Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDana Burchardt, "The Authority of International Courts: A Behavioural Framework" (Hart Publishing, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1712
Why do some international courts wield broad authority while others face pushback or fade into irrelevance? The Authority of International Courts: A …
3 months, 1 week ago
Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration
Season 1 Episode 1711
In Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration (Beacon Press, 2026), civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those…
3 months, 1 week ago
Debolina Dutta, "A Jurisprudence of Conversations: Law, Life and Feminism in Post-colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1710
Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model of innovat…
3 months, 1 week ago
Gabriella Soto, "Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1709
Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting (University of Arizona Press, 2026) begins with the undocum…
3 months, 1 week ago
Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, "Animals and the Right to Politics" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1708
The assumption that only humans can engage in politics—that only humans are 'zoon politikon'—is foundational to the Western tradition of political …
3 months, 1 week ago
Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)
Season 1 Episode 1707
In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railw…
3 months, 1 week ago
What are the Limits of Political Speech? A Conversation with Erik J. Olsen
Season 1 Episode 1706
A New Approach to Political Speech: Democratic Theory, Constitutional Law, and Public Liberty After January 6 (de Gruyter, 2026) challenges conventio…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Are Capitalism and Democracy Fundamentally Incompatible? A Conversation with Mordecai Kurz
Season 1 Episode 1705
Today I'm speaking with Mordecai Kurz, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University. We are discussing his latest book, Private…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Lila Corwin Berman, "Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1704
The history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship, and almost immediately achieved full legal rights…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Paul Osterman, "Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Season 1 Episode 1703
A revealing look at the decline in formal employment in favor of hiring contractors, freelancers, temps, and marginal workers, who are excluded fro…
3 months, 3 weeks ago