Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBeverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 174
This book cuts new ground, challenging the assumption of law as an objective concept. It draws out the way that binary frameworks situate and create …
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Civil Disobedience
Episode 103
Eraldo Souza dos Santos talks about the invention of civil disobedience as a form of political action around the world, and the need for its redefini…
3 years, 3 months ago
Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 124
Digital platforms controlled by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Tencent and Uber have transformed not only the ways we do business, but…
3 years, 3 months ago
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 52
Whose fault are financial crises, and who is responsible for stopping them, or repairing the damage? Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of Europ…
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Anna Dziedzic, "Foreign Judges in the Pacific" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
Episode 173
While it might ordinarily be assumed that judges who sit on constitutional courts will be local citizens, in the islands of the Pacific, more than th…
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The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint
Episode 40
What is the best way to achieve societal harmony in a place in which groups of people with different identities are living together. Should minority …
3 years, 3 months ago
Alexander Laban Hinton, "Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 171
Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022) tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accus…
3 years, 3 months ago
Frans Camphuijsen, "Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Episode 17
Frans Camphuijsen explored records from the law courts of York, Paris, and Utrecht and used them as a base for Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Eur…
3 years, 3 months ago
Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 123
On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued a ban on TikTok in the United States, requiring that the owner, Beijing-based Bytedance, sell the …
3 years, 3 months ago
Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" (Viking, 2022)
Episode 85
Should everyone have privacy in their personal lives? Can privacy exist in a public place? Is there a right to be left alone, even in the United Stat…
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