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Dr. Alexandre Caeiro on the Politics of Islamic Law and Institutions in Qatar
Season 1 Episode 14
An interview with Dr. Alexandre Caeiro in which we discuss Islamic law and institutions in Qatar, secularisation and the Ottomans.
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1 year, 5 months ago
Jonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 232
The legal theory of constitutional originalism has attracted increasing attention in recent years as the US Supreme Court has tilted with the weight …
1 year, 6 months ago
Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 731
Scholars often narrate the legal cases confirming LGBTQ+ rights as a huge success story. While it took 100 years to confirm the rights of Black Ameri…
1 year, 6 months ago
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Episode 67
This is part #3 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast mini-series that re-examines the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
In the last epi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Episode 166
In 2003, in a ruling that bordered on poetic, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in Lawrence v. Texas that sexual behavior between consentin…
1 year, 6 months ago
Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Episode 110
Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour quest…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 131
How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barrister…
1 year, 6 months ago
Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 231
Business and Human Rights Law is a rapidly growing area of law, which has dramatically transformed many parts of international law. In this new volum…
1 year, 6 months ago
Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
Episode 108
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, n…
1 year, 6 months ago
Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 55
Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and…
1 year, 6 months ago