Legal History

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    • Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy
    • By: Christian R. Burset
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This book, the first empire-wide overview of law as an instrument of policy in the eighteenth-century British Empire, offers an imaginative rethinking of the relationship between tolerance and empire....

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    • The Evolution of Our Legal System
    • By: Charles Rembar
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • What do the thoughts of a ravenous tiger have to do with the evolution of America's legal system? How do the works of Jane Austen and Ludwig van Beethoven relate to corporal punishment? In The Law of the Land, Charles Rembar examines these and many other topics....

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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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    • The History of the Legal Systems and Cases That Enabled Slavery in the United States
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One of the great ironies of the Enlightenment was that various societies produced the notion of the inalienable rights of man, bequeathed by God, alongside the long-established and deeply entrenched institution of slavery.

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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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    • By: Gerald Martin
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction....

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    • By: Pierce Brown
    • Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
    • Series: Red Rising, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70,134 ratings
    • Darrow belongs to the Reds, who toil at the mercy of the Golds. When he uncovers a deception, he must start a revolution.

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    • A Toolkit for Thinking About the Law
    • By: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum....

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    • The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism
    • By: Laura Kalman
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
    • Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In the past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term conservative dominance of the federal courts have revived an idea that crashed and burned in the 1930s: court packing....

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    • A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
    • By: Stephen Budiansky
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 429 ratings
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity....

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    • The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
    • By: Saul Cornell
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Alan M. Dershowitz
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A shocking act of terror brings the Middle East to the point of explosion. A young Jewish American lawyer joins the defense team of an arrested but possibly innocent Palestinian....

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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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    • How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals
    • By: Michael Avery, Danielle McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Over the last 30 years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics....

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    • Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Craig Wasson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,939 ratings
    • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....

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    • Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
    • By: Margaret A. Burnham
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? Margaret A. Burnham challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in harrowing cases between 1920 and 1960....

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    • The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
    • By: Steve Luxenberg
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences....

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    • An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
    • By: Tim Townsend
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions of faith, guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, and salvation....

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