Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmma Southon, "A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome" (Abrams Press, 2021)
Episode 3
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Re…
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Paul Gowder, "The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
Episode 1144
In The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation (Hart, 2021), Dr. Paul Gowder focuses on examining the ideals of t…
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Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 273
In the United States, tens of thousands of children are conceived every year with donated gametes. When people decide to create a child with donated …
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Jane Lilly López, "Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 89
For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing …
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Neil J. Diamant, "Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 1138
In Useful Bullshit: Consitutions in Chinese Politics and Society (Cornell University Press, 2022) Dr. Neil Diamant pulls back the curtain on early co…
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Oishik Sircar, "Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 209
Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is…
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Camilla Fitzsimons et al., "Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Justice" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Episode 9
Camilla Fitzsimons is an activist and a member of the Dublin West Pro Choice group. She works at Maynooth University and is the author of Community E…
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Linda Greenhouse, "Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court" (Random House, 2021)
Episode 149
At the end of the Supreme Court's 2019-20 term, the center was holding. The predictions that the court would move irrevocably to the far right hadn't…
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Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 264
In The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Princeton UP, 2021), Andrew Porwancher debunks a string of myths about the origins of this founding father…
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Courtney Hillebrecht, "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 1134
Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2021) is at the forefront of a new…
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