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Download or read book A Judge's Odyssey written by Dean Pineles and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Pineles' fascinating and highly readable memoir describes his formative years, then his legal and judicial career in Vermont spanning three decades. He then recounts his improbable journey asa rule of law adviser in Russia, Kazakhstan and Georgia, followed by a prestigious international judgeship in Kosovo. There, he adjudicated serious cases of war crimes, judicial corruption, murder, narco trafficking and the notorious Medicus human organ trafficking case which garnered worldwide media attention. He candidly relates both his successes and failures, and lessons learned. With a new Epilogue about the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and how it relates to the Kosovo precedent.
Book Synopsis A Judicial Odyssey by : Christian G. Fritz
Download or read book A Judicial Odyssey written by Christian G. Fritz and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Capacity for Outrage by : Arthur Selwyn Miller
Download or read book A Capacity for Outrage written by Arthur Selwyn Miller and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1984-10-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a personalized view of the judicial career of Judge J. Skelly Wright. It is not an orthodox biography. Rather, it attempts to place the career of Judge Wright in the context of the development of law, principally constitutional law, during the past three to four decades. Most chapters deal with substantive areas of law. Each begins with an explication of the specific larger problem and then goes on to evaluate how Wright has dealt with it. An opening chapter sets forth the approach I took in writing the book; and the final chapter evaluates Judge Wright's career in general terms"--Preface.
Book Synopsis The Odyssey of a Judicial Career in Precarious Times by : Chief Justice Samuel William Wako Wambuzi
Download or read book The Odyssey of a Judicial Career in Precarious Times written by Chief Justice Samuel William Wako Wambuzi and published by . This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odyssey of a Judicial Career in Precarious Times: My Trials and Triumphs as a Three-Term Chief Justice of Uganda. A firsthand journey through the judicial affairs and shenanigans of a country beleaguered by military coups and cultural conflicts. With historical accuracy and personal precision, readers are taken on an odyssey filled with all the intrigue and interloping that comes with being intimately involved in the top-level judicial arm of the government--a government that experienced a variety of take-over turmoil In this comprehensive treatise, three-time Chief Justice Samuel Wako Wambuzi sets the record straight regarding the events of a country shaken to its cultural, military, political, and legal core. As a distinguished scholar and judicial genius, he presents the facts in a way that people of all walks of life will appreciate the historical significance of Uganda's struggles while enjoying the everyday life of a man with strong family ties.
Book Synopsis A Capacity for Outrage by : Arthur Selwyn Miller
Download or read book A Capacity for Outrage written by Arthur Selwyn Miller and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1984-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a personalized view of the judicial career of Judge J. Skelly Wright. It is not an orthodox biography. Rather, it attempts to place the career of Judge Wright in the context of the development of law, principally constitutional law, during the past three to four decades. Most chapters deal with substantive areas of law. Each begins with an explication of the specific larger problem and then goes on to evaluate how Wright has dealt with it. An opening chapter sets forth the approach I took in writing the book; and the final chapter evaluates Judge Wright's career in general terms"--Preface.
Book Synopsis An Unmarked Trail by : Harlington Wood
Download or read book An Unmarked Trail written by Harlington Wood and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Federal Judges Revealed by : William Domnarski
Download or read book Federal Judges Revealed written by William Domnarski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life before admission to the bar -- When they were lawyers -- Judicial appointments recounted -- Once appointed, transition to the job -- Nature of the job -- In chambers, in court, and getting along with others -- Judicial opinions -- Judges on lawyers and other judges.
Download or read book Counterfeit Justice written by Dale Baum and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil War ended, he publicly acknowledged his relationship with Azeline and bequeathed his entire estate to their twenty-year-old mulatto son, with the provision that he take care of his mother. When their son died early in 1868, Azeline inherited one of the most profitable cotton plantations in Texas and became one of the wealthiest ex-slaves in the former Confederacy. In Counterfeit Justice, Dale Baum traces Azeline's remarkable story, detailing her ongoing legal battles to claim and maintain her legacy. As Baum shows, Azeline's inheritance quickly made her a target for predatory whites determined to strip her of her land. A familiar figure at the Robertson County District Court from the late 1860s to the early 1880s, Azeline faced numerous lawsuits -- including one filed against her by her own lawyer. Samuel Hearne's family took steps to dispossess her, and other unscrupulous white men challenged the title to her plantation, using claims based on old Spanish land grants. Azeline's prolonged and courageous defense of her rightful title brought her a certain notoriety: the first freedwoman to be a party to three separate civil lawsuits appealed all the way to the Texas Supreme Court and the first former slave in Robertson County indicted on criminal charges of perjury. Although repeatedly blocked and frustrated by the convolutions of the legal system, she evolved from a bewildered defendant to a determined plaintiff who, in one extraordinary lawsuit, came tantalizingly close to achieving revenge against those who defrauded her for over a decade. Due to gaps in the available historical record and the unreliability of secondary accounts based on local Reconstruction folklore, many of the details of Azeline's story are lost to history. But Baum grounds his speculation about her life in recent scholarship on the Reconstruction era, and he puts his findings in context in the history of Robertson County. Although history has not credited Azeline Hearne with influencing the course of the law, the story of her uniquely difficult position after the Civil War gives an unprecedented view of the era and of one solitary woman's attempt to negotiate its social and legal complexities in her struggle to find justice. Baum's meticulously researched narrative will be of keen interest to legal scholars and to all those interested in the plight of freed slaves during this era.
