Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathan Gienapp, "Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique" (Yale UP, 2024)
Season 2 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 …
2 years, 2 months ago
Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Season 2 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Season 2 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 110
Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour quest…
2 years, 2 months ago
Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Season 2 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 131
How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barrister…
2 years, 2 months ago
Robert McCorquodale, "Business and Human Rights" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 2 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Gregory Makoff, "Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 108
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, n…
2 years, 2 months ago
Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty" (Routledge, 2019)
Season 2 Episode 55
Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and…
2 years, 2 months ago
Raj Jayadev, "Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration" (New Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 187
Over two million Americans are currently in prison or jail. Another 4.5 million are on probation or parole. And nearly one in two Americans have a fa…
2 years, 2 months ago