Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Episode 46
In 1686 in Geneva, a single mother named Jeanne Catherine Thomasset is charged with poisoning two young children: her own illegitimate daughter and t…
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Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 194
Why do we protect free speech? What values does it serve? How has the Supreme Court interpreted the First Amendment? What has the Court gotten right …
2 years, 10 months ago
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Episode 19
Postscript invites scholars to react to contemporary political events and today’s podcast welcomes an expert on domestic violence and firearms law to…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Episode 61
This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, i…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
Episode 72
The expansion of space travel is much discussed but always seems subject to delay. Why is that and when will it happen on a much larger scale? Dougla…
2 years, 10 months ago
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
Episode 192
Why have issues of human rights become so contentious in Indonesia, 25 years after the much-heralded post-Suharto democratic transition? What kind of…
2 years, 10 months ago
Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar
Episode 81
As the last few months of landmark Supreme Court decisions have showcased, Clarence Thomas is one of the most important men in America. To wrap up ou…
2 years, 10 months ago
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 346
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a ma…
2 years, 10 months ago
Mayur R. Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts" (Fordham UP, 2022)
Episode 201
In Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts (Fordham UP, 2022), Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes thro…
2 years, 10 months ago
Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, "Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 193
Advance Directives in Asia: A Socio-Legal Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2023) , edited by Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn is the first book to consider the c…
2 years, 10 months ago