law

Defines many of the Latin words, phrases, and abbreviations used in the medical, religious, and legal fields.

Provides access to a wide diversity of opinions about, judicial activism, also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Selections by experts, policy makers, and concerned citizens include complete articles and speeches, long book excerpts, and occasional cartoons and boxed quotations.

Examines over three hundred-fifty of the most important U.S. Supreme Court cases involving abortion, civil rights, the first amendment, and others including Roe v. Wade, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford.

Presents an examination of the Magna Carta, an agreement negotiated in 1215 between King John of England and his barons after the barons revolted in protest against increasing demands from the crown for money and services, and includes biographies of significant people, and selections from primary documents.

Examines various legal issues, including free speech, privacy, child labor, and discrimination, as they apply to minors.

Presents a look at different kinds of lawyers, discusses the personal and educational requirements needed to enter the profession, examines the work of lawyers in the office and in court, and features an interview with a working attorney. Includes notes and a glossary.

Explains what laws are, how local, state, and federal laws are made, and what citizens can do to participate in the lawmaking process.

Middle school student Ryan Coolidge finds himself in trouble with the law and turns to a mysterious and magical old lawyer named Hezekiah, who uses leapholes to travel through time and law history in search of an answer to Ryan's legal troubles.