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Against Constitutional Originalism
- A Historical Critique
- By: Jonathan Gienapp
- Narrated by: Josh Innerst
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory's core tenet—that the United States Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning—has us decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past. Yet originalist engagement with history is often deeply problematic. In this comprehensive and novel critique of originalism, Jonathan Gienapp targets originalists' unspoken assumptions about the Constitution and its history.
By: Jonathan Gienapp
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Rot and Revival
- The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development
- By: Anthony Michael Kreis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements.
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The Run of His Life
- The People v. O.J. Simpson
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
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The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year after the infamous verdict, Jeffrey Toobin's nonfiction masterpiece tells the whole story, from the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman to the ruthless gamesmanship behind the scenes of "the trial of the century".
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Compelling and comprehensive
- By Anonymously on 31-03-16
By: Jeffrey Toobin
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Darrow's Nightmare
- Los Angeles 1911-1913
- By: Nelson Johnson
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Clarence Darrow is the most celebrated criminal trial lawyer in American history. In the spring of 1911, organized labor implored Darrow to represent the McNamara brothers, two union iron workers charged with the murder of 20 employees arising out of the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Darrow and his wife Ruby's trip west quickly became a fight for survival.
By: Nelson Johnson
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20 First Legislative Acts of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution
- By: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Decrees were legislative acts of the highest Soviet institutions, primarily of the Council of People's Commissars (the highest executive body — Sovnarkom) and of VTsIK (the highest legislative body between sessions of the Congress of Soviets). The Bolshevik Initial Decrees were announced as soon as the Bolsheviks declared their success in the October Revolution (October 26, 1917). The Decrees seemed to conform to the popular Bolshevik slogan "Peace, Land and Bread". The slogan succinctly articulated the grievances of the Russian peasantry, armed forces and proletariat.
By: Vladimir Lenin
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Grands procès [Great Trials]
- 38 affaires judiciaires qui ont secoué le Québec: de 1965 à aujourd'hui [38 Court Cases That Shook Quebec: From 1965 to Today]
- By: Daniel Proulx
- Narrated by: Winston McQuade
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Les 38 causes notoires racontées dans ce livre avec talent par le journaliste Daniel Proulx nous instruisent sur notre pensée et notre morale. Elles forcent la réflexion sur l’état de notre société et de notre justice, ce pilier de notre démocratie.
By: Daniel Proulx
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Against Constitutional Originalism
- A Historical Critique
- By: Jonathan Gienapp
- Narrated by: Josh Innerst
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory's core tenet—that the United States Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning—has us decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past. Yet originalist engagement with history is often deeply problematic. In this comprehensive and novel critique of originalism, Jonathan Gienapp targets originalists' unspoken assumptions about the Constitution and its history.
By: Jonathan Gienapp
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Rot and Revival
- The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development
- By: Anthony Michael Kreis
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements.
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The Run of His Life
- The People v. O.J. Simpson
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
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The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year after the infamous verdict, Jeffrey Toobin's nonfiction masterpiece tells the whole story, from the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman to the ruthless gamesmanship behind the scenes of "the trial of the century".
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Compelling and comprehensive
- By Anonymously on 31-03-16
By: Jeffrey Toobin
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Darrow's Nightmare
- Los Angeles 1911-1913
- By: Nelson Johnson
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Clarence Darrow is the most celebrated criminal trial lawyer in American history. In the spring of 1911, organized labor implored Darrow to represent the McNamara brothers, two union iron workers charged with the murder of 20 employees arising out of the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. Darrow and his wife Ruby's trip west quickly became a fight for survival.
By: Nelson Johnson
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20 First Legislative Acts of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution
- By: Vladimir Lenin
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Decrees were legislative acts of the highest Soviet institutions, primarily of the Council of People's Commissars (the highest executive body — Sovnarkom) and of VTsIK (the highest legislative body between sessions of the Congress of Soviets). The Bolshevik Initial Decrees were announced as soon as the Bolsheviks declared their success in the October Revolution (October 26, 1917). The Decrees seemed to conform to the popular Bolshevik slogan "Peace, Land and Bread". The slogan succinctly articulated the grievances of the Russian peasantry, armed forces and proletariat.
By: Vladimir Lenin
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Grands procès [Great Trials]
- 38 affaires judiciaires qui ont secoué le Québec: de 1965 à aujourd'hui [38 Court Cases That Shook Quebec: From 1965 to Today]
- By: Daniel Proulx
- Narrated by: Winston McQuade
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Les 38 causes notoires racontées dans ce livre avec talent par le journaliste Daniel Proulx nous instruisent sur notre pensée et notre morale. Elles forcent la réflexion sur l’état de notre société et de notre justice, ce pilier de notre démocratie.
