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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
    Cover of Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
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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
    Cover of Headlines: Halachic Debates of Current Events
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    Head­lines: Halachic Debates of Cur­rent Events
    Dovid Lichtenstein
    Cover of Abraham: The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer
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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
    Cover of Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks
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    Inside a Class Action: The Holo­caust and the Swiss Banks
    Jane Schapiro
    Cover of A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates
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    A Guide to the Com­plex: Con­tem­po­rary Halakhic Debates
    Shlomo M. Brody
    Cover of Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law
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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
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    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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