Logic is a lawyer's best weapon. To this day, Socrates is the master of rhetoric. The ancient Greek historian Xenophon recorded the great philosopher's dialogues, which are read to this day as a guide for finding weakness in arguments and uncovering hidden truths. Law students have been reading Socrates as long as there have been lawyers. Like an attorney in a courtroom, Socrates used questi...
Cruel and Usual Punishment is a wake up call to the Western world. Nonie Darwish presents an insider's look at Sharia and examines how radical Muslim laws are destroying the Western world from within. Living under Sharia law for the first thirty years of her life,a virtual slave to Islamic law, Darwish never questioned or challenged her rights--or dared to even think about the validity of Shar...
One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instea...
New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer argues that the United States is being subjugated under Islamic law through initiatives designed to advance the jihadist agenda....
This collection of cases and documents has been designed to highlight the recent trend towards the integration of American legal and social history. Covering major developments in public and private law, it organizes all entries chronologically, accompanied by introductions and explanations....
The new edition of the in-depth manual of Islamic law based on the Shafi'i school of thought, with a detalied index and commentary on specific rulings. 1,200 pages in an exceptional binding with Arabic and facing English text in two column format with occasional diagrams. 'Umdat al-Salik wa 'Uddat al-Nasik (Reliance of the Traveller and tools of the Worshipper) is a classic manual of fiqh. I...
In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America’s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most complete portrait available of the “good shoemaker” and the “poor fish peddler.” Opening with an explosion that rocks a quiet Washington, D.C., neighborhood and concluding with worldwide outrage a...
The Final Volume in a Must-Have Trilogy of the Best Closing Arguments in American Legal HistoryIn The Devil's Advocates, Michael S. Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell turn to the dramatic crimes and trials of criminal law. The eight famous cases in this riveting collection have set historical precedents and illuminated fundamentals of the American criminal justice system. Future president John Adams il...