By: Daniel Proulx
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Gunfight
- The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
- By: Adam Winkler
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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A provocative history that reveals how guns - not abortion, race, or religion - are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Gunfight promises to be a seminal work in its examination of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. Adam Winkler uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's capital, as a springboard for a groundbreaking historical narrative.
By: Adam Winkler
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Saving the World One Case at a Time
- By: Kenneth Foard McCallion
- Narrated by: Brian Morrow
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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Written as a primer for the uninitiated as well as those with some familiarity with the American judicial system, Saving the World One Case at a Time is a book about real people: the plaintiff-victims, the lawyers, the judges, and other participants in the legal system. It goes beyond the headlines and shows how the right of ordinary citizens to pursue justice in a court of law is a precious right worth fighting for.
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The Ecology of Law
- Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
- By: Fritjof Capra, Ugo Mattei
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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This is the first book to trace the fascinating parallel history of law and science from antiquity to modern times, showing how the two disciplines have always influenced each other - until recently. In the past few years, the scientific paradigm has shifted dramatically, from seeing the natural world as a kind of cosmic machine to understanding it as a network of fluidly interacting communities. But law is stuck in a mechanistic, 17th-century view that the world is made up of discrete individual parts.
By: Fritjof Capra, and others
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First
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- By: Evan Thomas
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her law school class in 1952, no firm would even interview her. But Sandra Day O’Connor’s story is that of a woman who repeatedly shattered glass ceilings - doing so with a blend of grace, wisdom, humor, understatement, and cowgirl toughness.
By: Evan Thomas
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Scalia's Court
- A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
- By: Antonin Scalia, Kevin A. Ring
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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The sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia shook America. After almost 30 years on the Supreme Court, Scalia had become as integral to the institution as the hallowed room in which he sat. His wisecracking interruptions during oral arguments, his unmatched legal wisdom, his unwavering dedication to the Constitution, and his blistering dissents defined his leadership role on the court and inspired new generations of policymakers and legal minds.
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Scalia likes the sound of his own voice
- By jeffrey on 17-09-17
By: Antonin Scalia, and others
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Lord Denning at 100 Years of Age
- English Parliamentary Sovereignty v. American Constitutionalism
- By: John Montgomery
- Narrated by: John Warwick Montgomery
- Length: 37 mins
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An appreciation of the “greatest common law jurist of the 20th Century,” these two lectures also include a comparison and contrast of the Parliamentary system of Commonwealth countries within which Lord Denning operated and American Constitutionalism.
By: John Montgomery
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The Words That Made Us
- America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
- By: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 27 hrs and 6 mins
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In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.
By: Akhil Reed Amar
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The Supremes' Greatest Hits, 2nd Revised & Updated Edition
- The 44 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life
- By: Michael G. Trachtman
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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The Supreme Court's rulings have shaped American life and justice and allowed Americans to retain basic freedoms such as privacy, free speech, and the right to a fair trial. This revised and updated edition of Michael G. Trachtman's riveting work includes 10 important cases from 2010 to 2015.
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Closing the Courthouse Door
- How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
- By: Erwin Chemerinsky
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' constitutional rights.
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A Question of Freedom
- The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War
- By: William G. Thomas III
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
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For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of Prince George's County, Maryland, filed hundreds of suits for their freedom against a powerful circle of slaveholders, taking their cause all the way to the Supreme Court. Between 1787 and 1861, these lawsuits challenged the legitimacy of slavery in American law and put slavery on trial in the nation's capital. Piecing together evidence once dismissed in court and buried in the archives, William Thomas tells an intricate and intensely human story of the enslaved families.
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We the Corporations
- How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
- By: Adam Winkler
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations - like minorities and women - have had a civil rights movement of their own and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a 200-year battle....
By: Adam Winkler
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People Who Made Sure You Could Grow up to Vote!
- Children's Modern History
- By: Baby Professor
- Narrated by: Sean Newell
- Length: 4 mins
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Aren't you a lucky child? A long time ago, the right to suffrage was only granted to certain members of the society. These days, everyone can vote. The question now is: "Who should you vote?" You will find your answer will depend on the influences of the people around you. Get to know the individuals who will shape your voting preference later on in life.
By: Baby Professor
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Outdated, Crazy Laws
- Weird, Amusing Laws of 13 Western States
- By: Felicia Hale
- Narrated by: Eva R-Marienchild
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Absurd forgotten laws will make you wonder why they were created. Some are outdated, but some were created in the 20th and 21st centuries. This book will tell you which laws are genuine and which are myths.
