Penguin Books Australia

Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, here is the definitive biography of America's legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.

Clarence Darrow is the lawyer every law school student dreams of being: on the side of right, loved by many women, played by Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind . His days-long closing arguments delivered without notes won miraculous reprieves...

What is justice? How does our legal system work? And how can we trust a system that is so changeable and widely criticised? These are some of the fundamental questions that former Supreme Court judge Ken Crispin sets out to answer in this enlightening and thought-provoking book.

The Penguin Dictionary of Law is the ideal reference guide for lawyers, students and anyone interested in the workings of the legal system.   It gives clear, jargon-free definition of legal terms form abuse of process to youth court as well as providing biographical information on important legal thinkers, from John Locke and Thomas Hobbes to Max Weber and Ronald Dworkin.

Across the Arab world millions of women and men have taken to the streets, showing that dictators can be overthrown without weapons. But what happens now?

Undergraduate business major students, MBA graduate students, and first-year law students have one thing in common: they need to take courses in business law.   Cumbersome, expensive textbooks, filled with hundreds of pages of case law with little or no explanation of the principles behind even the most basic tenants of this important aspect of the law make these expensive courses difficult...

Equity and Property: Fact Fantasy and Morals
Sarah Worthington

This is the fouth volume in an annual series inaugurated by the University of Queensland's TC Beirne School of Law.  Inspired by the famous Hamlyn Lecture Series in England, each year the McPherson Lecture series hosts a celebrated international scholar of legal expert to deliver three lectures.

Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.