Law audiobooks
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
By: Derrick Bell
Narrated by: Brad Raymond
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice
In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed to fail so long as the... Read more
History of the Supreme Court
By: Tim Huebner
Narrated by: Tim Huebner
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
What would you like to know about the Supreme Court’s evolution, its immense impact, and its crucial role in democracy?
Now is your chance to explore the law of the land with an acclaimed expert on the United States Constitution and the Supreme Court. In 24 stimulating lectures, you will survey the history of the Supreme Court from its... Read more
Three Felonies A Day
By: Harvey A. Silverglate
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and... Read more
View audiobookThe Oath and the Office
By: Corey Brettschneider
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Can the president launch a nuclear attack without congressional approval? Is it ever a crime to criticize the president? Can states legally resist a president's executive order? Corey Brettschneider takes us on a deep dive into the U.S. Constitution to answer questions that, in our tumultuous era, Americans are asking more than ever before. From... Read more
View audiobookRectify
By: Lara Bazelon
Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Makes a powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal.
In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number of men and women exonerated from crimes that kept them... Read more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By: Jane Sherron de Hart
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 24 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the justice, her husband, her children, her... Read more
View audiobookIndustry of Anonymity
By: Jonathan Lusthaus
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The most extensive account yet of the lives of cybercriminals and the vast international industry they have created, deeply sourced and based on field research in the world’s technology-crime hotspotsCybercrime seems invisible. Attacks arrive out of nowhere, their origins hidden by layers of sophisticated technology. Only the victims are clear.... Read more
View audiobookA Duty to Resist
By: Candice Delmas
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. But activists from Henry... Read more
View audiobookUnder the Wig
By: William Clegg QC
Narrated by: William Clegg QC
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
'GRIPPING' – The Times 'FASCINATING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED' – The Secret Barrister How can you speak up for someone accused of a savage murder? Or get a judge to drop a case? In this vivid memoir, William Clegg KC – one of the leading criminal lawyers of his generation – revisits his most notorious and intriguing trials, from the acquittal of... Read more
View audiobookInsane
By: Alisa Roth
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons.
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police... Read more
Point Made
By: Ross Guberman
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
With Point Made, legal writing expert Ross Guberman throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion or brief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell a persuasive story when the record is dry and dense? The answers are "more science than art,"... Read more
View audiobookMelting Pot or Civil War?
By: Reihan Salam
Narrated by: Reihan Salam
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Long before Covid-19 and the death of George Floyd rocked America, Reihan Salam predicted our current unrest--and provided a blueprint for reuniting the country.
"Tthe years to come may see a new populist revolt, driven by the resentments of working-class Americans of color.”
For too long, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist, or... Read more
What is the Dark Web?
By: Evan J. Rodgers
Narrated by: David Loving
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Discover the truth about the Dark Web! Is it really what we were made to believe?
Are you feeling watched every time you go online? Is privacy in a digital world still possible? In this modern era, where our personal information is treated as a currency, privacy has become a luxury. If we are not careful, someday we might end up having to fight... Read more
The Constitution Demands It
By: Ron Fein, John Bonifaz & Ben Clements
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The reasons Donald Trump must be impeached—as per the Founding Fathers—and what you can do to help make that happen
Three veteran constitutional attorneys say there's no way around it: The Constitution demands that Donald Trump must be impeached.
And in clear language using compelling logic rooted firmly in the Constitution, they detail why the... Read more
The Embattled Vote in America
By: Allan J. Lichtman
Narrated by: Dennis Holland
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Americans have fought and died for the right to vote. Yet the world’s oldest continuously operating democracy guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. In this rousing work, the bestselling author of The Case for Impeachment calls attention to the founders’ crucial error: leaving the franchise to the discretion... Read more
View audiobookThe Most Dangerous Branch
By: David A. Kaplan
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 16 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government—and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril.
With the retirement of... Read more
The Schoolhouse Gate
By: Justin Driver
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 19 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public... Read more
BORN
By: María O'Donnell
Narrated by: Javier Gómez
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
La historia del espectacular secuestro de los herederos del imperio económico Born por parte de los montoneros argentinos. Un thriller real que, con un ritmo narrativo fascinante, sigue los cruces del dinero y la política para revelar la trama secreta que subyace a cualquier historia.
Tras meses de planificación y en un operativo que duró... Read more
Arrest-Proof Yourself
By: Dale C. Carson & Wes Denham
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
What do you say if a cop pulls you over and asks to search your car? What if he gets up in your face and uses a racial slur? What if there's a roach in the ashtray? And what if your hot-headed teenage son is at the wheel? If you listen to this book, you'll know exactly what to do and say.
More people than ever are getting arrested—usually for... Read more
In the Shadow of Korematsu
By: Eric K. Yamamoto
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris–San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America—an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association and speech, and an era marked by... Read more
View audiobook51 Imperfect Solutions
By: Jeffrey S. Sutton
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitutional law is not made at the federal level. In 51 Imperfect Solutions, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton argues that American Constitutional Law should account for the role of the state... Read more
View audiobookThe U.S. Constitution
By: David J. Bodenhamer
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers designed to limit power, often has made political conflict inevitable. It also has accommodated... Read more
View audiobookKings of Cocaine
By: Guy Gugliotta & Jeff Leen
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. In the 1980s they controlled more than fifty percent of the cocaine flowing into the United States. The cocaine trade is capitalism on overdrive—supply meeting demand on... Read more
View audiobookDown to the Wire
By: David W. Orr
Narrated by: Barry Abrams
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Down to the Wire is a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. David Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point that biologist Edward O. Wilson... Read more
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