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    Jailhouse Lawyer

    Two gripping legal thrillers

    by James Patterson ...
    Narrated by Megan Tusing ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 50 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Two brand-new legal thrillers in one book - from the authors of Juror No. 3A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown - and ends up behind bars...In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court.Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hawaii Hope

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    9 min

    NewsHour Weekend profiles an innovative probation program in Hawaii that has been so successful in reforming offenders and keeping them out of prison, it's now being copied in courtrooms across the nation. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Video Games

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    5 min

    A Supreme Court case over whether minors should be able to access violent video games in California had the justices debating the definition of violence and the boundaries of the First Amendment.The lawyer for the state of California, who was advocating for a law banning the sale of violent video games to those under 18 years of age, told the court that the law has two goals. First, it’s intended ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    History of Supreme Court Vacancies

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    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

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Uncertain Justice

    The Roberts Court and the Constitution

    by Laurence Tribe, Joshua Matz ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 25 min

    Harvard Law School scholars Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz reveal how Chief Justice John Roberts is shaking the foundation of our nation’s laws in Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution.From Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    SCOTUS weighs religion, discrimination, dignity in Colorado wedding cake case

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    4 min

    One of the Supreme Court's biggest cases this term probes whether the religious beliefs of a Colorado baker override the rights of a couple who were refused a wedding cake because they are gay. Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal joins John Yang to go over the court arguments and how the justices responded. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Retirement of Justice Marshall

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    35 min

    As Supreme Court justices retire from the bench, the NewsHour has explored the tenure of the retiring judges as well as their impact on the future of the Court. Here is expert analysis and discussion on the resignation of Justice Marshall. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    SCOTUS Discussions June 2009

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    8 min

    Ray Suarez talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about the Supreme Court's decision on prisoners' legal rights to test DNA evidence after their convictions. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Justice on Trial

    The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

    by Carrie Severino, Mollie Hemingway ...
    Narrated by Carrie Severino, Mollie Hemingway ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 15 min

    Justice Anthony Kennedy slipped out of the Supreme Court building on June 27, 2018, and traveled incognito to the White House to inform President Donald Trump that he was retiring, setting in motion a political process that his successor, Brett Kavanaugh, would denounce three months later as a "national disgrace" and a "circus."Justice on Trial, the definitive insider's account of Kavanaugh's ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Holdout

    One jury member changed the verdict. What if she was wrong? ‘The Times Best Books of 2020'

    by Graham Moore ...
    Narrated by Abby Craden ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    'The most gripping and satisfying thriller I've read in more than a decade' Sophie Hannah'One of the best legal thrillers ... as elegant and gripping as Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent' Daily Mail'Quite the tour de force! Twelve Angry Men meets Chinatown and creates something of its own' Sarah Pinborough'This is a tense, emotionally charged, scary-good, stand-out read' Caroline... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Matter of Interpretation

    Federal Courts and the Law

    by Antonin Scalia ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim-"distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    Narrated by Jim Seybert ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 52 min

    A growing chorus of officials and commentators argues that the Supreme Court has become too political. On this view, the confirmation process is just an exercise in partisan agenda-setting, and the jurists are no more than “politicians in robes”?their ostensibly neutral judicial philosophies mere camouflage for conservative or liberal convictions. Stephen Breyer, drawing upon his experience as a ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Justice O'Connor's Legacy

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    13 min

    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

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Court and the World

    American Law and the New Global Realities

    by Stephen Breyer ...
    Narrated by Stephen Breyer ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 37 min

    In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private—from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct of international trade—obliges the Court to understand and consider circumstances beyond America’s ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade

    The Inside Story, Adapted from The Brethren

    by Scott Armstrong, Bob Woodward, George Truett ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 35 min

    A thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the revolutionary Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling.The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade offers a front-row seat to the inner workings of the Supreme Court that led to the monumental Roe v. Wade decision. Spanning from 1969 to 1972, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bob Woodward and coauthor Scott Armstrong report on the masterful maneuvering and politicking that ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Justice Deferred

    Race and the Supreme Court

    by Orville Vernon Burton, Armand Derfner ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 4 min

    The Supreme Court is usually seen as protector of our liberties: it ended segregation, was a guarantor of fair trials, and safeguarded free speech and the vote. But this narrative derives mostly from a short period, from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Before then, the Court spent a century largely ignoring or suppressing basic rights, while the fifty years since 1970 have witnessed a mostly ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Spider Woman

    A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

    by Lady Hale ...
    Narrated by Lady Hale ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 22 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story.As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country but ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Code of Silence

    Sexual Misconduct by Federal Judges, the Secret System That Protects Them, and the Women Who Blew the Whistle

    by Lise Olsen ...
    Narrated by Samara Naeymi ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    Winner of the 2021 IRE Book AwardWinner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of NonfictionIn the age of #MeToo, learn how brave whistleblowers have dared to lift the federal court’s veil of secrecy to expose powerful judges who appear to defy laws they have sworn to upholdCode of Silence tells the story of federal court employee Cathy McBroom, who had to flee ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A People's History of the Supreme Court

    The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution

    by Peter Irons ...
    Narrated by David Drummond ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 32 min

    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 classic A People's History of the United States, Peter ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Cult of the Constitution

    by Mary Anne Franks ...
    Narrated by Teri Barrington ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. Constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly. Fundamentalist interpretations of the Constitution elevate certain constitutional rights above all others, benefit the most powerful members of society, and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    First Degree

    From Med School to Murder: The Story Behind the Shocking Will Sandeson Trial

    by Kayla Hounsell ...
    Narrated by Kayla Hounsell ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 37 min

    A murder, a missing body, and a sensational trial that gripped Nova Scotia. Will Sandeson seemed like a model son. A member of the Dalhousie University track and field team, he was about to start classes at Dalhousie’s medical school. He worked at a group home for adults with disabilities. He came from a good family. “There’s times for whatever reason that things don’t go quite as planned,” a ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Crook County

    Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court

    by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve ...
    Narrated by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    Americans are slowly waking up to the dire effects of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities of color. Crook County bursts open the courthouse doors to reveal a world of punishment determined by race, not offense. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve spent ten years working in and investigating the largest criminal courthouse in ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Medical Marijuana

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    14 min

    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

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Shortlisted

    Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

    by Renee Knake Jefferson, Hannah Brenner Johnson ...
    Narrated by Kitty Hendrix ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, after almost two centuries of exclusively male appointments, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice of the United States, a significant historical moment and a symbolic triumph for supporters of women's rights. Most do not know, however, about the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial