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Chitranshul Sinha, "The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India" (India Viking, 2019)
44 mins; September 27, 2022
On "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
34 mins; September 22, 2022
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
81 hours 9 mins; September 22, 2022
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, "Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile" (Duke UP, 2022)
58 mins; September 12, 2022
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
41 mins; September 09, 2022
Adam B. Lerner, "From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
49 mins; September 09, 2022
Ken MacLean, "Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar" (U California Press, 2022)
54 mins; September 01, 2022
Jeffrey D. Pugh, "The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security" (Oxford UP, 2021)
53 mins; August 30, 2022
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
61 hours 40 mins; August 26, 2022
“Returned to Zero”: The Case for Reparations to Civilians in Yemen
57 mins; August 24, 2022
Cynthia M. Horne, "Building Trust and Democracy: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Countries" (Oxford UP, 2017)
58 mins; August 24, 2022
Joanna Bourke, "Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
48 mins; August 12, 2022
Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)
71 hours 41 mins; August 11, 2022
Jonathan Leader Maynard, "Ideology and Mass Killing: Radical Security Politics and the Infrastructure of Deadly Atrocities" (Oxford UP, 2022)
90 hours 10 mins; August 09, 2022
Christopher Krentz, "Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature" (Temple UP, 2022)
20 mins; August 05, 2022
Amy E. Grubb and Elisabeth Hope Murray, "British Responses to Genocide: The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923" (Routledge, 2022)
83 hours 38 mins; August 02, 2022
International Association of Genocide Scholars
21 mins; July 29, 2022
Samantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
48 mins; July 27, 2022
Philippe Denis, "The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial" (James Currey, 2022)
58 mins; July 17, 2022
Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
63 hours 10 mins; July 15, 2022
On Hannah Arendt and Humanitarianism
47 mins; July 13, 2022
The Future of Hong Kong: A Discussion with Ho-Fung Hung
39 mins; July 12, 2022
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
46 mins; July 08, 2022
Lucia M. Rafanelli, "Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention" (Oxford UP, 2021)
40 mins; July 07, 2022
The Struggle for Hong Kong: A Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom
30 mins; July 01, 2022
War and Peace: America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine
99 hours 47 mins; June 30, 2022
The Human Tragedy in Yemen
97 hours 48 mins; June 29, 2022
Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
52 mins; June 24, 2022
Francesca Lessa, "The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America" (Yale UP, 2022)
66 hours 12 mins; June 24, 2022
Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
49 mins; June 22, 2022
Mark Fathi Massoud, "Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
71 hours 28 mins; June 21, 2022
Paul T. Murray, "Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed: Franciscans Working for Peace and Justice" (AAFH, 2022)
53 mins; June 20, 2022
Lori A. Allen, "A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
45 mins; June 20, 2022
Mikaela Rabinowitz, "Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2021)
48 mins; June 17, 2022
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
55 mins; June 17, 2022
Jennifer Natalya Fink, "All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship" (Beacon Press, 2022)
67 hours 30 mins; June 16, 2022
Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
50 mins; June 08, 2022
Marc Raboy, "Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel" (Oxford UP, 2022)
66 hours 39 mins; June 02, 2022
Wen Liu, et al., "Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
88 hours 45 mins; June 02, 2022
Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
60 hours 24 mins; June 01, 2022
Andrew Leon Hanna, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; June 01, 2022
Audrey L. Comstock, "Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
38 mins; May 30, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic
62 hours 13 mins; May 25, 2022
Adam Day, "States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance: Complexity Theory Applied to UN Statebuilding in the DRC and South Sudan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
56 mins; May 25, 2022
Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
68 hours 51 mins; May 23, 2022
Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta CĂĄceres" (Peter Lang, 2020)
60 hours 22 mins; May 18, 2022
Heba Gowayed, "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential" (Princeton UP, 2022)
53 mins; May 18, 2022
Sally Hayden, "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route" (Melville House, 2022)
62 hours 5 mins; May 17, 2022
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick et al., "Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice" (Oxford UP, 2022)
37 mins; May 17, 2022
Sarah G. Phillips, "When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland" (Cornell UP, 2020)
44 mins; May 16, 2022
