Law audiobooks

Healthcare

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Gwen Ifill moderates a discussion between Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at MIT, and Michael Cannon, the director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Insitute, about requiring individuals to purchase health insurance. Read more

SCOTUS Discussions June 2009

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Suarez talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about the Supreme Court's decision on prisoners' legal rights to test DNA evidence after their convictions. Read more

Digital Barbarism

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”—National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its... Read more

Philosophy and the Law

By: Stephen Mathis

Narrated by: Stephen Mathis

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Do judges deduce their decisions from legal rules and principles, or do they decide cases based on what is fair given the facts at hand? The latter view, held by Legal Realists, serves as the starting point for Professor Stephen Mathis' eye-opening look at how judges reason. In this compelling lecture series, the esteemed professor addresses... Read more

The American Legal Experience

By: Lawrence Friedman

Narrated by: The Professor

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The legal system in America is the basis of freedom as we know it today. The system is based, ultimately, on the common law of England, but it has grown, developed, and changed over the years. American law has been a critical factor in American life since colonial times. It has played a role in shaping society, but society-the structure,... Read more

Fundamental Cases

By: Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The courtroom trial has fascinated human beings from the beginning of recorded history. Trials are theater, trials are history, and the great trials of the twentieth century and beyond provide a unique window into American history and the sense of America's enduring commitment to law. It was Alexis de Tocqueville who, when he visited the new... Read more

The Challenge

By: Jonathan Mahler

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 2001, a thirty-one-year-old Yemeni man named Salim Ahmed Hamdan was captured near the Pakistan border and turned over to US forces in Afghanistan. After confessing to being Osama bin Laden’s driver, Hamdan was transferred to Guantánamo Bay and designated for trial before a special military tribunal.The Pentagon assigned a young... Read more

Wirtschaftsstrafrecht - Abridged

By: Klaus Volk

Narrated by: Klaus Volk

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Skandale ohne Ende: Korruption, verbotene Absprachen, dubiose Bankgeschäfte, Betrug und Untreue, Lug und Trug überall? Wirtschaftskriminalität: Was kennzeichnet sie und was macht sie so gefährlich? Der Staat bekämpft sie energisch und wartet nicht mehr, bis ein Schaden eingetreten ist. Neue Gesetze: Sie haben die Strafbarkeit weit in das... Read more

The Monster of Florence

By: Douglas Preston

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move... Read more

Law in America

By: Lawrence M. Friedman

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawrence M. Friedman is Professor of Law at Stanford University and author of 23 books about law and legal history. Hailed as American law's greatest living historian, Friedman traces the evolution of America's legal system from the colonial period to the present. A Modern Library Chronicle, this book is concise, insightful, and graced with wit. Read more

Active Liberty

By: Justice Stephen Breyer

Narrated by: Justice Stephen Breyer

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly respected associate justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1994, Stephen Breyer delivers a lucid and persuasive declaration that "active liberty"-the participation of American citizens in the process of government-should be a guiding principle of our nation. In this exceedingly polarized time, with the high court facing some... Read more

Familie und Recht - Abridged

By: Gabriele Kokott-Weidenfeld

Narrated by: Gabriele Kokott-Weidenfeld

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Grundgesetz geht von der Ehe und der Familie als Keimzelle der Gesellschaft aus. Sie geben die bestmögliche Garantie für das Wohl der Kinder und bieten das ideale Umfeld für ihr Heranwachsen. Die sich daraus ergebenden Fragestellungen werden verständlich und alltagsnah erläutert: - Was hat Staat mit Familie zu tun? - Warum mischt sich... Read more

If I Did It

By: the Goldman Family

Narrated by: Pablo Fenjves, Kim Goldman, G. Valmont Thomas, ...

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O. J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but he was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges.The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, in which he was found... Read more

Letters from Nuremberg

By: Lary Bloom & Christopher J. Dodd

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Senator Christopher J. Dodd (Connecticut) presents letters his father wrote home while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg.

Senator Thomas Dodd began his career of public service as prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Chris Dodd recently discovered his mother's collection of letters his father wrote during the trials. Through his father, Chris... Read more

And Justice for Some

By: Wendy Murphy

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When Wendy Murphy was a young prosecutor, she learned that the deck is stacked in favor of criminal defendants. Between their arrest and (potential) conviction, murderers, rapists, and drug dealers get more than a fair shake—they get an unfair advantage, often at the expense of their victims.



In many states, for instance, defendants can subpoena... Read more

It's Not About the Truth

By: Mike Pressler & Don Yaeger

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Pressler walked into the bottom-floor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward.



It was 4:30 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's... Read more

People Get Screwed All the Time

By: Robert Massi

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do if you were accused and arrested for a crime that you didn't commit? How about if you realized that you'd just been scammed for thousands of dollars? What about if, due to a circumstance as unavoidable as having the same name as a criminal, your credit rating kept you from buying a house or a car, or getting a loan for college?... Read more

To Catch a Predator

By: Chris Hansen

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 40 million Americans have seen Dateline NBC's ongoing "To Catch a Predator" series, with an average of 11 million viewers per episode. So far, the Dateline series has led to the arrest of over 200 men and has shown that child predators can be anyone—even those who are the most trusted in the community, including rabbis and teachers.



In his... Read more

The Bureau

By: Ronald Kessler

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bureau takes listeners behind the scenes of the FBI, from its creation in 1908 to the scandals of present day. Based on exclusive interviews, Kessler reveals the inside story surrounding the events of September 11 and the investigation into the anthrax mailings. The Bureau delves deep within the agency, presenting the organization in its... Read more

The Case of Abraham Lincoln

By: Julie M. Fenster

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln was at a difficult point, personally. Depressed, edgy, and often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He saw himself as a former congressman with little future in politics. Then in May of 1856, he became drawn to the case of the gruesome murder of a blacksmith named George Anderson. Lincoln was asked... Read more

A Child of Fortune

By: Jeffrey St. John

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exciting audio production, prize-winning journalist and historian Jeffrey St. John simulates day-by-day reportage to make you a firsthand witness to the 1787–1788 political battle to ratify the US Constitution. Discover how close both sides of the debate came to resorting to violence and rigged elections and witness Patrick Henry’s... Read more

Lethal Injection

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Woodruff talks to Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center and Jeff Middendorf of the State of Kentucky's Justice and Public Safety Cabinet about recent lethal injection developments. Read more

Facing Down Evil

By: Daniel Paisner

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

No ordinary Washington memoir, Facing Down Evil is an unprecedented look behind the scenes of our nation's most powerful law enforcement agency. As the FBI's premier hostage negotiator, Clint Van Zandt worked or consulted on some of recent U.S. history's most unsettling and high-profile conflicts, including the Waco, Oklahoma City, and... Read more

The Innocent Man

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly

John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone... Read more