Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
Episode 20
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in this episode of our series on artificial intelligence, we discuss Joanna Bryson’s essay “Robots Should be Slaves.”
We d…
1 year, 3 months ago
Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 280
What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American so…
1 year, 3 months ago
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 163
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule …
1 year, 3 months ago
Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 344
Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling ar…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 219
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to h…
1 year, 3 months ago
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 746
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and d…
1 year, 3 months ago
History and Law with Rodger Citron
Episode 14
I spoke with an accomplished attorney and innovative law professor Rodger Citron of the Touro Law School about the complex relationships between hist…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
Episode 126
In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of …
1 year, 3 months ago
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 745
There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme …
1 year, 4 months ago
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
Episode 35
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Ca…
1 year, 4 months ago