Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBenjamin A. Schupmann, "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 718
Seeking a second term as US president in November, Donald Trump joins a roster of politicians whose declared aim is to use legal means to bend democr…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison" (Routledge, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 182
For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't …
2 years, 5 months ago
Danielle R. Olden, "Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post–Civil Rights America" (U California Press, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 161
Mexican Americans have often fit uncertainly into the white/non-white binary that has goverens much of American history. After Colorado, and much of …
2 years, 5 months ago
Sarah Cassella, "Global Risks and International Law: The Case of Climate Change and Pandemics" (Brill/Nijhoff, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 1
Global risks present formidable challenges to international law. Although they have long been identified in many other scientific disciplines, they a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Kate Morgan, "The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History" (Mudlark, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 90
'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they’ll be.' So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Pa…
2 years, 5 months ago
Anna Brinkman, "Balancing Strategy: Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years' War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 237
What is the relationship between seapower, law, and strategy? In Balancing Strategy: Seapower, Neutrality, and Prize-Law in the Seven Years' War (Cam…
2 years, 5 months ago
Adriana Chira, "Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 111
In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasants forged freedom and devised their own formative …
2 years, 5 months ago
Kunal M. Parker, "The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 211
In The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Kunal M. Parker explores the m…
2 years, 5 months ago
Chris Stephen, "The Future of War Crimes Justice" (Melville House, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 218
The Future of War Crimes Justice (Melville House, 2024), journalist and war correspondent Chris Stephen takes a colourful look at the erratic history…
2 years, 5 months ago
Can the Constitution Still Unite Us?: A Conversation with Yuval Levin
Season 2 Episode 107
During an era of broad political dissatisfaction, what is the history and role of the Constitution? Does the Constitution still have the power to uni…
2 years, 5 months ago