Law
Essay on the Trial by Jury
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…
The Constitution of Athens
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the lat…
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, a classic text in modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first publ…
Interessante Kriminal-Prozesse
Nach vierzigjähriger Tätigkeit als Gerichtsreporter veröffentlichte Hugo Friedländer zwischen 1910 und 1921 seine zw&oum…
Case Dismissed
Case Dismissed explores the intricate world of legal rights and the fragility of liberty and justice. Each episode presents stories that hig…
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases presents a collection of pivotal United States Supreme Court decisions that shaped the landscape of …
Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts
Thomas Holmes served for 20 years as a police court missionary for the London courts. Police court missionaries, often sponsored by temperan…
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
The Trial of Oscar Wilde
In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled fro…
The English Constitution
The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized for…
Tales Of The Royal Irish Constabulary
The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland…
The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses
The discovery of the Hammurabi Code is one of the greatest achievements of archaeology, and is of paramount interest, not only to the studen…
The Jim Crow Car
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …
The Public Orations of Demosthenes
This book, originally published in two volumes, collects the most important complete public orations by Demosthenes, arguably the most famou…
American State Trials
"A collection of the important and interesting criminal trials which have taken place in the United States from the beginning of our go…
Jefferson and his Colleagues
In this volume, we have the Virginia Dynasty of presidents: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. America at this time was involved in expansion w…
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases presents a collection of pivotal United States Supreme Court decisions that shaped the landscape of …
Resist Not Evil
Clarence Darrow, perhaps best known as the defense attorney for John Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, had a long career defending …
The Nature of the Judicial Process
Benjamin N. Cardozo, one of the most influential American justists of his era, served as the New York Court of Appeals Chief Justice, before…
The Geneva Conventions
"This Convention represents the fourth updated version of the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick following those adopted in 1864…