Law bestsellers

The Declaration of Independence

By: Peter Roop
Narrated by: Pat Grimes
Length: 57 minutes

Many kids have heard of the Declaration of Independence, but few know the story behind the people and events that helped forge it. They may know about Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, but do they know the roles that Patrick Henry and Thomas Gage played in setting fire to a revolution? This is the story of how the men and women of thirteen... Read more

The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in... Read more

Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more

The Containment

Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

By: Michelle Adams
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

The epic story of Detroit's struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs—and the defeat of desegregation in the North.

In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across the North, and to the civil rights movement’s struggle for a truly equal... Read more

Fearless Speech

Breaking Free from the First Amendment

By: Mary Anne Franks
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Mary Anne Franks
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

A powerful debunking of First Amendment orthodoxy that critiques "reckless speech," which endangers vulnerable groups, and elevates "fearless speech," which seeks to advance equality and democracy.

Freedom of speech has never been more important—or more controversial. From debates about what's permissible on social media, to the politics of... Read more

A History of America in Ten Strikes

By: Erik Loomis
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018Named one of the “5 Books About Famous Strikes That Demonstrated the Historical Importance of Civil Disobedience” by Bustle“Loomis refuses to romanticize this period or the labor movement it produced. . . . What Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement, despite its many... Read more

The Killer Across the Table

Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Jonathan Groff
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

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

When a Killer Calls

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town

Cases of the FBI’s Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 9 hours

From John Douglas—the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter—comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him.
On May 31, 1985, two... Read more

Faces at the Bottom of the Well

The Permanence of Racism

By: Derrick Bell
Narrated by: Brad Raymond
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

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

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass
Narrated by: Sarah Rife
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes... Read more

If I Did It

Confessions of the Killer

By: the Goldman Family
Narrated by: Pablo Fenjves, Kim Goldman, G. Valmont Thomas, Grover Gardner & various narrators
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

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

Lawless

How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

By: Leah Litman
Length: TBA

Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.

With the gravitas of Joan Biskupic and the irreverence of Elie Mystal, Leah Litman... Read more

Delay Deny Defend

Why insurance companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it

By: Jay M. Feinman
Length: TBA

An expose of insurance injustice and a plan for consumers and lawmakers to fight back—now available in audiobook format. The denial of valid insurance claims is not occasional or accidental or the fault of a few bad employees. It's the result of an increasing and systematic focus on maximizing profits by major companies such as Allstate and... 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

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

Dopesick

Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By: Beth Macy
Narrated by: Beth Macy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“A heartfelt narrative filled personal anecdotes and horrifying statistics, Macy gives the reader an encompassing view of the opioid epidemic. Macy is a terrific writer and her reading of the book for audio conveys the sense of devastation for the addicts and their families. Read more

Devil in the Grove

Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By: Gilbert King
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to... 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

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

Nine Black Robes

Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

New York Times Editor's Choice""Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history... Read more

No More Police

A Case for Abolition

By: Mariame Kaba & Andrea J. Ritchie
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers



In this powerful call to action, New York Times bestselling author Mariame Kaba and attorney and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie detail why policing doesn't stop violence, instead perpetuating widespread harm; outline the many failures of contemporary police reforms; and explore... Read more

We Were Once a Family

A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2023

"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar gives an impassioned performance that enhances the touching, terrifying tale of social injustice and systemic failure. Her delivery is compelling and clear, evoking a captivating listening experience from this true-crime tragedy."- Library Journal

The shocking, deeply... Read more

Reading the Constitution

Why I Chose Pragmatism, not Textualism

By: Stephen Breyer
Narrated by: Stephen Breyer
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

New York Times Bestseller

In a provocative and brilliant analysis, retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a more pragmatic approach of the Constitution.

“You will not read a more important legal work this election year.” —Bob... Read more

Lady Killers

Deadly Women Throughout History

By: Tori Telfer
Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie... Read more

The Monster of Florence

By: Douglas Preston
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

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

Lady Justice

Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick
Narrated by: Dahlia Lithwick
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

“Stirring . . . Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.” —New York Times Book Review

“In Dahlia Lithwick’s urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story... Read more

The Whiteness of Wealth

How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It

By: Dorothy A. Brown
Narrated by: Karen Murray
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FORTUNE • “Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is built into the bedrock of American society, and what a more equitable future might look like.”—Ibram X.... Read more

The Color of Money

Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

By: Mehrsa Baradaran
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

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

A People's History of the Supreme Court

The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution

By: Peter Irons
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 28 hours 31 minutes

A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court



Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's... Read more

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

A True Story of Injustice in the American South

By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

“What does a small-town dentist, an unqualified medical examiner and the Mississippi criminal justice system have in common? They’re a part of a good ole boy network obsessed with mass incarceration and the death penalty, rampant racism and corrupt court judges consumed with closing cases at any cost. Not to mention the wrongly convicted men... Read more

NYS Notary Public

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By: Jasper Locksley
Narrated by: Nick Porter
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

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Punishment Without Crime

How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

By: Alexandra Natapoff
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals.

Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff... Read more

Worse Than Nothing

The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

By: Erwin Chemerinsky
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation



Originalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation.... Read more

Fair Shake

Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy

By: Naomi Cahn, June Carbone & Nancy Levit
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce—why women’s progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back.

In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades... Read more

Who Owns England?

How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

By: Guy Shrubsole
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

‘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

Information Technology Law

The Law and Society 4th Edition

By: Andrew Murray
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 41 hours 42 minutes

Information Technology Law is the ideal companion for a course of study on IT law and the ways in which it is evolving in response to rapid technological and social change.



The fourth edition of this groundbreaking textbook develops its unique examination of the legal processes and their relationship to the modern "information society." Charting... Read more

Social Security Disability Revealed

Why it's so hard to access benefits and what you can do about it

By: Spencer Bishins
Narrated by: Spencer Bishins
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

A former Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney goes behind the scenes to show you why it’s so difficult to win a Social Security Disability case. Working as an Attorney Advisor for over 10 years, the author drafted and reviewed thousands of disability decisions. During this time, he learned why the system is stacked against the claimant... Read more

We See It All

Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance

By: Jon Fasman
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

This investigation into the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance technology asks the question: what are citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of public safety? The police now have unparalleled power at their fingertips: surveillance technology. Seamless,... Read more

51 Imperfect Solutions

States and the Making of American Constitutional Law

By: Jeffrey S. Sutton
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

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

The Most Powerful Court in the World

A History of the Supreme Court of the United States

By: Stuart Banner
Narrated by: Graham Winton
Length: 25 hours 30 minutes

Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the most bitterly contested issues in the United States today. We answer these questions, and many more, by presenting them to nine lawyers—the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. No... Read more

Digital Empires

The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

By: Anu Bradford
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
Length: 21 hours 58 minutes

The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the United States, China, and the European Union—is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her... Read more

Intellectual Property

A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2nd ed. Edition

By: Siva Vaidhyanathan
Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regulate expression. Despite its importance to so many aspects of the global economy and daily life, intellectual property policy remains a confusing and arcane subject. This engaging book clarifies both... Read more

Forensic Psychology

A Very Short Introduction

By: David Canter
Narrated by: Ken Kliban
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Lie detection, offender profiling, jury selection, insanity in the law, predicting the risk of re-offending, the minds of serial killers, and many other topics that fill news and fiction are all aspects of the rapidly developing area of scientific psychology broadly known as forensic psychology.



This fascinating Very Short Introduction discusses... Read more

The Articulate Advocate

Persuasive Skills for Lawyers in Trials, Appeals, Arbitrations, and Motions

By: Brian K. Johnson & Marsha Hunter
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

An advocate may know what to say but is only effective when he or she knows how to be persuasive. Combining facts with know-how to persuade judges, juries, and arbitrators, the book teaches immediately useful techniques such as how to channel the initial adrenaline buzz, grab and hold the fact finder’s attention, gesture while speaking, speak in... Read more

Becoming Abolitionists

Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Derecka Purnell
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day.Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these “solutions” do not match the problem: the police cannot... Read more

Saving the News

Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech

By: Martha Minow
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

In Saving the News, Martha Minow takes stock of the new media landscape. As Minow shows, the First Amendment of the US Constitution assumes the existence and durability of a private industry. Although the First Amendment does not govern the conduct of entirely private enterprises, nothing in the Constitution forecloses government action to... Read more

Forensics For Dummies

2nd Edition

By: D.P. Lyle, MD
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Understand the real-life science behind crime scene investigation



Forensics For Dummies takes you inside the world of crime scene investigation to give you the low down on this exciting field. Written by a doctor and former Law & Order consultant, this guide will have you solving crimes along with your favorite TV shows in no time. From... Read more

Spy Watching

Intelligence Accountability in the United States

By: Loch K. Johnson
Narrated by: Norman Dietz
Length: 31 hours 12 minutes

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

Industry of Anonymity

Inside the Business of Cybercrime

By: Jonathan Lusthaus
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

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

Property and Casualty Insurance

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By: Graham Renfield
Narrated by: Nick Porter
Length: 2 hours 1 minute

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Comparative Law

A Very Short Introduction

By: Sabrina Ragone & Guido Smorto
Narrated by: Linda Jones
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction aims to offer a concise introduction to comparative law—its objectives, methods, concepts, and uses. After an overview of the fundamental definitions, key concepts, and basic lexicon of the discipline, the book proposes an analysis of the most successful techniques adopted in legal comparison for... Read more

Lawless

The Miseducation of America’s Elites

By: Ilya Shapiro
Narrated by: Fred Stella
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

In the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now, it produces window-smashing activists. What happens when America’s top law schools stop believing in legal education? When protestors at Columbia broke into a building and created illegal encampments, the student-led Columbia Law Review... Read more