The law as literature
Subtitle: an anthology of great writing in and about the law
By: Selected and introduced by Louis Blom-Cooper; foreword by Lord Birkett
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 1961
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Forensic orations; Trials
Table of contents: title: Prosecution and defense. Sir Charles Russell's cross-examination of Piagott before the Parnell Commission / Francis Wellman; title: Notes for the prosecution of Dr. Crippen / Sir Richard Muir; title: Closing address in the Nuremburg Trial / Robert H. Jackson; title: An account of his ' mock trial' for blasphemy / Richard Carlile; title: Socrates' address to the jurors after being found guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth / Plato; title: A plea for the severest penalty upon his conviction for sedition / Gandhi; title: A statement in answer to the change of seditious libel, made in the regional court, Cape town, November, 1960 / The courtroom scene. My day in court / Harold Laski; title: The Scopes trial / H.L. Mencken; title: Lady Chatterley's trial / Kenneth Tynan; title: The Powers trial / James Morris; title: On Law. / From the life of Johnson / James Boswell; title: The right to privacy / Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis; title: Law and literature / Benjamin N. Cardozo; title: Path of the law / Oliver Wendell Holmes; title: Immorality and treason / Professor H.L.A Hart; title: On lawyers. Lord Monboddo and Lord Braxfield / W. Forbes Gray; title: Judge and Jurist 1837- 1901 / C.H.S Fifoot; title: Lord Justice Scurtton / W. Frank McKinnon; title: From the bench. Address to a convicted bigamist / Mr. Justice Maule; title: Three weeks / Mr. Justice Younger; title: On christianity and the law / Lord Sumner; title: On spiritual copyright / Mr. Justice Eve; title: On press responisibility ; On detention without trial / Lord Atkin; title: Two judgments / Lord Justice Harman; title: On obscenity / Mr. Justice Stable; title: On the will of Bernard Shaw / Lord Justice Harman; title: Crime and Punishment . Crimes and punishments in roman law / Edward Gibbon; title: A letter to the daily news 28th february, 1846, / Charles Dickens; title: The dilemma of punishment / Judge David L. Bazelon; title: Reflections on the guillotine / Albert Camus.