Law
Commentaries on the Laws of England
The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…
Washington and His Colleagues
This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions o…
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…
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…
The Law and Medical Men
The idea that in the library of nearly every practitioner in the professions of both Physic and Law there has been …
The English Constitution
The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized for…
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 …
Use Of The Dead To The Living
In 1827 Thomas Southwood-Smith published The Use of the Dead to the Living, a pamphlet which argued that the current system of burial in the…
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…
The Mob Violence and the American Negro
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between…
Crime, Its Causes and Remedies
Published as the third volume in the Modern Criminal Science Series, Cesare Lombroso, renowned Italian criminologist, collected a wealth of …
Rhetoric to Alexander
Rhetoric to Alexander (Latin: Rhetorica ad Alexandrum; Ancient Greek: Τέχνη ῥητορική) is attributed to Aristotle but may have been written b…
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
For those who like courtroom drama, here are Ingersoll’s Opening and Closing arguments on the most famous trials of his career--the Star Rou…
Commentaries on the Laws of England
The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…
Walker's Appeal
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
The Geneva Conventions
"This Convention represents the fourth updated version of the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick following those adopted in 1864…
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…
The Red Record
The purpose of the pages which follow shall be to give the record which has been made, not by colored men, but that which is the result of c…
Interessante Kriminal-Prozesse
Nach vierzigjähriger Tätigkeit als Gerichtsreporter veröffentlichte Hugo Friedländer zwischen 1910 und 1921 seine zw&oum…
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and th…