Law audiobooks

Drugs Used in Lethal Injections

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As foreign supplies have dwindled, traditional lethal injection drugs are being replaced with others manufactured in the U.S. But inmates and lawyers are questioning whether these new drugs will result in death without undue pain and suffering. Gwen Ifill takes a closer look at the issue with Megan McCracken of the University of California,... Read more

Servants of the Damned

By: David Enrich

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world’s largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the firm that represented the Trump campaign and much of the Fortune 500, as a powerful... Read more

The Brain Defense

By: Kevin Davis

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.

In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman’s husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his... Read more

Reducing Crime

By: Jerry Ratcliffe

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

How do I reduce crime in my police command? How do I tackle chronic crime problems? How do I address the long-term issues that have plagued my community? How do I analyze crime and criminal behaviour? How do I show evidence of success in crime reduction? What works, what doesn’t, and how do we know? Providing answers to these questions and more,... Read more

Until We Reckon

By: Danielle Sered

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration takes on the vexing problem of violent crime.



Although over half the people incarcerated in America today have committed violent offenses, the focus of reformers has been almost entirely on nonviolent and drug offenses.... Read more

Who Owns This Sentence?

By: David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu

Narrated by: David Bellos

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon... Read more

Justice in the Age of Judgment

By: Anne Bremner & Doug Bremner

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

When unscrupulous Italian prosecutors waged an all-out war in the media and courtroom to wrongly convict American exchange student Amanda Knox for a murder she didn’t commit, family and friends turned to Seattle attorney and media legal analyst Anne Bremner to help win her freedom. The case was dubbed the “trial of the decade” and would coincide... Read more

The Joy of the Disinherited

By: Kevin Dedner

Narrated by: Dr. Jeff “Giovanni” Flanigan

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Could being Black in America make you sick? Over the last decade, Kevin Dedner has been on a mission to explore this powerful and troubling question, shining an unconventional spotlight on the impact of racism on mental health. In his debut book, The Joy of the Disinherited, Dedner articulates his call for urgent change: We must knock down the... Read more

Commentaries on the Laws of England

By: William Blackstone

Narrated by: Ethan Williams

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Commentaries on the Laws of England" is a book written by William Blackstone, an English jurist, judge, and politician. The book was first published in the 18th century and became one of the most influential legal treatises in English history. It is divided into four volumes and provides a comprehensive overview of English law, including the... Read more

What’s it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary? Fascinating answers to perplexing questions

By: Felicity Lewis (ed.)

Narrated by: Caz Prescott & Sam Smith

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wondered what happens to us as we die? Or how the Esky became an Aussie cultural icon? Or why we have leap years? Then look no further - and even if you haven't wondered, you'll want to find out. This anthology is a diverse collection of explainers by some of the finest writers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. It tackles... Read more

Slavery and Islam

By: Jonathan A.C. Brown

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong? Are you right or are they, and what does this mean about what you’ve been venerating? No issue brings this question into starker contrast than slavery. Every major religion and philosophy condoned or approved of it, but in modern times there is nothing seen as more... Read more

The Spirit of Laws

By: Baron de Montesquieu

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 22 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1748, this is possibly the most masterful and influential book ever written on the subject of liberty and justice. Accordingly, it is a work that profoundly influenced America’s Founding Fathers. Its success was due partly to the fact that it was the first systematic treatise on politics, partly to Montesquieu’s... Read more

Cocaine Cowboys

By: Nicola Tallant

Narrated by: Nicola Tallant

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Cocaine Cowboys tells the story of Ireland's love affair with cocaine since it first washed ashore on Cork's rugged coast to the billion-euro trade it has become. From Ireland's first cocaine lord and his attempts to establish a direct route from Miami to Dublin, to the modern-day violence that led to the brutal dismemberment of teenager Keane... Read more

Out of Order

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But the stories of the Court and the Justices that come from the ‘out of order’ moments... 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

To Serve the Enemy

By: Shane Darcy

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A constant yet oftentimes concealed practice in war has been the use of informers and collaborators by parties to an armed conflict. Despite the prevalence of such activity, and the serious and at times fatal consequences that befall those who collaborate with an enemy, international law applicable in times of armed conflict does not squarely... Read more

Mapping Humanity

By: Joshua Z. Rappoport, PhD

Narrated by: Peter Lerman

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Thanks to the popularity of personal genetic testing services, it's now easier than ever to get information about our own unique DNA—but who does this information really benefit? And, as genome editing and gene therapy transform the healthcare landscape, what do we gain—and what might we give up in return?



Inside each of your cells is the... Read more

Negotiations

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Negotiation can be termed as a result-oriented discussion or conversation between two or more people with the purpose being reaching a mutually-beneficial conclusion. In most instances, the result benefits all parties, but there are times some or single member of that party carries the day. With negotiation skill, one can easily resolve... Read more

Fällda för sexövergrepp : om rättsfall i Sverige

By: Thérèse Juel

Narrated by: Cecilia Ström

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

De senaste åren har Sverige sett en stor ökning anmälda sexualbrott, där främst män står anklagade. Men vad händer när dessa fall går till rättegång och det inte finns några bevis utöver anklagandet självt? Hur avgör man vad som är bortom rimligt tvivel när ord står mot ord? Thérèse Juel blev engagerad i frågan när en vän till henne dömdes för... Read more

Watchdog

By: Richard Cordray

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans. When they are cheated or mistreated, all too often they hit a brick wall against the financial companies. People are fed up with being run over by big corporations, and few have the resources or expertise to fight back on their own.



It is... 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

Der mit den Seifenblasen fliegt

By: Marie Wollatz

Narrated by: Juliane Wolf

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An einem schönen Herbstnachmittag spielen Emma und Mika Indianer. Da kommt Emma die Idee, sie könnten doch mit den Zauberseifenblasen von Mika zu richtigen Indianern reisen. Hört, ob ihnen die Reise gelingt und warum die kleine Katze Susi plötzlich so wichtig für ihre Reisen wird. 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

Introvert Negotiators Can Tame and Beat Aggressive Negotiators Using Skill and Finesse

By: Zane Rozzi

Narrated by: Zane Rozzi

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

It's important to use negotiating strategies and tactics that prevent the other party from pushing you around or taking advantage of you. You must not allow the other party to squeeze every penny out of you. You never want to appear weak. Blood in the water attracts sharks.
While some negotiation tactics use strength, the most effective tactics... Read more