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Shifting Blame: What Should You "Own" and What Shouldn't You?
Episode 17
We claim to judge people for what they intentionally do, but accidents often influence our judgments. In our justice systems, people can be harshly a…
3 years, 1 month ago
Randle C. DeFalco, "Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 174
International criminal justice is, at its core, an anti-atrocity project. Yet just what an 'atrocity' is remains undefined and undertheorized. Randle…
3 years, 1 month ago
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 177
What is religious liberty, anyway? What are its origins? What are religious exemptions? What would a jurisprudence of religious liberty based on the …
3 years, 2 months ago
Ciara Breathnach, "Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 37
Ciara Breathnach's book Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902 (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on the evolution of…
3 years, 2 months ago
21st Century Citizenship: What Does It Mean to be a Citizen in America?
Episode 7
What does it mean to be a citizen in America in 2017?
Guests
Danielle Allen, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and University Professo…3 years, 2 months ago
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
Episode 152
In 1956, Alfred Hitchcock focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk of wrongful conviction. The re…
3 years, 2 months ago
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Episode 46
The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place…
3 years, 2 months ago
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
Episode 53
In April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. In this session, Lewis …
3 years, 2 months ago
Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 346
Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Felicity M. Turner's Proving Pregnancy: G…
3 years, 2 months ago
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Episode 45
A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
Animals are in trou…
3 years, 2 months ago