Judicial Systems

Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.

An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors....

Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Supreme Court in action - the maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and decision-making that affect every major area of American life....

"The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat is a seminal work in political philosophy and economics, offering a robust defense of individual liberty and property rights against the encroachments of government.

Since the publication of the first edition of Critical Race Theory in 2001, the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism, and the onset of an epidemic of hate directed against immigrants....

Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Supreme Court through personalities....

Chief Justice Rehnquist's engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history....

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), the English philosopher, writer on law and political radical, was an extraordinary individual. His preserved body can still be seen seated in a case in the South Cloisters of University College, London....

Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the 36 anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history....

Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Court through personalities....

Brilliant. Colorful. Visionary. Tenacious. Witty. Since his appointment to the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has been described as all of these things, and for good reason....

As one of just a few judges licensed to try murder cases at the Old Bailey, the author has presided over many of the high-profile cases that all too often grab our attention in dramatic media headlines—for every unlawful death tells a story....

The legal system was not designed for poor people. Yet, we ask citizens to use this system every day in spite of its shortcomings.

A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view, the confirmation process is just an exercise in partisan agenda-setting, and the jurists are no more than “politicians in robes”....

How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty? Federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff, a leading authority on white-collar crime, explores this and other puzzles in a startling account of our broken legal system....

In this Very Short Introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history and of its written and unwritten rules to show listeners how the Supreme Court really works....

In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution....

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner comes the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row....

>Drugs, Adultery, Bribery, Homosexuality, corruption - and the Supreme Court? Your high school history teachers never gave you a book like this one....

Disputes that once were resolved either informally in the family or within the community are now handled mainly by courts, which strains government agency resources....

This is one of the true classics in world legal literature. Written by a master of law and language...

No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the 20th century, that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise....

El Cártel Judicial puede ser tan letal como el más violento de los grupos delictivos; una sentencia a modo—infundada, a la ligera, sin elementos de prueba, con pruebas viciadas o para satisfacer intereses personales—puede llegar a ser peor que la muerte.

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country....

In this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution.