Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 52
Analyzing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in…
3 years, 10 months ago
Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 283
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical media s…
3 years, 10 months ago
Mark V. Tushnet, "The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 158
Mark V. Tushnet's book The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 (Cambridge UP, 2022) describes the closing of one era in const…
3 years, 10 months ago
Helen Steel et al., "Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth" (Ebury, 2022)
Episode 3
In Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth (Ebury, 2022), five women discuss their experiences…
3 years, 10 months ago
Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 320
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital …
3 years, 10 months ago
Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Episode 157
In this timely book, award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger, Louisa Lim, weaves together Hong Kong's fraught political and social history …
3 years, 10 months ago
Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, "Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Protection First and Justice Later" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 129
Around the world, audiences in the mid-1990s watched the mass atrocities unfolding in Rwanda and Srebrenica in horror and disbelief. Emerging from th…
3 years, 10 months ago
John Zerilli, "A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 319
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been crack…
3 years, 10 months ago
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, "Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 135
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obsc…
3 years, 10 months ago
Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, "Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 9
Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for basic communication, finance, healthcare, and more, …
3 years, 10 months ago