Law audiobooks

Off the Record

By: Norman Pearlstine

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When Norman Pearlstine—as editor in chief of Time Inc.—agreed to give prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald a reporter's notes of a conversation with a "confidential source," he was vilified for betraying the freedom of the press. But in this hard-hitting inside story, Pearlstine shows that "Plamegate" was not the clear case it seemed to be and that... Read more

People Get Screwed All the Time

By: Robert Massi

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you do if you were accused and arrested for a crime that you didn't commit? How about if you realized that you'd just been scammed for thousands of dollars? What about if, due to a circumstance as unavoidable as having the same name as a criminal, your credit rating kept you from buying a house or a car, or getting a loan for college?... Read more

Facing Down Evil

By: Daniel Paisner

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

No ordinary Washington memoir, Facing Down Evil is an unprecedented look behind the scenes of our nation's most powerful law enforcement agency. As the FBI's premier hostage negotiator, Clint Van Zandt worked or consulted on some of recent U.S. history's most unsettling and high-profile conflicts, including the Waco, Oklahoma City, and... Read more

Fair Play

By: James M. Olson

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and... Read more

Beyond Trans

By: Heath Fogg Davis

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just... Read more

The Rights of Nature

By: David R. Boyd

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand's Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building—in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to... Read more

Accidental Activists

By: David Collins

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to... Read more

Courtroom 302

By: Steve Bogira

Narrated by: Mark Kamish

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily... Read more

The Counterrevolution

By: Bernard E. Harcourt

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States—one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial... Read more

Defending Free Speech

By: Steve Simpson, Onkar Ghate, Leonard Peikoff & E...

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Freedom of speech is indispensable to a free and civilized society, yet this precious right is increasingly under attack today. Islamic totalitarians repeatedly threaten and kill those deemed blasphemers while our political leaders stand idly by—and many intellectuals blame the victims. College students seek “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces”... Read more

Straight Talk on Trade

By: Dani Rodrik

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken critic of economic globalization taken too far, goes beyond the populist backlash and offers a more reasoned explanation for why our elites' and technocrats' obsession with hyper-globalization made it more difficult for nations to achieve legitimate economic and social objectives at... Read more

Drug Warrior

By: Jack Riley

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-Rolling Stone)tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic.

Jack Riley, grandson of a Chicago cop known for using his fists, was born to be a drug... Read more

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By: Jane Sherron de Hart

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 24 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the most profound and profoundly transformative legal minds of our time; a book fifteen years in work, written with the cooperation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the justice, her husband, her children, her... Read more

The Most Dangerous Branch

By: David A. Kaplan

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government—and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril.

With the retirement of... Read more

John Marshall

By: Richard Brookhiser

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice.

In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved. Before he joined the Supreme Court, it was the... Read more

Rectify

By: Lara Bazelon

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Makes a powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal.

In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number of men and women exonerated from crimes that kept them... 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

You Don't Own Me

By: Orly Lobel

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Carter Bryant began designing what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel, where he designed outfits for Barbie. Later, back at Mattel, he sold his concept for Bratz to rival company MGA. Law professor Orly Lobel reveals the colorful story behind the ensuing decade-long court... Read more

Faces at the Bottom of the Well

By: Derrick Bell

Narrated by: Brad Raymond

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice

In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed to fail so long as the... Read more

Kings of Cocaine

By: Guy Gugliotta & Jeff Leen

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of the most successful cocaine dealers in the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Jorge Luis Ochoa Vasquez, Carlos Lehder Rivas and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. In the 1980s they controlled more than fifty percent of the cocaine flowing into the United States. The cocaine trade is capitalism on overdrive—supply meeting demand on... Read more

The Schoolhouse Gate

By: Justin Driver

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 19 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public... Read more

Bloodsworth

By: Tim Junkin

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Charged with the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die in Maryland's gas chamber. Maintaining his innocence, he read everything on criminal law available in the prison library and persuaded a new lawyer to petition for the then-innovative DNA testing. After nine years in one... Read more

Punishment Without Crime

By: Alexandra Natapoff

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals.

Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff... Read more

The Soul of the First Amendment

By: Floyd Abrams

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and controversial overview by the nation’s most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in AmericaThe right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the most honored and least understood addendum to the US Constitution—the... Read more