Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1595
The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025) examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at…
1 year, 3 months ago
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1594
The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise …
1 year, 3 months ago
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 140
Robert Hutchinson's After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals (Yale UP, 2022) is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for…
1 year, 3 months ago
Christopher T. Fleming, "Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (British Academy, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 284
This monograph outlines the core principles of equity and trusts in Sanskrit jurisprudence (Dharmaśāstra) and traces their application in the practic…
1 year, 3 months ago
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Season 1 Episode 562
All nations make rules -- through their constitutions, legislatures, bureaucratic practices – about who counts as a citizen. American by Birth examin…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
Season 1 Episode 42
Ben Westhoff is an award-winning investigative journalist whose best-selling 2019 book Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest …
1 year, 3 months ago
Simon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 1545
Indonesia's judicial system has long been described as dysfunctional. Many of its problems developed out of decades of authoritarian rule, which bega…
1 year, 3 months ago
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 148
How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional crimina…
1 year, 3 months ago
Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Season 1 Episode 1544
A unique and thorough work of intellectual history and legal scholarship Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education (Cambridge Unive…
1 year, 3 months ago
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Season 1 Episode 295
In Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), Emma Marris wrestles with big ethical questions facing t…
1 year, 3 months ago