Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Lawyers & Judges

When Clinton Giddings Brown (1882-1964) retired from a long and successful career as a trial lawyer in San Antonio, Texas, fishing on the Gulf Coast was out--by doctor's orders. So he sat on the front gallery of his house in San Antonio and fished with a lead pencil in the richly stocked memories of his professional life. "Some days I didn't get a nibble, but some mornings they were biting fine."

The resultant and delightful catch is the story of a full, merry, and successful life. From the day in 1906 when "Mr. Clint" hung out his shingle in a little office over his father's bank,...

When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large areas of private and public law under the Charter of Rights, were the subject of intense public interest and concern.

Brian Dickson played a leading role in this transformation. Engaging and incisive, Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey traces Dickson's life from a Depression-era boyhood in...

Scalia: A Court of One is the compelling story of one of the most polarizing figures to serve on the nation's highest court. Bruce Allen Murphy shows how Scalia changed the legal landscape through his controversial theories of...

Yeseph Albert Schindler grew up outside Meekathurra, Auschwitzerland, knowing that everyone must live by certain rules and that no one can escape this rudimentary universal law without consequence. But as a young boy, Schindler had no idea that years later, he would discover that it is much more difficult to carry out consequences when the justice system is fl awed.

Schindler-a seasoned entrepreneur and investor-shares a thorough and impassioned chronicle of his decades-long ordeal through the Auschwitzerland legal system after he was the victim of a failed business deal that left his...

An incisive look at life both in and out of the courtroom, "From the Other Side of the Bench" tells the story of one man's extraordinary life of service.

Hon. Peter Leavitt's story begins with his colorful upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, and returns to this theme throughout to explain how he came to his judicial decisions as well as how he came to live his life.

Intriguingly, Leavitt begins his career as a stand-up comedian. After working as a prosecutor and a defense attorney, his career leads him to a position as a trial judge. There, he is tasked with overseeing some...

Rarely do we live the life we originally intended. We make up our minds and charge down the path we've chosen, only to find ourselves arriving at an unexpected destination. We don't know how it happens, but after enough time has passed, we're able to look back and assemble the puzzle pieces to make sense of it all.

This is the business of Joseph A. Garofalo's autobiography, except his life's puzzle pieces are not made up only of choices and events. They also predominately take the form of people. His story introduces the many relationships that make up who he is today-those who...

James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war period, he was the first Maritimer to serve as president of the Canadian Bar Association. He distinguished himself mainly in constitutional cases before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. During his career, Stewart was also head of the leading law firm in eastern Canada (now Stewart...

Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatment of the implications of life-writing on legal biography, autobiography and the visual history of law in society through a focus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized or ignored in legal biography and legal history, such as women and minorities.

• Draws on a range of sources and disciplinary approaches including legal history, life-writing, sociology, history, art history, feminism and post-colonialism, seeking to build a bridge-head between them
• Challenges the methodologies employed in...

In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim could not erase the young lawyer's memory of the brutal floggings he had witnessed aboard ship or undermine the vow he had made to combat injustice. In Slavish Shore, Jeffrey Amestoy tells the story of Dana's unflagging determination to keep that vow in the face of nineteenth-century America's most exclusive establishment: the Boston society in which he had been born and...