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Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts" (Cornell UP, 2026)
51 mins; March 20, 2026
Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)
60 hours 4 mins; March 17, 2026
Sezai Ozan Zeybek, "Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
40 mins; March 09, 2026
David L. Eng, "Reparations and the Human" (Duke UP, 2025)
54 mins; March 03, 2026
A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education
63 hours 12 mins; February 26, 2026
Susan Banki, "The Ecosystem of Exile Politics: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Bhutan's Homeland Activists" (Cornell UP, 2024)
57 mins; February 14, 2026
Lys Kulamadayil, "Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law" (Bloomsbury 2025)
65 hours 45 mins; February 13, 2026
The Power of the State: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and Minneapolis
52 mins; February 12, 2026
Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; February 08, 2026
Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
50 mins; January 31, 2026
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
44 mins; January 29, 2026
Terence Keel, "The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence" (Beacon Press, 2025)
57 mins; January 23, 2026
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
58 mins; January 11, 2026
Andrew I. Port, "Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust" (Harvard UP, 2023)
75 hours 37 mins; January 11, 2026
Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)
63 hours 54 mins; January 06, 2026
Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024)
40 mins; December 26, 2025
Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
52 mins; December 19, 2025
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 6 mins; December 08, 2025
Maja Davidović, "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
54 mins; December 05, 2025
Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis, "Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
66 hours 12 mins; December 03, 2025
Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)
71 hours 41 mins; November 23, 2025
Mark L. Clifford, "The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic" (Free Press, 2024)
89 hours 57 mins; November 04, 2025
159 Glenn Patterson: You Can Choose Who You Are (JP, DC)
65 hours 10 mins; October 30, 2025
Deana Heath, "Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 mins; October 26, 2025
Hamid Dabashi, "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (Haymarket, 2025)
37 mins; October 15, 2025
Hannah Pool, "The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; October 07, 2025
Meredith L. Roman, "The Black Panthers and the Soviets: A Comparative History of Human Rights Movements" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
54 mins; October 05, 2025
Stephanie DeGooyer, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
49 mins; September 28, 2025
Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, "Graphic Refuge: Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
57 mins; September 17, 2025
Katherine Eva Maich, "Bringing Law Home: Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights" (Stanford UP, 2025)
48 mins; September 15, 2025
Keisha N. Blain, "Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
40 mins; September 14, 2025
Aidan Forth, "Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
40 mins; September 11, 2025
Laura Murphy, "Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt" (Columbia Global Reports, 2021)
44 mins; August 30, 2025
Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
54 mins; August 28, 2025
Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt" (U of California Press, 2025)
43 mins; August 23, 2025
Robert Cribb et al., "Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History" (Brill, 2022)
68 hours 4 mins; August 22, 2025
Daniel Lomas, "The Secret History of UK Security Vetting from 1909 to the Present" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
63 hours 38 mins; August 22, 2025
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 14, 2025
Professional Chat: Home, Migrant Workers, and Decent Work in Supply Chains, with Bonny Ling
46 mins; August 06, 2025
Bulent Gokay and Lily Hamourtziadou, "Human Costs of War: 21st Century Human (In)Security from 2003 Iraq to 2022 Ukraine" (Routledge, 2024)
30 mins; July 28, 2025
Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network
37 mins; July 08, 2025
Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster, "Green Transitional Justice" (Routledge, 2025)
65 hours 36 mins; July 07, 2025
Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)
46 mins; June 30, 2025
Lieba Faier, "The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking" (Duke UP, 2024)
55 mins; June 22, 2025
Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 58 mins; June 09, 2025
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
62 hours 26 mins; June 04, 2025
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
70 hours 10 mins; May 09, 2025
Mark Fallon, "Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture" (Regan Arts, 2017)
50 mins; May 08, 2025
MaĂŻa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
43 mins; May 06, 2025