Book Synopsis The Quest for Cosmic Justice by : Thomas Sowell
Download or read book The Quest for Cosmic Justice written by Thomas Sowell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom -- amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed -- and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage.
Book Synopsis The Search for Justice by : Peter Charles
Download or read book The Search for Justice written by Peter Charles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life. Among the decisive forces driving change were lawyers, who wielded the power of law to resolve competing concepts of order and equality and, in the end, to hold out the promise of a new and better nation. The Search for Justice is a look the role of the lawyers throughout the period, focusing on one of the central issues of the time: school segregation. The most notable participants to address this issue were the public interest lawyers of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, whose counselors brought lawsuits and carried out appeals in state and federal courts over the course of twenty years. But also playing a part in the story were members of the bar who defended Jim Crow laws explicitly or implicitly and, in some cases, also served in state or federal government; lawyers who sat on state and federal benches and heard civil rights cases; and, finally, law professors who analyzed the reasoning of the courts in classrooms and public forums removed from the fray. With rich, copiously researched detail, Hoffer takes readers through the interactions of these groups, setting their activities not only in the context of the civil rights movement but also of their full political and legal legacies, including the growth of corporate private legal practice after World War II and the expansion of the role of law professors in public discourse, particularly with the New Deal. Seeing the civil rights era through the lens of law enables us to understand for the first time the many ways in which lawyers affected the course and outcome of the movement.
Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new translation that preserves the swiftness, austerity, and clarity of the original. "Tell us, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, start in your own place: when all the rest at Troy had fled from that steep doom and gone back home, away from war and the salt sea, only this man longed for his wife and a way home." Homer's Odyssey, at once an exciting epic of strife and subterfuge and a deeply felt tale of love and devotion, stands at the very beginning of the Western literary tradition. From ancient Greece to the present day its influence on later literature has been unsurpassed, and for centuries translators have approached the meter, tone, and pace of Homer's poetry with a variety of strategies. Chapman and Pope paid keen attention to color, drama, and vivacity of style, rendering the Greek verse loosely and inventively. In the twentieth century, translators such as Lattimore kept rigorously close to the sense of each word in the original; others, including Fitzgerald and Fagles, have departed further from the language of the original, employing their own inventive modern style. Poet and translator Edward McCrorie now opens new territory in this striking rendition, which captures the spare, powerful tone of Homer's epic while engaging contemporary readers with its brisk pace, idiomatic language, and lively characterization. McCrorie closely reproduces the Greek metrical patterns and employs a diction and syntax that reflects the plain, at times stark, quality of Homer's lines, rather than later English poetic styles. Avoiding both the stiffness of word-for-word literalism and the exaggeration and distortion of free adaptation, this translation dramatically evokes the ancient sound and sense of the poem. McCrorie's is truly an Odyssey for the twenty-first century. To accompany this innovative translation, noted classical scholar Richard Martin has written an accessible and wide-ranging introduction explaining the historical and literary context of the Odyssey, its theological and cultural underpinnings, Homer's poetic strategies and narrative techniques, and his cast of characters. In addition, Martin provides detailed notes—far more extensive than those in other editions—addressing key themes and concepts; the histories of persons, gods, events, and myths; literary motifs and devices; and plot development. Also included is a pronunciation glossary and character index.
Book Synopsis May It Please the Court by : Richard Baldwin Cook
Download or read book May It Please the Court written by Richard Baldwin Cook and published by RICHARD BALDWIN COOK. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deprived of his license to practice law in three states, the author examines professional conduct rules that are applied to judges, and offers prescriptive comments that should be binding upon any who seek a position on the bench.
