books: how judges

books: how judges

books:

How judges

Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk

James Bessen, Michael J. Meurer

Princeton University Press, 2008

A calm look at the evidence for patent reform
Anyone inclined to read this book should just ignore its subtitle -- "How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators At Risk." I can only imagine that was thrown in to make this book appeal to right-wingers. Which is really strange, come to think of it: the book ...

What Every Woman Should Know About Divorce and Custody (Rev): Judges, Lawyers, and Therapists Share Winning ...

J.D., Gayle Rosenwald Smith, Sally Abrahms

Perigee Trade, 2007

Very helpful!
I am both a social worker and a divorced mother and I can tell you this book is terrific. While the book's title says it is for divorced mothers, fathers and therapists would find it helpful as well. I noticed that it is updated with the latest information, including ...

How Do Judges Decide?: The Search for Fairness and Justice in Punishment (Key Questions for Criminal Justice)
Cassia C. Spohn

Sage Publications, Inc, 2002

The appropriate amount of punishment for a given crime is an issue that has been debated by scholars, philosophers and legal professionals since the beginning of civilizations. This book seeks to address this issue in all of its complexity by providing a comprehensive overview of the sentencing process in the United States. The book begins by ...

Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

Joan Biskupic

Harper Perennial, 2006

An Impressive, Engrossing Biography
Joan Biskupic's biography _Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice_ provides a compelling picture of the first woman Supreme Court justice and of the inner workings of the Supreme Court through four presidential ...

How Judges Think

Richard A. Posner

Harvard University Press, 2008

Brlliant and fun analysis of how judges actually decide cases
This man is *cold*. Fortunately for the reader, it is this icy wit that makes reading Posner's books such a joy. Watch how he rips into inconsistencies: 'In discussing a case that invalidated the exclusion of homosexuals from the military, Beatty approvingly remarks ...

How Can You Defend Those People?

Mickey Sherman

The Lyons Press, 2008

Hysterically Entertaining
Hysterically Entertaining Enchanted by the quagmires, challenges, and events that surround the lives of attorneys, media commentators, and entertainers? Interested in the inside scoop on high profile cases, courtroom dramas, actors, players, and the personal ...

Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America

Mark R. Levin

Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2005

Thought provoking history and analysis of the Supreme Court.
Mark Levin gives wonderful insight on the most important legal decisions and the men and women who wrote these decisions. He does a particularly good job in discussing Hugo Black and how his anti-Catholicism led to 'separation of church and state' entering ...

The Child Custody Book: How to Protect Your Children and Win Your Case (Rebuilding Books)

Judge James W. Stewart

Impact Publishers, 2000

Insightful
This book was very insightful & informative in regards as to what to expect and how to go about winning your case in a child custody battle when getting a divorce. Definitely worth the money.

Divorce Handbook for California: How to Dissolve Your Marriage Without Disaster (Rebuilding Books)

Judge James W. Stewart

Impact Publishers, 2002

A Leading Judge's Insights into California Divorce
As presiding judge of Silicon Valley's Santa Clara County Family Court, Judge Stewart has made decisions regarding the dissolution of literally thousands of California marriages. He knows what he is talking about, and in this fascinating account he provides the ...

Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers

Gus Russo

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

mob, and crime following the Chicago to LA route
I loved this book - maybe because I knew half the people in it! It is a wonderful (true) yarn of Jewish immigrants settling in Chicago and how the succeeding generation made their way up the financial/political/power ladder, alas on the wrong side of the law. It reads ...

Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America

Ethan Bronner

Union Square Press, 2007

A Shame And The Beginning of the Decline...
I'm not so naive as to think that character assassination had never happened before 1987. But the current degradation of our political culture began on July 1, 1987 when Ted Kennedy hammered Bork as a foe of abortion rights, Darwinian evolution, and the Fourth ...

How to Be a Man of Character in a World of Compromise: Devotional Insights from the Books of Proverbs

Richard Exley

Honor Books, 1995

Directions for maintaining Biblical Character in modern time
Richard Exley's insightful exerpts from the book of Proverbs are an excellent resource for the Christian man seeking to align his character with that of the Bible. From temptations and indulgences to ethics, pride and values, Richard Exley uses the insight and wisdom ...

How to Judge a Horoscope (Vol. I & II)

Bangalore Venkata Raman

Motilal Banarsidass,, 1999

A very useful book
This is a fascinating book and makes Vedic astrology very simple to understand. B V Raman's expositon of the subject is insightful. Too long astrology has suffered in the hands of quacks. It is high time that educated people with logical temprament started touching ...

Chosen to be God's Prophet: How God Works in and Through Those He Chooses (Biblical Legacy Series)

Henry Blackaby

Thomas Nelson, 2003

Choosen to be God's Prophet
I used this book in the class I am sponsoring for Woven Ministries intitled Understanding God and His Covenants. It is a leadership class which stresses the foundations of Christianity in our service to God. Henrey Blackaby's book "Chosen to be God's Prophet" is ...

How To Win A Local Election, Revised: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide

Judge Lawrence Grey

M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1999

Concise & informative guide to the basics for success
Grey produced a concise, informative and well-written guide to winning a local election. Local elections are won on actions that put the campaign in touch with the voters. This short, easy to read book provides the essentials quickly (I read it in a day) freeing the ...