Jeff Sebo, "The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why" (Norton, 2025)
62 hours 40 mins; April 27, 2025
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; April 26, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
32 mins; April 22, 2025
Chitra Nagarajan, "The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict" (Cassava Republic, 2025)
74 hours 40 mins; April 18, 2025
Mary Bosworth, "Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control" (Princeton UP, 2024)
55 mins; April 16, 2025
Studying Myanmar in Times of Crises
27 mins; April 11, 2025
Forest Issac Jones, "Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972" (First Hill Books, 2025)
25 mins; April 10, 2025
Benjamin P. Davis, "Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
55 mins; April 03, 2025
Human Rights in the Trump Era: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth
31 mins; March 24, 2025
Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
55 mins; March 24, 2025
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
63 hours 16 mins; March 23, 2025
David Hollenbach, "Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
64 hours 56 mins; March 22, 2025
Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
60 hours 6 mins; March 20, 2025
Lea David, "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights"(Columbia UP, 2025)
74 hours 9 mins; March 11, 2025
Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)
36 mins; March 06, 2025
Stefan Cristian Ionescu, "Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
78 hours 28 mins; March 05, 2025
Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
56 mins; March 05, 2025
Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
72 hours 6 mins; March 01, 2025
Doina Anca Cretu, "Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania" (Stanford UP, 2025)
58 mins; February 26, 2025
Elsa Stamatopoulou, "Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena: The Global Movement for Self-Determination" (Routledge, 2024)
65 hours 0 mins; February 23, 2025
Patrick Riordan, "Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
47 mins; February 20, 2025
Kenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments" (Knopf, 2025)
73 hours 18 mins; February 15, 2025
Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)
40 mins; February 13, 2025
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2024)
62 hours 8 mins; February 05, 2025
Badiucao and Melissa Chan, "You Must Take Part in Revolution" (Street Noise Books, 2024)
48 mins; February 04, 2025
Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
62 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2025
Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
45 mins; January 31, 2025
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, "Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement" (Duke UP, 2023)
66 hours 26 mins; January 27, 2025
Book Chat: The Life Story of Father Nguyễn, a Vietnamese Refugee Who Migrated to Taiwan, with Lin Shu-fen
34 mins; January 26, 2025
Rumu Sarkar, "International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance" (Springer, 2020)
44 mins; January 25, 2025
Katharine E. McGregor, "Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
48 mins; January 19, 2025
The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
58 mins; January 14, 2025
Alette Smeulers, "Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?" (Routledge, 2023)
52 mins; January 12, 2025
Gervase Phillips, "Persecution and Genocide: A History" (Routledge, 2024)
66 hours 58 mins; January 10, 2025
Gabriel Gavin, "Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh" (Hurst, 2025)
52 mins; January 09, 2025
Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
44 mins; January 06, 2025
Rasmus Sinding SĂžndergaard, "Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
81 hours 44 mins; January 06, 2025
Language Rights in a Changing China
37 mins; December 31, 2024
Amélie Barras, "Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations" (Stanford UP, 2024)
54 mins; December 24, 2024
Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023)
59 mins; December 21, 2024
Leila Ullrich, "Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 20 mins; December 18, 2024
Sandhya Fuchs, "Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India" (Stanford UP, 2024)
104 hours 33 mins; December 14, 2024
Timothy Gitzen, "Banal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses" (Helsinki UP, 2023)
56 mins; December 13, 2024
Wendy Pearlman, "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora" (Liveright, 2024)
64 hours 34 mins; December 10, 2024
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
58 mins; November 30, 2024
Tom Scott-Smith, "Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter" (Stanford UP, 2024)
60 hours 7 mins; November 27, 2024
Muhammad H. Zaman, "We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
48 mins; November 19, 2024
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
51 mins; November 16, 2024
Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)
51 mins; November 12, 2024
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
67 hours 49 mins; October 30, 2024
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
54 mins; October 29, 2024
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