Law audiobooks

Habeas Data

By: Cyrus Farivar

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An important look at how fifty years of American privacy law is inadequate for today's surveillance technology, from acclaimed Ars Technica senior business editor Cyrus Farivar



Until the twenty-first century, most of our activities were private by default, public only through effort; today anything that touches digital space has the potential... Read more

Death Row Welcomes You

By: Steven Hale

Narrated by: Tim Fannon

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2018, after nearly a decade's hiatus, the state of Tennessee began executing death row inmates, bucking national trends that showed the death penalty in decline. In less than two years, the state put seven men to death. It was an execution spree unlike any seen in Tennessee since the 1940s, only brought to a halt by a global pandemic.... Read more

Dismissed

By: Todd McMurtry & JD Stevenson

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Find out why readers are calling this the surprise book of the summer, that is "easy to read," "compelling," and "full of engaging stories". We’re told Justice should be blind. We’ve been taught that “The Truth will set you free.” But is that the world in which we find ourselves? Cancel culture, biased narratives, mainstream media, and giant... Read more

Comment réussir le concours de directeur d'hôpital et D3S?

By: Léon HIPPOCRATE

Narrated by: Léon HIPPOCRATE

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

PREMIER LIVRE DE PRÉPARATION ENTIÈREMENT CONSACRÉ AUX CONCOURS DE DIRECTEUR D'HÔPITAL et DIRECTEUR D'ÉTABLISSEMENT DE SANTÉ, SOINS et MÉDICO-SOCIAL (D3S).
LE SEUL LIVRE qui traite intégralement et uniquement des métiers et concours de directeur d'hôpital et de D3S.
Écrit par un haut fonctionnaire, enseignant en classe préparatoire depuis plus... Read more

Der Taschenanwalt

By: Christian Solmecke

Narrated by: Christian Solmecke

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Mit dem Auto in zweiter Reihe parken, um kurz die Hemden aus der Reinigung abzuholen, kostet Autofahrer ein Bußgeld von 55 Euro. Wer noch dazu mit dem Warnblinker auf sein stehendes Fahrzeug aufmerksam macht, zahlt 10 Euro extra. Hätte man den Warnblinker doch besser nicht eingeschaltet … doch woher soll man das wissen? Ganz einfach: »Der... Read more

South Dakota Real Estate License Exam AudioLearn

By: AudioLearn Content Team

Narrated by: Lon Harris

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Introducing South Dakota Real Estate License Exam AudioLearn: A Complete Audio Review for the Real Estate License Examination in South Dakota!

Developed by experienced real estate professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your real estate license examination in South Dakota. The... Read more

Memory and Authority

By: Jack M. Balkin

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court's current embrace of originalism is only the most recent example of how lawyers and judges try to use history to establish authority for their positions. Jack M. Balkin argues that fights over constitutional interpretation are often... Read more

The Sewing Girl's Tale

By: John Wood Sweet

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
Winner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book Award

A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries—and how much has not

On a moonless night in the... Read more

Fiber

By: Susan Crawford

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The world of fiber optic connections reaching neighborhoods, homes, and businesses will be as different from what came before as the world after the advent of electricity. The virtually unlimited amounts of data we'll be able to send and receive through fiber-optic connections will enable a degree of virtual presence that will radically... Read more

Wisconsin Real Estate License Exam AudioLearn

By: AudioLearn Content Team

Narrated by: Lon Harris

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Developed by experienced real estate professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your real estate license examination in Wisconsin. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to pass your examination. The material is accurate, up to... Read more

Open Season

By: Ben Crump

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The president of the National Bar Association and one of the most distinguished civil rights attorneys working today reflects on the landmark cases he has battled—including representing Trayvon Martin’s family—and offers a disturbing look at how the justice system is used to promote injustice in this memoir and clarion call as shocking and... Read more

Elegant Legal Writing

By: Ryan McCarl

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Elegant Legal Writing helps attorneys elevate their writing from passable to polished. Drawing on ideas from cognitive science, stylistics, and litigation strategy, the book teaches practical techniques by example using fast-paced chapters. Listeners will learn the essentials of effective legal composition:

● Writing clear, efficient prose

●... Read more

The Fight for Privacy

By: Danielle Keats Citron

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with... Read more

A Sense of Balance

By: John Howard

Narrated by: John Howard

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future.
In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect the sense of balance in the formulation of public policy that... Read more

The Constitution in Jeopardy

By: Russ Feingold & Peter Prindiville

Narrated by: Jim Seybert, Russ Feingold & Peter Prindiville

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward.

Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism—the nation's first ever—has inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia... Read more

Innocent Blood

By: Terry Ganey

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Innocent Blood is the true story of Charles Hatcher and his life of crime—a powerful, and blood-chilling glimpse into the darkness between sanity and madness. It also chronicles a justice system gone wrong.



Throughout his criminal career Hatcher was able to fool dozens of psychiatrists, who repeatedly failed to identify him as a multiple... Read more

Arbitrary Lines

By: M. Nolan Gray

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling.



The good news is that reform is in the air, with states across the country critically reevaluating zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Fayetteville, and... Read more

La justicia desahuciada

By: Elpidio José Silva

Narrated by: Esteban Massana

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay un hombre en España que ahora mismo no deja indiferente a nadie. Se trata de Elpidio José Silva, titular del Juzgado de Instrucción número 9 de Madrid. Desconocido, hasta hace pocos meses, su intervención en el llamado «caso Blesa» le ha convertido, desde el punto de vista mediático, en el magistrado que se ha atrevido a atacar a las caras... Read more

Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address (Unabridged)

By: Abraham LINCOLN

Narrated by: John Charley, Richard Chaffin, Barbara Macinnes...

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on the dangers of mob rule. Seeming to speak to our present time, he warned that mobs, or people who disrespected U.S. laws and courts, could destroy the United States. He went on to say that the Constitution... Read more

Usual Cruelty

By: Alec Karakatsanis

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Alec Karakatsanis is interested in what we choose to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor people to wager in the streets over dice; dice-wagerers can be seized, searched, have their assets forfeited, and be locked in cages. It's perfectly fine, by contrast, for people to wager over international currencies, mortgages,... Read more

Impeach

By: Neal Katyal & Sam Koppelman

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Why President Trump has left us with no choice but to remove him from office, as explained by celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.

No one is above the law. This belief is as American as freedom of speech and turkey on Thanksgiving—held sacred by Democrats and Republicans alike. But as celebrated... Read more

The Legal Analyst

By: Ward Farnsworth

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum. In The Legal Analyst, Ward Farnsworth brings together in one... Read more

Marijuana 360

By: Nancy E. Marion & Joshua B. Hill

Narrated by: Norah Tocci

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana. Since then, thirty states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing marijuana in some form. Nine of those states, including Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington, have legalized marijuana for recreational use. Many states, including Arizona and Ohio, are... Read more

The Journalist and the Murderer

By: Janet Malcolm

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

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