Law audiobooks

Shadowbosses

By: Mallory Factor

Narrated by: Mallory Factor

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The rise of unions is having a deep impact on the workers of America, and this brutally honest exposé serves as a warning to concerned Americans for what’s to come if this continues.

SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political... Read more

The Injustice System

By: Clive Stafford Smith

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A man accused of a murder he didn't commit languishes on death row. A crusading lawyer is determined to free him. This powerful book reads like a compelling legal thriller with one crucial difference: Justice is not served in the end.

In 1986, Kris Maharaj was arrested in Miami for the murder of his ex-business partner. A witness swore he saw him... Read more

The Law of Superheroes

By: James Daily, J.D. & Ryan Davidson, J.D.

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Could Superman sue if someone exposed his identity as Clark Kent? Is a life sentence for an immortal like Apocalypse “cruel and unusual punishment?” Is X-ray vision a violation of search and seizure laws? Is the Joker legally insane? And who foots the bill when a hero destroys a skyscraper or two while defending Metropolis?Fear not, gentle... Read more

Supreme Court Hears Affirmative Action Challenges

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The U.S. Supreme Court took up a case on whether race should be considered in college applications. Gwen Ifill talks to National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle who explains the arguments. Ray Suarez talks to NAACP's Debo Adegbile and the Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg about potential implications for public institutions. Read more

The Oath

By: Jeffrey Toobin

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the prizewinning author of The Nine, a gripping insider's account of the momentous ideological war between the John Roberts Supreme Court and the Obama administration.

From the moment John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, blundered through the Oath of Office at Barack Obama's inauguration, the relationship between the Supreme... Read more

Justice Scalia

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the key factor for a judge’s ruling is finding where the balance resides in a case. Margaret Warner interviews Justice Scalia about his new book, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, and asks about his opinions on the Second Amendment and the Affordable Care Act. Read more

The Common Law

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.In The Common Law, derived... Read more

Flawed Criminal Forensic Evidence

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Justice Department announced it will conduct a review of thousands of criminal cases where hair and fiber analysis led to convictions. Judy Woodruff discusses the review -- which comes after the Washington Post identified two men wrongfully convicted on flawed hair analysis -- with Post reporter Spencer Hsu. Read more

Treatise on Law

By: Saint Thomas Aquinas

Narrated by: Robin Lawson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher and Dominican friar who lived during the thirteenth century, was the greatest of the medieval theologians. His writings harmonized faith and reason, which resulted in a Christian form of rationalism.This treatise comprises questions 90–97 of the Summa Theologica, in which St. Thomas presents a... Read more

Betrayal

By: Robert Fitzpatrick & Jon Land

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Jack Nicholson film The Departed didn't tell half of their story. A poor kid from the slums, Robert Fitzpatrick grew up to become a stellar FBI agent and challenge the country's deadliest gangsters. Relentless in his desire to catch, prosecute, and convict Whitey Bulger, Fitzpatrick fought the nation's most determined cop-gangster battle... Read more

Health Care Reform in the SCOTUS

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Arguments at the Supreme Court Tuesday dealt with whether Congress had the authority to require citizens to purchase health insurance and whether the government could issue a financial penalty for those who decline. Betty Ann Bowser reports then Marcia Coyle and Susan Dentzer discuss the crux of the hearings with Gwen Ifill. Read more

Anatomy of Injustice

By: Raymond Bonner

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner comes the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally... Read more

Enemies

By: Tim Weiner

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Heiress

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Slate

Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence... Read more

The Law

By: Frederic Bastiat

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Law was originally published as a pamphlet in French in 1850 by Frederic Bastiat. It is his most famous work and was written two years after the third French Revolution of 1848. It defines, through development, a just system of laws and then demonstrates how such law facilitates a free society.

Bastiat was a French classical liberal... Read more

SCOTUS Hears GPS Tracking Case

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Can the government track a suspect using a GPS device without a warrant? That question was at the center of a high-profile case before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Judy Woodruff discusses the oral arguments in the case with the National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle. Read more

Stealth of Nations

By: Robert Neuwirth

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.



Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.



Scores of laid-off San Franciscans, working without any... Read more

Blood Feud

By: Kathleen Sharp

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Blood-boosting Procrit is Johnson & Johnson's biotech superstar. Behind its various brand names, it ranks as Medicare's most reimbursed drug. But Procrit performs frighteningly well, and can stimulate so many blood cells that thousands of patients die in unexplained and painful ways. And that's not all: Cancer patients, who often receive... Read more

Troy Davis Case

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A parole board in Georgia has rejected clemency for inmate Troy Davis, who is slated to be executed Wednesday. Uproar over the case has revived questions about how the death penalty is applied. Gwen Ifill talks to The Heritage Foundation's Charles Stimson and Vincent Southerland of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Read more

Venture Deals

By: Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

As each new generation of entrepreneurs emerges, there is a renewed interest in how venture capital deals come together. Yet there really is no definitive guide to venture capital deals. Nobody understands this better than authors Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson. For more than seventeen years, they've been involved in hundreds of venture capital... Read more

Black Hills Can't Be Bought

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine Sioux tribes have been locked in a land dispute since 1877, when the government broke a treaty setting aside the Black Hills as part of their reservation. However, there is a chance that the Great Sioux Nation's long struggle to regain its land might reach a conclusion after years of standoff. Read more

The Spirit of Laws

By: Baron de Montesquieu

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 22 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1748, this is possibly the most masterful and influential book ever written on the subject of liberty and justice. Accordingly, it is a work that profoundly influenced America’s Founding Fathers. Its success was due partly to the fact that it was the first systematic treatise on politics, partly to Montesquieu’s... Read more

Crime Scene Investigation PT.2

By: Robert C. Shaler

Narrated by: Robert C. Shaler

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Profesor Robert C. Shaler continues his in-depth look at all aspects of crime scene investigation in part two. Popularized in the media by highly rated police procedurals, crime scene invesigation is an often misunderstood field of eneavor. Shaler breaks down the intricacies of how investigations are conducted in the real world, examining suhc... Read more

Getting a B.A. Behind Bars

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is putting convicts through a rigorous B.A. program that would challenge even the smartest Ivy Leaguers. Read more

Saving the Bill of Rights

By: Frank Miniter

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Our Founding Fathers created the Bill of Rights to document our inalienable rights and to strictly limit the government’s power. These ten amendments are the foundation of American Exceptionalism—yet that foundation is quickly eroding. With every new sweeping regulation and invasive policy, the Obama administration is twisting the Bill of Rights... Read more