Law audiobooks

The U.S. Constitution

By: David J. Bodenhamer

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its framers designed to limit power, often has made political conflict inevitable. It also has accommodated... Read more

White Shoe

By: John Oller

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world

“Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal • “Insightful and revealing."—Kirkus • “Captivating.”—BookPage

The legal profession once... Read more

Charged

By: Emily Bazelon

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America’s mass incarceration crisis—and charts a way out.

“An important, thoughtful, and thorough examination of criminal justice in America that speaks directly to how we reduce mass incarceration.”—Bryan... Read more

The Chief

By: Joan Biskupic

Narrated by: Jennywren Walker

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far.
John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything but, pointing to his conservative victories on voting... Read more

The Constitution Demands It

By: Ron Fein, John Bonifaz & Ben Clements

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The reasons Donald Trump must be impeached—as per the Founding Fathers—and what you can do to help make that happen



Three veteran constitutional attorneys say there's no way around it: The Constitution demands that Donald Trump must be impeached.



And in clear language using compelling logic rooted firmly in the Constitution, they detail why the... Read more

A Duty to Resist

By: Candice Delmas

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given this moral duty, a person needs a solid justification to break the law. But activists from Henry... Read more

Insane

By: Alisa Roth

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons.



America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police... Read more

The Supremes' Greatest Hits, 2nd Revised & Updated Edition

By: Michael G. Trachtman

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Can the government seize your house to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what control you have over your own body? Can police search your cellphone? The answers to those questions come from the Supreme Court, whose rulings have shaped American life and justice and allowed Americans to retain basic freedoms such as privacy, free speech, and... Read more

Industry of Anonymity

By: Jonathan Lusthaus

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The most extensive account yet of the lives of cybercriminals and the vast international industry they have created, deeply sourced and based on field research in the world’s technology-crime hotspotsCybercrime seems invisible. Attacks arrive out of nowhere, their origins hidden by layers of sophisticated technology. Only the victims are clear.... Read more

Three Felonies A Day

By: Harvey A. Silverglate

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and... Read more

No Property in Man

By: Sean Wilentz

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage at the nation's founding. The acclaimed political historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently. Although the... Read more

The Case for Impeaching Trump

By: Elizabeth Holtzman

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Elizabeth Holtzman has always been the first and the bravest, the smartest and most trusted. She is the expert we need to deal with an accidental President who got there as a serial sexual harasser, a candidate who lost the popular vote, and an unsuccessful businessman who was born on third base and thinks he hit a home run. Now what? Ask... Read more

Point Made

By: Ross Guberman

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

With Point Made, legal writing expert Ross Guberman throws a life preserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion or brief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell a persuasive story when the record is dry and dense? The answers are "more science than art,"... Read more

We the People

By: Erwin Chemerinsky

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Worried about what a super conservative majority on the Supreme Court means for the future of civil liberties? From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the U.S. Constitution that protects the rights of all... Read more

The Court and the Cross

By: Frederick S. Lane

Narrated by: David Henry

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

While President George W. Bush has appointed two Supreme Court justices during his terms in office, the next president may be in a position to appoint up to three new justices, replacing one third of the Court. This relatively high number could drastically alter future Supreme Court rulings. Now is the perfect time to consider the role of... Read more

I Dissent

By: Mark Tushnet

Narrated by: Mark Tushnet

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases

If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers' rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified... Read more

The Sit Room

By: David Scheffer

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sit Room brings you inside the secretive Situation Room of the White House, the most important deliberative room in the world, during the early 1990s when the author was one of the policymakers who framed the Clinton Administration's policy towards the bloody Balkans War. Drawing upon newly declassified documents and his own notes, David... Read more

The Nonsense Factory

By: Bruce Cannon Gibney

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 17 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author of A Generation of Sociopaths.
Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our correctional systems do not correct, and the rise of mandated arbitration... Read more

University of Berkshire Hathaway

By: Daniel Pecaut

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Will there ever be another investing book quite like this? It's unlikely. University of Berkshire Hathaway is a remarkable retelling of the lessons, wisdom, and investment strategies handed down personally from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to shareholders during 30 years of their closed-door annual meetings. From this front row seat, you'll... Read more

Summoned at Midnight

By: Richard A. Serrano

Narrated by: Jeff Zinn

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration.

Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in the US military criminal justice system determined whose lives mattered and deserved a second chance and whose did not. Between 1955 and 1961, a... Read more

A People's History of the Supreme Court

By: Peter Irons

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 28 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court



Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's... Read more

Uncivil Warriors

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on whose side's arguments one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its dissolution. After the war began, rival legal... Read more

Taxing Wars

By: Sarah Kreps

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Kreps chronicles the entire history of how America has paid for its wars—and how its methods have changed. Early on, the United States imposed war taxes that both demanded sacrifices from all Americans and served as reminders of their participation. Indeed, thinkers from Immanuel Kant to Adam Smith argued that these reminders were exactly... Read more

What is the Dark Web?

By: Evan J. Rodgers

Narrated by: David Loving

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Discover the truth about the Dark Web! Is it really what we were made to believe?
Are you feeling watched every time you go online? Is privacy in a digital world still possible? In this modern era, where our personal information is treated as a currency, privacy has become a luxury. If we are not careful, someday we might end up having to fight... Read more