As a result of his legal work in the front lines of the civil rights struggle, Morris Dees has had to deal with harrowing experiences such as death threats from the Klan, his law offices set ablaze, and gun-toting racists stalking him in the night.  This is the story of how, from a boy picking cotton in rural Alabama, he grew into the man Coretta Scott King calls "by any measure one of the most dedicated and effective civil rights lawyers in U.S. history."

A Lawyer's Journey is the first in a new series of books published by the A.B.A. about lawyers who are visionaries, who inspire, or who are role models -- in short, who have worked to make a positive contribution to society and the legal system. 

Environmental economics has traditionally been conducted in a closed economy mode.  Most textbooks on the subject still reflect this restriction:  international aspects of environmental problems are often not covered at all or dealt with as an afterthought.  In a world in which many environmental pollutants spill over national borders, and national economies have become increasingly integrated, this state of affairs is clearly unsatisfactory:  rational environmental policies undertaken in a globalizing world need to take the international economic and environmental relationships into consideration.  This collection of non-technical, issue-oriented, and comprehensive surveys is written by leading specialists in international and environmental economics. 

John Marshall (1755-1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history.  As the fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,  he helped move the Court from the fringes of power to the epicenter of constitutional government.  Drawing on a new and definitive edition of Marshall's papers, R. Kent Newmyer combines engaging narrative with new historio-graphical insights in a fresh interpretation of John Marshall's life in the law. 

More than the summation of Marshall's legal and institutional accomplishments, Newmyer's impressive study captures the nuanced texture of the justice's reasoning, the complexity of his mature jurisprudence, and the affinities and tensions between his system of law and the transformative age in which he lived.  It substantiates Oliver Wendell Holmes's view of Marshall as the most representative figure in American law and Joseph Story's declaration that "he would have been a great man of any age, and of all ages."

A new and largely hidden profession has emerged during the past three decades.  Drawing on the techniques of modern social science, psychology, and market research, its practitioners seek to remake the way we pursue justice in the United States.  Jury consultants help lawyers to pick - some would say "stack" - juries predisposed to render the "right" verdict.  And consultants apply sophisticated research methods to figure out the best strategies for swaying the panel.  What are we to make of this new and steadily growing industry?  Do the techniques work?  Is this, as some critics have argued, a new form of high-tech jury rigging, not much more acceptable than cruder forms of jury tampering?  Or do the methods of jury consultants amount to little more than an extension of what attorneys have always done?  This book will reveal the "tricks of the trade" and explore the many ways in which trial consultants have infiltrated the courtroom.  The authors' purpose is not to launch an all-out attack on this growing industry, but rather to pull back the curtains, allowing a fair and balanced assessment of a new phenomenon in American justice. 

Of all the Supreme Court's criminal cases, its decision in Miranda v. Arizona has been the most controversial.  When the case was decided in 1966, conservatives expressed the fear that law enforcement would be irreparably harmed because Miranda would significantly diminish the possibility of convicting a suspect on the basis of his confession.  Over the past three decades, scholars, as well as those associated with law enforcement, have attacked Miranda on both constitutional and policy grounds.  When the Supreme Court reaffirmed Miranda in United States v. Dickerson on June 26, 2000, conservatives complained about that decision's adverse impact on law enforcement.  Liberals, on the other hand, hailed the decision as a reaffirmation of individual rights.  Welsh S. White looks at both sides of the issue. 

Drawing on legal, historical, and qualitative research, Corynne McSherry explores the propertization of academic work and shows how that process is shaking the foundations of the university, the professoriate, and intellectual property law.  The modern university's reason for being is inextricably tied to that of the intellectual property system.  The rush of universities and scholars to defend their knowledge as property dangerously undercuts a working covenant that has sustained academic life --and intellectual property law--for a century and a half.  As the value structure of the research university is replaced by the free market, academics risk losing a language for talking about knowledge as anything other than property.  McSherry has written a book that ought to deeply trouble everyone who cares about the academy.

This book provides a framework for thinking about the law and cyberspace, examining the extent to which the Internet is currently under control and the extent to which it can or should be controlled.  It focuses in part on the proliferation of MP3 file sharing. 

Regulation strategies identified and discussed include legislation, policy changes, administrative agency activity, international cooperation, architectural changes, private ordering, and self-regulation.  The book also applies major regulator models to some of the most volatile Internet issues, including cyber-security, consumer fraud, free speech rights, intellectual property rights, and file-sharing programs.