Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 231
In A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Adrian Chast…
3 years, 1 month ago
Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Season 2 Episode 198
Derk Venema's edited volume Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation (Amsterdam UP, 2022) is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutio…
3 years, 1 month ago
Aparna Chandra, "Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India" (India Viking, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 207
The Indian Supreme Court was established nearly seventy-five years ago as a core part of India's constitutional project. Does the Court live up to th…
3 years, 1 month ago
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 199
Today I talked to Aaron Tang about his new book Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It (Yale UP, 2023).
The…
3 years, 1 month ago
Traci Cipriano, "The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-being for a Sustainable Legal Profession" (Routledge, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 211
Traci Cipriano's book The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession (Routledge, 2023) is based on an…
3 years, 1 month ago
Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 355
New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 …
3 years, 1 month ago
Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 409
A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Right…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns
Season 2 Episode 85
Amidst increasing acrimony and political strain, many worry that democratic governance has an expiration date. To answer these concerns, Josiah Ober …
3 years, 1 month ago
Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)
Season 2 Episode 674
Do individuals have the right to “keep and bear” arms? Do “the people” have any collective rights to public safety? Now that the United States Suprem…
3 years, 1 month ago
Kristin Surak, "The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 310
Our lives are in countless ways defined by our citizenship. The country we belong to affects our rights, our travel possibilities, and ultimately our…
3 years, 1 month ago