Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMargaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 415
We often think of censorship as governments removing material or harshly punishing people who spread or access information. But Margaret E. Roberts’ …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Yong-Shik Lee, "Law and Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition" (Routledge, 2021)
Law and Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2021) examines the theory and practice of law and development. It introduces the Ge…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
David Bosco, "The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World's Oceans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oceanic Studies. An interdisciplinary podcast that examines the past, present, and future of ocean governance
In 1609, the Dutch lawyer Hugo Grotiu…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Faisal Chaudhry, "South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)
South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law (Oxford UP, 2024) considers the lega…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 343
Lindsey N. Kingston’s new book, Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (Oxford UP, 2019) interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
Episode 68
Steve Luxenberg has created an unusual history of the famous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson and the 19th century’s segregationist practices in…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)
Slavery's Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution (LSU Press, 2024) unearths a long-hidden factor that led to the Constitutional C…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Citizenship Stripping: You Are Not American
Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and deny civil rights to all consi…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Peter Hart-Brinson, "The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture" (NYU Press, 2018)
Episode 95
How and why did public opinions about gay marriage shift? In his new book, The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American C…
8 months ago
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, "The Human Dimension of International Law" (Brill, 2025)
The Human Dimension of International Law (Brill, 2025) offers a vision of international law through the protection of human rights and the values the…
8 months ago