Author: Don Lasseter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The ultimate penalty of the death sentence was created for horrific crimes. However, it is becoming more commonplace for these sentences to be overturned. The authors argue for the death penalty to remain in place, to have a justice that is not so blinded by leniency that it lets monsters continue to dwell among us.
Author: Ofer Mazar
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1609766555
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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"The story I am about to unfold, my dear reader, is a journey into my chaotic soul..."An intense and moving love story, which describes a forty-year voyage into the soul of a troubled, delicate, breathtaking beauty-a phenomenally intelligent woman who was struck by an excruciating obsession in the form of her high school sweetheart, a talented athlete and musician named Roy, who was banished at a crucial moment from her life by her protective father. "I woke up to a new reality... my life would never be the same again...."As Lisa becomes sober, still devastated by the loss of the love of her life, she takes a new name, creates an alter ego, and enters law school. Battling life, pursuing a career as a successful criminal lawyer, marrying a man she does not love, raising a child born for all the wrong reasons, Lisa keeps the memory of Roy in her heart, dreaming of the day they'll reunite. The years pass and her obsession becomes pathetic even to her; yet she clings to it vehemently.
Author: Jimmy D. Ogle
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1625105282
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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What is the Church? Hint. It's not the big building with the steeple on top. How do I know if I am a Christian? What is the rapture? What happens when the Church is raptured? What if I miss the rapture? Will anyone survive the tribulation? What is the number of the beast? What happens at the battle of Armageddon? What will we do during the one thousand-year reign? What do the terms "last days" and "last times" actually refer to? What is the Holy Spirit and what does it do? Author Jim Ogle answers these questions and many more in 1000 Years of Perfect Justice.
Author: William Bernhardt
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453277145
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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A defense lawyer’s newest client is a racist—but is he a killer? “Bernhardt keeps his readers coming back for more” (Library Journal). For Ben Kincaid, the forests of Arkansas are a place to escape the hubbub of the courtroom and enjoy the outdoors. But for the thousands of Vietnamese refugees who came through this backwoods area in the mid-1970s, the Ouachita Mountains were a place to begin their new life in the United States. And for Tommy Vuong, an activist among the American-born Vietnamese, the woods are a place to die. When Vuong is found stabbed through the neck beneath a burning cross, the logical suspect is Donald Vick, a member of a local white supremacist hate group who was seen fighting with Vuong the previous day. No lawyer in the county will take Vick’s case, but Kincaid can’t refuse. His new client is sullen, hateful, and demands to plead guilty—even though there’s no evidence linking him to the crime scene. No matter what it takes, Kincaid will bring justice to the backwoods, whether the inhabitants like it or not.
Author: J. Mark Ramseyer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022628204X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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It’s long been known that Japanese file fewer lawsuits per capita than Americans do. Yet explanations for the difference have tended to be partial and unconvincing, ranging from circular arguments about Japanese culture to suggestions that the slow-moving Japanese court system acts as a deterrent. With Second-Best Justice, J. Mark Ramseyer offers a more compelling, better-grounded explanation: the low rate of lawsuits in Japan results not from distrust of a dysfunctional system but from trust in a system that works—that sorts and resolves disputes in such an overwhelmingly predictable pattern that opposing parties rarely find it worthwhile to push their dispute to trial. Using evidence from tort claims across many domains, Ramseyer reveals a court system designed not to find perfect justice, but to “make do”—to adopt strategies that are mostly right and that thereby resolve disputes quickly and economically. An eye-opening study of comparative law, Second-Best Justice will force a wholesale rethinking of the differences among alternative legal systems and their broader consequences for social welfare.
Author: Gerald Gaus
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183422
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. He argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about shaping the world, then the pursuit of idealized and perfect theories of justice—essentially, the entire production of theories of justice that has dominated political philosophy for the past forty years—needs to change. Drawing on recent work in social science and philosophy, Gaus points to an important paradox: only those in a heterogeneous society—with its various religious, moral, and political perspectives—have a reasonable hope of understanding what an ideally just society would be like. However, due to its very nature, this world could never be collectively devoted to any single ideal. Gaus defends the moral constitution of this pluralistic, open society, where the very clash and disagreement of ideals spurs all to better understand what their personal ideals of justice happen to be. Presenting an original framework for how we should think about morality, The Tyranny of the Ideal rigorously analyzes a theory of ideal justice more suitable for contemporary times.
Author: Timothy Keller
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 1594486077
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace.
Author: John RAWLS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042603
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
Author: Jeff Ashton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062246356
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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The definitive inside story of the case that captivated the nation. . . and the verdict that no one saw coming. It was the trial that stunned America. On July 5, 2011, nearly three years after her initial arrest, Casey Anthony walked away, virtually scot-free, from one of the most sensational murder trials of all time. She'd been accused of killing her daughter, Caylee, but the trial only left behind more questions: Was she actually innocent? What really happened to Caylee? Was this what justice really looked like? In Imperfect Justice, prosecutor Jeff Ashton, one of the principal players in the case's drama, sheds light on those questions and much more, telling the behind-the-scenes story of the investigation, the trial, and the now-infamous verdict. Complete with never-before-revealed information about the case and the accused, Ashton examines what the prosecution got right, what they got wrong, and why he remains completely convinced of Casey Anthony's guilt.
Author: Preet Bharara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525521135
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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*A New York Times Bestseller* An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society—from the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, and host of the Doing Justice podcast. Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara believes in our system and knows it must be protected, but to do so, he argues, we must also acknowledge and allow for flaws both in our justice system and in human nature. Bharara uses the many illustrative anecdotes and case histories from his storied, formidable career—the successes as well as the failures—to shed light on the realities of the legal system and the consequences of taking action. Inspiring and inspiringly written, Doing Justice gives us hope that rational and objective fact-based thinking, combined with compassion, can help us achieve truth and justice in our daily lives. Sometimes poignant and sometimes controversial, Bharara's expose is a thought-provoking, entertaining book about the need to find the humanity in our legal system as well as in our society.
