Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJudge Frederic Block, "A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 188
The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some of the defendants to have come before U.S. District C…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cary Nelson, "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Episode 126
Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on …
1 year, 7 months ago
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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 months ago