Law audiobooks

"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

Jakob

By: bibletunesKIDS

Narrated by: Thomas Hagedorn, Judith Pantli & Johanna Hagedorn

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In den 15 Episoden dieser Staffel geht es um Jakob. Jakob wuchs als einer von zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Brüdern auf. Dies brachte einige Probleme mit sich. Seid dabei, wenn Rubina und Paul entdecken, was diese Geschichte mit ihrem Leben und Gott zu tun hat... Read more

Vom alltäglichen Scheitern

By: Lars Bessel

Narrated by: Lars Bessel

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vom alltäglichen Scheitern" erzählt aus dem Leben eines Gerichtsreporters an einem ganz gewöhnlichen Amtsgericht. Die Kriminalfälle, die dort verhandelt werden, finden maximal eine Erwähnung in der Lokalzeitung, denn hier geht es nicht um Mord und Totschlag oder milliardenschwere Unterschlagungen, hier geht es um menschliche Schicksale – auf... Read more

Stolen Identity

By: RoShawn C. Evans

Narrated by: Gregory D. Anderson Jr.

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Your personal identity describes who you are, who you aspire to be, or who people perceive you to be. The majority of us have been told in our lives at one time or another that we can be whoever or whatever we want to be, but what happens when someone else makes that decision for you without your honest consent? Typically in our society when... Read more

The Agenda

By: Ian Millhiser

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to... Read more

Bitte Recht einfach! Vorsorgen - Warum Vorsorgevollmacht, Patientenverfügung und Testament nicht auf die lange Bank gehören und wie du sie angehst (ungekürzt)

By: Pia-Rhona Saxe

Narrated by: Pia-Rhona Saxe

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

,,Ach, dieses leidige Thema. Das machen wir irgendwann." So oder so ähnlich denken viele Menschen, wenn es um Vorsorgemaßnahmen für Krankheits- oder Todesfälle geht. Und ehe man es sich versieht, ist der Ernstfall eingetreten und man hat - du errätst es sicher - nicht vorgesorgt. Schon hängt das Amtsgericht in deiner Privatsache drin und die... Read more

Drachen-Zirkus

By: Anna Hnilicka

Narrated by: Anna Hnilicka, Harald Buresch, Karoline Gans & ...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Welt voll Fantasie und Abenteuer - nach dem gleichnamigen HEUSCHRECK-Musical "Drachen-Zirkus" Von Drachenwut und Rittermut Felicitas will etwas Besonderes sein: Eine gefeierte und bewunderte Heldin in einem echten Abenteuer! In einer Vollmondnacht ist es so weit: Das Mädchen verwandelt sich in die wilde Ritterin "Felicitas Feuerblitz"... Read more

Autopsy of a Crime Lab

By: Brandon L. Garrett

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions.



"That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." They were wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error... Read more

The Whiteness of Wealth

By: Dorothy A. Brown

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

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

How Rights Went Wrong

By: Jamal Greene

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice.”—from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling... Read more

Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana

By: Italia

Narrated by: Valerio Di Stefano

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Documento dell’Assemblea Costituente.Versione pubblicata sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale il 27 dicembre 1947, entrata in vigore il 1 gennaio 1948 in base alla XVIII “disposizione transitoria”. Read more

Silicon Values

By: Jillian York

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the... Read more

Mine!

By: Michael A. Heller & James Salzman

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“Mine” is one of the first words babies learn, and by the time we grow up, the idea of ownership seems natural, whether we are buying a cup of coffee or a house. But who controls the space behind your airplane seat: you, reclining, or the squished laptop user behind you? Why is plagiarism wrong, but it’s okay to knock off a recipe or a dress... Read more

We Own This City

By: Justin Fenton

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city

NOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE... Read more

Forever Prisoners

By: Elliott Young

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Forever Prisoners offers the first broad history of immigrant detention in the United States. Elliott Young focuses on five stories, including Chinese detained off the coast of Washington in the late 1880s, an "insane" Russian-Brazilian Jew caught on a ship shuttling between New York and South America during World War I, Japanese Peruvians... Read more

Guilty Admissions

By: Nicole LaPorte

Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This entertaining exposé on how the other half gets in tells the shockingly true story of the Varsity Blues scandal, and all of the crazy parents, privilege, and con men involved.

Guilty Admissions weaves together the story of an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer, and how he preyed on the desperation of some of the country's... Read more

Birthing a Movement

By: Renee Ann Cramer

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a Movement, Renée Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism surrounding... Read more

Corona vor Gericht: So gehen Sie vor

By: Thorsten Schleif

Narrated by: Stephan Müller

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Frau aus Lübeck soll ein Bußgeld in Höhe von 178 € zahlen, weil sie einen Spaziergang am menschenleeren Strand in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gemacht hat. Was nach einem schlechten Aprilscherz klingt, ist nur ein kleiner Teil einer langen Reihe irrwitziger Ereignisse und Meldungen, die seit Frühjahr 2020 die Tagespresse kennzeichnen. Die... Read more

Kurzgeschichten mit Musik für Kinder (Folge 7 und 8)

By: Bianca Balzer

Narrated by: Bianca Balzer

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Adventszeit hat begonnen und alle Kinder aus seiner Klasse freuen sich, nur Fritz ist traurig. Aber warum und kann ihm geholfen werden? Fräulein Glücklich ist eine Klassenlehrerin mit Leidenschaft zum Beruf. Jeder mag sie und was hat sie sich dieses Mal zum letzten Schultag überlegt? Read more

Take Charge

By: Norman Bacal

Narrated by: Norman Bacal

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to become a successful lawyer, business manager or accountant?What you're learning in professional school isn't enough. It's just the basics.If you want to move ahead, there are all kinds of skills you need to learn that no one is teaching in an organized way.How to interview so you'll get hired, choosing the workplace most suited to... Read more

Legal Heroes in the Trump Era

By: Tahmina Watson

Narrated by: Tahmina Watson

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawyers are trained to work within the system. We’re not advocates for revolution. Most of us aren’t even comfortable being labelled “activists.” But when the rule of law is in peril, as it is like never before, it is our duty to not just practice law, but to protect it.This book tells the story of 14 “legal heroes” who have responded to the... Read more

Violence against Women

By: Jacqui True

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news. Yet, while we frequently read or learn about particular experiences or incidents of VAWG, we are often unaware of the full picture.



Jacqui True provides an expansive frame for... Read more

What We Know

By: Vivian Nixon & Daryl Atkinson

Narrated by: Janina Edwards, David Sadzin & Timothy Andrés P...

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. What We Know collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution... Read more

Say Goodbye to the Everyday Grind

By: Marsha Graham

Narrated by: Stacy Patterson

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Say goodbye to your boss. Say goodbye to your alarm clock and say welcome to financial freedom. Now it’s the best time to get started with declaring your financial independence and earning an income online. Why wait or delay with what you always had in mind. The old ways of earning a living are rapidly changing and needless to say we are living... Read more