Law bestsellers

The Declaration of Independence

By: Peter Roop
Narrated by: Pat Grimes
Length: 57 minutes

Many kids have heard of the Declaration of Independence, but few know the story behind the people and events that helped forge it. They may know about Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, but do they know the roles that Patrick Henry and Thomas Gage played in setting fire to a revolution? This is the story of how the men and women of thirteen... Read more

Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

By: Joel F. Harrington
Narrated by: Jame Gillies
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington's The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during forty-five years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and... Read more

The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in... Read more

The Other Dr. Gilmer

Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

By: Benjamin Gilmer
Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

“Fear, bewilderment, disbelief, appall, outrage, despair - I experienced all of these emotions and more as I followed Dr. Gilmer on his quest to understand how his predecessor at the Appalachian health clinic came to be a convicted murderer. What Benjamin Gilmer did not expect was to expose the abysmal, and arguably criminal, failings of the... Read more

Lady Justice

Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick
Narrated by: Dahlia Lithwick
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

“Stirring . . . Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.” —New York Times Book Review

“In Dahlia Lithwick’s urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story... Read more

The Color of Money

Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

By: Mehrsa Baradaran
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks.



The... Read more

Truth and Repair

How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

By: Judith Lewis Herman
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto for reimagining justice, based on the testimony of trauma survivors
 
The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of... Read more

Credible

Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

By: Deborah Tuerkheimer
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence examines why we are primed to disbelieve allegations of sexual abuse—and how we can transform a culture and a legal system structured to dismiss accusers   Sexual misconduct accusations spark competing claims: her word against his. How do we decide... Read more

Redeeming Justice

From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System

By: Jarrett Adams
Narrated by: Jarrett Adams
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

“A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”—SCOTT TUROW
“A daring act of justified defiance.”—SHAKA SENGHOR
“Nothing less than heroic.”—JOHN GRISHAM
 
He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote... Read more

Free Speech

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: Nadine Strossen
Narrated by: Nadine Strossen
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

This concise but comprehensive book lays out specific answers to myriad topical questions about free speech law, and also general explanations of how and why the law distinguishes between protected and punishable speech.



The book focuses on modern First Amendment law, explaining the historic factors that propelled its evolution in a more... Read more

NYS Notary Public

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By: Jasper Locksley
Narrated by: Nick Porter
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

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Dopesick

Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By: Beth Macy
Narrated by: Beth Macy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“A heartfelt narrative filled personal anecdotes and horrifying statistics, Macy gives the reader an encompassing view of the opioid epidemic. Macy is a terrific writer and her reading of the book for audio conveys the sense of devastation for the addicts and their families. Read more

Who Owns England?

How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

By: Guy Shrubsole
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how... Read more

Offshore

Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism

By: Brooke Harrington
Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other... Read more

The Crime Book

Big Ideas Simply Explained

DK Big Ideas

By: DK
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

From Jack the Ripper to the modern-day drug cartels, discover the most notorious crimes and criminals in history.

With a foreword written and narrated by bestselling crime author Peter James, The Crime Book explores over 100 crimes and examines the science, psychology and sociology of criminal behavior. Hear the gory details of each crime and... Read more

The Whiteness of Wealth

How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It

By: Dorothy A. Brown
Narrated by: Karen Murray
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FORTUNE • “Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is built into the bedrock of American society, and what a more equitable future might look like.”—Ibram X.... Read more

Lawless

How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

By: Leah Litman
Length: TBA

Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.

With the gravitas of Joan Biskupic and the irreverence of Elie Mystal, Leah Litman... Read more

Prison by Any Other Name

The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By: Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment... Read more

We Were Once a Family

A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2023

"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar gives an impassioned performance that enhances the touching, terrifying tale of social injustice and systemic failure. Her delivery is compelling and clear, evoking a captivating listening experience from this true-crime tragedy."- Library Journal

The shocking, deeply... Read more

Devil in the Grove

Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By: Gilbert King
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to... Read more

Servants of the Damned

Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

By: David Enrich
Narrated by: Will Collyer
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world’s largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the firm that represented the Trump campaign and much of the Fortune 500, as a powerful... Read more

Deep Delta Justice

A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

By: Matthew Van Meter
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

“Excellent read. Loved the historical context that was given surrounding the case. Gives a stark view at segregationist Louisiana. Read more

Lady Killers

Deadly Women Throughout History

By: Tori Telfer
Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie... Read more

The Monster of Florence

By: Douglas Preston
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move... Read more

The Shadow Docket

How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors  The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow... Read more

Six Women of Salem

The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

By: Marilynne K. Roach
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been... Read more

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

A True Story of Injustice in the American South

By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

“What does a small-town dentist, an unqualified medical examiner and the Mississippi criminal justice system have in common? They’re a part of a good ole boy network obsessed with mass incarceration and the death penalty, rampant racism and corrupt court judges consumed with closing cases at any cost. Not to mention the wrongly convicted men... Read more

Critical Race Theory, Fourth Edition

An Introduction

Critical America: Book #87

By: Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race Theory. Since the publication of the third edition of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction in 2017, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in racially motivated mass shootings and a pandemic that revealed how deeply entrenched medical racism is and how public disasters... Read more

