Atrocious Judges: Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression

Published originally in 1856, it might seem at first glance that this book is out of date, but the goal of this book was never to serve as a guide to legal practice or a source of judicial precedent (although it doesn't do such a bad job of that latter function), but rather to provide examples of what can only be described as an inherent problem with the entire concept of a judicial system: bad judges. The sixteen examples are all English judges, but throughout the book the author sprinkles...