Böcker av Steven Lubet

The result is that rare book that is both an extraordinary achievement of scholarly research and a gripping, accessible, and engaging narrative, making it an invaluable resource for discussion of the issues of citizenship, statehood, and the limits of legality this story engages.Distributed for George Mason University Press

A novel and engaging analysis of the role of storytelling in trial advocacy

An exploration of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

Tells the stories of three of the most dramatic fugitive slave trials of the 1850s, presenting the determination of the fugitives, the radical tactics of their rescuers, the brutal doggedness of the slavehunters, and the tortuous response of the federal courts.