Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey, "Mexico's Human Rights Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Episode 1
Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the ac…
3 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth F. Schwartz, "Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise" (New Press, 2016)
Episode 184
Not long ago, same-sex couples had to jump through endless hoops to make their relationships even close to legal. Happily, those days are over. But h…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 18
Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been…
3 years, 4 months ago
Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Episode 110
California was born "under the shadow of slavery," writes Lynn Hudson, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In West of Jim …
3 years, 4 months ago
Guy Lancaster, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" (U Arkansas Press, 2021)
Episode 42
Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of …
3 years, 4 months ago
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
Episode 178
An alienated society divided into groups and classes suspicious of one another does not pose an especially great problem for an authoritarian regime …
3 years, 4 months ago
Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey, "A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England" (U Alabama Press, 2022)
Episode 16
Content Warning: discussion of execution gets a bit gruesome.
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey, A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in…
3 years, 4 months ago
Larisa Kingston Mann, "Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 2
In this episode, our host Mariela Morales Suárez discusses the book Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Co…
3 years, 4 months ago
Lucy Series, "Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Episode 173
Dr Lucy Series Deprivations of Liberty in The Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press, 2022) is one that I have long been looking forwar…
3 years, 4 months ago
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 140
Robert Hutchinson's After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals (Yale UP, 2022) is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for…
3 years, 4 months ago