Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 1386
In The Pirate's Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship (Reaktion, 2023), Dr. Rebecca Simon presents a rollicking account of pirates’ codes, the strict rules…
2 years, 11 months ago
Stephanie Convery, "After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne" (Penguin Australia, 2020)
Season 2 Episode 262
Today we are joined by Stephanie Convery, inequality editor at Guardian Australia, and author of After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne (Penguin …
2 years, 11 months ago
Fae Garland and Mitchell Travis, "Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Disorder" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 205
What is intersex and why does it matter? What is the power of law to disrupt dominant narratives? I had a fascinating conversation with authors Dr Fa…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 55
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? Using treaties as its main source, International Law in Europe, 700-1200 (Manchester University Press…
2 years, 11 months ago
Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor, "Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society" (Princeton UP, 2016)
Season 2 Episode 75
Princeton University Press’ Our Compelling Interests series focuses on diversity, in racial, gender, socioeconomic, religious, and other forms. Some …
2 years, 11 months ago
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 686
Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women …
2 years, 11 months ago
Kay Wilson, "Mental Health Law: Abolish Or Reform?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Season 2 Episode 204
The debate about whether mental health law should be abolished or reformed is one that is highly charged and to which there are no easy solutions. In…
2 years, 11 months ago
Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 54
How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the UN appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? Tac…
2 years, 11 months ago
Speak Freely: The Princeton Principles
Season 2 Episode 88
Kicking off our new monthly series on freedom of speech, Keith Whittington and Donald Downs discuss the Princeton Principles for a Campus of Free Inq…
2 years, 11 months ago
B Camminga, "Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Season 2 Episode 54
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018) tracks the conceptual jour…
3 years ago