Legal Legends
Works in the public domain, often assigned and read as canons of legal history and foundational concepts, but not previously well-reproduced in existing ebooks. Each ebook includes a contemporary Foreword by a legal scholar placing each work in its historic importance and providing interesting biographical summaries and influences. Quid Pro seeks to be the definitive provider of standard legal books published in the U.S. before 1924, with modern context and clarifications.
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Cardozo’s Classic Nature of the Judicial Process Adds Modern Foreword by Harvard’s Andrew Kaufman
Judges don’t discover the law, they create it. Justice Cardozo's premier biographer, Andrew L. Kaufman, brings the classic study of judicial decision-making to a new generation. New, affordable cloth hardback and paperback. Digital formats include Nook and Kindle. Has become the standard edition of this important book.
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Woodrow Wilson’s Congressional Government Gets Digitally Remastered, and New Paperback Edition
The only correct and properly formatted ebook version of Wilson's classic and frank study of how the U.S. government works from inside Congress and what role that creates for Presidents and others in the system. Takes seriously the legislative branch at a time when most political scientists saw the President as some sort of politically dominant force (before Wilson himself attempted that role). Now in paperback too.
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Holmes’ The Path of the Law and The Common Law: Combined Edition for eReaders, iPads, Android, and Apps
Two of the greatest works of law and political philosophy, both by legendary legal icon Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., are conveniently combined into one new, affordable digital edition. The Common Law in 1881 pronounced that experience and policy, not precedent and logic, are superior tools for judges--and "The Path of the Law" expanded on his pragmatic view that law is what judges do and what people obey, not some inherent morality.
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The Right to Privacy: Warren and Brandeis
Warren and Brandeis's "The Right to Privacy," with 2010 Foreword. Includes photos and rare news clippings. Part of the Legal Legends Series.
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Basic, Modern Editions of Holmes’ The Common Law
Quid Pro Books publishes, in ebook and paperback formats, editions of Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., The Common Law. All editions and formats embed the original pagination for citation and classroom assignments. All have the hyperaccurate proofreading usually lacking in other republications, especially the ebooks. Our editions come in three forms. 1. The book without explanation or introduction, in its most basic and affordable form. 2. The book introduced with explanation and brief biography by Steven Alan Childress, law professor at Tulane. 3. The Annotated Common Law, a new edition with some 200 notes embedded to explain, translate, and decode the book as needed; now the book can be assigned to…
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Woodrow Wilson on Constitutional Government in the United States: His Study of Politics Just a Few Years Before He Became President
Woodrow Wilson's 1908 classic is a well-written argument for looking at the Constitution as enabling reforms and progressive changes to how people govern themselves rather than as a civic straightjacket. It is timely today as judges and politicians debate the Framers' original intent versus the promise and problems of a Living Constitution. It was timely then as it foreshadowed his own strong presidency and progressive reforms.
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Holmes’ The Path of the Law, Available as an eBook, hardback, and paperback
New to the Legal Legends Series is Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "The Path of the Law," from his famous and influential Harvard Law Review article. Includes 2011 Foreword and bio summary. Available digitally from Barnes & Noble for Nook and Amazon for Kindle. Also in paperback and on Apple iTunes.