Law audiobooks

Taking Back the Constitution

By: Mark Tushnet

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

How the Supreme Court's move to the right has distorted both logic and the Constitution



The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments in light of permanent and immutable constitutional meanings, and social, moral, and yes, political ideas have always played into Supreme Court justices' impressions of how they think a case should... Read more

Nobody's Child

By: Susan Nordin Vinocour

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and humane exploration of the history of the "insanity defense," through the story of one poignant case.



When a three-year-old child was found with a head wound and other injuries, it looked like an open-and-shut case of second-degree murder. Psychologist and attorney Susan Vinocour agreed to evaluate the defendant, the child's... Read more

Rikosreportaasi Suomesta 1982

By: Eri tekijöitä

Narrated by: Aku Laitinen

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Rikosreportaasi Suomesta sisältää monia jännittäviä ja autenttisia poliisiselontekoja Suomesta. Tutkintatyössä mukana olleet poliisit ovat kirjoittaneet selonteot. Kaikki tapaukset on käsitelty loppuun ja niistä on langetettu tuomiot. Reportaasia lukiessa voi vain haukkoa henkeä ja todeta, että todellisuus on tarua ihmeellisempää. Lukija saa... Read more

The Hidden History of the War on Voting

By: Thom Hartmann

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In today's America, only a slim majority of people register to vote, and a large percentage of registered voters don't bother to show up: Donald Trump was elected by only 26 percent of eligible voters. Unfortunately, this is not a bug in our system, it's a feature. Thom Hartmann unveils the strategies and tactics that conservative elites in this... Read more

The Fight for Free Speech

By: Ian Rosenberg

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms. What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can Saturday Night Live be punished for parody? While citizens are grappling with these questions, they generally... Read more

The Consequential Frontier

By: Peter Ward

Narrated by: Gary Galone

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what’s at stake in privatizing outer space.Earth is in trouble—so dramatically that we’re now scrambling to explore space for valuable resources and a home for permanent colonization. With the era of NASA’s dominance now behind us, the private sector is winning this new space race. But if humans and... Read more

The Law

By: Frederick Bastiat

Narrated by: Ron Eastwood

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat discusses: what is law?, why socialism constitutes legal plunder, the proper function of the law, the law and morality, "the vicious circle of socialism", and the basis for stable government. French political libertarian and... Read more

Jericho

By: Charles Bowden

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In a career defined by an allegiance to the truth, Charles Bowden's reporting continually unearthed the gritty realities behind high-profile hype, including the doomed War on Drugs. His daring expeditions to Ciudad Juárez, which resulted in such books as his bestseller Murder City, left him with haunting images of ruthless drug lords and their... Read more

Policing the Open Road

By: Sarah A. Seo

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

How the rise of the car, the symbol of American personal freedom, inadvertently led to ever more intrusive policing―with disastrous consequences for racial equality in our criminal justice system.When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our... Read more

Free Justice

By: Sara Mayeux

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender is a recent invention with a surprisingly contentious history—one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state," but also about the contours and compromises of twentieth-century liberalism.



First gaining appeal amidst the Progressive Era fervor for court reform, the... Read more

Heart Full of Lies

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling true-crime author Ann Rule comes “a convincing portrait of a meticulous criminal mind” (The Washington Post) in this chilling tale about a beautiful and charming widow with a dark side.

An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for handsome, athletic Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a... Read more

Anti Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

Narrated by: John Clickman

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Anti-Federalist Papers is the collective name given to works written by the Founding Fathers who were opposed to or concerned with the merits of the United States Constitution of 1787. Starting on 25 September 1787 (8 days after the final draft of the US Constitution) and running through the early 1790s, these anti-Federalists published a series... Read more

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

By: Jia Lynn Yang

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia.



In a... Read more

A Matter of Interpretation

By: Antonin Scalia

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim—"distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right,... Read more

True Crimes and Misdemeanors

By: Jeffrey Toobin

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From CNN chief legal analyst and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, a real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump's complicity in several crimes--and why they failed.

Donald Trump's campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His long-time political... Read more

Murder in the Garment District

By: David Witwer & Catherine Rios

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day



In 1949, in New York City's crowded Garment District, a union organizer named William Lurye was stabbed to death by a mob assassin. Through the lens of this murder case,... Read more

Break Every Yoke

By: Joshua Dubler & Vincent Lloyd

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced by Break Every Yoke. Once, in an era not too long past, Americans, both incarcerated and free, spoke a language of social liberation animated by... Read more

Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves:

By: David A.J. Richards

Narrated by: Michael Schwalbe

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and feminism, which joins men and women in resistance. A gay man born into an Italian American family in New Jersey, he relates in this book his own... Read more

Free to Move

By: Ilya Somin

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual voters have little chance of making a difference, and they also face strong incentives to remain ignorant about the issues at stake. "Voting with your feet," however, avoids both of these pitfalls and offers a wider range of... Read more

Democracy and Equality

By: Geoffrey R. Stone & David A. Strauss

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren Court declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer... Read more

Succesful Negotiation Strategies

By: IntroBooks

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Negotiation is a major part of a human's everyday life. From a business deal to settle a political dispute between two countries, negotiation is the most effective tool to solve the problems. The effective negotiation is a science which keeps changing with time as the thinking of the human evolves over the time. Effective negotiation is a hectic... Read more

Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) basically covers any business approach that aims at sustainable development through its delivery of economic, social and environmental benefit for the stakeholders involved in the complete process. The CSR concept along with all the practices are wide and varied. Similarly, Corporate Social Action (CSA)... Read more

Crash Course Online Business Laws

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The crash course for online business laws is a short duration course which usually comprise of extensive study material, seminars, projects and group work. The aim of the course is to make the students well-versed with the laws that are present in the real business world to protect them and their customer’s interest.The crash course for online... Read more

Crash Course Bankruptcy

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Crash Course Bankruptcy is a short duration course which comprises of insight on the topic, discussions on the laws, seminars by the experts, team works, and written projects. These are aimed at providing the students with the in-depth of the situation as it a complicated matter and would require extensive research and good command.The Crash... Read more