Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 196
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
David Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 195
Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 152
In 1956, Alfred Hitchcock focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk of wrongful conviction. The re…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 198
Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Jus…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Deana Heath and Jinee Lokaneeta, "Policing and Violence in India: Colonial Origins and Contemporary Realities" (Speaking Tiger, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 304
Why does Indias police force, created under British rule, still echo the priorities of a bygone empire? And what is it about this institution, tasked…
10 months ago
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 14
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of…
10 months ago
J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 266
Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious…
10 months ago
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 202
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European sho…
10 months ago
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 663
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, h…
10 months ago
Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 1364
Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unen…
10 months ago