Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPatricia Gándara and Jongyeon Ee, "Schools Under Siege: The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Educational Equity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 152
Much has been reported and discussed about the hotly debated issue of immigration enforcement, yet a question is still to be explored: What is the im…
4 years, 5 months ago
Susan J. Pearson, "The Birth Certificate: An American History" (UNC Press, 2021)
Episode 1126
For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver’s license, verifying in…
4 years, 5 months ago
Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 155
On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Inste…
4 years, 5 months ago
Mark S. Berlin, "Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 84
Political Scientist Mark Berlin’s new book, Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes (Oxford UP, 2020)…
4 years, 5 months ago
Seth Barrett Tillman, "What Oath (if any) did Jacob Henry take in 1809?: Deconstructing the Historical Myths"
Episode 147
Seth Barrett Tillman, an associate professor of law at Maynooth University in Ireland, has written two revisionist articles about an incident from 18…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)
Episode 1124
The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021) details the history of the United States'…
4 years, 5 months ago
Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 153
The idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat. Despite some early twenty-first ce…
4 years, 5 months ago
Henry 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago