Law audiobooks

Dopesick

By: Beth Macy

Narrated by: Beth Macy

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.

Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the... Read more

The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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 Originalism Trap

By: Madiba K. Dennie

Narrated by: Madiba K. Dennie

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Just Mercy

By: Bryan Stevenson

Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#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

Burning Down the House

By: Nell Bernstein

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

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

"Prisons Make Us Safer"

By: Victoria Law

Narrated by: Melissa Moran

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.

The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners—a total of... Read more

The Cult of the Constitution

By: Mary Anne Franks

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism.



Constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly. Fundamentalist interpretations of the Constitution elevate certain constitutional rights above all others,... Read more

One Person, One Vote

By: Nick Seabrook

Narrated by: Reynaldo Piniella

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment—from the Founding Fathers to today’s high-tech manipulation of election districts—and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person, one vote. Here is THE book on gerrymandering for... Read more

“I Am a Man”

By: Joe Starita

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1877, Chief Standing Bear’s Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to Oklahoma—known then as Indian Territory—in what became the tribe’s own Trail of Tears. “I Am a Man” chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their... Read more

Desperate

By: Kris Maher

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Appalachian coal country, this “superb” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) legal drama follows one determined lawyer as he faces a coal industry giant in a seven-year battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community.

For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn’t look, smell, or taste right. Could the water be... Read more

Ghettoside

By: Jill Leovy

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE• A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more

The Other Dr. Gilmer

By: Benjamin Gilmer

Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time

“A remarkable medical detective story–cum–memoir,... Read more

Deep Delta Justice

By: Matthew Van Meter

Narrated by: Brad Sanders

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for 2021 Audie Award in History/Biography

The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou

2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist

The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).

In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary... Read more

The Black and the Blue

By: Matthew Horace & Ron Harris

Narrated by: Matthew Horace

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his... Read more

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and... Read more

Death Row Welcomes You

By: Steven Hale

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 2018, after nearly a decade's hiatus, the state of Tennessee began executing death row inmates, bucking national trends that showed the death penalty in decline. In less than two years, the state put seven men to death. It was an execution spree unlike any seen in Tennessee since the 1940s, only brought to a halt by a global pandemic.... Read more

Socke Teil 2 Socke im Land des rubinroten Zauberers

By: Jörg Janetzko

Narrated by: Jörg Janetzko, Stephan Brauer, Inge Janetzko, F...

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

,,Socke im Land des rubinroten Zauberers'' ist das zweite große Abenteuer eines außergewöhnlichen Helden, einer Socke. Die ist durch ein kleines Wunder zum Leben erweckt worden und hat mittlerweile eine Freundin gefunden. Als Lisa plötzlich nicht mehr da ist, startet Socke eine Suchaktion die ihn ins Land des rubinroten Zauberers führt. Hat der... Read more

Tech Monopoly

By: Herbert Hovenkamp

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In recent years, the astronomical rise of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft has been criticized as anticompetitive, and many have wondered if antitrust law can help protect workers and consumers. In Tech Monopoly, Herbert Hovenkamp explores competition problems in a wide range of high-tech firms—from those that sell purely... Read more

Bringing Ben Home

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Narrated by: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Little Book of Circle Processes

By: Kay Pranis

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Our ancestors gathered around a fire in a circle, families gather around their kitchen tables in circles, and now we are gathering in circles as communities to solve problems. This peacemaking practice draws on the ancient Native American tradition of a talking piece and combines that with concepts of democracy and inclusivity. Peacemaking... Read more

The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Campus Sexual Harms

By: Rachel Roth Sawatzky & Mikayla W-C McCray

Narrated by: Rachel Roth Sawatzky & Mikayla W-C McCray

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A restorative justice approach to addressing sexual misconduct in colleges and universities.

Written for college and university practitioners and administrators, The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Campus Sexual Harms: A Holistic Approach to Address Sexual Misconduct and Relationship Violence for Colleges and Universities combines... Read more

New Beginning

By: Brian Gibson

Narrated by: Alice Springfield

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"New Beginning: A Comprehensive Guide to Co-Parenting Through Divorce" delves deep into the intricate dynamics of co-parenting after separation, drawing on the profound significance of attachment theory and child development. The book navigates the complexities of maintaining secure attachments between parents and their children amid the changes... Read more

The Little Book of Restorative Justice

By: Howard Zehr

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Zehr is the father of restorative justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making restorative justice possible in this revised and updated edition of his best-selling, seminal book on the movement. (The original edition has sold... Read more

Digital Empires

By: Anu Bradford

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson

Length: 21 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the United States, China, and the European Union—is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her... Read more