Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEngage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
Episode 115
Today I’m speaking with Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Immig…
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Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 124
The United States is widely recognized as the quintessential consumer society, one where huge companies like Walmart and Amazon are famous for entici…
1 year ago
James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
Episode 28
It’s the UConn Popcast, and we spoke with Duke Law Professor James Boyle about his new book The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood (MIT Press, 202…
1 year ago
Giacinto della Cananea, "The Common Core of European Administrative Laws: Retrospective and Prospective" (Brill/NIjhoff, 2023)
Episode 6
Though European administrative laws have gained global significance in the last few decades, research which provides both theoretical analysis and or…
1 year ago
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
Episode 128
Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (Univ…
1 year ago
Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Episode 624
What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holoca…
1 year ago
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 245
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…
1 year ago
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
Episode 37
The presidents of the American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians join the podcast to talk about the effects of historica…
1 year ago
Gerald J. Postema, "Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Rule of law faces serious threats to its viability in many countries. It has become a recurring topic in the media and is affecting our daily lives. …
1 year ago
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 298
Ahmed M. Abozaid’s Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror (Routledge, 2021) reveals how counterterrorism dis…
1 year ago