Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- Clarence Darrow -- Freedom and Humanity -- Edward Carson -- Strong Man of Politics and the Law -- William Howe and Abraham Hummel -- Tricksters and Criminals -- Matthew Hale -- Judge, Jurist, Writer, Reformer -- Marcus Tullius Cicero -- Birth of the Rule of Law -- Henry Brougham -- Glitz of Cannes to the Calm of the Woolsack -- John Adams -- Constitutional Draftsman and President -- Helena Kennedy -- Parliament, Court and College -- Norman Birkett -- One of the 'Great Advocates' -- Jeremy Bentham -- Utility, Punishment and Law -- Geoffrey Robertson -- Rights, Romans and Regicides -- Abraham Lincoln -- Law, Politics and Civil War -- Edward Coke -- Champion of the Common Law -- Thomas Jefferson -- Visionary and Founding Father -- Shami Chakrabati -- Equality, Respect and Human Rights -- James Fitzjames Stephen -- Codes and Colonies -- Edward Marshall Hall -- Forensic Skills and Spell-binding Eloquence -- Gareth Peirce -- Public Works, Private Life -- Alfred Denning -- People's Judge and an Unlikely Celebrity -- Cesare Beccaria -- Crusader Against Torture -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Five books also by John Hostettler -- Back cover.