Law Biography

Wendy Law-Yone was 15 at the time of Burma's military coup in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of Rangoon Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language daily, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma. On the eve of Wendy's studies abroad, Ed Law-Yone was arrested, his newspaper shut down, and Wendy herself was briefly imprisoned. After his release, Ed fled to Thailand with his family, where he formed a government-in-exile.

Florence Kinrade, dutiful daughter of a wealthy, upper-crust Canadian family in 1909, lives a secret double life as a vaudeville showgirl in Richmond, Virginia. Then sister Ethel shows up dead, with Florence being, apparently, the only one at the scene at the time. Next up, a coroner’s inquest, a mental diagnosis, more vaudeville show business, and a good hard investigative look by investigative journalist, Frank Jones.

They are battered women, grieving parents, and burglarized homeowners who responded to criminal violence by taking the law into their own hands. Their cases have struck a deep chord in American society. Are they victims of a failing judicial system or criminals themselves? True crime writer Gary Provost examines the stories of ordinary citizens who have taken on the roles of judge, jury and - sometimes - executioner.

Un magistrato di riconosciuta imparzialità e di grande coraggio. È stato ucciso sotto casa a colpi di mitra la mattina del 10 luglio 1976 da un commando di Ordine Nuovo, formazione di estrema destra dalle ramificazioni inquietanti, che lui aveva processato e fatto mettere fuori legge per ricostituzione del partito fascista due anni prima. L'esecutore del delitto è stato Pier Luigi Concutelli, mai pentito, condannato all’ergastolo.

Interesante recopilación de textos del literato y jurista Jesús Feijóo Domínguez, desde cartas al director hasta reflexiones al vuelo hechas durante sus primeros viajes o textos experimentales que pergeñaba mientras realizaba su labor como jurista.

Warum jeder das Recht auf einen Anwalt hat. Nachdem der Neonazi Stephan Ernst den Kasseler Regierungspräsidenten Walter Lübcke erschossen hatte, beauftragte er, der Ausländer und Zuwanderer abgrundtief verachtete, ausgerechnet den türkischstämmigen Anwalt Mustafa Kaplan mit seiner Verteidigung.

Una mattina di aprile del 1984 una chiamata cambia per sempre la vita del giudice Leonardo Guarnotta. Al telefono il consigliere istruttore Antonino Caponnetto: gli chiede di far parte del pool antimafia, costituito pochi mesi prima in un bunker del Tribunale di Palermo, al fianco di Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino e Giuseppe Di Lello. È l'inizio di una stagione investigativa e giudiziaria intensa e appassionante, che porterà alla celebrazione del maxiprocesso e a importanti condanne contro i boss di Cosa nostra.

Varför hade Timbuktu noll kronor på sitt konto när det borde ha varit minst fem miljoner, och vart tog "The Cardigans" förmögenhet egentligen vägen? Flera band visade sig snart vara inblandade i det som kom att kallas Tambourinehärvan: "The Ark", "Weeping Willows", "Europe" och framför allt - "The Hives".

Welcome to another journey into the dark, dysfunctional underbelly of New Mexico. Our reluctant hero navigates his way through new towns and clients, facing multiple near-death experiences as he fights for the rights of the guilty and absurdly stupid. Along the way, you will encounter steroid-enhanced hillbillies, bitch-slapping cross-dressers, and gun-toting Nazis, all out on a binge.

As one of our leading campaigners for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients—from detainees in Guantánamo Bay to prisoners facing execution on Death Row—and finding out, in his own words, 'what makes them tick'. But for much of his life, closer to home, there was a man whose mind remained off limits: his own father. It was only years after Dick's death, when Clive inherited more than 3,000 of his letters, that he could finally take a breath and start to piece together the obsessive personality behind them.

