Criminal Justice/Law

A Plague of Prisons

The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

Ernest Drucker

A paradigm-shifting look at our criminal justice system that sees prisons as the problem, not the solution

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

A bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration amounts to a devastating system of racial control, by a rising legal star

Let's Get Free

A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice

Paul Butler

NOW IN PAPERBACK: In a book Library Journal calls “required reading for all concerned about their neighborhoods and our criminal justice system,” a former federal prosecutor’s radical argument for reform

The Wrong Guys

Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

Tom Wells, Richard A. Leo

A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an innocence project case

Critical Race Realism

Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law

Edited by Gregory S. Parks, Shayne Jones, and W. Jonathan Cardi

A new way of looking at our legal system-focused on the nexus of social science, race and the law – that takes the field of critical legal studies into the twenty-first century

Prison Profiteers

Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration

Edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright

NOW IN PAPERBACK An eye-opening and troubling look at the vast network of corporations and individuals that turn a profit by keeping 2.4 million Americans imprisoned

Law Lit

From Atticus Finch to The Practice

Edited by Thane Rosenbaum

NOW IN PAPERBACK — The collection of fiction and poetry that Christopher Buckley called "a brilliant compendium of writing about the law, by one of the coolest, hippest, and smartest legal brains in the business"

See You in Court

How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation

Thomas Geoghegan

NOW IN PAPERBACK — A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007—a bold new argument that conservative policy has led to America's lawsuit culture, from the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist

Less Safe, Less Free

Why America Is Losing the War on Terror
NOW IN PAPERBACK — Winner of the first Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties prize, the book Zbigniew Brzezinski calls "a timely and unsparing exposure of the disastrous consequences of the 'war on terror' demagogy of the Bush administration"

All Alone in the World

Children of the Incarcerated

Nell Bernstein

NOW IN PAPERBACK An award-winning journalist’s “heart wrenching”(The San Antonio Observer) look at children with parents in prison—a Newsweek “book of the week” and an East Bay Express bestseller

The Big Eddy Club

David Rose

Race, injustice, and serial murder in the deep south—Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil with an investigative edge

Conspiracy in the Streets

The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight

Edited by Jon Wiener

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL On the stand with yippies, Black Panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s

Conned

How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House

Sasha Abramsky

The criminal disenfranchisement that affects millions of American citizens

Enemy Aliens

Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism

David Cole

A revised edition of the award-winning civil liberties scholar's condemnation of the USA Patriot Act

Good Courts

The Case for Problem-Solving Justice

Greg Berman, John Feinblatt

How innovative judges and attorneys are transforming American courts

In Time of War

Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America

Pierce O'Donnell

A forgotten episode of World War II, the Supreme Court case it sparked, and the precedent it set

A Matter of Law

A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights

Robert L. Carter

A major new memoir by the man who argued Brown v. Board

Good Cops

The Case for Preventive Policing

David A. Harris

A new, preventive approach to reducing crime from the renowned expert on policing

Guantánamo

The War on Human Rights

David Rose

NOW IN PAPERBACK A vivid and damning account of America's controversial interrogation camp

Brown v. Board

The Landmark Oral Argument Before the Supreme Court

Edited by Leon Friedman

The transcripts, never before available to the general reading public, of “the most important American governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation” (Louis Pollack, Yale University)

The Autonomy Myth

A Theory of Dependency

Martha Albertson Fineman

A brilliant exposé of the American myth of self-reliance and the reality of an interdependent society

Invisible Punishment

The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment

Edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind

A wide-ranging look at the true cost to society of our current approach to criminal justice, from the nation's foremost criminologist

Lost Liberties

Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom

Edited by Cynthia Brown

Bombs and Bandwidth

The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security

Edited by Robert Latham

Profiles in Injustice

Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work

David A. Harris

Why racial profiling is not just wrong, but ineffective too

Information Feudalism

Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite

NOW IN PAPERBACK The definitive account of how multinational corporations have seized control of intellectual property rights

A Badly Flawed Election

Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy

Edited by Ronald Dworkin

America's leading constitutional scholars and historians debate the most controversial election in U.S. history

Terrorism and the Constitution

Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

David Cole, James X. Dempsey

Timely and important. . . . This is a book every citizen should read and act upon.   —Political Science Quarterly

In America’s Court

How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial
The smart, funny, and compelling story of criminal justice and the injustice from the author of Which Side Are You On?

Movies on Trial

The Legal System on the Silver Screen

Anthony Chase

Every Handgun Is Aimed at You

The Case for Banning Handguns

Josh Sugarmann

NOW IN PAPERBACK a powerful argument for banning handguns that “should be required reading for those who want to be better informed—whether they are for or against gun control" (Publishers Weekly)

The Second Amendment in Law and History

Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms

Edited by Carl T. Bogus

A demystifying guide to the complex debates surrounding the constitutional right to bear arms

Justice Talking: Censoring the Web

Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Kathryn Kolbert, Zak Mettger

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in the first  two volumes of a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking

Justice Talking: School Vouchers

Leading Advocates Debate Today’s Most Controversial Issues

Kathryn Kolbert, Zak Mettger

Prominent attorneys debate web censorship and school vouchers in the first  two volumes of a compelling new book-and-CD series inspired by the popular National Public Radio program Justice Talking

Zero Tolerance

Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools

Edited by William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Rick Ayers

A clear-eyed collection that takes aim at the replacement of teaching with punishment in America’s schools                              

Legal Lynching

The Death Penalty and America’s Future

Jesse L. Jackson Sr., Jesse Jackson Jr., Bruce Shapiro

An urgent, eloquent call for the abolition of the death penalty in America, from the father and son who are leading the fight against state-sponsored execution

Race to Incarcerate

Marc Mauer

An updated account of the explosion in America's prison population

Crimes Against Humanity

The Struggle for Global Justice

Geoffrey Robertson

The story of the rise of the human rights movement by the renowned international attorney, in a newly revised and expanded edition

No Equal Justice

Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System

David Cole

A tenth-anniversary edition of the award-winning classic work on race- and class-based double standards in the law, completely revised and updated by the leading constitutional scholar                

The End of Privacy

How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality

Reg Whitaker

Not Only for Myself

Identity, Politics, and the Law

Martha Minow

The Monkey Suit

And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

David Dante Troutt

Making a Killing

The Business Of Guns in America

Tom Diaz

Ethics

Subjectivity and Truth

Michel Foucault

Edited by Paul Rabinow

Black Judges on Justice

Pespective from the Bench

Linn Washington

McLibel

Burger Culture on Trial

John Vidal

Sensible Justice

Alternatives to Prison

David C. Anderson

Lawyers

A Critical Reader

Edited by Richard L. Abel

Edge of the Knife

Police Violence in the Americas

Paul Chevigny

Critical Race Theory

The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

Edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil T. Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas

Greening International Law

Edited by Philippe Sands

May It Please the Court

Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955

Edited by Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton

PAPERBACK/CDS A new edition of the bestselling book-and-audio set of supreme court oral arguments—now available on MP3 audio CDs*

Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy

A Guide to America’s Censorship Wars

Marjorie Heins

With Liberty and Justice for Some

A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court

David Kairys

Family Matters

Readings on Family Lives and the Law

Edited by Martha Minow

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