Legal History

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    • By: Monty Lord
    • Narrated by: Monty Lord, Fabian Lord
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • Have you ever heard a bizarre law and thought, that can’t possibly be true? Is it genuine? Was it ever in existence or just an urban myth that became so embellished over time? There are surprisingly, a great many laws still in existence....

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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: 21-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • 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 History of the Supreme Court of the United States
    • By: Stuart Banner
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 25 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Stuart Banner's The Most Powerful Court in the World is an authoritative history of the United States Supreme Court from the Founding era to the present.

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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: 20-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: G. Edward White
    • Narrated by: Jason Huggins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
    • By: Moises Naim
    • Narrated by: Matt Kugler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
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    • Power is shifting - from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Jasper Britton
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the big ideas behind more than 90 of history's most important legal rulings and milestone laws - from the earliest civilizations to the 21st century....

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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: 22-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Berlin Constitutes the Future
    • By: Joanna Kusiak
    • Narrated by: Joanna Kusiak
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this work of creative non-fiction, scholar-activist and Nine Dots Prize winner Joanna Kusiak tells the story of a grassroots movement that convinced a million Berliners to pop the speculative housing bubble.

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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: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Scientific and Legal Case for the Resurrection
    • By: Mickey Ridings JD
    • Narrated by: Grand Benker
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • In today's world, we are surrounded by various forms of visual media, such as photo albums, pictures, and videos capturing memories of our loved ones, including children, grandchildren, and friends, that we love to share with others....

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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: 04-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Race and the Supreme Court
    • By: Orville Vernon Burton, Armand Derfner
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-21
    • Language: English
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    • Historian Orville Vernon Burton and civil rights lawyer Armand Derfner shine a powerful light on the Court's race record - a legacy at times uplifting, but more often distressing and sometimes disgraceful....

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    • A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
    • By: John Wood Sweet
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before....

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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: 17-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • 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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