Law audiobooks

Alexanderplatz, Berlin

By: Georg Diez

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexanderplatz has long survived as the symbol of a city burdened by its ruinous past. In 2012, twenty-year-old Jonny K. was beaten to death on this infamous Berlin square—and Germany’s first multicultural murder brought another shock to a country that’s seen its share. Before the trial, the question of guilt already had an ideological slant:... Read more

Chokehold

By: Paul Butler

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington Post Notable Book A Kirkus Best Book of 2017“Butler has hit his stride. This is a meditation, a sonnet, a legal brief, a poetry slam and a dissertation that represents the full bloom of his early thesis: The justice system does not work for... Read more

The Court of Last Resort

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of Perry Mason’s Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals.In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent.... Read more

Summer for the Gods

By: Edward J Larson

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools

In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher... Read more

The Three Lives of James Madison

By: Noah Feldman

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 34 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president

Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its... Read more

The American Legal Experience

By: Lawrence Friedman

Narrated by: The Professor

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The legal system in America is the basis of freedom as we know it today. The system is based, ultimately, on the common law of England, but it has grown, developed, and changed over the years. American law has been a critical factor in American life since colonial times. It has played a role in shaping society, but society-the structure,... Read more

The Case for Impeachment

By: Allan J. Lichtman

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Lichtman has written what may be the most important book of the year.”  —The HillWhat are the ranges and limitations of presidential authority? What are the standards of truthfulness that a president must uphold? What will it take to impeach Donald J. Trump? Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty... Read more

Tierra de todos

By: Jorge Ramos

Narrated by: Antonio Martinez

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El objetivo de este libro es hacer visibles a los invisibles y darles voz a los que no tienen voz. Y la eleccion de Barack Obama como presidente nos brinda una oportunidad historica para incorporar a la sociedad norteamericana a los que viven marginados, con miedo y en las sombras. Obama es el mejor ejemplo de que Estados Unidos le da... Read more

Loving

By: Sheryll Cashin

Narrated by: Trei Taylor

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful look at Loving v. Virginia—the landmark case of interracial love and marriage that changed American history and inspired the 2016 film.

“White supremacy has long foiled love, and love has long foiled white supremacy. Sheryll Cashin offers us this essential historical revelation . . . and urges us to renew our old fight for the human... Read more

The Chickenshit Club

By: Jesse Eisinger

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission…It is a book of superheroes” (San Francisco Review of Books).

Why were no bankers put in... Read more

The Ecology of Law

By: Fritjof Capra & Ugo Mattei

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2015 IBPA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD IN POLITICS/CURRENT EVENTS

The Ecology of Law

Fritjof Capra and Ugo Mattei argue that at the root of many of the environmental, economic, and social crises we face today is a legal system based on an obsolete worldview. Capra, a bestselling author, physicist, and systems theorist, and Mattei, a... 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

Melting Pot or Civil War?

By: Reihan Salam

Narrated by: Reihan Salam

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before Covid-19 and the death of George Floyd rocked America, Reihan Salam predicted our current unrest--and provided a blueprint for reuniting the country.

"Tthe years to come may see a new populist revolt, driven by the resentments of working-class Americans of color.”

For too long, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist, or... Read more

Secrecy World

By: Jake Bernstein

Narrated by: Jake Bernstein

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrecy World is the inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global... Read more

Cazando a El Chapo

By: Andrew Hogan & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Trujo Trujo

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Una combinación de las películas Manhunt, Killing Pablo y Zero Dark Thirty, esta sensacional obra de misterio, y de alta tecnología de investigación, de Andrew Hogan y Douglas Century —que pronto será una gran película producida por Sony— es una crónica impresionante de un capítulo en la guerra contra las drogas en el siglo veinte: la... Read more

Without Precedent

By: Joel Richard Paul

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Unlikely Allies and Indivisible comes the remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.
 
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did... Read more

Gideon's Trumpet

By: Anthony Lewis

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. 

A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. Notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist bestseller. More... Read more

Grass Roots

By: Emily Dufton

Narrated by: Greg Baglia

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana

In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar trajectory forty years ago, only to encounter a fierce backlash. In Grass Roots,... Read more

Policing the Black Man

By: Angela J. Davis

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Kevin Kenerly

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.Contributing authors include Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative, NYU Law... Read more

Crime Scene Investigation: Philosophy, Practice, and Science Part 1

By: Robert C. Shaler

Narrated by: Robert C. Shaler

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The director of the Forensic Science Program at Pennsylvania State University, Professor Robert C. Shaler leads a comprehensive study of the intricacies of an intriguing, and always topical, science. In these lectures, Shaler imparts a clear understanding of crime scene investigation, from archiving the scene to the presentation of evidence in... Read more

Mental Health, Inc.

By: Art Levine

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Prizewinning investigative journalist Art Levine offers a no-holds-barred and crucial call to action for America’s broken mental health system.The mental health system in America is hardly a front-burner issue, despite lip-service about reform after a tragic mass killing. Yet every American should care deeply about fixing a system a presidential... Read more

Infinite Hope

By: Anthony Graves

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration.

In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house... Read more

"They Take Our Jobs!"

By: Aviva Chomsky

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations.

Aviva Chomsky dismantles twenty-one of the most widespread and pernicious myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigration in this incisive book. "They Take Our Jobs!" challenges... Read more

The Post-Nup Solution

By: Tom Gardiner

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Having trouble in your marriage? This book is for you. Tom Gardiner, a Chicago lawyer, explains how post-nuptial agreements can address marital problems effectively. Unlike counseling that often is no more than a temporary fix, this book talks about agreements that will result in long-term change.If your spouse drinks too much, for instance, you... Read more