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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    • 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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    • 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 428 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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    • 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 37 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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    • 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 69,257 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 41 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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    • A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America
    • By: Sara Mayeux
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender is a recent invention with a surprisingly contentious history - one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state" but also about the contours and compromises of 20th-century liberalism....

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    • Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights
    • By: Michael Sfard
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The defense of human rights is often marked by ethical dilemmas, which are especially acute in Israel, where lawyers have for decades sought redress for the abuse of Palestinian rights....

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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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    • Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution
    • By: Linda R. Monk
    • Narrated by: Marianne Fraulo, Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The Words We Live By takes an entertaining and informative look at America's most important historical document, now with discussions on new rulings on hot button issues such as immigration, gay marriage, gun control, and affirmative action....

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    • World War II Historical Novel
    • By: John Ellsworth
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Even though he escaped the gas chambers, he was never truly free. In occupied Poland, there are whispers of a terrifying darkness in the northern ...

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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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