Law Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission

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 that these two seemingly disparate events are connected-and that the problem is not so much the policing agencies as it is the rest of us. We allow these agencies to operate in secret and to decide how to police us, rather than calling the shots ourselves. The courts have let us down entirely. Unwarranted is filled with stories of ordinary people whose lives were sundered by policing gone awry. Driven by technology, policing has changed dramatically from cops seeking out bad guys, to mass surveillance of all of society-backed by an increasingly militarized capability. Friedman captures this new eerie environment in which CCTV, location tracking, and predictive policing has made us all suspects, while proliferating SWAT teams and increased use of force puts everyone at risk.

Barry Friedman (Author), Sean Pratt (Narrator)

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Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

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 individual citizens' constitutional rights. The Court has restricted who has standing to sue, expanded the immunity of governments and government workers, limited the kinds of cases the federal courts can hear, and restricted the right of habeas corpus. Closing the Courthouse Door, by the distinguished legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky, is the first book to show the effect of these decisions: taken together, they add up to a growing limitation on citizens' ability to defend their rights under the Constitution. Using many stories of people whose rights have been trampled yet who had no legal recourse, Chemerinsky argues that enforcing the Constitution should be the federal courts' primary purpose, and they should not be barred from considering any constitutional question.

Erwin Chemerinsky (Author), Mike Chamberlain (Narrator)

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The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens

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 revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror. The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and disturbing account of the rise of counterinsurgency, first as a military strategy but increasingly as a way of ruling ordinary Americans. Harcourt shows how counterinsurgency's principles—bulk intelligence collection, ruthless targeting of minorities, pacifying propaganda—have taken hold domestically despite the absence of any radical uprising. This counterrevolution against phantom enemies, he argues, is the tyranny of our age. Seeing it clearly is the first step to resisting it effectively.

Bernard E. Harcourt (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)

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To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment

The history and future of our democracy's ultimate sanction, presidential impeachment, and a guide to how it should be used nowTo End a Presidency addresses one of today's most urgent questions: when and whether to impeach a president. Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz provide an authoritative guide to impeachment's past and a bold argument about its proper role today. In an era of expansive presidential power and intense partisanship, we must rethink impeachment for the twenty-first century.Of impeachments, one Constitutional Convention delegate declared, "A good magistrate will not fear them. A bad one will be kept in fear of them." To End a Presidency is an essential book for all Americans seeking to understand how this crucial but fearsome power should be exercised.

Joshua Matz, Laurence Tribe (Author), L. J. Ganser (Narrator)

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The Soul of the First Amendment

The 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 U.S. Constitution-the First Amendment. Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer and award-winning legal scholar specializing in First Amendment issues, examines the degree to which American law protects free speech more often, more intensely, and more controversially than is the case anywhere else in the world, including democratic nations such as Canada and England. In this lively, powerful, and provocative work, the author addresses legal issues from the adoption of the Bill of Rights through recent cases such as Citizens United. He also examines the repeated conflicts between claims of free speech and those of national security occasioned by the publication of classified material such as was contained in the Pentagon Papers and was made public by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden.

Floyd Abrams (Author), James Foster (Narrator)

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Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?

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 mechanisms of exclusion? Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just Male and Female categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender fluid. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters. He examines four areas where we need to re-think our sex-classification systems: sex-marked identity documents such as birth certificates, drivers licenses and passports; sex-segregated public restrooms; single-sex colleges; and sex-segregated sports.

Heath Fogg Davis (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator)

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The American Legal Experience

The legal system in America is the basis of freedom as we know it today. The system is based, ultimately, on the common law of England, but it has grown, developed, and changed over the years. American law has been a critical factor in American life since colonial times. It has played a role in shaping society, but society-the structure, culture, economy, and politics of the country-has decisively shaped the law. Through history, the legal system has been intimately involved with every major issue in American life: race relations, the economy, the family, crime, and issues of equality and justice. The true strength of the American legal system lies in its ability to adapt to new and difficult issues. **Contact Customer Service for Additional Material**

Lawrence Friedman, Lawrence M. Friedman (Author), Lawrence M. Friedman, The Professor (Narrator)

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Philosophy and the Law: How Judges Reason

Do judges deduce their decisions from legal rules and principles, or do they decide cases based on what is fair given the facts at hand? The latter view, held by Legal Realists, serves as the starting point for Professor Stephen Mathis' eye-opening look at how judges reason. In this compelling lecture series, the esteemed professor addresses such issues as whether the law is distinct from morality. Professor Mathis also attempts to identify a view that offers guidance to judges in deciding cases, and one that will provide the tools people need to evaluate the interpretations and decisions judges make.

