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Colloquies on European Civil Procedure: A Conversation with Marco de Benito

39 mins; March 28, 2026

Joanna Siekiera ed., "NATO Stability Policing: Beneficial Tool in Filling the Security Gap and Establishing the Rule of Law, and a Safe and Secure Environment" (NATO Stability Policing Centre Of Excellence, 2024)

69 hours 45 mins; March 25, 2026

Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)

58 mins; March 25, 2026

Doug Crandell, "Twenty-Two Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages" (Cornell UP, 2022)

63 hours 10 mins; March 21, 2026

Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

56 mins; March 21, 2026

Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts" (Cornell UP, 2026)

51 mins; March 20, 2026

Christopher Munn, "Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2025)

70 hours 45 mins; March 17, 2026

Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)

60 hours 4 mins; March 17, 2026

Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

36 mins; March 11, 2026

Maud Anne Bracke, "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford UP, 2025)

71 hours 10 mins; March 09, 2026

Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)

54 mins; March 06, 2026

David L. Eng, "Reparations and the Human" (Duke UP, 2025)

54 mins; March 03, 2026

Zev Eleff et al. eds., "The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)

74 hours 56 mins; February 27, 2026

Andrea Mansker, "Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2024)

50 mins; February 24, 2026

Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)

44 mins; February 23, 2026

Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)

45 mins; February 22, 2026

Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)

55 mins; February 22, 2026

Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

26 mins; February 18, 2026

Trump, the UN Charter, and the Strange Politics of International Law

64 hours 18 mins; February 17, 2026

Lys Kulamadayil, "Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law" (Bloomsbury 2025)

65 hours 45 mins; February 13, 2026

Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

55 mins; February 09, 2026

Jessica Lake, "Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law" (Stanford UP, 2025)

55 mins; February 02, 2026

Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, "By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates" (Columbia UP, 2025)

55 mins; January 30, 2026

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

44 mins; January 29, 2026

Karin Wulf, "Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 27, 2026

George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)

63 hours 6 mins; January 26, 2026

Matteo Gatti, "Corporate Power and the Politics of Change" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

28 mins; January 25, 2026

Simon Devereaux, "Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

46 mins; January 25, 2026

Zainab Saleh, "Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2025)

44 mins; January 24, 2026

Terence Keel, "The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence" (Beacon Press, 2025)

57 mins; January 23, 2026

Emilie Connolly, "Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2025)

50 mins; January 21, 2026

Amanda G. Madden, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" (Cornell UP, 2025)

53 mins; January 18, 2026

A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream" (U California Press, 2026)

55 mins; January 17, 2026

Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

40 mins; January 12, 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

Anna Sergi, "How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility" (Policy Press, 2025)

55 mins; January 11, 2026

J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)

57 mins; January 10, 2026

Sarah Kunz, "Expatriate: Following a Migration Category" (Manchester UP, 2023)

64 hours 6 mins; January 09, 2026

David Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)

59 mins; January 06, 2026

Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)

60 hours 12 mins; January 05, 2026

Deana Heath and Jinee Lokaneeta, "Policing and Violence in India: Colonial Origins and Contemporary Realities" (Speaking Tiger, 2025)

46 mins; January 02, 2026

Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)

41 mins; January 01, 2026

J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

30 mins; December 31, 2025

Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)

49 mins; December 30, 2025

Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

55 mins; December 30, 2025

Alastair McClure, "Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

57 mins; December 27, 2025

Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024)

40 mins; December 26, 2025

Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Profile Books, 2026)

29 mins; December 26, 2025

Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

63 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2025

Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

63 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2025

Joanna Siekiera, "International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region" (Routledge, 2025)

65 hours 11 mins; December 20, 2025

Yan-ho Lai, "Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)

62 hours 56 mins; December 16, 2025

Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín eds., "Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2025

46 mins; December 13, 2025

Rachel Jean-Baptiste, "Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; December 10, 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

Elizabeth Chika Tippett, "The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplace" (U California Press, 2025)

40 mins; December 03, 2025

Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

43 mins; December 01, 2025

Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)