Questo audiolibro è un unicum. Mai fino ad ora un giudice della Corte aveva descritto il funzionamento di un organo così centrale nella vita giudiziaria e politica del nostro paese, e che parla solo attraverso le proprie sentenze. Con prosa misurata ma non reticente, sfilano nelle pagine, minuziosamente annotati, nove anni incandescenti (dal 2005 al 2014) punteggiati da sentenze "storiche", precedute e seguite da polemiche e speculazioni anche giornalistiche.

From kidnappings to terrorist incidents, violent armed stand-offs to talking someone back from the ledge: all these make up the day-to-day life of Nicky Perfect’s job as a crisis and hostage negotiator. One of the first on the scene in situations that most would run from, Nicky is deployed to defuse the most volatile and fraught situations imaginable. After a decade on the frontlines, confronting the extremes of human behaviour, these are the stories and cases that have shaped a career spent on high alert, where life often hangs in the balance.

Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent White Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor and the underserved. She was the first lawyer to bring a bus-desegregation case before the Interstate Commerce Commission, clinching the ruling that enabled Robert F. Kennedy to enforce bus integration. She was also among the first Black women to enter the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.

Jeg håber, jeg har gjort en forskel er et nærværende portræt af Danmarks første kvindelige juraprofessor. Eva Smith er datter af tidligere justits- og indenrigsminister Hans Hækkerup, men allerede som ung besluttede hun sig for, at hun ville kendes som sig selv, og ikke som ministerdatter. Derfor tog hun navnet Smith, da hun blev gift første gang som 22-årig i Tel Aviv med amerikaneren Ranny Smith.Alle kvinder i hendes slægt er døde i en tidlig alder af kræft. Derfor regnede Eva Smith heller ikke med, at hun ville blive særligt gammel.

Der amerikanische Rechtsstaat ist nach vier Jahren Donald Trump am Abgrund. Jetzt zeigt der Ex-FBI-Direktor James Comey, wie eine gerechte Justiz funktionieren muss. Egal, ob der Gegner die Mafia, Drogendealer oder die Führungszirkel im Staatsapparat sind: Nur die Wahrheit kann die USA noch retten. Beeindruckende Fälle aus der Laufbahn des großen Juristen und Kriminalisten James Comey. New York City, Langley und Washington D.C. - der Staatsanwalt und FBI-Direktor auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit. James Comey ist der Trump-Kritiker #1!

After the Force is a unique and intriguing book where stories are told from the perspective of first contact at crime scenes as observed by police officers who have served in municipal, provincial, and federal police services.

Er ist der Mann, der auf der Seite des Bösen steht - stehen muss. Denn Stephan Lucas ist Strafverteidiger. Er verhilft Mördern und Vergewaltigern vor Gericht zu ihrem Recht. Hier berichtet er von seinen spektakulärsten Fällen, von seinem spannenden Alltag zwischen Verhandlungen und Knastbesuchen und natürlich davon, wie es ist, tagtäglich mit dem Bösen konfrontiert zu werden. Wie geht man mit Menschen um, die jemanden ermordet haben? Muss man einen Vergewaltiger hassen? Und: Sieht man es einem Menschen an, wenn er ein schlimmes Verbrechen begangen hat?

Like most lawyers, Gwilliam was trained to win, and he's always been an expert at getting winning legal verdicts. His biggest personal (and eventually legal) wins, however, came after facing the shame and pain of a crushing courtroom defeat. This set him on a spiritual and psychological journey that caused him to look anew at every aspect of his life, including his history as a high school gang member (he still bears the scar of a poorly removed tattoo), failed marriages, and lots of partying.

In From Crime to Crime Richard Henriques tells the story behind his most famous cases and includes his trenchant views on the state of the British judicial system; how it works - or doesn't - and the current threats to the rule of law that affect us all.

When I was an undergraduate student at UCLA, I had an English teacher, a Mr. Cordero, who was absolutely brilliant. I would often follow him around picking up his conversational crumbs like a hungry sparrow. He, of course, basked in the adoration until, one day, his sense of responsibility must have overcome his amusement, and he confided in me that he really wasn’t as brilliant as I suspected but only more experienced.