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James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025)
52 mins; August 14, 2025
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63 hours 52 mins; August 11, 2025
Terri Diane Halperin, “The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
58 mins; August 09, 2025
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42 mins; August 09, 2025
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40 mins; August 05, 2025
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67 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2025
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58 mins; July 27, 2025
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58 mins; July 23, 2025
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47 mins; July 20, 2025
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81 hours 53 mins; July 20, 2025
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42 mins; July 15, 2025
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29 mins; July 13, 2025
Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
38 mins; July 13, 2025
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55 mins; July 13, 2025
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25 mins; July 08, 2025
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69 hours 36 mins; July 07, 2025
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53 mins; July 03, 2025
Secrets of the Killing State
73 hours 40 mins; July 03, 2025
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65 hours 20 mins; June 30, 2025
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64 hours 21 mins; June 30, 2025
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76 hours 15 mins; June 27, 2025
Vivian Kong, "Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
67 hours 30 mins; June 22, 2025
Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire with Shaina Potts
47 mins; June 20, 2025
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65 hours 37 mins; June 17, 2025
The Freedom Academy
57 mins; June 10, 2025
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62 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2025
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66 hours 47 mins; June 03, 2025
Carol A. Heimer, "Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
65 hours 30 mins; June 02, 2025
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39 mins; May 29, 2025
Executive Power and the President Who Would Not Be King: A Conversation with Michael McConnell
52 mins; May 21, 2025
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44 mins; May 21, 2025
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51 mins; May 20, 2025
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66 hours 9 mins; May 19, 2025
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32 mins; May 18, 2025
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35 mins; May 14, 2025
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67 hours 45 mins; May 13, 2025
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46 mins; May 12, 2025
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73 hours 10 mins; May 10, 2025
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 21 mins; May 09, 2025
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54 mins; May 08, 2025
MaĂŻa Pal, "Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
45 mins; May 06, 2025
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59 mins; May 05, 2025
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67 hours 52 mins; April 28, 2025
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64 hours 40 mins; April 27, 2025
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54 mins; April 26, 2025
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56 mins; April 24, 2025
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66 hours 35 mins; April 23, 2025
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46 mins; April 23, 2025
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33 mins; April 22, 2025
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53 mins; April 16, 2025
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51 mins; April 12, 2025
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50 mins; April 08, 2025
James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
53 mins; April 05, 2025
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54 mins; March 30, 2025
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61 hours 11 mins; March 30, 2025
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48 mins; March 28, 2025
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51 mins; March 24, 2025
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43 mins; March 24, 2025
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61 hours 54 mins; March 23, 2025
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66 hours 16 mins; March 22, 2025
Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
63 hours 6 mins; March 21, 2025
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81 hours 44 mins; March 17, 2025
Mark Neocleous, "Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police" (Verso, 2025)
85 hours 0 mins; March 15, 2025
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41 mins; March 13, 2025
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52 mins; March 12, 2025
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46 mins; March 09, 2025
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62 hours 54 mins; March 08, 2025
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67 hours 29 mins; March 07, 2025
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39 mins; March 07, 2025
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59 mins; March 05, 2025
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43 mins; March 05, 2025
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60 hours 43 mins; March 04, 2025
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48 mins; March 04, 2025
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60 hours 15 mins; March 02, 2025
Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey
45 mins; February 26, 2025
Postscript: How to Fight Back: Charting Opposition to the Actions of the Trump Administration
54 mins; February 24, 2025
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68 hours 0 mins; February 23, 2025
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58 mins; February 17, 2025
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72 hours 4 mins; February 14, 2025
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55 mins; February 12, 2025
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68 hours 9 mins; February 08, 2025
James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
74 hours 47 mins; January 27, 2025
Shimon Shetreet, "Judicial Independence: Cornerstone of Democracy" (Brill Nijhoff, 2023)
48 mins; January 26, 2025
Rumu Sarkar, "International Development Law: Rule of Law, Human Rights & Global Finance" (Springer, 2020)
47 mins; January 25, 2025
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
41 mins; January 20, 2025
Chaya T. Halberstam, "Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice" (Oxford UP, 2024)
71 hours 30 mins; January 11, 2025
Edward Jones Corredera, "Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2024)
48 mins; January 10, 2025
Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
60 hours 26 mins; January 07, 2025
Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)
67 hours 48 mins; January 06, 2025
Olga Borovaya, "The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
77 hours 59 mins; January 05, 2025
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
69 hours 2 mins; January 04, 2025
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
72 hours 21 mins; January 03, 2025
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
46 mins; January 03, 2025
Language Rights in a Changing China
39 mins; December 31, 2024
Oishik Sircar, "Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
96 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)
68 hours 27 mins; December 28, 2024
Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; December 21, 2024
Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
50 mins; December 20, 2024
Leila Ullrich, "Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 20 mins; December 18, 2024
Sandhya Fuchs, "Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India" (Stanford UP, 2024)