Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHenry Redwood, "The Archival Politics of International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 52
The archives produced by international courts have received little empirical, theoretical or methodological attention within international criminal j…
4 years, 2 months ago
Warren E. Milteer, Jr., "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 566
We often focus on enslaved people of color but Dr. Warren E. Milteer Jr.’s Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (UNC Press, 202…
4 years, 2 months ago
Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
Episode 25
What sequence of events led Hong Kong to lose its long-held status as a liberal enclave of China? What drove its population to rise up against its go…
4 years, 2 months ago
Michel Foucault, "Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Episode 136
Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), edited by Kevin Thomp…
4 years, 2 months ago
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 255
In her landmark new book Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard UP, 2020), Jocelyn Hendrickson launches a s…
4 years, 2 months ago
Shamira Gelbman, "The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction" (Temple UP, 2021)
Episode 565
Historically, how have marginalized and minority groups pushed the boundaries of representative government to pass legislation that benefits them? Po…
4 years, 2 months ago
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., "Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Episode 146
The United States is the world's largest donor of foreign aid, and in this profound analysis, Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. demonstrates the links …
4 years, 2 months ago
Adam Hilton, "True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Episode 181
Who governs political parties? Recent insurgent campaigns, such as those of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have thrust this critical question to th…
4 years, 2 months ago
Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1115
Lee B. Wilson is the author of Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660-1783, publish…
4 years, 2 months ago
Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 145
Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart of their targe…
4 years, 3 months ago