Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEric Berkowitz, "Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West from the Ancients to Fake News" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Episode 144
Eric Berkowitz has written a short history of a censorship, a large topic that has been a phenomenon since the advent of recorded history. In Dangero…
4 years, 3 months ago
Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Episode 299
Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined i…
4 years, 3 months ago
Daniel Lee, "The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 127
Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. Daniel Lee's book The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign St…
4 years, 3 months ago
Rana M. Jaleel, "The Work of Rape" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 189
In The Work of Rape (Duke UP, 2021), Rana M. Jaleel argues that the redefinition of sexual violence within international law as a war crime, crime ag…
4 years, 3 months ago
Craig W. Stevens, "The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings" (Academic Press, 2020)
Episode 37
Craig W. Stevens' book The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings (Academic Press, 2021) targets academic and …
4 years, 3 months ago
Jessie Barton-Hronešová, "The Struggle for Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 138
In Jessie Barton Hronešová’s new book, The Struggle of Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), she explores pat…
4 years, 3 months ago
Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 133
Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 (Cornell UP, 2021) moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined n…
4 years, 3 months ago
Steven P. Brown, "Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Episode 143
Steven P. Brown, professor of political science at Auburn University, has written a history of notable U.S. Supreme Cases and justices that hailed fr…
4 years, 3 months ago
Postscript: The Supreme Court, Concealed Carry, and How Your Laws Might Change
Episode 10
An earlier Postscript explained what was at stake for concealed carry laws in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court – and guessed at what the oral arg…
4 years, 3 months ago
Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, "Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice" (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)
Episode 148
Of the dozens of juicy questions for future inquiry that Dr. Michelle Nario-Redmond provides at the end of Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Di…
4 years, 3 months ago