Law audiobooks

The 10 Stupidest Mistakes Men Make When Facing Divorce

By: Joseph Cordell, Esq

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Knowledge Every Man Needs for a Successful Divorce



Each year 500,000 men will face divorce, and most of them make at least one crucial—and often irreversible—mistake. These errors might seem minor, such as moving out while things get sorted out, or thinking of "temporary" orders as being truly temporary. But when they get to court, these men... Read more

Spy Watching

By: Loch K. Johnson

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 31 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Bleeding Out

By: Thomas Abt

Narrated by: Brad Raymond

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America
Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities.

Coupling the... Read more

You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late

By: Josephine Wolff

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach―the theft of 145.5 million Americans’ information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government’s theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump―makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of... Read more

Impossible Subjects

By: Mae M. Ngai

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.



Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal... Read more

Dead Man Walking

By: Helen Prejean

Narrated by: Helen Prejean

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came... Read more

The Killer Across the Table

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Jonathan Groff

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Complex Battlespaces

By: Winston S. Williams & Christopher M. Ford

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 20 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The conduct of warfare is constantly shaped by new forces that create complexities in the battlespace for military operations. As the nature of how and where wars are fought changes, new challenges to the application of the extant body of international law that regulates armed conflicts arise.This inaugural volume of the Lieber Studies series... Read more

The Science of Marijuana

By: Leslie L. Iverson

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Science of Marijuana, Third Edition is directed at a public interested in knowing more about cannabis, how it works, and what the hazards associated with its use may be. In terms of cannabis as a medicine, it is now sanctioned by a majority of US States, with approved medical indications that often go beyond what is really known... Read more

Outsiders

By: Zachary Kramer

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Contemporary discrimination has changed in important ways from the forms it took in the 1960s, the era in which our civil rights law system originated. Previously, the primary targets of discrimination were groups: African Americans, women, and Latinos, among others. The goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to integrate marginalized groups... Read more

Doing Justice

By: Preet Bharara

Narrated by: Preet Bharara

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Bestseller*

An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society—from the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, and host of the Doing Justice podcast.

Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to... Read more

Recounting the Anthrax Attacks

By: R. Scott Decker

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

It was September 18, 2001, just seven days after al-Qaeda hijackers destroyed the Twin Towers. In the early morning darkness, a lone figure dropped several letters into a mailbox. Seventeen days later a Florida journalist died of inhalational anthrax. The death from the rare disease made world news. These anthrax attacks marked the first time a... Read more

The Brethren

By: Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 20 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action.

Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices—maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life. Read more

No Human Is Illegal

By: J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect author on one of today's hottest topics—an immigration reform lawyer's journalistic memoir of being on the front lines of deportation.



No Human Is Illegal is a powerful document of one lawyer's fight for those seeking a better life in America against its ever-tightening borders. For author Mulligan Sepúlveda, the son and husband of... Read more

Plaintiff in Chief

By: James D. Zirin

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive analysis of Donald Trump's legal history reveals his temperament, methods, character, and morality.

Unlike all previous presidents who held distinguished positions in government or the military prior to entering office, Donald Trump's political worldview was molded in the courtroom. He sees law not as a system of rules to be... Read more

Conviction

By: Denver Nicks & John Nicks

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On New Year’s Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. As anger at authorities grew, political pressure... Read more

Practical Equality

By: Robert Tsai

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all—ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech—have... Read more

Prosecuting the President

By: Andrew Coan

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In Prosecuting the President, Andrew Coan offers a highly engaging look at the long, mostly forgotten history of special prosecutors in American politics. For more than a century, special prosecutors have struck fear into the hearts of Presidents, who have the power to fire them at any time. How could this be, Coan asks? And how could the nation... Read more

Conversations with RBG

By: Jeffrey Rosen

Narrated by: Peter Ganim & Suzanne Toren

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"The audiobook version includes recorded conversations between the two from the 1990s to the present, delivering a compelling informal profile. As a permanent record of Ginsburg’s voice and fighting spirit, it’s an inspiring listen." — Paste

This program includes recorded conversations between Jeffrey Rosen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In this... Read more

A History of America in Ten Strikes

By: Erik Loomis

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Beyond These Walls

By: Tony Platt

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking investigation into the roots of the American criminal justice system reveals how the past bleeds into the present. Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern... Read more

Norco '80

By: Peter Houlahan

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Onion Field, Norco '80 is a gripping true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in U.S. history.



Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men—led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian—attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal... Read more

The Climate Casino

By: William D. Nordhaus

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming... Read more

The Crime of Aggression

By: Noah Weisbord

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The Crime of Aggression is Noah Weisbord's riveting insider's account of the high-stakes legal fight to enact this historic legislation and hold politicians accountable for the wars they start.



Weisbord,... Read more