Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJudicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire with Shaina Potts
In this episode, we sit down with Shaina Potts, author of Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire (Duke University Pre…
8 months, 1 week ago
Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
The Unseen History of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2025) locates and describes almost one thousand surviving copies of the first nine …
8 months, 1 week ago
The Freedom Academy
When Professor Asha Rangappa began posting online about the lessons she was teaching in the Yale University course on Russian intelligence and inform…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System (Doubleday, 2025) takes readers fro…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America (NYU Press, 2025) by Anthony C. Infanti documents how the American colonies used tax law to …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
HIV emerged in the world at a time when medicine and healthcare were undergoing two major transformations: globalization and a turn toward legally in…
9 months ago
S4 E40 Interpretations of the Second Amendment: A Conversation with Joel Alicea
The Supreme Court’s ruling in 2022 changed the established methodology for evaluating Second Amendment cases. What was the existing methodology, and …
9 months ago
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
Episode 151
In this episode of Madison’s Notes, Michael McConnell examines the gap between the Founders’ vision of a limited presidency and today’s expansive exe…
9 months, 1 week ago
Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
We’ve been focusing on the dynamics of democratic backsliding in the United States and beyond. In this episode of Postscript: Conversations on Politi…
9 months, 1 week ago
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 767
Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics (Routledge, 2025) is an excellent edited volume exploring the various ways in which gove…
9 months, 1 week ago