Product Description: The Trial is actually closer to reality than fantasy as far as the client’s perception of the system. It’s supposed to be a fantastic allegory, but it’s reality. It’s very important that lawyers read it and understand this.” Justice Anthony Kennedy famously offered this assessment of the Kafkaesque character of the American criminal justice system in 1993...read more

Product Description: “Retirement investing is a subject about which far too little is known—and far too much of what people think they know is dead wrong.” While most books on retirement finance use predatory tactics to push confusing investment regimens that put your irreplaceable nest egg at risk, The Perfect-Retirement Formula strips away confusion, guiding you toward a future that lives up to your long-ago daydreams of what retirement should look like...read more

Product Description: In The Death of the American Trial, distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture’s greatest achievements. As a practice that is adapted for modern times yet rooted in ancient wisdom, the trial is uniquely suited to balance the tensions—between idealism and realism, experts and citizens, contextual judgment and reliance on rules—that define American culture...read more

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