Legal

McClelland & Stewart, 1995 Fine/Fine HCDJ. Crisp, clean, tight, no markings. 6.25" x 9.25", 260 pages, illustrations and b&w photos. - The author reveals the forensic science (ink, footprints, food, numbers, blood, hair, semen, and DNA) behind five Canadian crimes and court cases. The route he takes to investigate each piece of forensic science is by way of a particular Canadian trial, and his guides on the route are the detectives, the prosecutors and defence attorneys, and the scientists who actually worked on the cases. He considers the following: Ink analysis, which is used to examine two suspect lines in a police detective’s notebook; footprint casting and identification, which eventually convicts two armed robbers, even though the footprint was left in snow; stomach-content analysis, the controversial method by which time of death was estimated in the Steven Truscott case; forensic accounting, which finally traced and recovered money defrauded from the government of Trinidad, years after it was considered lost; and the analysis of blood, hair, semen, and DNA, which led to Johnny Terceira’s conviction for the murder of Andrea Atkinson. In an epilogue, he looks at recent advances in DNA analysis, as Guy Paul Morin is declared innocent of the murder of Christine Jessop. In his immensely readable prose, he takes us along as the police and the scientists gather and analyse their evidence, as attorneys organize their cases, and as the various groups meet in court to seek out the truth. . Hard Cover. more information

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Toronto: Harcourt Canada, 1992 VERY GOOD First Edition. Light shelf wear, some highlighting and underlining. 6" by 9", 223 pages. - - - Introduces students to theoretical perspectives on social order, social conflict, and power relations expressed in law. Examines substantive Canadian and international issues including abortion, midwifery, and the Donald Marshall case. Author is attached to Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.. Trade Paperback. more information

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NY: Oxford University Press, 2003 VERY GOOD 4th printing softcover (2003). Minor edge wear to nice covers, square and solid binding with no spine creases. Some pencil markings and light highlighting inside. An ideal text for college and university students, this book covers all major topics in International Law in sufficient depth for contemporary courses. The author explores the dynamics of International Law from a legal viewpoint, and also with an eye to the historical and sociological dimensions of legal institutions.. Soft Cover. more information

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Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1955 Very Good/Good First Edition, signed on the title page by Elsie Gregory MacGill, the daughter of Helen Gregory MacGill of Vancouver. Nicely bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine. Top corners gently bumped, interiors crisp & clean & unmarked, front endpaper clipped. All pages FINE. 5.5" x 8.5", 248 pages, illustrated with frontispiece portrait and additional b&w plates, index. DJ has chipping and short tears, one 1" x 1" triangular piece missing from the back. - Judge MacGill successfully advocated for legal reforms that resulted in "better laws for women and children." This biography "credits women with being the instigators of modern social legislation, and details this development in British Columbia. It treats the movement for woman suffrage as part of the general social revolution, and the logical sequence to the struggle for manhood suffrage." . Hard Cover. more information

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University of Toronto Press, 1968 VERY GOOD+ second edition. Nearly new condition red cloth boards. Solid, crisp & clean interiors. 6.75" x 10", 568 pages, one photograph. . Hard Cover. more information

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NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965 VG/VG First Edition, Stated First Printing. An excellent ex-lib copy, normal library markings, virtually no wear. Clean, crisp, tight. Clipped DJ has been protected in mylar since it was new, very nice. 5.5" by 8.25", 280 pages. - - - Classic and brilliant out-of-print biography of lawyer Clarence Darrow - defender of labor and protector of civil rights. Includes the Haymarket Affair, the Pullman strike, the Loeb-Leopold case, the Scopes monkey trial. "His concerns were the right to speak, the right to strike, the right of every citizen to be treated as a man, and in defending them he taught the American people the responsibilities of democracy.". Hardcover with Dust-Jacket. more information

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991 VERY GOOD First Edition Trade Paperback, SIGNED by co-author Carl Karp and dated Dec, 1991. This book was published the year before Milgaard was released from prison, after spending 23 years incarcerated for a murder he did not commit. Clean and tight, previously read but well looked after. 5.75" x 9", 262 pages, two sections of b&w plates. . Soft Cover. more information