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Who isn't fascinated by hilarious oddities!?
- By Anonymous User on 22-11-23
By: Felicia Hale
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War of the Whales
- A True Story
- By: Joshua Horwitz
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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War of the Whales is the gripping tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the US Navy’s best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound - and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas.
By: Joshua Horwitz
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Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Drama
- By: Jonathan Myerson
- Narrated by: Alex Kingston, full cast, Henry Goodman, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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Summer, 1945. The war is over, and Germany has surrendered. Across Europe, the top surviving Nazis are being tracked down, arrested and imprisoned in a once-opulent Luxembourg hotel, on 24-hour suicide watch. Now, the Allies must decide what to do with them. After much deliberation, Britain, America, Russia and France agree that Hitler's high command must be formally tried. This will be an entirely new kind of trial, with utterly new charges: those of 'crimes against humanity' and 'genocide'. And before it can even take place, numerous crises and obstacles must be overcome.
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Brill
- By Anonymous User on 13-10-22
By: Jonathan Myerson
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Command and Persuade
- Crime, Law, and the State Across History
- By: Peter Baldwin
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Levels of violent crime have been in a steady decline for centuries-for millennia, even. Over the past 500 years, homicide rates have decreased a hundred-fold. We live in a time that is more orderly and peaceful than ever before in human history. Why, then, does fear of crime dominate modern politics? In Command and Persuade, Peter Baldwin examines the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over 3,000 years.
By: Peter Baldwin
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Lawfare
- Judging Politics in South Africa
- By: Michelle le Roux, Dennis Davis
- Narrated by: Motlatji Mjamba
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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This book is essential listening to bring forward the lessons from our past. A bold and unique collaboration between legal experts Michelle le Roux and Dennis Davis, it explores a series of landmark cases that came to define South Africa’s legal and political landscape. It examines how the law has been used and abused. Defining cases litigated in the apartheid past, in the constitutional era and right up to the recent days of state capture are examined.
By: Michelle le Roux, and others
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Black Lives, White Law
- Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia
- By: Russell Marks
- Narrated by: David Soncin
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more likely. Featuring vivid case studies and drawing on a deep sense of history, Black Lives, White Law explores Australia's extraordinary record of locking up First Nations people.
By: Russell Marks
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The Second Creation
- Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era
- By: Jonathan Gienapp
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
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A stunning revision of our founding document’s evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution? Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But in a shrewd rereading of the founding era, Jonathan Gienapp upends this long-held assumption, recovering the unknown story of American constitutional creation in the decade after its adoption.
By: Jonathan Gienapp
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Mississippi River Tragedies
- A Century of Unnatural Disaster
- By: Christine A. Klein, Sandra B. Zellmer
- Narrated by: Troy McElfresh
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over 1000 miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called "natural disasters" continue to strike the Mississippi basin as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico.
By: Christine A. Klein, and others
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Justice in Plain Sight
- How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms
- By: Dan Bernstein
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on business lawyer Jim Ward, whom Press-Enterprise editor Tim Hays had come to know and trust, the newspaper took two cases to the US Supreme Court in the 1980s. Hays was convinced that the public - including the press - needed to bear witness to justice....
By: Dan Bernstein
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The Federal Courts
- An Essential History
- By: Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N.E.H Hull
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
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There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story of all of these courts and the judges and justices who served on them, of the case law they made, and of the acts of Congress and the administrative organs that shaped the courts.
By: Peter Charles Hoffer, and others
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The Poison Plot
- A Tale of Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport
- By: Elaine Forman Crane
- Narrated by: Beverly Ann Astley
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the Rhode Island General Assembly and its tumultuous aftermath, during which Benedict died, made Mary a cause célèbre in Newport through the winter of 1738 and 1739. Elaine Forman Crane invites listeners into this salacious domestic life and reveals the seamy side of colonial Newport.
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Bizarre Laws & Curious Customs of the UK: Volume 3
- By: Monty Lord
- Narrated by: Monty Lord, Fabian Lord
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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In the UK, we have some bizarre laws that have littered the statute books of our sceptred isle throughout history. Not all of them have been repealed over the centuries. Some of them made perfect sense at the time they were introduced but seen through modern eyes, now appear archaic and draconian. Despite the great efforts of the Law Commission in England and Wales to review and recommend reforms for many of these outdated laws, there are centuries of law that must be painstakingly gone through.
By: Monty Lord