Law

Law is the set of enforced rules under which a society is governed. Law is one of the most basic social institutions-and one of the most necessary. No society could exist if all people did just as they pleased without regard for the rights of others. Nor could a society exist if its members did not recognize that they also have certain obligations toward one another. The law thus establishes the rules that define a person's rights and obligations. The law also sets penalties for people who violate these rules, and it states how government shall enforce the rules and penalties. However, the law ...more

New Releases Tagged "Law"

Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
The Exchange (The Firm, #2)
The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)
The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)
The Devil's Advocate (Eddie Flynn, #6)
The Boys from Biloxi
A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
Presumed Guilty (Kindle County #13; Presumed Innocent #3)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Keera Duggan, #2)
Her Deadly Game (Keera Duggan, #1)
Sparring Partners (Jake Brigance, #4)
The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
V13
Lovely One: A Memoir
The Trial (Adam Green #1)
Just Mercy
The Rule of Law
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law Series)
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
Letters to a Law Student: A Guide to Studying Law at University
A Civil Action
Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
The Law
The Federalist Papers

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Hunter S. Thompson
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
Hunter S. Thompson

Charlotte Brontë
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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