Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLaura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 280
What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American so…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 163
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule …
1 year, 11 months ago
Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 344
Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling ar…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 219
The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to h…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 746
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and d…
1 year, 11 months ago
History and Law with Rodger Citron
Season 1 Episode 14
I spoke with an accomplished attorney and innovative law professor Rodger Citron of the Touro Law School about the complex relationships between hist…
2 years ago
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
Season 1 Episode 126
In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of …
2 years ago
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 745
There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme …
2 years ago
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
Season 1 Episode 35
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Ca…
2 years ago
Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
Season 1 Episode 20
In this episode, we interview Prof. Bernard Freamon on his new book Possessed by the Right Hand.
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2 years ago