Law audiobooks

A Girl Stands at the Door

By: Rachel Devlin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education

The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and... Read more

To End a Presidency

By: Laurence Tribe & Joshua Matz

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser & Laurence Tribe

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As Congress prepares articles of impeachment of President Trump, read the definitive book on presidential impeachment and how it should be used today.

Impeachment is our ultimate constitutional check against an out-of-control executive. But it is also a perilous and traumatic undertaking for the nation. In this authoritative examination,... Read more

Stalling for Time

By: Gary Noesner

Narrated by: Gary Noesner

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.

“Riveting . . . the most in-depth and absorbing section is devoted to the 1993 siege near Waco, Texas.”—The Washington Post

In Stalling for Time, the... Read more

What Kind of Nation

By: James F. Simon

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The bitter and protracted struggle between President Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall defined the basic constitutional relationship between the executive and judicial branches of government. More than 150 years later, their clashes still reverberate in constitutional debates and political battles.In this dramatic... Read more

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

By: Joel F. Harrington

Narrated by: Jame Gillies

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington's The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during forty-five years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and... Read more

Estate Planning for Authors

By: M. L. Buchman

Narrated by: M. L. Buchman

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

-an estate planning self-help guide for artists & writers-Writer, painter, photographer, musician, designer, animator, graphic artist, programmer, screenwriter, textile artist, choreographer, composer, sculptor...A will or trust controls who inherits what. The Final Letter tells your heir(s) ways to maintain it, even make it thrive, once... Read more

The Bill of Rights

By: Linda R. Monk

Narrated by: Susan Larkin

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.

An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens.

In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's... Read more

The Devil’s Advocates

By: Michael S. Lief & H. Mitchell Caldwell

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir, Stephen Hoye, Stefan Rudnick...

Length: 21 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Devil’s Advocates shows us the crimes and trials that have so captivated the public, cases that have also helped to illuminate underlying principals of the American criminal-justice system over the years.Future President John Adams illustrates the principle that led to the right to a fair trial as he argues on behalf of the British soldier... Read more

We the Corporations

By: Adam Winkler

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital.Corporations—like minorities and women—have had a civil rights movement of their own and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary... Read more

Conan Doyle for the Defense

By: Margalit Fox

Narrated by: Peter Forbes

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods
 
A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story.    

After a wealthy woman was brutally... Read more

The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right

By: Michael J. Graetz & Linda Greenhouse

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 he promised to change the Supreme Court. With four appointments to the court, including Warren E. Burger as the chief justice, he did just that. In 1969, the Burger Court succeeded the famously liberal Warren Court, which had significantly expanded civil liberties and was despised by... Read more

The Supreme Court

By: William H. Rehnquist

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Chief Justice Rehnquist’s engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court’s history, from Chief Justice Marshall’s dominance of the Court during the early nineteenth century through the landmark decisions of the Warren Court. Citing cases such as the Dred Scott decision and Roosevelt’s Court-packing plan, Rehnquist makes... Read more

Closing the Courthouse Door

By: Erwin Chemerinsky

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of... Read more

The Cyanide Canary

By: Robert Dugoni & Joseph Hilldorfer

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in the morning on August 27, 1996, twenty-year-old Scott Dominguez showed up for an ordinary day at the fertilizing plant where he worked. By 11:00 a.m., he was clinging to life, unconscious and suffocating from toxic exposure to cyanide in a tank that was supposed to contain only mud and water.



EPA Special Agent Joseph Hilldorfer was... Read more

Unwarranted

By: Barry Friedman

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory policing. In Unwarranted, Barry Friedman argues... Read more

Whoever Fights Monsters

By: Robert K. Ressler & Tom Shachtman

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned from them how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us—and put them behind bars. Now the man who coined the phrase "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs shows how he has tracked down... Read more

Scalia's Court

By: Antonin Scalia & Kevin A. Ring

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia shook America. After almost thirty years on the Supreme Court, Scalia had become as integral to the institution as the hallowed room in which he sat. His wisecracking interruptions during oral arguments, his unmatched legal wisdom, his unwavering dedication to the Constitution, and his blistering... Read more

The Constitution Today

By: Akhil Reed Amar

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly. In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America's preeminent constitutional scholar, considers the biggest and most bitterly contested debates of the last two decades—from... Read more

Our Republican Constitution

By: Randy E. Barnett

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Constitution of the United States begins with the words: "We the People." But from the earliest days of the American republic, there have been two competing notions of "the People," which lead to two very different visions of the Constitution.



Those who view "We the People" collectively think popular sovereignty resides in the people as a... Read more

Not Just Evil

By: David Wilson

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927. Her body was found days later, delivered to her father by the killer, who fled with the ransom money. When William Hickman was hunted down and charged with the killing, he admitted to all of it, in terrifying detail, but that was... Read more

Incarceration Nations

By: Baz Dreisinger

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Baz Dreisinger, a professor, journalist, and the founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline, looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of... Read more

Breaking In

By: Joan Biskupic

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Breaking In, veteran journalist Joan Biskupic tells the story of how two forces providentially merged—the large ambitions of a talented Puerto Rican girl raised in the projects in the Bronx and the increasing political presence of Hispanics, from California to Texas, from Florida to the Northeast—resulting in a historical appointment. And... Read more

Stolen Years

By: Reuven Fenton

Narrated by: Will Damron, JD Jackson & Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

There is a grisly murder in your neighborhood. You stand outside with your neighbors and watch, or maybe you peek out your curtains. Hours pass, then days, maybe years. Then one day there is a knock at your door and the police take you in for questioning. Do you remember what happened? Do you have an alibi? Can you take countless hours of... Read more

And Justice for Some

By: Wendy Murphy

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When Wendy Murphy was a young prosecutor, she learned that the deck is stacked in favor of criminal defendants. Between their arrest and (potential) conviction, murderers, rapists, and drug dealers get more than a fair shake—they get an unfair advantage, often at the expense of their victims.



In many states, for instance, defendants can subpoena... Read more