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Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1970 FINE/VERY GOOD First Edition, 1st Printing. Nearly perfect boards, square and tight, crisp and clean. A few 'checkmarks' in the text, otherwise completely unmarked. Unclipped DJ has two tears about 1/4" long. 5.75" by 8.75", 249 pages, foreword by Arthur J. Goldberg, introduction by Roscoe Pound. - - - "World leaders, primarily through the United Nations, have been almost universal in their condemnation of arbitrary violation of basic human rights by sovereign states, but very little has been done to end abuses of this nature in practice. In an eloquent plea for the establishment of a world court of habeas corpus to protect all people from arbitrary arrest and detention, Luis Kutner presents twenty essays by renowned lawyers and authorities from all over the world." Among the contributors are: William J. Brennan, William O. Douglas, Cherif Bassiouni, Prince Sihanouk, Quincy Wright, Gustavo Salgado, Roscoe Pound, and Luis Kutner.. Hardcover with Dust-Jacket. more information

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NY: New Home Library, 1942 VERY GOOD+ reprint HC, no DJ. A really nice copy with nearly perfect crimson cloth boards, decorated in gray and black. Red fore-edges. Crisp, clean, tight, no markings. A couple of minor spots on prelim pages only. 5.75" x 8.25", 412 pages. Warden Lawes' fascinating expose on his experiences at the infamous Sing Sing Prison, and his thoughts on capital punishment. This book was the basis for the 1940 film 'Castle on the Hudson', starring John Garfield. From the prologue: "I have been directed to kill lawfully 150 men and 1 woman. It is my legal duty to be present physically in the death chamber. But actually I have never seen an execution.". Hard Cover. more information

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Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1992 VERY GOOD+ trade paperback, 2nd edition. 7.25" by 9.25", 492 pages, a few pages with 'highlighting', otherwise unmarked. Very nice wraps. - - - This second edition includes updates to all chapters, a new chapter on 'Women & Crime', and excellent work on political, white-collar, and corporate crime in Canada. . more information

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Southern Illinois University Press, 1968 VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD First Edition, 1st Printing. A superb ex-lib copy, clean, bright, solid with expected library markings. 9.5" by 12.25" folio, 576 pages, foreword by Robert B. Downs. This tome documents censorship and freedom of expression in the mass media from the 16th century to the 20th century. A bibliography of some 8,000 books, pamphlets, journals, articles, films, court decisions and other material relating to the press in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, India and other present and former Commonwealth countires.. Hard Cover. more information

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Boston: Little Brown, 1969 AS-NEW/NEAR-FINE First Edition (stated), 1st Printing. A very collectible copy of this classic work. In brand new condition but for previous owner's markings on one prelim page. Exceptional clipped DJ has a one 1/16" nick only. 5.5" by 8.5", 309 pages, b&w photos throughout. - True story of a heroin case investigated by NYPD detectves Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, was later made into a film of the same title, for which actor Gene Hackman won an Acdemy Award nomination. . Hard Cover. more information

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Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991 FINE/FINE First Edition, 1st Printing. No wear to boards, binding or pages. Unmarked and in brand new condition. Superb DJ is unclipped. 6.25" x 9.5", 294 pages. The author writes a stunning first-hand account of how undercover fish and wildlife agents operate in the U.S. and Canada - the elaborate covers they devise - the meticulous preparation required - the months and years spent setting their traps - and the dangers they face as they impersonate illegal big game trophy hunters and professional smugglers, The book focuses on Dave Hall, a special agent for the US Fish and Wildlife Service of New Orleans. . Hard Cover. more information

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Random House of Canada, 1994 AS-NEW/FINE First Edition, 1st Printing. A beautiful unmarked copy: appears unhandled and unread. Very nice unclipped DJ. 6.25" x 9.25", 224 pages, foreword by Dr. Marcellina Mian, Director of the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Problem at the Hospital for Sick Children. This is a book for parents, alerting them to the dangers posed by child abusers; for professionals, offering insight into how the most experienced police detectives, doctors, teachers, Crown attorneys, social workers and lawyers across the country deal with the issues and problems surrounding child sexual abuse; and for the victims themselves, whose voices come through loudly and clearly, sharing their experiences and hard-earned wisdom on how they managed to survive. . Hard Cover. more information

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Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 1986 NEAR-FINE Third Edition, 8th Printing. Clean, solid, no markings.. Hard Cover. more information

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