Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFelicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 23
In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many ha…
1 year, 8 months ago
Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 465
In Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt that Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial (Princeton UP, 2022), Dr. Jeremy Schipper tells the story of a …
1 year, 8 months ago
Reeju Ray, "Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 232
Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge (Oxford UP, 2023) is a study of the travels of colonial law into the Nor…
1 year, 8 months ago
Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 56
How can the novel be a way to understand the development of nation-state borders? An important work in the intersections of law, literature, history,…
1 year, 8 months ago
Andreas Fulda, "Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security" (Bloombury, 2024)
Episode 223
Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a groundbreaking book, of which the findings ha…
1 year, 8 months ago
Postscript: The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Bump Stocks and Mifepristone
Episode 24
In this episode of our occasional series, Postscript, we focus on the Supreme Court’s recently published decisions in two cases, about guns and abort…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rhodri Davies, "What Is Philanthropy For?" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 222
In recent years, philanthropy, the use of private assets for the public good, has come under renewed scrutiny. Do elite philanthropists wield too muc…
1 year, 8 months ago
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 214
In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth-…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 367
Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years…
1 year, 8 months ago
Qian Wei, "The Governance of Philanthropic Foundations in Authoritarian China" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 221
Chinese philanthropic foundations navigate a uniquely challenging terrain shaped by authoritarian governance. The Governance of Philanthropic Foundat…
1 year, 8 months ago