Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Season 2 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 …
2 years, 4 months ago
Reeju Ray, "Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 2 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…
2 years, 4 months ago
Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Season 2 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,…
2 years, 4 months ago
Andreas Fulda, "Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security" (Bloombury, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 223
Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a groundbreaking book, of which the findings ha…
2 years, 4 months ago
Postscript: The Supreme Court’s Decisions on Bump Stocks and Mifepristone
Season 2 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…
2 years, 4 months ago
Rhodri Davies, "What Is Philanthropy For?" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Season 2 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…
2 years, 4 months ago
Aziz Rana, "The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 214
In a pathbreaking retelling of the American experience, Aziz Rana shows that today’s reverential constitutional culture is a distinctively twentieth-…
2 years, 4 months ago
Qian Wei, "The Governance of Philanthropic Foundations in Authoritarian China" (Routledge, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 221
Chinese philanthropic foundations navigate a uniquely challenging terrain shaped by authoritarian governance. The Governance of Philanthropic Foundat…
2 years, 4 months ago
Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 367
Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years…
2 years, 4 months ago
Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska, "Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 2
In Implications of Pre-Emptive Data Surveillance for Fundamental Rights in the European Union (Brill Nijhoff, 2023) Julia Wojnowska-Radzińska offers …
2 years, 4 months ago