Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRachel Nolan, "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 206
The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigeno…
2 years, 9 months ago
Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 209
In recent years, government agencies around the world have been forced to consider the role of competition law and policy in addressing various crise…
2 years, 9 months ago
David J. Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 308
During British colonial rule in India, the treatment of high-caste Hindu widows became the subject of great controversy. Such women were not permitte…
2 years, 9 months ago
Loka Ashwood et al., "Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-By-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm" (UNC Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 144
Since the late 1970s, Right to Farm Laws have been adopted by states across the US to limit nuisance lawsuits against farmers engaged in standard agr…
2 years, 9 months ago
Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 144
Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental d…
2 years, 9 months ago
Robert C. Post, "The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 1405
Robert C. Post's book The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge UP, 2023) offers the definitive history of the Supre…
2 years, 9 months ago
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 184
Governments and consumers expect internet platform companies to regulate their users to prevent fraud, stop misinformation, and avoid violence. Yet, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 78
In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 699
The United States has more guns than people and more gun violence than any Western democracy. Scholars in diverse fields interrogate why 21st century…
2 years, 9 months ago
Patricio Simonetto, "A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Season 2 Episode 58
As a trans history of Argentina, a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives, A Body of One’s Own:…
2 years, 9 months ago