Law audiobooks

We the Corporations

By: Adam Winkler

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital.Corporations—like minorities and women—have had a civil rights movement of their own and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary... Read more

Straight Talk on Trade

By: Dani Rodrik

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken critic of economic globalization taken too far, goes beyond the populist backlash and offers a more reasoned explanation for why our elites' and technocrats' obsession with hyper-globalization made it more difficult for nations to achieve legitimate economic and social objectives at... Read more

The Counterrevolution

By: Bernard E. Harcourt

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States—one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial... Read more

Gideon's Trumpet

By: Anthony Lewis

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. 

A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More... Read more

Fair Play

By: James M. Olson

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and... Read more

Without Precedent

By: Joel Richard Paul

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Unlikely Allies and Indivisible comes the remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.
 
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did... Read more

Infinite Hope

By: Anthony Graves

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration.

In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house... Read more

Stalling for Time

By: Gary Noesner

Narrated by: Gary Noesner

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.

“Riveting . . . the most in-depth and absorbing section is devoted to the 1993 siege near Waco, Texas.”—The Washington Post

In Stalling for Time, the... Read more

SCOTUS weighs religion, discrimination, dignity in Colorado wedding cake case

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the Supreme Court's biggest cases this term probes whether the religious beliefs of a Colorado baker override the rights of a couple who were refused a wedding cake because they are gay. Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal joins John Yang to go over the court arguments and how the justices responded. Read more

Grass Roots

By: Emily Dufton

Narrated by: Greg Baglia

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana

In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago, only to encounter a fierce backlash. In Grass Roots,... Read more

Secrecy World

By: Jake Bernstein

Narrated by: Jake Bernstein

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrecy World is the inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global... Read more

A Life of Crime

By: Harry Ognall

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall. For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both... Read more

The Three Lives of James Madison

By: Noah Feldman

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 34 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president

Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its... 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

Abridged: No

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

I Can't Breathe

By: Matt Taibbi

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten... Read more

Beyond Trans

By: Heath Fogg Davis

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just... Read more

Summer for the Gods

By: Edward J Larson

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools

In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher... Read more

Talking Points: Assisted Suicide

By: Vaughan Roberts

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Vaughan Roberts surveys the Christian worldview and seeks to apply these principles to the many complex questions surrounding assisted dying. This short book gives an overview and a starting point for constructive discussion as we seek to live in a world with different values, and love, serve and engage with the questions surrounding euthanasia. Read more

The Color of Money

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Estate Planning for Authors

By: M. L. Buchman

Narrated by: M. L. Buchman

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

-an estate planning self-help guide for artists & writers-Writer, painter, photographer, musician, designer, animator, graphic artist, programmer, screenwriter, textile artist, choreographer, composer, sculptor...A will or trust controls who inherits what. The Final Letter tells your heir(s) ways to maintain it, even make it thrive, once... Read more

Courtroom 302

By: Steve Bogira

Narrated by: Mark Kamish

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily... Read more

The Rights of Nature

By: David R. Boyd

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Post-Nup Solution

By: Tom Gardiner

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Having trouble in your marriage? This book is for you. Tom Gardiner, a Chicago lawyer, explains how post-nuptial agreements can address marital problems effectively. Unlike counseling that often is no more than a temporary fix, this book talks about agreements that will result in long-term change.If your spouse drinks too much, for instance, you... Read more

Ghost of the Innocent Man

By: Benjamin Rachlin

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.

During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of... Read more