Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPostscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
Season 1 Episode 35
Birthright citizenship is established in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution – yet Donald Trump’s recent…
1 year, 7 months ago
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 94
The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. Melissa Vise, offers a new account of how th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 242
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Kristin Olbertson is the f…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Season 1 Episode 170
Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right…
1 year, 7 months ago
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 382
Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology (Oxford UP, 2025) is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of dig…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
Season 1 Episode 241
In this episode, Jorge Goldstein, the author of Patenting Life, delves into the critical junction where biotechnology meets patent law. With a backgr…
1 year, 7 months ago
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
Season 1 Episode 140
In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, I spoke with Janie Nitze, co-author of Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law (Harper, 2004), a book wr…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 7
Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017.
The abundance of laws and constitutional a…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 241
Constitutional Ratification Without Reason (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on constitutional ratification, the procedure in which a draft constitution is s…
1 year, 8 months ago
Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe
Season 1 Episode 44
Alexandra Grey speaks with Karen McAuliffe about multilingual law-making.
Karen is a Professor of Law and Language at Birmingham Law School in the UK.…
1 year, 8 months ago