Muhammad Ali examines the Nation of Islam’s quest for civil liberties a...

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Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer

Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a collective biography of ...

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Deadly Force - Understanding Your Right to Self Defense

In a long-overdue rewrite of the world's most authoritative work on the subject, Massad Ayoob draws from an additional three decades ...

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Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil RightsMovement

"Examines the history of the civil rights movement and the criminal justice system beyond the court rooms and into the arrests, jail ...

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uBuntu and the Law: African Ideals and Postapartheid Jurisprudence

This is the first comprehensive casePub to address the relationship of uBuntu to law. It also provides the most important critical articl...

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Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healingfor Inmates and Their Loved Ones

A compelling, important addition to Hill Harper’s bestselling series, inspired by young inmates who write to him seeking guidance. After ...

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Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key CivilRights Struggle of Our Time

We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure...

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Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice: Writing Wrong

Trayvon Martin, Race, and "American Justice": Writing Wrong is the first comprehensive text to analyze not only the killing of ...

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Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise and Triumph of the One-DropRule

Every Year, 35,000 Black-Born Youngsters Redefine Themselves as White. About 1/3 of "White" Americans have detectable African D...

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Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites

Whites and African Americans in the United States inhabit two different perceptual worlds, with the former seeing the justice system as la...

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The Ferguson Report: Department of Justice Investigation of theFerguson Police Department

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed African American high school senior, was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri...

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The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System

When most people think of prison gangs, they think of chaotic bands of violent, racist thugs. Few people think of gangs as sophisticated o...

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Behind the News: Race and Crime

Go behind the headlines to explore the wider background of news stories that are making a major impact across the world. In Race and Crime...

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Dying to Tell: Angola, Crime, Consequence, Conclusion at Louisiana State Penitentiary

Dying to Tell: Angola, Crime, Consequence, Conclusion at Louisiana State Penitentiary

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Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

Few American institutions have inflicted greater suffering on ordinary people than the Supreme Court of the United States. Since its incep...

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Race, Incarceration, and American Values

The United States, home to five percent of the worlds' population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. O...

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Black Rage Confronts the Law

In 1971, Paul Harris pioneered the modern version of the black rage defense when he successfully defended a young black man charged with a...

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Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions

From Compton to Cairo and Bahia to Brixton, black women have been disproportionally affected by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, discrim...

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