Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJulian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 117
There was a time when French people put up picture of Marshal Philippe Petain on their walls. He is a figure of immeasurable stature to the country o…
3 years, 2 months ago
Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 307
Because immigration is such a recurring-and divisive-topic in the United States, it is easy to assume that we understand what it means for an immigra…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 72
For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading …
3 years, 2 months ago
Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring, "Disability, Care and Family Law" (Routledge, 2021)
Season 2 Episode 195
Disability, Care and Family Law (Routledge 2021) examines the issues at the intersection of disability, care and family law. Professors Beverley Clou…
3 years, 2 months ago
Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment
Season 2 Episode 20
Two blockbuster cases came down in June of 2022. The Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen sub…
3 years, 2 months ago
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 159
Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relativel…
3 years, 2 months ago
Morgan L. W. Hazelton et al., "The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 1172
Does it matter if judges are nice to each other? The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary (Oxford UP, 2023)argues that…
3 years, 2 months ago
Becoming Justice Thomas
Season 2 Episode 393
On today’s podcast, we are changing things up a bit. Instead of interviewing the author of a recent book, I am interviewing another podcaster about t…
3 years, 2 months ago
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Season 2 Episode 352
Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In P…
3 years, 2 months ago
Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
Season 2 Episode 158
Diversity in higher education is under attack as the Supreme Court limits the use of race-conscious admissions practices at American colleges and uni…
3 years, 2 months ago