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Excerpt: Sis­ters in Law

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Lin­da Hirshman
August 27, 2015
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For­got­ten Tri­als of the Holocaust
Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer
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Sis­ters in Law: How San­dra Day O’Con­nor and Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Lin­da Hirshman
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Head­lines: Halachic Debates of Cur­rent Events
Dovid Lichtenstein
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Abra­ham: The World’s First (But Cer­tain­ly Not Last) Jew­ish Lawyer
Alan Der­showitz
Cover of Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA
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Then Comes Mar­riage: Unit­ed States v. Wind­sor and the Defeat of DOMA
Rober­ta Kaplan
Cover of Elena Kagan: A Biography
Chil­dren’s
Ele­na Kagan: A Biography
Meg Greene
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Inside a Class Action: The Holo­caust and the Swiss Banks
Jane Schapiro
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A Guide to the Com­plex: Con­tem­po­rary Halakhic Debates
Shlomo M. Brody
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Tak­ing the Stand: My Life in the Law
Alan Dershowitz
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Abor­tion, Birth Con­trol, and the Com­plex­i­ty of Halacha (Jew­ish Law)

Ear­li­er this week, Melis­sa R. Klap­per wrote about 5 Amer­i­can Jew­ish women you’ve (prob­a­bly) nev­er heard of. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
Melis­sa R. Klapper
July 17, 2013
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A Win­dow on Their World: The Court Diary of Rab­bi Hayy­im Gun­der­sheim — Frank­furt am Main, 1773 – 1794
Edward Fram
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Hen­ry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Bat­tle Against Hate Speech
Victoria Saker Woeste
Essay

Why it Mat­ters that Mar­shall was Nev­er Nom­i­nat­ed for the Supreme Court

Ear­li­er this week, M. M. Sil­ver wrote about the rich­es in Louis Mar­shal­l’s archive and explored why it took so long for some­one to write a full-length biog­ra­phy of…
M. M. Silver
March 1, 2013
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Sto­ries of the Law: Nar­ra­tive Dis­course and the Con­struc­tion of Author­i­ty in the Mishnah
Moshe Simon-Shoshan
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Hitler’s Pris­ons: Legal Ter­ror in Nazi Germany
Nikolaus Wachsmann
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