Random Recollections - Notes on a lifetime at the bar by A C Hanlon
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - I Know This to Be True - On equality, determination and service by Rutj Bader Ginsburg
$10.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
A Legal History of Rome by George Mousourakis
$15.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
This book equips both lawyer and historian with a complete history of Roman law, from its beginnings c.1000 BC through to its re-discovery in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth century. Combining a law specialist's informed perspective of legal history with a socio-political and cul ...Show more
To Be Fair - Confessions of a District Court Judge by Rosemary Riddell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
Retired judge Rosemary Riddell shares her reminiscences of life on the bench, complete with its humour, frustrations and poignant moments. A unique glimpse into a world most of us can only imagine, her story is a fascinating commentary on New Zealand life from the point of view of a woman involved in th ...Show more
In Search of Consensus - New Zealand's Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy by Elizabeth Mcleay
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
In a series of backroom negotiations in 1956, the National Government and Labour Opposition agreed to put aside adversarial politics temporarily and entrench certain significant electoral rules. For any of these rules to be amended or repealed, Section 189 of the Electoral Act (now Section 268 of the 19 ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
$8.00 NZD
Category: Law | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Geoffrey Robertson's Crimes Against Humanity is a superb and highly influential account of the history of the human rights movement up to the present day. From the French Revolution and the Nuremberg trials to 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, Robertson traces the developing concept of human rights and sho ...Show more
Lawless - A Lawyer's Unrelenting Fight for Justice in One of the World's Most Dangerous Places by Kimberley Motley
$14.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinary story of Kim Motley, the US woman who became the first foreign lawyer to practice in Afghanistan.
Unlawful Killings - Life, Love and Murder - Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy Joseph
$16.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
An Old Bailey murder trial judge unpicks six extraordinary cases and explores why we kill, what happens at trial and what we can learn about the society in which we live.Only at the Old Bailey is the murder trial the staple diet of a judge. The author has presided over many of the high-profile cases tha ...Show more
Just Mercy - A Story of Justice and Redemption (FTI edition) by Bryan Stevenson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. The prison population has increased from ...Show more
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
$20.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - The true story of one man so determined to take down two of the nation's largest corporations accused of killing children from water contamination that he risks losing everything. "The legal thriller of the decade." --Cleveland Plain D ...Show more
Moving the Bar - My Life As a Radical Lawyer by Michael Ratner
$14.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: very good
Michael Ratner (1943-2016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) becoming first the Director of Litigation and then the President of what Alexander Cockburn called "a small band of tigerish people." He was al ...Show more
Environmental and Planning Law in New South Wales by Rosemary Lyster; Zada Lipman; Nocola Franklin; Graeme Wiffin; Linda Pearson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Law | Reading Level: near fine
The fifth edition of this book will publish in March 2021.The key changes in this edition concern planning and assessment, changes to Australia's energy and climate law regime as well as an entirely new chapter on Mining and Environmental Law. The book continues to provide effective integration of plann ...Show more