Neighborhood Defenders

Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis

By: David M. Glick, Katherine Levine Einstein & Maxwell Palmer
Narrated by: Linda Jones
Length: TBA

Since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, demand for housing has consistently outpaced supply in many US communities. The failure to construct sufficient housing—especially affordable housing—in desirable communities and neighborhoods comes with significant social, economic, and environmental costs. This book examines how local... Read more

An Inconvenient Cop

My Fight to Change Policing in America

By: Edwin Raymond & Jon Sternfeld
Narrated by: Edwin Raymond
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
A WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2023
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023

“With illuminating, vivid, and meticulous prose, Edwin Raymond delivers an extraordinary exposé on policing in America . . . An essential, exceptional work.”
—Toluse Olorunnipa, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of His Name... Read more

The Killer Across the Table

Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Jonathan Groff
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Performed by Jonathan Groff, star of the hit Netflix show Mindhunter, and featuring an exclusive conversation between John E. Douglas and Jonathan Groff at the end of the audiobookIn The Killer Across the Table, John E. Douglas, the legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration... Read more

The Rights of Nature

A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World

By: David R. Boyd
Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building—in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to... Read more

Bringing Ben Home

A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Narrated by: Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.

In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young—a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it... Read more

Burning Down the House

The End of Juvenile Prison

By: Nell Bernstein
Narrated by: Joana Garcia
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are twenty-three, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about what motivates young people to change. Nell Bernstein eloquently argues that there is no right way to lock up a child. The very act of isolation denies children... Read more

Socialism: Utopian, Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels
Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano and The Icon Players
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific is a short book first published in 1880 by German-born socialist Friedrich Engels. The work was primarily extracted from a longer polemic work published in 1876, Anti-Dühring. It first appeared in the French language.
Produced by Devin Lawrence
Edited by Macc Kay
Production executive Avalon Giuliano
ICON Intern... Read more

Worse Than Nothing

The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

By: Erwin Chemerinsky
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation



Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation.... Read more

The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment

Its Letter & Spirit

By: Randy E. Barnett & Evan D. Bernick
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the... Read more

The Courage of Compassion

A Journey from Judgment to Connection

By: Robin Steinberg
Narrated by: Robin Steinberg
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

"Powerfully insightful reading." —Kirkus Reviews

How would you like to be judged for the rest of your life by the worst thing you’ve ever done?

We all think we are compassionate just like we all think we are honest.  But true compassion is not innate. Compassion for others, especially those that we don’t know or understand, must be learned. Our... Read more

Mass Supervision

Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom

By: Vincent Schiraldi
Narrated by: Barry Abrams
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

We've heard a lot in recent years about the nearly 2.1 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. But what about the approximately four million more who are on probation and parole—monitored by the state at great expense and at risk of being sent to prison at the whim of a probation or parole officer for the least imaginable... Read more

Incarceration Nations

A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World

By: Baz Dreisinger
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Baz Dreisinger, a professor, journalist, and the founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline, looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of... Read more

Becoming Abolitionists

Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Derecka Purnell
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day.Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot... Read more

A Harvest of Innocence The Untold Story of the West Memphis Three Murder Case

The Untold Story of the West Memphis Three Murder Case

By: Dan Stidham & Tom McCarthy
Narrated by: Michael Feeney
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

In a case based on a lie, only one man knows the truth. Attorney Dan Stidham breaks his self-imposed 30-year silence to expose details only he knows about the infamous West Memphis Three murders. Exposing what happened will allow him to close the door on a case that tormented him for years and to help exonerate the three innocent young men who... Read more

Murder the Truth

Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

By: David Enrich
Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
Length: TBA

David Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers, produces his most consequential and far-reaching investigation yet: an in-depth exposé of the broad campaign—orchestrated by elite Americans—to overturn sixty years of Supreme Court precedent, weaponize our speech laws, and silence... Read more

Parallel Parenting - The Only Way to Co-parent with a Narcissist

Managing a Counter Parent, Setting Boundaries, and Protecting Your Child From Parental Alienation

By: Wendy Carter
Narrated by: Em Frappier
Length: 5 hours

Are you tired of being the villain in your own life story?Worried about how this constant conflict might be affecting your kids?Do you feel like a pawn in a chess game with no end in sight?Fed up with the endless power struggles with your ex?Believe me, I get it.It's a tough gig being a co-parent, especially when every interaction feels like... Read more

Free Speech

The First Amendment in Crisis

By: Andrew Porwancher
Narrated by: Andrew Porwancher
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

One Day University presents a series of audio lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice.The First Amendment to the Constitution is considered... Read more

A History of America in Ten Strikes

By: Erik Loomis
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018Named one of the “5 Books About Famous Strikes That Demonstrated the Historical Importance of Civil Disobedience” by Bustle“Loomis refuses to romanticize this period or the labor movement it produced. . . . What Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement, despite its many... Read more

No More Police

A Case for Abolition

By: Mariame Kaba & Andrea J. Ritchie
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers



In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn't stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore... Read more

Administrations of Lunacy

Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... Read more

The Originalism Trap

How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

By: Madiba K. Dennie
Narrated by: Madiba K. Dennie
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it

“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for... Read more