Law audiobooks

A Child of Fortune

By: Jeffrey St. John

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exciting audio production, prize-winning journalist and historian Jeffrey St. John simulates day-by-day reportage to make you a firsthand witness to the 1787–1788 political battle to ratify the US Constitution. Discover how close both sides of the debate came to resorting to violence and rigged elections and witness Patrick Henry’s... Read more

The Bureau

By: Ronald Kessler

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bureau takes listeners behind the scenes of the FBI, from its creation in 1908 to the scandals of present day. Based on exclusive interviews, Kessler reveals the inside story surrounding the events of September 11 and the investigation into the anthrax mailings. The Bureau delves deep within the agency, presenting the organization in its... Read more

The Case of Abraham Lincoln

By: Julie M. Fenster

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln was at a difficult point, personally. Depressed, edgy, and often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He saw himself as a former congressman with little future in politics. Then in May of 1856, he became drawn to the case of the gruesome murder of a blacksmith named George Anderson. Lincoln was asked... Read more

Lethal Injection

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Woodruff talks to Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center and Jeff Middendorf of the State of Kentucky's Justice and Public Safety Cabinet about recent lethal injection developments. 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

The Innocent Man

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence.
 
SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
 
“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be... Read more

Civil Rights Activist John Hope Franklin

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an interview with historian John Hope Franklin about his autobiography. Read more

SCOTUS Discussions June 2006

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court decided two cases today impacting death row inmates. Ray Suarez speaks with Marcia Coyle, Washington bureau chief for The National Law Journal, regarding the decisions, including a challenge to the use of lethal injection. Read more

SCOTUS Discussions January 2006

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Right to Die RulingRay Suarez reports on the national impact of today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld an Oregon state law, which authorizes doctor-assisted suicide. Suarez discusses today's ruling with Marcia Coyle, Washington bureau chief and Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal. Then, Suarez speaks with Kathryn... Read more

Class Action

By: Clara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the coldest reaches of northern Minnesota, a group of women endured a shocking degree of sexual harassment, until one found the courage to file the first sexual harassment class action suit in America, permanently changing the legal landscape.When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn’t... Read more

Objection!

By: Nancy Grace

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As host of Closing Arguments on Court TV and Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News, Nancy Grace has won legions of devoted fans with her intelligent, plainspoken approach to the law. A passionate advocate of victims’ rights and outspoken critic of the often circus-like atmosphere surrounding high-profile cases, Grace addresses the critical issues at... Read more

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution

By: Kevin R. C. Gutzman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

While the government claims to be a representative republic, somehow hot-button topics from gay marriage to the allocation of Florida’s presidential electors always seem to be decided by unelected judges. What gives them the right to decide such issues? The judges say it’s the Constitution.Author and law professor Kevin Gutzman shows that there... 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

Cornerstone of Liberty

By: Timothy Sandefur

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner…Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory…The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.”—Justice Sandra... Read more

What Were You Thinking??

By: Mark Barondess

Narrated by: Mark A. Barondess

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Wouldn't it be nice if you could sit down with an attorney who normally charges $600 per hour—or more—and receive expert legal advice on what is no doubt one of the biggest decisions you will ever make? Listening to What Were You Thinking?? gives you that opportunity. This is an absolutely indispensable guide for anyone considering coupling or... Read more

One L

By: Scott Turow

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Decades after Scott Turow entered law school comes an all new unabridged production of this classic with a special introduction by and interview with the author

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a bestseller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not... Read more

History of Supreme Court Vacancies

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In a prelude to the expected battle over the next Supreme Court justice nomination, an historian explains the selection and confirmation process and the past battles between Congress and the president. Read more

Justice O'Connor's Legacy

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court Friday after a 24-year term. Law analysts discuss her legacy and the view of O'Connor as the "swing" vote. Read more

Voucher Wars

By: Clint Bolick

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 2002, the US Supreme Court's ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris opened the door to school choice. In Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, Clint Bolick recounts the dramatic twelve-year struggle to finally give families a choice in education. As the central figure in the legal battle over school choice, Bolick tells... Read more

Pointing from the Grave

By: Samantha Weinberg

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the remarkable and gripping true story of a murderer and his victim, and of the tiny molecule that linked their fates. It is both the history of a science overlaid with human drama and a human tragedy inextricably entwined with science. It is about two lives made and destroyed by DNA—and by each other.In 1984, Helena Greenwood, a young... Read more

Medical Marijuana

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour, discusses the Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana, June 6, 2005, with Jan Crawford Greenburg of the Chicago Tribune. Read more

Win Your Case - Abridged

By: Gerry Spence

Narrated by: Gerry Spence

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From renowned trial attorney and New York Times bestselling author Gerry Spence: a must own book for every lawyer and business professional seeking to make cutting-edge winning presentations--in court, at work, everywhere, any time.

Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful trial lawyer, a man known for his deep convictions... Read more

Men in Black

By: Mark R. Levin

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court endorses terrorists’ rights, flag burning, and importing foreign law. Is that in the Constitution? You’re right: it’s not. But these days the Constitution is no restraint on our out-of-control Supreme Court. The Court imperiously strikes down laws and imposes new ones purely on its own arbitrary whims. Even though liberals like... Read more

Supreme Court: Death Penalty

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that applying the death penalty to offenders under the age of 18 is unconstitutionally cruel, ending the practice nationwide. Jan Crawford Greenburg of The Chicago Tribune discussed today’s juvenile death penalty ruling. Read more