Law audiobooks

The Invention of Murder

By: Judith Flanders

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction.



Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings... Read more

Conviction

By: Denver Nicks & John Nicks

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On New Year’s Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. As anger at authorities grew, political pressure... Read more

The Measure of Madness

By: Cheryl Paradis

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

At the heart of countless crimes lie the mysteries of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology, and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career.



Her riveting, sometimes shocking stories reveal the crucial and... Read more

Kindermeditation - Lernen und Konzentrieren - Gedankenreise durch den Wald

By: Isabelle Fellner

Narrated by: Isabelle Fellner

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Unter dem Motto Kindermeditation mit wertvollem psychologischen Hintergrund erzählt Isabelle Fellner eine Gedankenreise. Diese wird ihr Kind in eine eigene Welt der Achtsamkeit eintauchen lassen. Das Hörbuch soll dabei helfen, zur Ruhe zu kommen, den Bezug zum Ich zu pflegen und die Konzentration fördern. Perfekt vor dem Lernen geeignet! ... Read more

Because of Sex

By: Gillian Thomas

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple phrase didn't mean much until ordinary women began using the law to get justice on the job—and some took... Read more

Oliver Wendell Holmes

By: Stephen Budiansky

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity.



Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age... Read more

The High-Conflict Custody Battle

By: Amy J.L. Baker, PhD, J. Michael Bone, PhD & Bri...

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Is your ex-spouse trying to gain custody of your kids? Has he or she launched a campaign to make you look like a bad parent, both in the eyes of your children and the law? You aren't alone. Unfortunately, high-conflict custody battles are all-too-common in today's world. So how can you arm yourself with the mental and legal resources needed to... Read more

The Unforgiven

By: Edith Brady-Lunny & Steve Vogel

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a case reminiscent of the explosive story of Susan Smith, convicted in the drownings of her two young sons in South Carolina. But in The Unforgiven, three young children are in the back seat of a car driven by Amanda Hamm's boyfriend as it slips into an Illinois lake. Amanda and her boyfriend survive. Her three children do not.



The question... Read more

Dead Man Walking

By: Helen Prejean

Narrated by: Helen Prejean

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came... Read more

How Wealth Rules the World

By: Ben G. Price

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Price reveals that our Constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems—and what we can do about it.

Many of today's most serious... Read more

Die Einhornranch

By: Isabelle Fellner

Narrated by: Isabelle Fellner

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Cleo und ihr Einhorn Kyro wären perfekt geeignet für den Profi-Turnier-Sport. Leider hatte Cleos Mutter einen schweren Unfall bei einem Frei-Flug-Wettbewerb und sitzt nun im Rollstuhl, weshalb es dem talentierten Mädchen und seinem Einhorn streng untersagt ist, an den Turnieren teilzunehmen. Einzig zwei Flugstunden zur Vorbereitung auf eine... Read more

America, Compromised

By: Lawrence Lessig

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are." So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong.... Read more

The Nonsense Factory

By: Bruce Cannon Gibney

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author of A Generation of Sociopaths.
Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration... Read more

Marijuana 360

By: Nancy E. Marion & Joshua B. Hill

Narrated by: Norah Tocci

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana. Since then, thirty states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing marijuana in some form. Nine of those states, including Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington, have legalized marijuana for recreational use. Many states, including Arizona and Ohio, are... Read more

Spy Watching

By: Loch K. Johnson

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 31 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within otherwise relatively transparent governments. Democracies pride themselves on privacy and liberty, but intelligence organizations have secret budgets, gather information surreptitiously around the world, and plan covert action against foreign regimes.... Read more

The Free Speech Century

By: Geoffrey R. Stone & Lee C. Bollinger

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in Schenck vs. the United States is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, it is most famous for first invoking the phrase "clear and present danger." Although the decision upheld the conviction of an individual for criticizing the draft during World... Read more

Complex Battlespaces

By: Winston S. Williams & Christopher M. Ford

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 20 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The conduct of warfare is constantly shaped by new forces that create complexities in the battlespace for military operations. As the nature of how and where wars are fought changes, new challenges to the application of the extant body of international law that regulates armed conflicts arise.This inaugural volume of the Lieber Studies series... Read more

The Killer Across the Table

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Jonathan Groff

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Kindermeditation - Dein Wolkentier - Spielerische Achtsamkeit

By: Isabelle Fellner

Narrated by: Isabelle Fellner

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Unter dem Motto Kindermeditation mit wertvollem psychologischen Hintergrund erzählt Isabelle Fellner eine Gedankenreise. Diese wird ihr Kind in eine eigene Welt der Achtsamkeit eintauchen lassen. Das Hörbuch soll dabei helfen, zur Ruhe zu kommen, den Bezug zum Ich zu pflegen und die Kreativität fördern. Auch perfekt vor dem Lernen... Read more

Who Owns England?

By: Guy Shrubsole

Narrated by: Malk Williams

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

‘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

Blind Injustice

By: Mark Godsey

Narrated by: BJ Harrison

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing upon stories from his own career, Godsey shares how innate psychological flaws in judges, police, lawyers, and juries coupled with a "tough on crime" environment can cause investigations to go awry, leading to the convictions of innocent people.

Godsey explores distinct psychological human weaknesses inherent in the criminal justice... Read more

Objection

By: Carlton Patrick & Debra Lieberman

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children? Why are words that gross us out more likely to be deemed "obscene" and denied the protection of the First Amendment?



In Objection, psychologists Debra Lieberman and Carlton Patrick examine disgust and its impact on the legal system to show why... Read more

Options Trading

By: Mark Lowe

Narrated by: Sam Slydell

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you want to start making money trading options but don’t know how?Have you tried to learn but found it all too difficult and confusing? Do you want to learn using simplified teaching methods in an easy step-by-step format? If so, this is the book for you!This book addresses the key concepts and principles beneath option trading and leads you... Read more

Long-Term Care Insurance, Power of Attorney, Wealth Management, and Other First Steps

By: Laura Town & Karen Hoffman

Narrated by: Sam Clapp

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Things you need to do now!Learn how to: Collect the information you need about your finances. Transfer wealth without delaying Medicaid. Sort through and choose from the different types of insurance.  Draft a power of attorney and healthcare proxy.  Create a living will and advance directives. Learn what decisions are necessary when you or a... Read more