Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchB Camminga, "Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Episode 54
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) tracks the conceptual jour…
2 years, 4 months ago
Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
Episode 25
Luke Froeb joins the podcast to talk about his career in economics, what it's like to be the chief economist at the FTC and DOJ antitrust division, h…
2 years, 4 months ago
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 684
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In W…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
Episode 84
Cancel culture is something all academics are aware of and some are concerned about. Certainly that’s true of Greg Lukianoff who was the co-author (…
2 years, 4 months ago
Paolo Sandro, "The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 203
This book is a tour de force. In The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law (Bloomsbury, 2022), Dr Paolo Sandro expl…
2 years, 4 months ago
Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
Episode 1364
Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unen…
2 years, 4 months ago
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 202
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European sho…
2 years, 4 months ago
Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 318
Youcef Sufi's book The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate (Oxford University Press, 2023) is a fascinating and engaging explorati…
2 years, 4 months ago
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 201
Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate ter…
2 years, 4 months ago
Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Episode 175
A fascinating look at Walt Disney's last, unfinished project and the controversy that surrounded it. It was going to be Disneyland at the top of a mo…
2 years, 4 months ago