Legal

Extraordinarily powerful stories of ordinary people locked up for crimes they did not commit, and how they were freed against great odds.

A nightmare from a thousand B-movie… More

A strongly-argued critique of environmentalism from the right - the conservative's answer to Al Gore's Earth in the Balance.

Libertarian activist Peter Huber argues that libera… More

The boisterous freedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself. Those who would fight freedom's ene… More

The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in th… More

A demystifying guide to the complex debates surrounding the constitutional right to bear arms. With help from the National Rifle Association and the pro-gun lobby, the idea that th… More

In June 12, 1963, Mississippi's fast-rising NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction twice at the ha… More

This year's volume of collected papers in the Current Legal Problems series contains the now customary selection of high-quality essays by a group of outstanding scholars. Contribu… More

A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something.

Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of… More

Guy Saperstein grew up in the 1960s and was deeply involved in civil rights work from an early age. He decided after graduating from law school to devote his efforts entirely to so… More

Hugo Adam Bedau has commanded a long and distinguished career as one of the most widely respected opponents of capital punishment. His work has addressed a variety of perspectives… More

Discovering that law and justice are not the same thing, Burnett presents a narrative of his encounter with crime and punishment, American style, when he serves on a jury and reali… More

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking. T… More

Over the last decade, America has served as the battleground for a major political, social, cultural and reigious war over one of the most fundamenta questions we fae: the right to… More