Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYuliya Zabyelina, "Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 217
How do top-level public officials take advantage of immunity from foreign jurisdiction afforded to them by international law? How does the immunity e…
2 years, 7 months ago
W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 217
The Spirit of the Laws not only systematizes the foundational ideas of “separation of powers” and “balances and checks,” it provides the decisive res…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 363
Our privacy is besieged by tech companies.
Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and cou…
2 years, 7 months ago
Michael Davis, "Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong" (Association for Asian Studies, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 216
"What happened in Hong Kong is not an anomaly but a warning" - Hong Kong Human Rights defender Chow Hang Tung, speech written from prison upon receiv…
2 years, 7 months ago
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
Season 2 Episode 140
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey interviews Gabriele Mazzini, a lawyer and officer of the European Commission and …
2 years, 7 months ago
Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)
Season 2 Episode 215
How can traditional academic scholarship be disrupted by activist academics? How can we make space for those who are underrepresented and historicall…
2 years, 7 months ago
Patryk I. Labuda, "International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 214
In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of international criminal tribunals (ICTs). More recently, h…
2 years, 7 months ago
Kalika Mehta, "Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis" (Routledge, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 213
Kalika Mehta's book Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis (Routledge, 2023) provides a co…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rachel Blumenthal, "Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964" (Lexington, 2021)
Season 2 Episode 488
Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964 (Lexington, 2021) examines the early years of the Claims Conference, t…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ada Maria Kuskowski, "Vernacular Law; Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 61
Custom was fundamental to mediaeval legal practice. Whether in a property dispute or a trial for murder, the aggrieved and accused would go to lay co…
2 years, 7 months ago