Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
Episode 32
Dr. Charles Smith performed autopsies at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. The cops kept turning to him with new corpses, and he kept cl…
3 years, 6 months ago
Derailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise
Episode 31
When it comes to complex social problems, us “sensible” types turn to the experts, but what if they don’t actually know what they’re talking about? T…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Episode 37
This comprehensive three-volume reference work collects and summarizes the wealth of information available in the field of transitional justice. Tran…
3 years, 6 months ago
Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
Episode 106
In the 1960s and 1970s, the exposure of Big Tobacco’s aggressive lobbying and internal efforts to obscure science showcasing the harmful effects of s…
3 years, 6 months ago
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 126
Adrienne Buller (The Value of a Whale) and Mathew Lawrence (Planet on Fire) have penned a radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic p…
3 years, 6 months ago
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
Episode 14
Today’s Postscript (a special series that allows scholars to comment on pressing contemporary issues) focuses on the US Supreme Court and the Second …
3 years, 6 months ago
Stephen Hewer. "Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland" (Brepols, 2022)
Episode 24
Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland (Brepols, 2022) offers a fresh look at the legal…
3 years, 6 months ago
Christopher Witko, "Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)
Episode 617
How do competing interests shape public policy? Why are the economic interests and priorities of lower-, working-, and middle-class Americans often n…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
Episode 2
It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at Stanford, and in between puffs after class they dre…
3 years, 7 months ago
Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 163
Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the d…
3 years, 7 months ago