Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSimon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
Indonesia's judicial system has long been described as dysfunctional. Many of its problems developed out of decades of authoritarian rule, which bega…
9 months ago
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 148
How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional crimina…
9 months ago
Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
A unique and thorough work of intellectual history and legal scholarship Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education (Cambridge Unive…
9 months ago
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 295
In Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), Emma Marris wrestles with big ethical questions facing t…
9 months ago
Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
What does the 'rule of law' really mean in China? How does it shape the country’s politics, both at home and on the world stage? And why should it ma…
9 months, 1 week ago
Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster, "Green Transitional Justice" (Routledge, 2025)
In this episode, host Alex Batesmith sits down with Dr Rachel Killean and Dr Lauren Dempster to discuss their groundbreaking new book, Green Transiti…
9 months, 1 week ago
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal avenues against acts of domestic violence. Their claims, however, are often dismissed through charact…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Secrets of the Killing State
In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical pr…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
For centuries, Jewish thinkers have asked two parallel questions. First, what is the reasoning behind an individual commandment and second, why bothe…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Tax havens in offshore lands like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas were once considered a rarity, the preserve of the super-rich. Toda…
9 months, 2 weeks ago