Law bestsellers

Abolitionist Intimacies

By: El Jones
Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

“A look at prisons that is as thorough as it is poetic. Beautiful, necessary, a must-read for anyone looking towards abolition Read more

Lawless

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

By: Leah Litman
Narrated 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
Narrated by: Pat Grimes
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

“If you’ve ever had to fight tooth and nail with an insurance company over a claim, this book will make your blood boil. Jay M. Feinman exposes the dark side of the insurance industry, showing how companies prioritize profits over people by delaying payouts, denying valid claims, and aggressively defending against policyholders. ✔ Eye-opening... Read more

Plundered

How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America

By: Bernadette Atuahene
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

In the spirit of Evicted, a property law scholar uses the story of two grandfathers—one white, one black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken Black families, widen the racial wealth gap, and derive profit from pain. 

When Professor Bernadette Atuahene moved to Detroit, she planned to... 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

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

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

Offshore

Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism

By: Brooke Harrington
Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other... Read more

The Invention of Murder

How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

By: Judith Flanders
Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

In this fascinating exploration of murder in nineteenth century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction.



Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings... Read more

"Prisons Make Us Safer"

And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration

Myths Made in America: Book #9

By: Victoria Law
Narrated by: Melissa Moran
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals.

The United States incarcerates more of its residents than any other nation. Though home to 5% of the global population, the United States has nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners—a total of... Read more

Inventing Human Rights

A History

By: Lynn Hunt
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how... Read more

Shielded

How the Police Became Untouchable

By: Joanna Schwartz
Narrated by: Joanna Schwartz
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing

In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to the pervasiveness of police misconduct. Yet it... Read more

Murder the Truth

Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

By: David Enrich
Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
Length: TBA

David Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers, produces his most consequential and far-reaching investigation yet: an in-depth exposé of the broad campaign—orchestrated by elite Americans—to overturn sixty years of Supreme Court precedent, weaponize our speech laws, and silence... Read more

The United States Constitution and Amendments

By: Founding Fathers
Narrated by: Laurie Anne Walden
Length: 56 minutes

"We the people of the United States..." So begins one of the most famous documents in world history, the Constitution of the United States of America. First drafted in 1787 by the Founding Fathers—men like Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—the United States Constitution gives the framework for what... Read more

The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates

By: Ralph Ketcham
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

The complete texts of the documents that tell the story of the clashes and compromises that gave birth to the Unites States of America.



Should the members of the government be elected by direct vote of the people?



Should the government be headed by a single executive, and how powerful should that executive be? Should immigrants be allowed into... 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

On Property

Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition

Field Notes

By: Rinaldo Walcott
Narrated by: David Andrew Reid
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

From plantation rebellion to prison labour’s super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property.That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we’ve organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish... Read more

The Other Dr. Gilmer

Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

By: Benjamin Gilmer
Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

“Fear, bewilderment, disbelief, appall, outrage, despair - I experienced all of these emotions and more as I followed Dr. Gilmer on his quest to understand how his predecessor at the Appalachian health clinic came to be a convicted murderer. What Benjamin Gilmer did not expect was to expose the abysmal, and arguably criminal, failings of the... Read more

Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, 3rd edition

By: Henry M. Robert III, Daniel H Honemann, Thomas J Balch, Daniel E. Seabold & Shmuel Gerber
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

A short, concise and user-friendly guide to the essential procedures of conducting a meeting, written by the authors of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, the only authorized edition of the classic work on parliamentary procedure

Originally published in 1876, General Henry M. Robert's guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings... Read more

Sister in Law

Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men

By: Harriet Wistrich
Narrated by: Catherine Bailey
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Only 30 years ago, rape within marriage was not a crime, Judges saw rape victims as complicit for wearing short skirts; teenage runaways were groomed, pimped and then arrested as ‘common prostitutes’, and harassment, stalking, forced marriage and honour-based violence were not defined or recognised as separate offences... 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

Alabama v. King

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement

By: David Fisher & Dan Abrams
Narrated by: Fred D. Gray & Korey Jackson
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

The forgotten story of a criminal trial that brought national attention to a young defendant named Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as told by Fred D. Gray, Dr. King’s lawyer and friend, along with New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher. The audiobook concludes with an exclusive conversation between Fred Gray and Dan Abrams.

On... Read more

The Journalist and the Murderer

By: Janet Malcolm
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Janet Malcolm delves into the psychopathology of journalism using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example: the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision. Examining the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject,... 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

Against Constitutional Originalism

A Historical Critique

By: Jonathan Gienapp
Narrated by: Josh Innerst
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory's core tenet—that the United States Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning—has us decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past. Yet originalist engagement with history is often deeply problematic. And now that... 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

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

Truth and Repair

How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

By: Judith Lewis Herman
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto for reimagining justice, based on the testimony of trauma survivors
 
The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of... 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

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

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

Conan Doyle for the Defense

The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

By: Margalit Fox
Narrated by: Peter Forbes
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods
 
A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story.    

After a wealthy woman was brutally... Read more

The Shadow Docket

How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors  The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow... Read more

Imbeciles

The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

By: Adam Cohen
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction

One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land
 
In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of... Read more

The Originalism Trap

How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

By: Madiba K. Dennie
Narrated by: Madiba K. Dennie
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it

“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for... Read more

Profit and Punishment

How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

By: Tony Messenger
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

In Profit and Punishment, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes the tragedy of modern-day debtors prisons, and how they destroy the lives of poor Americans swept up in a system designed to penalize the most impoverished.

“Intimate, raw, and utterly scathing” — Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water
“Crucial... Read more

Vanished in Vermillion

The Real Story of South Dakota's Most Infamous Cold Case

By: Lou Raguse
Narrated by: Lou Raguse
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the script on a typical investigation narrative, revealing the biggest law enforcement embarrassment in South Dakota history.



In May 1971, Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller were two seventeen-year-olds driving to an end-of-the-school-year party in a rundown... 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

New York's Finest

Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

By: Michael Daly
Narrated by: Michael Daly & P.J. Ochlan
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America.

NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack Maple, and a host of... Read more

A Knock at Midnight

A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

By: Brittany K. Barnett
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • A “powerful and devastating” (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system.

“An essential... Read more

Virtual Searches

Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing

By: Christopher Slobogin
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

A host of technologies—including digital cameras, drones, facial recognition devices, night-vision binoculars, automated license plate readers, GPS, geofencing, DNA matching, datamining, and artificial intelligence—have enabled police to carry out much of their work without leaving the office or squad car, in ways that do not easily fit the... Read more

Employment Law

Very Short Introduction

By: David Cabrelli
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

In today's society, work takes up a vast proportion of the time and energy of ordinary people. Although use of the phrase 'work-life balance' is now commonplace in the media and ordinary conversation, people work longer hours than ever before. However, rather than purely a means to an end in terms of supporting oneself financially, the workplace... Read more

Let the Lord Sort Them

The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

By: Maurice Chammah
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America

“If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book... 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 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

Cornerstone of Liberty

Property Rights in 21st-Century America

By: Timothy Sandefur
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

“Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner…Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory…The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.”—Justice Sandra... Read more

Prison by Any Other Name

The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

By: Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new strands of punishment... Read more