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  • Inside the Robe, A Judge's Candid Tale of Criminal Justice in America

    by katherine mader ...
    COURTHOUSE CONFIDENTIALTo most people, judges are mysterious creatures. As Anthony Bourdain invited readers to follow him behind the scenes of the restaurant business in his bestseller, Kitchen Confidential, and Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes was a revealing peak into the mysteries of what happens after death inside a mortuary, Inside the Robe shines a bright spotlight into the hidden ... Read more

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  • Expert Witness

    The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance

    by Ann Wolbert Burgess ...
    From the author of the critically-acclaimed true crime account, A Killer By Design (the inspiration behind Hulu's original docuseries, Mastermind), a groundbreaking look into the crucial role played by expert witnesses in the most high-profile criminal cases, based on Dr. Ann Burgess’ personal experiences within the criminal justice system.Written through Burgess’ singular lens of compassion and ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Tainted Witness

    Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives

    by Leigh Gilmore ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony is part of a larger social history in which women find themselves caught up in a system that ... Read more

    23,52 €

  • MacCarthy on Cross-Examination

    by Terence F. MacCarthy ...
    Learn how to look good on cross, even when the witness is not cooperating. Terence MacCarthy is synonymous with effective cross-examination. For 40 years he has been the head of the Federal Defender's Office in Chicago, and is among the top CLE instructors in the nation owing to his lectures on cross-examination technique. And now, Terence MacCarthy has literally written the book on cross ... Read more

    87,12 €

  • The Education of a Lawyer

    Essential Skills and Practical Advice for Building a Successful Career

    by Gary Muldoon ...
    The Education of a Lawyer is a delightful read that provides invaluable advice about the practice of law. Written for aspiring and young attorneys, the book is a font of wisdom on a range of topics: legal writing, speaking, handling clients, staying current on the law, and managing all the relationships typically encountered by lawyers.Derived from the author’s decades of experience as a lawyer ... Read more

    33,49 €

  • The Trial Lawyer

    What It Takes to Win, Second Edition

    by David Berg ...
    Learn how Joe Jamail won a $10.5 billion verdict in Pennzoil v. Texaco - and how you can use these trial tactics to your advantage!Colorful, insightful, funny and instructive - and difficult to put down. It will keep you reading - and make you a better trial lawyer. ... Read more

    67,19 €

  • Shadow Empire

    The Epstein Files

    by Sayer Ji ...
    Congress almost never agrees on anything. On November 18, 2025, the House voted 427 to 1 to force the release of the Epstein files. The Senate passed it that day, the president the next.Shadow Empire is the first book-length investigation built on the complete release.This is not one man’s crime spree. The world’s most powerful bank and foundation kept asking Epstein how to organize billionaire ... Read more

    19,47 €

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  • Handbook of Cross Examination: the Mosaic Art

    by John Nicholas Iannuzzi ...
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    7,62 €

  • SURVIVING THE WITNESS BOX

    expert opinion in court

    by Phil Watts ...
    How well you survive the court experience will be determined not only by your performance in the witness box, but also upon the quality of your report and the way in which you deal with the briefing lawyer. "Surviving the Witness Box" demonstrates that these skills, and many others, can be learned, particularly once you understand the rules of the legal "game". "Surviving the Witness Box" is a ... Read more

    7,41 €

  • Testimony/Bearing Witness

    Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture

    Edited by Sybille Krämer, Sigrid Weigel ...
    What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is bearing witness a concept that is exclusively based in interpersonal relations? Or are there other modes of communicating or mediating to constitute a constellation of testimony?Testimony/Bearing ... Read more

    48,54 €

  • MacCarthy on Impeachment

    How to Find and Use These Weapons of Mass Destruction

    by Sean Patrick MacCarthy Sean Patrick MacCarthy, Terence F. MacCarthy ...
    Impeachment of witnesses is "an alien, mystifying, and obtuse area of the law," write the authors of MacCarthy on Impeachment. While there are many books on evidence and trial advocacy, there is very little written specifically on impeachment. For the trial lawyer and judge, it is one of the most confusing and misunderstood parts of the trial. Just as cross examination is the most difficult of ... Read more

    46,95 €

  • Cross-Examining Psychiatrists and Psychologists

    A Practical Guide

    by Alan T. Radnor ...
    Psychiatrists’ and psychologists' input holds a somewhat unique position in the medical-legal world. Though sometimes based on testing, their opinions are primarily based on the subjective activity of talking to their patients. This means the accuracy of the historical facts of a case becomes even more important. Relatedly, psychiatrists and psychologists are notoriously slippery witnesses and it ... Read more