Sofia Stolk, "The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; May 13, 2022
Mark L. Clifford, "Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
65 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2022
Maha Hilal, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
68 hours 52 mins; May 13, 2022
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
74 hours 30 mins; May 12, 2022
Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
48 mins; May 06, 2022
Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, "Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Protection First and Justice Later" (Routledge, 2021)
65 hours 55 mins; May 05, 2022
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the Fishing Industry
31 mins; May 05, 2022
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, "Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 04, 2022
Susan H. Allen, "Interactive Peacemaking: A People-Centered Approach" (Routledge, 2022)
56 mins; April 28, 2022
Anthony Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
53 mins; April 28, 2022
Fiona De Londras, "The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
58 mins; April 27, 2022
Kim Kelly, "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" (Atria, 2022)
32 mins; April 27, 2022
Florence Ashley, "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)
48 mins; April 26, 2022
Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
38 mins; April 26, 2022
David P. Forsythe, "Advanced Introduction to the Politics of International Human Rights" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
77 hours 21 mins; April 25, 2022
The University Network for Human Rights: A Discussion with Jim Calvallaro
40 mins; April 18, 2022
Vicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
50 mins; April 11, 2022
Jason K. Stearns, "The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo" (Princeton UP, 2022)
120 hours 28 mins; April 08, 2022
Jason De Leon, "The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail" (U California Press, 2015)
72 hours 1 min; March 22, 2022
Labor Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Businesses
28 mins; March 21, 2022
Kevin O'Sullivan, "The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid" (Cambridge UP, 2021))
85 hours 54 mins; March 18, 2022
Gene Zubovich, "Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States" (UPenn Press, 2022)
64 hours 4 mins; March 16, 2022
Excluded from Society and Rights: The Experiences of Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border
34 mins; March 10, 2022
Firmin Debrabander, "Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
46 mins; March 03, 2022
Eva Fodor, "The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary" (Palgrave, 2021)
60 hours 56 mins; March 02, 2022
Boyd van Dijk, "Preparing for War: the Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions" (Oxford UP, 2022)
66 hours 56 mins; March 01, 2022
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
61 hours 35 mins; February 25, 2022
Wouter Werner, "Repetition and International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
55 mins; February 22, 2022
Walter Dorn and Andrew Bartles-Smith, "Hinduism and International Humanitarian Law"
62 hours 1 min; February 16, 2022
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
51 mins; February 14, 2022
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
38 mins; February 08, 2022
Michelle Jurkovich, "Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger" (Oxford UP, 2020)
39 mins; February 07, 2022
Ann M. Schneider, "Amnesty in Brazil: Recompense After Repression, 1895-2010" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
71 hours 35 mins; February 02, 2022
Paul Gowder, "The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
60 hours 20 mins; February 02, 2022
Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
64 hours 24 mins; February 01, 2022
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, "The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
56 mins; January 28, 2022
Courtney Hillebrecht, "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
45 mins; January 25, 2022
Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
28 mins; January 10, 2022
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
49 mins; December 30, 2021
Nicole Fox, "After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
66 hours 29 mins; December 28, 2021
Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
60 hours 34 mins; December 24, 2021
Lucie Fremlova, "Queer Roma" (Routledge, 2021)
59 mins; December 24, 2021
Mark S. Berlin, "Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes" (Oxford UP, 2020)
56 mins; December 23, 2021
Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)
65 hours 50 mins; December 21, 2021
Henry Redwood, "The Archival Politics of International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; December 21, 2021
Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
77 hours 26 mins; December 20, 2021
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., "Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
63 hours 26 mins; December 15, 2021
Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
55 mins; December 14, 2021
Jade S. Sasser, "On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change" (NYU Press, 2018)
52 mins; December 13, 2021
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021)
41 mins; December 13, 2021
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