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Black, Henry Campbell. Black's Law Dictionary. 7th ed. West, 2001. Abridged version of a standard reference of terminology, phrases, and quotations from ancient to modern times.
Brownlie, Ian, ed. Basic Documents in International Law. Oxford University Press, 1995. International law documents dealing with diplomacy, human rights, the sea, and outer space.
Cass, Ronald A. Rule of Law in America. John Hopkins University Press, 2001. A lucid and balanced account of the rule of law and its place in American society.
Feinman, Jay M. Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System. Oxford University Press, 2000. A background for the layperson.
Friedman, Lawrence Meir. Law in America: A Short History. Random House, 2002. A concise social history of the U.S. legal system.
Irving, Shae; Kathleen A. Michon; and Beth McKenna, eds. Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions. 4th ed. Nolo, 2002. Provides a wide range of questions and answers to the many legal issues that confront us daily.
Kritzer, Herbert M., ed. Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia. 4 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2002. Covers every country of the world as well as organizations and institutions.
Mersky, Roy M., and Donald J. Dunn. Legal Research Illustrated. 8th ed. Foundation Press, 2002. Guide to research methodology.
Pound, Roscoe. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law. Yale University Press, 1988. A classic by an American legal scholar.
Schulze, Enike. Introduction to the American Legal System. 6th ed. Pearson, 2000. A textbook survey.
Yogis, John A. Canadian Law Dictionary. Barron's, 1998. Defines legal terms and phrases.
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Baum, Lawrence. The Supreme Court. Congressional Quarterly, 2003. History, operation, function, plus effects of decisions; bibliography, glossary.
Cooper, Philip J. Battles on the Bench: Conflict Inside the Supreme Court. University Press of Kansas, 1995. Notwithstanding the title, this fine historical study underscores the level of civility with which justices operate as compared to other branches of government.
Hall, Kermit L., ed. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. Oxford University Press, 2001. Discussion of 440 Supreme Court decisions by judicial experts.
Irons, Peter H. A People's History of the Supreme Court. Viking, 1999. Surveys representative cases from the past 200 years to show the Court's effect on everyday lives; for general readers.
Jost, Kenneth, ed. The Supreme Court A to Z. Congressional Quarterly, 2003. Background on landmark cases, biographies of judges, and definitions of legal terms.
McGuire, Kevin T. Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court. McGraw-Hill, 2001. Textbook introduction to the court process.
Tushnet, Mark. A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law. Norton, 2005. A professor of constitutional law analyzes the cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Rehnquist.
Urofsky, Melvin I., ed. The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary. Garland Press, 1994. A fine compilation of essays profiling 107 justices, their contributions to law, and their legal philosophies.
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