The world of law : a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters, opinions, pleas, transcripts of testimony; from Biblical times to the present.
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New York :
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Table of Contents:
- [v.] I. The law in literature
- Cases and trials in fiction
- Susanna and the Elders / the Apocrypha
- The Cases Judged by Sancho Panza (Don Quixote) / Cervantes
- The Trial of Bardell v. Pickwick (The Pickwick Papers) / Charles Dickens
- In Chancery (Bleak House) / Charles Dickens
- The Winslow Boy / Terence Rattigan
- The Trial of the Knave of Hearts (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) / Lewis Carroll
- Hippolyte's Claim / Guy De Maupassant
- The Assassin / Guy de Maupassant
- The Benefits of Doubt / Jack London
- In the Court / Anton Chekhov
- Worse the Worse / Anton Chekhov
- Manna / John Galsworthy
- Sicilian Honor / Luigi Pirandello
- Dreyfus in Kasrilevka / Sholom Aleichem
- Trial by Jury / W.S. Gilbert
- Counsel for Oedipus / Frank O'Connor
- Han's Crime / Shiga Naoya
- Crainquebille / Anatole France
- The Witness for the Prosecution / Agatha Christie
- The Dog Andrew / Arthur C. Train
- Mr. Havlena's Verdict / Karel Čapek
- Science vs. Luck / Mark Twain
- The Dock Brief / John Mortimer
- The Court-martial (The Caine Mutiny) / Herman Wouk
- Lawyers, judges, jurors and a witness
- The Barrister / A.A. Milne
- Tomorrow / William Faulkner
- How the Pretty Maid of Portillon Convinced Her Judge / Honoré de Balzac
- The Judge Ill-judged (A Commission in Lunacy) / Honoré de Balzac
- Act of God in Nevada / Mark Twain
- Alan Fairford's First Cause (Redgauntlet) / Sir Walter Scott
- Monsieur Thomas / Anatole France
- The Farce of the Worthy Master, Pierre Patelin, the Lawyer / Anonymous (fifteenth century)
- Welcome to Aunt Kitty's / James Reid Parker
- The Archimandrite's Niece / James Reid Parker
- Strong Impressions / Anton Chekhov
- The Blushing Beginner and the Bearded Juryman / Théobald Mathew
- The Witty Judge and the Bronchial Usher / Théobald Mathew
- The Happy Couple / W. Somerset Maugham
- The Hypotheses of Failure / O. Henry
- The Legends of Henry Everett / Louis Auchincloss
- Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff / Bret Harte
- Crime Without Passion / Ben Hecht
- On Judge Bridlegoose and Lord John the Loony (Gargantua and Pantagruel) / Rabelais
- Mr. Justice Harbottle / Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
- "Take the Witness!" / Robert Benchley.
- [v.] II. The law as literature
- Accounts of notable and notorious cases
- "Daddy" and "Peaches" / Damon Runyon
- The Case of Peytel / William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Scopes Trial / H.L. Mencken
- The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis / Felix Frankfurter
- An Eloquence of Grief / Stephen Crane
- Contemporary Notes on Whistler v. Ruskin / Henry James
- On the Trial of Whistler v. Ruskin / James Mc Neill Whistler
- The Trial of John Peter Zenger / John Peter Zenger
- The Trial of Queen Caroline (The Defense) / Lloyd Paul Stryker
- "J'accuse! ... ": An open Letter on the Dreyfus Case / Emile Zola
- The Bertrand Russell Case: A Scandalous Denial of Justice / Morris Raphael Cohen
- The Trial of Dr. Adams, the First Day / Sybille Bedford
- The Trial of Lizzie Borden (Verdict in Dispute) / Edgar Lustgarten
- On the Nuremberg Trial / Rebecca West
- Testimony and argument as literature
- Testimony Given at Her Trial for Heresy and Witchcraft / Joan of Arc
- Summation in the Sweet Case / Clarence Darrow
- Testimony Given Against the Marquis of Queensberry / Oscar Wilde
- Apology, an Account of Socrates' Defense Against the Charge of Impiety and Corrupting the Young / Plato
- Summation in the Trial of John Francis Knapp for the Murder of Joseph White / Daniel Webster
- Address to the Jury at His Trial for Libel / Emile Zola
- Cross-examination of Pigott Before the Parnell Commission (Weilman's The Art of Cross-examination) / Sir Charles Russell
- A Plea for the Severest Penalty, Upon His Conviction for Sedition / Gandhi
- Closing Address in the Nuremberg Trial / Robert H. Jackson
- Judgments, observations and reflections on the law
- On the Entirely Reasonable Murder of a Police Constable / George Bernard Shaw
- Reflections on the Guillotine / Albert Camus
- On the Law Prohibiting Business on the Lord's Day; On the Reasonable Man; and The Gramophone Libel Case (Misleading Cases in the Common Law) / A.P. Herbert
- Of Judicature / Francis Bacon
- Preface to the Maxims of the Law / Francis Bacon
- The Consumers of Injustice / Edmond Cahn
- Dissenting Opinion in United States v. Schwimmer / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Concurring Opinion in Whitney v. California / Justice Louis D. Brandeis
- Fast-fish and Loose-fish (Moby Dick) / Herman Melville
- A Letter Defending the Freedom to Read / Henry Miller
- The Path of the Law / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- The Case of the Speluncean Explorers / Lon L. Fuller
- On the Science of the Law (Gulliver's Travels) / Jonathan Swift
- The Nature of the Judicial Process, Part I / Justice Benjamin Cardozo
- The Crisis in the Reasoned Opinion (Procedure and Democracy) / Piero Calamandrei
- Opinion and Dissenting Opinion in Repouille v. United States / Judge Learned Hand and Judge Jerome Frank
- Opinion on Schmidt v. United States / Judge Learned Hand
- Opinion and Dissenting Opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago / Justice William 0. Douglas and Justice Robert H. Jack son
- Advice to a Young Man Interested in Going Into Law / Felix Frankfurter
- Letter to Harold Laski / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Opinion in Buck v. Bell / Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- On Lawsuits as Inquiries Into the Truth (Courts on Trial) / Jerome Frank
- From of experience / Montaigne
- From the Life of Johnson / James Boswell
- Law Like Love / W.H. Auden.