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    • African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship
    • By: Niambi Michele Carter
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: G. Edward White
    • Narrated by: Jason Huggins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Eminent legal scholar G. Edward White offers a compact overview that sheds light on the impact of law on a number of key social issues....

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    • The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System
    • By: Bruce Cannon Gibney
    • Narrated by: Matt Kugler
    • Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • 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". Meanwhile, our legislators can't even follow their own rules for making rules....

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    • One Medical Examiner's Decades-Long Fight for Racial Justice in a Broken Legal System
    • By: Michael M. Baden MD, Peter Neufeld - afterword
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this book, Dr. Baden chronicles his six decades on the front lines of the fight for accountability within the legal system....

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    • By: Martha Minow
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Who has the right to forgive? Who should be forgiven? And under what terms? Minow tackles these foundational issues by exploring three questions....

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    • The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics
    • By: Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
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    • Hard White explains how the mainstreaming of white nationalism occurred, pointing to two major shifts in the movement....

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    • Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America
    • By: Sarah Deer
    • Narrated by: Rainy Fields
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse....

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    • Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
    • By: Robert L. Tsai
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren't necessarily about equality at all - ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech - have often been used to overcome resistance to justice and remain vital today....

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    • A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense
    • By: Susan Nordin Vinocour
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A powerful and humane exploration of the history of the "insanity defense", through the story of one poignant case....

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