Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-War Statebuilding" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 717
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Shelley X. Liu explores how wartime processes …
2 years, 5 months ago
Javier Samper Vendrell, "The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Season 2 Episode 89
The Weimar Republic is well-known for its gay rights movement and recent scholarship has demonstrated some of its contradictory elements. In his rece…
2 years, 6 months ago
Jennifer M. Black, "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 100
In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds t…
2 years, 6 months ago
J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 341
When we think of censorship, our minds might turn to state agencies exercising power to silence dissent. However, contemporary concerns about censors…
2 years, 6 months ago
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 61
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, The Constitution of the War on Drug…
2 years, 6 months ago
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 88
The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained respo…
2 years, 6 months ago
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 364
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are rac…
2 years, 6 months ago
Egor Lazarev, "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 266
State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Egor Lazarev explores the use …
2 years, 6 months ago
Michael LeFebvre, "Collections, Codes, and Torah: The Re-characterization of Israel's Written Law" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Season 2 Episode 149
Scholars of biblical law widely hold that ancient Israel did not draft law-texts for legislative purposes. Little attention has yet been given to exp…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rabiat Akande, "Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 186
Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireli…
2 years, 7 months ago