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Ann M. Schneider, "Amnesty in Brazil: Recompense After Repression, 1895-2010" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
76 hours 20 mins; February 02, 2022
Emma Southon, "A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome" (Abrams Press, 2021)
68 hours 49 mins; February 02, 2022
Paul Gowder, "The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
62 hours 20 mins; February 02, 2022
Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
66 hours 24 mins; February 01, 2022
Jane Lilly LĂłpez, "Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State" (Stanford UP, 2021)
68 hours 46 mins; February 01, 2022
Neil J. Diamant, "Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
53 mins; January 31, 2022
Oishik Sircar, "Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
73 hours 43 mins; January 28, 2022
Camilla Fitzsimons et al., "Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Justice" (Pluto Press, 2021)
61 hours 2 mins; January 27, 2022
Linda Greenhouse, "Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court" (Random House, 2021)
37 mins; January 26, 2022
Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
41 mins; January 26, 2022
Courtney Hillebrecht, "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
47 mins; January 25, 2022
Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)
63 hours 39 mins; January 25, 2022
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
48 mins; January 20, 2022
Colin Jerolmack, "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town" (Princeton UP, 2021)
64 hours 40 mins; January 19, 2022
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
58 mins; January 11, 2022
Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
28 mins; January 10, 2022
Warren E. Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" (LSU Press, 2020)
43 mins; January 05, 2022
Viktoriya Kim et al. "The Politics of International Marriage in Japan" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
53 mins; January 03, 2022
Diana S. Kim, "Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
57 mins; December 30, 2021
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
51 mins; December 30, 2021
Joseph J. Ellis, "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" (Liveright, 2021)
49 mins; December 27, 2021
Patricia Gándara and Jongyeon Ee, "Schools Under Siege: The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Educational Equity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
64 hours 16 mins; December 27, 2021
Susan J. Pearson, "The Birth Certificate: An American History" (UNC Press, 2021)
70 hours 1 min; December 27, 2021
Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
62 hours 34 mins; December 24, 2021
Mark S. Berlin, "Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes" (Oxford UP, 2020)
58 mins; December 23, 2021
Seth Barrett Tillman, "What Oath (if any) did Jacob Henry take in 1809?: Deconstructing the Historical Myths"
43 mins; December 23, 2021
Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)
66 hours 28 mins; December 23, 2021
Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)
67 hours 50 mins; December 21, 2021
Henry Redwood, "The Archival Politics of International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
52 mins; December 21, 2021
Warren E. Milteer, Jr., "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South" (UNC Press, 2021)
58 mins; December 20, 2021
Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
79 hours 26 mins; December 20, 2021
Michel Foucault, "Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)
71 hours 41 mins; December 20, 2021
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
67 hours 53 mins; December 17, 2021
Shamira Gelbman, "The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction" (Temple UP, 2021)
50 mins; December 16, 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)
68 hours 11 mins; December 15, 2021
Adam Hilton, "True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
56 mins; December 15, 2021
Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
47 mins; December 15, 2021
Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
59 mins; December 14, 2021
Alison Ritter, "Drug Policy" (Routledge, 2021)
55 mins; December 13, 2021
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
81 hours 53 mins; December 13, 2021
Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
80 hours 22 mins; December 13, 2021
Postscript: SB-8, Dobbs, and the Politics of Abortion
54 mins; December 10, 2021
William J. Morgan, "Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory" (Temple UP, 2020)
61 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2021
James Shires, "The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East" (Hurst, 2021)
65 hours 17 mins; December 09, 2021
Mia Bay, "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
61 hours 33 mins; December 09, 2021
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
44 mins; December 08, 2021
Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; December 07, 2021
J. Ryan Stackhouse, "Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
63 hours 27 mins; December 07, 2021
Michael Frazer, “The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
156 hours 10 mins; December 07, 2021
David Herzberg, "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
60 hours 15 mins; December 06, 2021
Michael RodrĂguez-Muñiz, "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change" (Princeton UP, 2021)
68 hours 25 mins; December 06, 2021
Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian, "The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back" (New Press, 2021)
36 mins; December 06, 2021
Nicole Nguyen, "Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
51 mins; December 03, 2021
Jeffrey S. Bachman, "Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations" (Routledge, 2019)
64 hours 28 mins; December 03, 2021
Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss, "Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
77 hours 36 mins; December 02, 2021
Avia Pasternak, "Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their States' Wrongdoings?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
65 hours 21 mins; December 01, 2021
James Kapaló and Kinga Povedák, "The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
63 hours 17 mins; December 01, 2021
Margaret D. Jacobs, "After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands" (Princeton UP, 2021)
69 hours 20 mins; November 29, 2021
Eric Berkowitz, "Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West from the Ancients to Fake News" (Beacon Press, 2021)
35 mins; November 29, 2021
Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
75 hours 39 mins; November 26, 2021
Daniel Lee, "The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
64 hours 13 mins; November 24, 2021
Rana M. Jaleel, "The Work of Rape" (Duke UP, 2021)
36 mins; November 24, 2021
Craig W. Stevens, "The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings" (Academic Press, 2020)
57 mins; November 24, 2021
Jessie Barton-Hronešová, "The Struggle for Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
65 hours 7 mins; November 24, 2021
Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)
64 hours 27 mins; November 23, 2021
Steven P. Brown, "Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
38 mins; November 23, 2021
Postscript: The Supreme Court, Concealed Carry, and How Your Laws Might Change
54 mins; November 22, 2021
Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, "Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice" (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)
69 hours 19 mins; November 22, 2021
Vlad Solomon, "State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain, 1880-1914" (Boydell Press, 2021)
55 mins; November 22, 2021
Sana Haroon, "Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
77 hours 54 mins; November 19, 2021
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders" (Princeton UP, 2021)
54 mins; November 18, 2021
Adam Bonica and Maya Sen, "The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
68 hours 33 mins; November 17, 2021
Matthew Stewart, “The Epicurean Republic” (Open Agenda, 2021)
87 hours 37 mins; November 15, 2021
Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese, "Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work" (Routledge, 2020)
54 mins; November 12, 2021
The Politics of Public Prosecution in Malaysia and the Problem of Corruption
23 mins; November 12, 2021
Anna Saunders et al., "Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
81 hours 54 mins; November 09, 2021
Don F. Selby, "Human Rights in Thailand" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
75 hours 8 mins; November 09, 2021
Jennifer Carlson, "Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race" (Princeton UP, 2020)
61 hours 2 mins; November 08, 2021
Luke Clements, "Clustered Injustice and The Level Green" (Legal Action Group, 2020)
73 hours 19 mins; November 08, 2021
Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)
67 hours 33 mins; November 05, 2021
Quentin Skinner, “Quest for Freedom” (Open Agenda, 2021)
101 hours 39 mins; November 05, 2021
Jovan Scott Lewis, "Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
58 mins; November 05, 2021
Doing an Ethnography of Policing: In Conversation with Sarah Brayne
52 mins; November 04, 2021
Renee Ann Cramer, "Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care" (Stanford UP, 2021)
52 mins; November 04, 2021
Matthew J. Lacombe, "Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners Into a Political Force" (Princeton UP, 2021)
50 mins; November 03, 2021
Nada Moumtaz, "God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
65 hours 34 mins; November 02, 2021
David Madland, "Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States" (Cornell UP, 2021)
52 mins; November 01, 2021
Robert J. Spitzer, "The Politics of Gun Control" (Routledge, 2020)
54 mins; October 31, 2021
Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
67 hours 10 mins; October 29, 2021
Dilek Kurban, "Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)