Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
Season 1 Episode 1543
What does the 'rule of law' really mean in China? How does it shape the country’s politics, both at home and on the world stage? And why should it ma…
1 year, 3 months ago
Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster, "Green Transitional Justice" (Routledge, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1542
In this episode, host Alex Batesmith sits down with Dr Rachel Killean and Dr Lauren Dempster to discuss their groundbreaking new book, Green Transiti…
1 year, 3 months ago
Secrets of the Killing State
Season 1 Episode 1540
In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical pr…
1 year, 4 months ago
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1541
Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal avenues against acts of domestic violence. Their claims, however, are often dismissed through charact…
1 year, 4 months ago
Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1539
For centuries, Jewish thinkers have asked two parallel questions. First, what is the reasoning behind an individual commandment and second, why bothe…
1 year, 4 months ago
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 1538
Tax havens in offshore lands like Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas were once considered a rarity, the preserve of the super-rich. Toda…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jennifer R. Nájera, "Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education" (Duke UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1537
In Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education (Duke University Press, 2024), Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of educa…
1 year, 4 months ago
Vivian Kong, "Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 1 Episode 1536
What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45 (Cambridge UP, 2023) by Dr. Vivian Ko…
1 year, 4 months ago
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire with Shaina Potts
Season 1 Episode 1535
In this episode, we sit down with Shaina Potts, author of Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire (Duke University Pre…
1 year, 4 months ago
Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 1534
The Unseen History of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2025) locates and describes almost one thousand surviving copies of the first nine …
1 year, 4 months ago