61 hours 21 mins; November 28, 2025

John A. Camacho and Zack Hamilton, "Sports Chaos: Exploring the Reasons Behind Expert Business, Legal, and Moral Decisions" (2025)

59 mins; November 24, 2025

Arpitha Kodiveri, "Governing Forests: State, Law and Citizenship in India’s Forests" (Melbourne UP, 2024)

108 hours 13 mins; November 22, 2025

John Jackson, "Special Advocates in the Adversarial System" (Routledge, 2020)

73 hours 25 mins; November 14, 2025

David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)

62 hours 27 mins; November 14, 2025

Anand P. Vaidya, "Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India" (Cornell UP, 2025)

83 hours 11 mins; November 13, 2025

Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It" (Rivertown Books, 2025)

38 mins; November 12, 2025

Joshua Castellino, "Calibrating Colonial Crime: Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment" (Policy Press, 2025)

52 mins; November 04, 2025

Linda Upham-Bornstein, "'Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender': Taxpayers’ Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" (Temple UP, 2023)

45 mins; November 02, 2025

Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, "The Construction of Witchcraft in Early Modern Denmark, 1536-1617" (Routledge, 2025)

45 mins; November 01, 2025

Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

45 mins; October 31, 2025

Amanda Laury Kleintop, "Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)

60 hours 0 mins; October 27, 2025

Robert C. Bird, "Legal Knowledge in Organizations: A Source of Strategic and Competitive Advantage" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

59 mins; October 23, 2025

Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)

43 mins; October 23, 2025

Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)

60 hours 9 mins; October 19, 2025

Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, "Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards" (Brepols, 2025)

54 mins; October 17, 2025

Rehan Abeyratne, "Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment" (Oxford UP, 2025)

62 hours 17 mins; October 16, 2025

Future of the Forest: Struggles over Land and Law in India

31 mins; October 13, 2025

S. Orestis Palermos, "Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law" (Routledge, 2025)

60 hours 37 mins; October 10, 2025

Miranda Spieler, "Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories" (Harvard UP, 2025)

53 mins; October 08, 2025

Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)

57 mins; October 03, 2025

Deepa Das Acevedo, "The War on Tenure" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

62 hours 47 mins; October 03, 2025

Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail" (Heresy Press, 2025)

52 mins; October 02, 2025

Rosemary Admiral, "Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

49 mins; September 29, 2025

Jacinto Cuvi, "The Edge of the Law: Street Vendors and the Erosion of Citizenship in São Paulo" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

49 mins; September 24, 2025

Rebecca Nagle, "By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" (Harper, 2024)

39 mins; September 16, 2025

Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX" (Princeton UP, 2025)

45 mins; September 16, 2025

Julien Mailland on "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry"

70 hours 25 mins; September 15, 2025

Katherine Eva Maich, "Bringing Law Home: Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights" (Stanford UP, 2025)

48 mins; September 15, 2025

Rose Casey, "Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style" (Fordham UP, 2025)

52 mins; September 12, 2025

Maria R. Montalvo, "Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)

81 hours 1 min; September 09, 2025

Karen Bartlett, "Escape from Kabul: The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind" (New Press, 2025)

61 hours 3 mins; September 05, 2025

Brendan A. Shanahan, "Disparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865-1965" (Oxford UP, 2025)

77 hours 16 mins; September 01, 2025

Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)

50 mins; August 31, 2025

Yong-Shik Lee, "Law and Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition" (Routledge, 2021)

75 hours 53 mins; August 30, 2025

David Bosco, "The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World's Oceans" (Oxford UP, 2021)

58 mins; August 30, 2025

Faisal Chaudhry, "South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)

76 hours 49 mins; August 28, 2025

Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)

54 mins; August 28, 2025

Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)

48 mins; August 24, 2025

Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)

60 hours 33 mins; August 23, 2025

Citizenship Stripping: You Are Not American

54 mins; August 21, 2025

Peter Hart-Brinson, "The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture" (NYU Press, 2018)

45 mins; August 15, 2025

Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, "The Human Dimension of International Law" (Brill, 2025)

32 mins; August 15, 2025

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