Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth Chika Tippett, "The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplace" (U California Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1630
The field of employment law used to be called "master-servant law." Even if this term has fallen out of favor, a central truth has not changed: moder…
11 months ago
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 658
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major…
11 months ago
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 29
Policing is a source of perennial conflict and philosophical disagreement. Current political developments in the United States have only increased th…
11 months, 1 week ago
John A. Camacho and Zack Hamilton, "Sports Chaos: Exploring the Reasons Behind Expert Business, Legal, and Moral Decisions" (2025)
Season 1 Episode 1629
What happens when sports decision-making collides with business interests, legal battles, and moral dilemmas? Sports Chaos dives into the unpredictab…
11 months, 1 week ago
Arpitha Kodiveri, "Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests" (Melbourne UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1628
In Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests (Melbourne UP, 2024), Arpitha Kodiveri unpacks the fraught and shifting relations…
11 months, 1 week ago
John Jackson, "Special Advocates in the Adversarial System" (Routledge, 2020)
Season 1 Episode 1627
Special Advocates in the Adversarial System (Routledge, 2020) uncovers the little known phenomenon of Special Advocates who represent the best intere…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1626
The United States has long been an international outlier, with a powerful business class, a weak social state, and an exceptional gun culture. In Law…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Anand P. Vaidya, "Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1625
In Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India (Cornell UP, 2025), Anand P. Vaidya tells the story of the making and unmaking of India…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1624
Meg Groff's memoir Not If I Can Help It (Rivertown Books, 2025) recounts some of the most harrowing, infuriating, yet inspiring stories from Groff’s …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1623
While decolonization liberated territories, it left the root causes of historical injustice unaddressed. Governance change did not address past wrong…
1 year ago