Law audiobooks

At America's Gates

By: Erika Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation... Read more

Last Resort

By: Eric A. Posner

Narrated by: Steve Menasche

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair—and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren't we encouraging them to continue to act irresponsibly, setting the stage for future crises?... Read more

Crimes That Changed Our World

By: Paul H. Robinson & Sarah M. Robinson

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world.



The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present. Each case is in some ways unique... Read more

The Oath and the Office

By: Corey Brettschneider

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Can the president launch a nuclear attack without congressional approval? Is it ever a crime to criticize the president? Can states legally resist a president's executive order? Corey Brettschneider takes us on a deep dive into the U.S. Constitution to answer questions that, in our tumultuous era, Americans are asking more than ever before. From... Read more

Burned

By: Edward Humes

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?

On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires... Read more

None of the Above

By: Shani Robinson & Anna Simonton

Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider’s account of the infamous Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal which scapegoated black employees for problems caused by an education reform movement that is increasingly a proxy for corporate greed.

In March of 2013, thirty-five black educators in Atlanta Public Schools were charged with racketeering and conspiracy—the same charges... 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

Living Trusts for Everyone

By: Ronald Farrington Sharp

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Living Trusts for Everyone is the best resource for setting up a living trust. Explaining in specific terms what benefits a trust will have, Ronald Farrington Sharp gives the tools necessary to set up a loved one's trust with no lawyers and no expense.



Wills benefit lawyers. Trusts benefit the clients. Too often lawyers sell wills to clients only... Read more

American Islamophobia

By: Khaled A. Beydoun

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“I remember the four words that repeatedly scrolled across my mind after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. ‘Please don’t be Muslims, please don’t be Muslims.’ The four words I whispered to myself on 9/11 reverberated through the mind of every Muslim American that day and every day after . . . . Our fear, and... Read more

Not Enough

By: Samuel Moyn

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel... 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

Impeachment

By: Cass R. Sunstein

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

As Benjamin Franklin famously put it, Americans have a republic, if we can keep it. Preserving the Constitution and the democratic system it supports is the public’s responsibility. One route the Constitution provides for discharging that duty―a route rarely traveled―is impeachment.Cass R. Sunstein provides a succinct citizen’s guide to an... Read more

The Embattled Vote in America

By: Allan J. Lichtman

Narrated by: Dennis Holland

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans have fought and died for the right to vote. Yet the world’s oldest continuously operating democracy guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. In this rousing work, the bestselling author of The Case for Impeachment calls attention to the founders’ crucial error: leaving the franchise to the discretion... Read more

Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment

By: John Stuart Mill

Narrated by: Peter Quest

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

John Stuart Mill is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the Victorian Era. In this speech, he defends the practice of capital punishment. He states, “I defend this penalty, when confined to atrocious cases, on the very ground on which it is commonly attacked—on that of humanity to the criminal; as beyond comparison the least... Read more

Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional?

By: Mark Golub

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

More than just a legal doctrine, color-blind constitutionalism has emerged as the defining metaphor of the post–Civil Rights era. Even for those challenging its constitutional authority, the language of color-blindness sets the terms of debate. Critics of color-blind constitutionalism are in this sense captured by the object of their critique.... Read more

Organized Crime

By: Georgios A. Antonopoulos & Georgios Papanicolaou

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighborhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. Policymakers, law enforcement, and the media rarely fail to bring up the issue when discussing the nature and seriousness of contemporary criminal... Read more

Down to the Wire

By: David W. Orr

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Down to the Wire is a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. David Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point that biologist Edward O. Wilson... Read more

Guns across America

By: Robert J. Spitzer

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned. Gun rights supporters wear tri-cornered hats, wave the stars and stripes, and ask what would have happened if the revolutionaries had been unarmed when the British were coming. They have had great success in conflating... Read more

A Well-Regulated Militia

By: Saul Cornell

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both... Read more

In the Shadow of Korematsu

By: Eric K. Yamamoto

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris–San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America—an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association and speech, and an era marked by... Read more

Arrest-Proof Yourself

By: Dale C. Carson & Wes Denham

Narrated by: Joel Richards

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

What do you say if a cop pulls you over and asks to search your car? What if he gets up in your face and uses a racial slur? What if there's a roach in the ashtray? And what if your hot-headed teenage son is at the wheel? If you listen to this book, you'll know exactly what to do and say.



More people than ever are getting arrested—usually for... Read more

51 Imperfect Solutions

By: Jeffrey S. Sutton

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitutional law is not made at the federal level. In 51 Imperfect Solutions, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton argues that American Constitutional Law should account for the role of the state... Read more

A Savage Order

By: Rachel Kleinfeld

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some... Read more

The Rescue Artist

By: Edward Dolnick

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the... Read more