Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1657
In Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights (Legacy Lit, 2026) reporter Amy Littlefield investigates the secret …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
David L. Eng, "Reparations and the Human" (Duke UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1656
The Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked in graphic terms the specter of total human destruction. In response, a new i…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Zev Eleff et al. eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1655
Jewish law, known as halakhah, is a unique legal system that has developed over a period of nearly two millennia, across multiple continents, and in …
8 months ago
Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1654
Each year, as many as 250 million Americans face civil legal problems like eviction, debt collection, and substandard housing. These problems are dis…
8 months, 1 week ago
Andrea Mansker, "Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1653
Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France (Cornell UP, 2024) gives an historical account of the evolution of the matchmaking b…
8 months, 1 week ago
Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1652
Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (Oxford UP, 2024) by Dr. Allison Powers offers a new history …
8 months, 1 week ago
Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 137
In 1863 the French established a protectorate over the kingdom of Cambodia. The protectorate, along with Vietnam and Laos, later became part of the c…
8 months, 1 week ago
Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1651
From the beginning of the seventeenth century, French colonies and trading posts sprawled across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the first pan-imp…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law
Season 1 Episode 1650
International law scholars are often among the sharpest critics of the Trump administration—but what if the usual story misses something essential? I…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Lys Kulamadayil, "Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law" (Bloomsbury 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1649
In Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (Bloomsbury 2025), Lys Kulamadayil offers a crucial examination of how international l…
8 months, 2 weeks ago