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Back to SearchMaïa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 65
With rigorous attention to history and empire, Maïa Pal's Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital (Cambridg…
11 months, 1 week ago
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 768
Since American president Donald Trump was elected to a second term, it is common to hear citizens, journalists, and public officials distinguish betw…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 767
In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to repr…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Jeff Sebo, "The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why" (Norton, 2025)
Today, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritize humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast nu…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 35
Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Eleanor Paynter responds to the cris…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 247
Welcome to the Global Corporations Special Series on the Law Channel on the New Books Network. This Special Series is dedicated to interviews with sc…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Tadashi Ishikawa, "Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan" (Cambridge UP., 2024)
Episode 170
In Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Dr. Tadashi Ishikawa traces percept…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
Episode 500
What would happen if policing disappeared? Would we be safe? This book imagines a world without police.
It's evident that policing is a problem. But w…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Data and privacy have emerged as critical issues in our digitally interconnected era, profoundly influencing individual rights, societal norms, and d…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Constitutional Private Law: A Conversation with Garrett West
What is constitutional private law, and how does it differ from the way we traditionally think about constitutional issues? When an individual employ…
1 year ago