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No full textKelly was a pro until his niece was murdered right before his eyes. His family says he failed her, but Kelly can\u27t share his one shocking, secret and criminal act of vengeance. Now, fellow detectives digging in another case can end Kelly\u27s career and send him to jailhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2020/1003/thumbnail.jp
Bite the hand that feeds you
No full textThis novel, written from a physician\u27s point of view, explores a dark corner of the American justice system, where toxic tort plaintiffs and defendants collide, battling for billions. After Hurricane Katrina hits in 2005, thousands of displaced persons living in FEMA trailers are subjected to formaldehyde. The injured seek justice while the system laughs in their faceshttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2020/1019/thumbnail.jp
Bronx stagger: tales of the family court
No full textSex, drugs and the Rock \u27n Roll of dysfunction are on the docket of Bronx Family Court, the busiest family court in NYC. Schwartz the lawyer fights for justice for families in that court while struggling with personal demons that place his own family at risk. The boook dramatizes the inner life of the denizens of The Bronx behind the se aled doors of the courtroom.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2020/1016/thumbnail.jp
The eighth sister
No full textFormer CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters. Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital. But when he finds the mastermind agent behind the assassination--the so-called eighth sister--she is not who or what he was led to believe. Then again, neither is anyone else in this deadly game of cat and mouse. -- Amazon.comhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2020/1009/thumbnail.jp
The hallows
No full textRuthless defense attorney Tatum Graham has been living large in Miami, but when his recently acquitted client claims another victim, Tatum has a crisis of conscience. Disillusioned, he heads to his small Utah hometown for a simpler life...but that\u27s not what he finds. Soon after he arrives, Tatum\u27s childhood crush offers him a job at the county attorney\u27s office and assigns him a murder case. The victim is a teenage girl not unlike the victim in the last case he tried. Now a prosecutor, Tatum sees a chance for redemption, but politics, corruption, and a killer defense threaten to thwart justice. To complicate matters, Tatum\u27s estranged father has terminal cancer, and the time to reconcile is running out. Tatum moved to Utah to find clarity, but his thoughts swirl with old feelings and present dangers. As the case heats up, so does the risk, threatening to adjourn Tatum\u27s new life before it begins. --Publisher descriptionhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2020/1014/thumbnail.jp
Failed revolutions: social reform and the limits of legal imagination
No full textForty years after school integration became the law of the land, African-American poverty, isolation, and despair are as deep as ever. Thirty years after the environmental revolution of the 1960s, our environment continues to deteriorate. Why have these and so many other hopeful revolutions failed? Focusing on the crucial discipline of the law.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_books/1024/thumbnail.jp
