Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAideen O’Shaughnessy, "Embodying Irish Abortion Reform: Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1308
Dr. Aideen O'Shaughnessy is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lincoln. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge,…
2 years, 1 month ago
Celebrating Constitution Day, Part. 2: A Conversation with Julia Mahoney
Season 1 Episode 120
In this conversation, we dive into key issues shaping the legal landscape today: the complexities of constitutional interpretation, the evolving role…
2 years, 1 month ago
Kevin J. McMahon, "A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 737
Many scholars and members of the press have argued that John Roberts’ Supreme Court is exceptional. While some emphasize the approach to interpreting…
2 years, 1 month ago
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Season 1 Episode 2
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have …
2 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer Redmond and Mary McAuliffe, "The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland: A Reader" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 68
Mary McAuliffe is a historian and lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD. Her latest publications include (is The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn co-authored wit…
2 years, 1 month ago
Celebrating Constitution Day Pt. 1: A Conversation with Cass R. Sunstein
Season 1 Episode 119
Join us for an in-depth exploration of Professor Cass Sunstein's latest work, Campus Free Speech (Harvard University Press, September 2024).
Together…
2 years, 1 month ago
Anthony Michael Kreis, "Rot and Revival: The History of Constitutional Law in American Political Development" (U California Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 736
One of the great divides in American judicial scholarship is between legal scholars who take the justices at their word and assume that those words d…
2 years, 1 month ago
Judge Frederic Block, "A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It" (The New Press, 2024)
Season 1 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cary Nelson, "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 126
Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on …
2 years, 2 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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2 years, 2 months ago