Professor Stephen Mathis, Stephen Mathis (Author), Professor Stephen Mathis, Stephen Mathis (Narrator)

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Copyright Law: Protecting Authors and Writers is based on an 11-year tour in the seven states of New York and New England that included copyright protection. The tour called the Professor Lecture Series” included copyright law for publishing, broadcasting, filming, and content creation. A long-term veteran of book publishing, filming, and radio broadcasting, author David K. Ewen, M.Ed. has compiled the methodology that protects authors and writers from copyright infringement due to plagiarism. His experience simplifies necessary elements to put an author in possession of their manuscript prior to any possible plagiarism interference. This formally puts an author’s authenticated ownership prior to falsified plagiarism. David Ewen’s legal experience in copyright law comes from nearly a quarter century of as a professional book publishing executive and noted expert. David K. Ewen, M.Ed. is an author, speaker, and talk show host on media topics related to digital multimedia technology, entrepreneurial studies, marketing, publicity, and business adventurism. He is the former Executive Director of the New England Publishers Association which was sold and re-founded as the Independent Publishers of New England. David toured the seven states of New England with his "Professor Lecture Series" for 11 years from 2004 to 2015. Since 1998, David has been a radio talk show host, TV producer, filmmaker, and publicity event manager. This branch out to other media formats has made him a subject matter expert on digital multimedia technology. As a touring professor, David K. Ewen, M.Ed. has lectured on a variety of media topics related to digital multimedia technology, entrepreneurial studies, marketing, publicity, and business adventurism. The audiobook is part of the online Professor Lecture Series written and narrated by David K. Ewen, M.Ed. This content is an expanded version of what was presented during David’s tour in the seven states of New York and New England from 2004 to 2015.

David Ewen (Author), David Ewen (Narrator)

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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic

In this original, provocative contribution to the debate over economic inequality, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that a strong and sizable middle class is a prerequisite for America’s constitutional system. For most of Western history, Sitaraman argues, constitutional thinkers assumed economic inequality was inevitable and inescapable—and they designed governments to prevent class divisions from spilling over into class warfare. The American Constitution is different. Compared to Europe and the ancient world, America was a society of almost unprecedented economic equality, and the founding generation saw this equality as essential for the preservation of America’s republic. Over the next two centuries, generations of Americans fought to sustain the economic preconditions for our constitutional system. But today, with economic and political inequality on the rise, Sitaraman says Americans face a choice: Will we accept rising economic inequality and risk oligarchy or will we rebuild the middle class and reclaim our republic? The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution is a tour de force of history, philosophy, law, and politics. It makes a compelling case that inequality is more than just a moral or economic problem; it threatens the very core of our constitutional system.

Ganesh Sitaraman (Author), MacLeod Andrews (Narrator)

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Your Rights: Lawyer Advice [Russian Edition]

From the audiobook "Your Rights." Advice of a lawyer - reasonable advice of professionals you will learn how to properly protect your house from any encroachments, how to move around and serve that problem, which is called a car, how to, in the end, divide it all, in which case. Among the tips of a true master of jurisprudence for those interested in an accessible form, there are answers to more specific questions: You will also learn about how today's workdays should look like legally, what to do if a tragedy really happened. Even the fact that there is not much money can be confirmed from the point of view of a better lawyer.

Aleksej Petrov (Author), Stanislav Ivanov (Narrator)

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How to Deal with the Police [Russian Edition]

Faced the arbitrariness of the authorities? So learn how to protect yourself! This audiobook is worth listening to absolutely everyone, without exception, to know how to conduct, if: you were stopped on the street to check documents or register; You are trying to hold accountable for an offense you did not commit; You were detained until the identity was clarified; A protocol has been drawn up for you; You are pressured to give evidence. And also you will learn about what powers are assigned to the police; How and where you can complain about the actions of police officers; On what rules police and prosecutors must pass; Verification, as well as much more.

Vasilij Rykov (Author), Alexander Tkachev (Narrator)

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