Book Synopsis The Last Scenes of the Odyssey by : Dorothea Wender
Download or read book The Last Scenes of the Odyssey written by Dorothea Wender and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devil's Defender written by John Browne and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of bestselling legal memoirs from Johnnie Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, Gerry Spence, and Alan Dershowitz, John Henry Browne's memoir, The Devil's Defender, recounts his tortuous education in what it means to be an advocate—and a human being. For the last four decades, Browne has defended the indefensible. From Facebook folk hero "the Barefoot Bandit" Colton Moore, to Benjamin Ng of the Wah Mee massacre, to Kandahar massacre culprit Sgt. Robert Bales, Browne's unceasing advocacy and the daring to take on some of the most unwinnable cases—and nearly win them all—has led 48 Hours' Peter Van Sant to call him "the most famous lawyer in America." But although the Browne that America has come to know cuts a dashing and confident figure, he has forever been haunted by his job as counsel to Ted Bundy, the most famous serial killer in American history. A drug- and alcohol-addicted (yet wildly successful) defense attorney who could never let go of the case that started it all, Browne here asks of himself the question others have asked him all along: does defending evil make you evil, too?
Book Synopsis The Fallacy in the Promise by : Jabari Gravy
Download or read book The Fallacy in the Promise written by Jabari Gravy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 1483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking his readers through a grueling, eighteen-year-long psycho-legal odyssey, Jabari Gravy recounts the failures of our legal justice system, from legal training to jurisprudence. He also offers a breathtaking portrayal of borderline personality disorder through his relationship with his wife. His story reveals the legal scandal of their divorce and the exploitation of mental illness by his wife and a state court system. In stunning detail, Gravy dissects, exposes, and gives a definitive and vividly dramatic account of furtive judicial abuse of authority, painting a disturbing tableau of what actually happens in our courtrooms: their underlying design, organizational values, and daily operationsillustrating how the clandestine and undocumented come to deny directly and categorically the compelling public court record. Through a revealing window on how innocent people are railroaded to injustice with loss of livelihood, liberty, and life, he inextricably entwines the African-American experience with his other material, demonstrates the ominous secret cracks in our justice system, unveils a monolithic legal culture represented by gladiatorial back-scratching court functionaries who marginalize non-dominate cultures and inflict real casualtiesboth at the micro level, on the lives of ordinary people, and at the national level as our democracy is secretively eroded. Gravy concludes that pretty paper is not justice, and demands change.
Book Synopsis The Iliad and the Odyssey by : Jan Parker
Download or read book The Iliad and the Odyssey written by Jan Parker and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iliad dealing with the final stages of the Trojan War and The Odyssey with return and aftermath were central to the Classical Greeks' self identity and world view. Epic poems attributed to Homer, they underpinned ideas about heroism, masculinity and identity; about glory, sacrifice and the pity of war; about what makes life worth living. From Achilles, Patroclus and Agamemnon in the Greek camp, Hektor, Paris and Helen in Troy's citadel, the drama of the battlefield and the gods looking on, to Odysseus' adventures and vengeful return - Jan Parker here offers the ideal companion to exploring key events, characters and major themes. A book-by-book synopsis and commentary discuss the heroes' relationships, values and psychology and the narratives' shimmering presentation of war, its victims and the challenges of return and reintegration. Essays set the epics in their historical context and trace the key terms; the 'Journey Home from War' continues with 'Afterstories' of both heroes and their women. Whether you've always wanted to go deeper into these extraordinary works or are coming to them for the first time, The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Trojan War, Tragedy and Aftermath will help you understand and enjoy Homer's monumentally important work.
Book Synopsis The Origins of the Law in Homer by : Shulamit Almog
Download or read book The Origins of the Law in Homer written by Shulamit Almog and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to introduce the Homeric oeuvre into the law and literature canon. It argues for a reading of Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey as primordial narratives on the significance of the rule of law. The book delineates moments of correspondence between the transition from myth to tragedy and the gradual transition from a social existence lacking formal law to an institutionalized legal system as practiced in the polis. It suggests the Homeric epics are a significant milestone in the way justice and injustice were conceptualized, and testify to a growing awareness in Homer’s time that mechanisms that protect both individuals and the collective from acts of unbridled rage are necessary for the continued existence of communities. The book fills a considerable gap in research on ancient Greek drama as well as in discourses about the intersections of law and literature and by doing so, offers new insights into two of the foundational texts of Western culture.
