Dawson is the unlikeliest MI6 spy you'll ever meet. Good thing he has the lethally competent Lucy Smith for company.From important teapots to vengeful assassins to international conspiracies, is there any escapade that Dawson can't stumble into or any that Lucy can't rescue him from? Find out in the funniest spy thriller series you'll ever read.Dawson's life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the...

I wore that reversible cloak of courage and self-doubt for the entirety of my life. Where I obtained it and how it covered up both my fears and confidence at the same time is the tale told herein. I owe it to myself and maybe even to others in my life for whom the enigma called Stephen Charles Sheppard begs address.Steve Sheppard is no celebrity. He has done nothing heroic or newsworthy or anything else that would usually qualify one as the subject of an autobiography. But maybe th...

American Law in a Global Context: The Basics, now in a thoroughly revised edition, is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. Drawing on some comparative examples with a focus on American law, George P. Fletcher, Hoi L. Kong, and Steve Sheppard introduce underlying principles of common and civil law, constitutional, criminal, and public law, and property and procedure. The appendices include an introduction to the common law meth...

Katie and Steve Sheppard have led married lives full of coincidence, fortuity, chance, and kismet. From their earliest days in college facing the uncertainties of the military draft to coping with a later-life diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, their days have been filled with remarkable events and outcomes that would seem to defy the odds. The two began to recognize the presence of an "angel on their shoulders," an observation first suggested to Steve by his mom when he was a young boy. Th...

Whatever your background, if you seek an understanding of the legal system of the United States, this is the book for you. American Law in a Global Context is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. It covers the law and lawyering tools taught in the first year of law school, explaining the underlying concepts and techniques of the common law used in U.S. legal practice. The ideas central to the development and practice of Americ...

Dawson is the unlikeliest MI6 spy you'll ever meet. Good thing he has the lethally competent Lucy Smith for company.From important teapots to vengeful assassins to international conspiracies, is there any escapade that Dawson can't stumble into or any that Lucy can't rescue him from? Find out in the funniest spy thriller series you'll ever read.When a bomb explodes in front of Dawson on a sunny June morning, he is lucky to escape with his l...

Whatever your background, if you seek an understanding of the legal system of the United States, this is the book for you. American Law in a Global Context is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. It covers the law and lawyering tools taught in the first year of law school, explaining the underlying concepts and techniques of the common law used in U.S. legal practice. The ideas central to the development and practice of Americ...

'Steve Sheppard is a gifted comic writer with a knack for clever plotting and thrills.' Greg Mosse, writer'A fun, page-turning thriller that kept me enthralled and chuckling. There's a wonderful sort of sophisticated goofiness reminiscent of Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man. I couldn't put it down!' Steve Powell, author of Term Limits'Frenetic and huge fun.' Julie Anderson, author of the CWA-listed Cassand...

In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition is designed to be a general introduction to the structure and function of the legal system of the United States, and is ...

What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so. It revives the idea of the good official - the good lawyer, the good judge, the good president, the good legislator - that guided Cicero and Washington and that we seem to have forgotten. Based on stories and law cases from America's founding to the present, this book examines what is good and right in law and why o...

In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States, Fourth Edition is designed to be a general introduction to the structure and function of the legal system of the United States, and is ...

American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America’s current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs close textual reading, historical analysis, and political and economic theory to urge a return...