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    East West Street

    Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

    by Philippe Sands ...
    Narrated by Philippe Sands, David Rintoul ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 24 min

    WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' - John le Carré'A triumph of astonishing research ... No novel could possibly match such an important work of truth' - Antony Beevor'Magnificent ... I was moved to anger and to pity. In places I gasped, in places I wept. I wanted to reach the end. I couldn't ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Nonsense Factory

    The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System

    by Bruce Cannon Gibney ...
    Narrated by Matt Kugler ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 10 min

    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 has ushered in a shadowy system of privatized "justice. ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Majesty of the Law

    Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice

    by Sandra Day O'Connor ...
    Narrated by Sandra Day O'Connor ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 16 min

    In The Majesty of the Law, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through history, people, and ideas, O’Connor sheds new light on the basics, and through personal observation she explores the development of ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Class Action

    The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law

    by Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler ...
    Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 25 min

    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 think twice about accepting the grueling but well ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Denise Mina’s Case Histories

    A BBC Radio True Crime Series

    by Denise Mina ...
    Narrated by Denise Mina ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 16 min

    Denise Mina examines the most famous - and infamous - cases in Scottish legal history, and participates in a mock trialDenise Mina is well known for her bestselling 'Tartan Noir' novels. She has twice won the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award, and her 'Paddy Meehan' series has been adapted for BBC TV. Before becoming a novelist, she studied law, and she has a particular interest ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hitler's American Model

    The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

    by James Q. Whitman ...
    Narrated by James Anderson Foster ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Not Enough

    Human Rights in an Unequal World

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bel Davies ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 36 min

    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 Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Summary of Dan Abrams and David Fisher's Kennedy's Avenger

    by Falcon Press ...
    Narrated by Paul Bartlett ...

    Unabridged

    22 min

    Buy now to get the main key ideas from Dan Abrams & David Fisher's Kennedy's AvengerThe assassination of John F. Kennedy stunned the world, but what followed two days later seemed even more incredible. Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was assassinated on live television by Jack Ruby. Yet, his trial remains mostly forgotten.In Kennedy's Avenger (2021), Dan Abrams and David Fisher explore Ruby ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Brilliant Boy

    Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent

    by Gideon Haigh ...
    Narrated by Gideon Haigh ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 39 min

    Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards.Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award.Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review.In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council workers. How the law should deal ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    I Dissent

    Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases

    by Mark Tushnet ...
    Narrated by Mark Tushnet ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 39 min

    For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court casesIf 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 if the dissenting opinions were in fact the majority ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Washington's Heir

    The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington

    by Gerard N. Magliocca ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man on the Supreme Court for nearly thirty years. In Washington's Heir, Gerard N. Magliocca gives us the first published biography of Bushrod Washington, one of the most underrated Founding Fathers. Born in 1762, Justice Washington fought in the Revolutionary ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Perfecting the Union

    National and State Authority in the US Constitution

    by Max M. Edling ...
    Narrated by David Marantz ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States. But in recent years, new scholarship has instead turned to the international history of the American union to interpret both the causes and the consequences of the US Constitution. In Perfecting the Union, Max ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    American Islamophobia

    Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear

    by Khaled A. Beydoun ...
    Narrated by Neil Shah ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 1 min

    “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 the collective breath or brace for the hateful ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Racketeer for Life: Fighting the Culture of Death from the Sidewalk to the Supreme Court

    by Joseph M. Scheidler, Peter M. Scheidler ...
    Narrated by Kevin O'Brien ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 44 min

    Joseph M. Scheidler has fought for the unborn since the Supreme Court allowed abortion on demand with its 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton rulings. He was the target of a lawsuit brought by the National Organization for Women under federal racketeering laws. Found guilty in 1998, Scheidler triumphed twice in appeals before the Supreme Court in 2003 and again in 2006.Racketeer for Life explains ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    No Property in Man

    Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding

    by Sean Wilentz ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    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 proslavery side won important concessions, he asserts, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Kennedy's Avenger

    Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby

    by Dan Abrams, David Fisher ...
    Narrated by Dan Abrams, Roger Wayne ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher bring to life the incredible story of one of America’s most publicized—and most surprising—criminal trials in history.No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of President Kennedy, a troubled nightclub owner named Jack Ruby quietly slipped into the Dallas police station and ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Trial of Adolf Hitler

    The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany

    by David King ...
    Narrated by Jeff Harding ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 12 min

    February 26, 1924 was the first day of the greatly anticipated high treason trial that would galvanize Germany - but few in the courtroom that morning anticipated that the leading defendant, General Erich Ludendorff, whose risky offensives during World War I doomed Germany to defeat, would soon be eclipsed by the private first class at his side, Adolf Hitler. Hitler was charged with treason after ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    On Your Case

    A Comprehensive, Compassionate (and Only Slightly Bossy) Legal Guide for Every Stage of a Woman's Life

    by Lisa Green ...
    Narrated by Lisa Green ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    On Your Case gives women the tools they need to prepare anything the law might throw at them. From dating, marriage and kids to retirement and aging parents, this is the book every woman should have when trouble strikes—or before!In On Your Case, Lisa Green finally fills a gap in women?s bookshelves with a thorough, compelling and occasionally hilarious guide to the range of legal issues women can ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    E Pluribus Unum

    How the Common Law Helped Unify and Liberate Colonial America, 1607-1776

    by William E. Nelson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 22 min

    From their inception, the colonies exercised a range of approaches to the law. While New England based its legal system around the word of God, Maryland followed the common law tradition, and New York adhered to Dutch law. Over time, though, the British crown standardized legal procedure to more uniformly and efficiently exert control over the Empire. But, while the common law emerged as the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Democracy and Equality

    The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court

    by Geoffrey R. Stone, David A. Strauss ...
    Narrated by Tom Perkins ...
    series Inalienable Rights

    Unabridged

    5 hours 50 min

    From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren Court declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Common Law

    by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ...
    Narrated by Robert Morris ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 53 min

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court and profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, especially in the areas of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures given at the Lowell ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Because of Sex

    One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

    by Gillian Thomas ...
    Narrated by Rosemary Benson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate "because of sex." But that simple phrase didn't mean much until ordinary women began using the law to get justice on the job-and some took their fights all the way to the Supreme Court. Among ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Policing the Open Road

    How Cars Transformed American Freedom

    by Sarah A. Seo ...
    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    How the rise of the car, the symbol of American personal freedom, inadvertently led to ever more intrusive policing―with disastrous consequences for racial equality in our criminal justice system.When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Sewing Girl's Tale

    A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

    by John Wood Sweet ...
    Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    New York Times Editors’ ChoiceWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book AwardA riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries—and how much has notOn a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime wa... ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial