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American Constitutional Law: Selected Essays

by Henry Paul Monaghan

2018, 776 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-5310-0780-5

$90.00

American Labor Struggles and Law Histories cover

American Labor Struggles and Law Histories, Second Edition

Edited by: Kenneth M. Casebeer

2016, 638 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-872-1

$80.00

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American Lawyer: Twelve Attorneys Who Have Transformed the United States

by Shahzad Siddiqui

2021, 300 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-9460-7435-5

$29.95

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The Birth of American Law: An Italian Philosopher and the American Revolution

by John D. Bessler

2014, 694 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-61163-604-8

$75.00

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The Burdens of All: A Social History of American Tort Law

by Joseph A. Ranney

2021, 264 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-2333-1

$47.00

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Capital Punishment Trials of Mafia Murderers

by Leonard Orland

2015, 304 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-693-2

$40.00

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The Cherokee Supreme Court: 1823–1835

by J. Matthew Martin

2021, 238 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1841-2

$39.00

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The Commander-in-Chief

by James P. Terry

2015, 204 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-61163-671-0

$40.00

Comparative Law cover

Comparative Law: Global Legal Traditions

by Michael J. Bazyler, Michael Bryant, Kristen Nelson, Sermid Al-Sarraf

2021, 888 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-0785-0

$115.00

Teacher's Manual available

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Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619–1865

by Sherri L. Burr

2019, 212 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1617-3

$25.00

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The Constitution and the Attorneys General

by H. Jefferson Powell

1999, 736 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-893-2

$65.00

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A Consummate Lawyer: William Reece Smith, Jr.

by Michael I. Swygert

2010, 272 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-806-3

$28.00

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The Death Penalty as Torture: From the Dark Ages to Abolition

by John D. Bessler

2017, 460 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-61163-926-1

$65.00

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The Decline of the Civil Jury

by Ellen E. Sward

2001, 408 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-948-9

$40.00

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Democracy and Social Justice

Edited by: Peter Scott Campbell

Forthcoming March 2025, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-3264-7

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Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History, Revised Edition

by Joseph W. Dellapenna

2023, 1306 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-5310-2675-2

$135.00

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The Drafting History of UCC Article 5

by John F. Dolan

2016, 298 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-814-1

$48.00

Early Mesopotamian Law cover

Early Mesopotamian Law

by Russ VerSteeg

2000, 222 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-977-9

$31.00

The Essentials of Greek and Roman Law cover

The Essentials of Greek and Roman Law

by Russ VerSteeg

2010, 264 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-556-7

$43.00

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The Fetha Nagast: The Law of the Kings

by Abba Paulos Tzadua, Peter L. Strauss

2009, 392 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-661-8

$62.00

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A Final Accounting: Holocaust Survivors and Swiss Banks

by Leonard Orland

2010, 644 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-769-1

$63.00

The Foundations of American Law cover

The Foundations of American Law: A Companion to the 1L Year

by H. Jefferson Powell

2024, 162 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-2951-7

$29.00

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Foundations of Law

by Adam J. MacLeod, Robert L. McFarland

2017, 1016 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-5310-0463-7

$170.00

Teacher's Manual available

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Fred Korematsu: All American Hero

by Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder, Angelia Loi

2011, 96 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-000-8

$12.00

Freedom's Conditions in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands in the Age of Emancipation cover

Freedom's Conditions in the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands in the Age of Emancipation

Edited by: Tony Freyer, Lyndsay Campbell

2011, 344 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-772-1

$47.00

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Gendered Law in American History

by Richard Chused, Wendy Williams

2016, 1250 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-61163-673-4

$150.00

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Great Legal Traditions: Civil Law, Common Law, and Chinese Law in Historical and Operational Perspective

by John W. Head

2011, 700 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-59460-957-2

$79.00

Teacher's Manual available

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Henry T. King, Jr.: A Life Dedicated to International Justice

Edited by: Michael P. Scharf

2011, 202 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-038-1

$30.00

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History and the Constitution: Collected Essays

by G. Edward White

2007, 516 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-281-8

$65.00

Identity Crisis cover

Identity Crisis: Federal Courts in a Psychological Wilderness

by Donald L. Doernberg

2001, 280 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-741-6

$32.00

The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy cover

The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission

Edited by: Robert F. Turner

2011, 432 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-085-1

$45.00

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John Chipman Gray: The Harvard Brahmin of Property Law

by Gerald Paul Moran

2010, 334 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-398-3

$47.00

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Justice James Iredell

by Willis P. Whichard

2000, 400 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-971-7

$45.00

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Law after Auschwitz: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Holocaust

by David Fraser

2005, 464 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-243-5

$48.00

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Law and the Holocaust: U.S. Cases and Materials

by Michael J. Bazyler, Robert M. Jarvis

2018, 814 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-61163-015-2

$120.00

Teacher's Manual available

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Law in Ancient Egypt

by Russ VerSteeg

2002, 256 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-978-6

$31.00

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Law in the Ancient World

by Russ VerSteeg

2002, 424 pp, paper, ISBN 978-0-89089-976-2

$49.00

Local Counsel cover

Local Counsel: First Women at The Citadel, and Beyond

by Robert Ray Black

2012, 352 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-032-9

$45.00

Louis D. Brandeis's MIT Lectures on Law (1892-1894) cover

Louis D. Brandeis's MIT Lectures on Law (1892-1894)

Edited by: Robert F. Cochran, Jr.

2012, 400 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-849-0

$60.00

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Louisiana: Microcosm of a Mixed Jurisdiction

by Vernon Valentine Palmer

1999, 336 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-892-5

$39.95

Newspaper Reports of Decisions in Colonial, State, and Lower Federal Courts Before 1801 cover

Newspaper Reports of Decisions in Colonial, State, and Lower Federal Courts Before 1801

Edited by: Stanton D. Krauss

2018, 2062 pp, multiple volumes, ISBN 978-1-59460-983-1

$295.00

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On Law and Chastity

by Robert E. Rodes, Jr.

2006, 152 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-1-59460-182-8

$24.00

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Outsourcing Justice: The Rise of Modern Arbitration Laws in America

by Imre Szalai

2013, 296 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-61163-202-6

$35.00

The President as Commander in Chief cover

The President as Commander in Chief: An Essay in Constitutional Vision

by H. Jefferson Powell

2014, 250 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-61163-405-1

$35.00

The Quotable Brandeis cover

The Quotable Brandeis

Edited by: Peter Scott Campbell

2018, 158 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-0413-2

$22.00

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Substantive Due Process of Law: A Dichotomy of Sense and Nonsense

by Frank R. Strong

1986, 316 pp, hardback, ISBN 978-0-89089-313-5

$29.95

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Work, Parenting and Inequality: Workplace Laws and Policies from 1898 to 2018

by Candace Saari Kovacic-Fleischer

2019, 368 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-61163-820-2

$68.00

Teacher's Manual available

The Worst Supreme Court Decisions, Ever! cover

The Worst Supreme Court Decisions, Ever!

by C. Evan Stewart

2024, 282 pp, jacketed hardback, ISBN 978-1-94607-444-7

$26.95

Written in Water cover

Written in Water: Biography of Frederick Bernays Wiener

by Paul R. Baier

2020, 448 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-946074-225

$24.95