    100,80 €

  • Tra l'incudine e il martello. La denuncia di chi ha denunciato (inchiesta sul mondo dei testimoni di giustizia)

    by Angelo Greco ...
    Un complotto preordinato o la solita inefficienza della burocrazia? Quali sono le ragioni che hanno portato la politica a dimenticarsi dei testimoni di giustizia? Il segreto si svela da sé, nelle parole dei quasi settanta eroi, oggi tutelati da programmi di protezione disastrosi. Una fuga ininterrotta, che porta quasi sempre alla morte. Del corpo e dello spirito. Un’analisi approfondita e spietata ... Read more

    5,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evidence-based Investigative Interviewing

    Applying Cognitive Principles

    Edited by Jason J. Dickinson, Nadja Schreiber Compo, Rolando Carol, Bennett L. Schwartz, Michelle McCauley ...
    For as long as we have been researching human memory, psychologists have been investigating how people remember and forget. This research is regularly drawn upon in our legal systems. Historically, we have relied upon eyewitness memory to help judge responsibility and adjudicate truth, but memory is malleable, prone to error, and susceptible to bias. Even confident eyewitnesses make mistakes, and ... Read more

    61,63 €

  • Framed

    Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

    by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...
    The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword“A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions.” —Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq.The Definitive Story of One of the Most Infamous Murders of the Twentieth Century and the Heartbreaking Miscarriage of Justice That FollowedOn Halloween, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley’s body was found brutally ... Read more

    12,60 €

  • Greentown

    Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Community

    by Timothy Dumas ...
    The first edition of Greentown helped reopen one of America’s most shameful unsolved murder cases, the savage slaying of fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley in an exclusive enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, the night before Halloween 1975. Soon after Martha’s body was discovered, attention focused on members of the Skakel family, who lived across the street from the Moxleys. Ethel Skakel and Robert ... Read more

    12,60 €

  • Effective Depositions, Second Edition

    by Henry L. Hecht ...
    Effective Depositions is a comprehensive, practical guide through every stage of the deposition process. It concisely covers the law of depositions and related discovery issues and gives a clear, thorough understanding of the process and its practical challenges so that either taker or defender can make the best use of the opportunities the process offers. Whether you are a seasoned veteran of ... Read more

    100,48 €

  • Recollections of an Alienist, Personal and Professional

    by Allan McLane Hamilton ...
    "Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton's 'Recollections' throw light on some of the historic murder trials in which he took part...as an alienist and as citizen he is one of our foremost Americans." -NY Times, Jan. 14, 1917"Shortly after Thaw murdered Stanford White in New York City...Thaw's family retained Allan McLane Hamilton (I1848-1919), the leading forensic alienist of his era...interviewed Thaw on four ... Read more

    0,92 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthropological Witness

    Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    by Alexander Laban Hinton ...
    Anthropological Witness tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton's attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. In March 2016, Hinton served as an expert witness at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, an international tribunal established to try senior Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes ... Read more

    17,16 €

  • L'ortie

    by Arielle Caisne, Jean-Claude Didelot ...
    “Tu viens jouer ?”... et la petite fille, toute joyeuse, de serrer sa poupée contre son cœur et de suivre l’adolescent au fond du jardin. Alors, l’univers bascule dans l’insupportable. La belle maison où vaquent des adultes lointains, les herbes odorantes, deviennent ces lieux où l’horreur s’installe au quotidien. Ce livre est dur et cette lecture est strictement réservée aux plus âgés. Encore n ... Read more

    7,49 €

  • KIF

    by Bob J. Zehmer ...
    Routes bribery fight against crime mafia-style organizations connections with hard drugs money laundering and even more disquieting world scenarios A trip among the illicit traffics and the main characters in an ongoing foul play. You will unlikely find such impressive information about hashish drug-trafficking economic backstage and interviews with traffickers and police officers all rallied in ... Read more

    5,58 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Convicting the Innocent

    Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

    by Brandon Garrett ...
    This probing analysis of three of Giotto’s major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty. ... Read more

    30,52 €

  • The Expert Expert

    The Path to Prosperity and Prominence as an Expert Witness

    by Douglas L. Field ...
    Experts occupy a unique position in the litigation process. The law and the courts give them automatic authority and credibility at the outset. But the greatest challenge for experts as they navigate the court process is to preserve that high level of credibility going forward. In The Expert Expert, author Douglas L. Field presents detailed information to help an expert professional become an ... Read more

    8,68 €

  • Coercive Interrogation & False Conviction

    by Brian Leslie ...
    The Thin Line Between Truth and DeceptionIn the dimly lit room, the air is thick with tension. A suspect sits across from an interrogator, the weight of the situation pressing down on them. The interrogator leans in, their voice calm yet insistent, weaving a narrative that seems plausible, even inevitable. The suspect, exhausted and vulnerable, begins to question their own memory, their own truth. ... Read more

    5,99 €