New Books in Law
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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
Ryan Griffiths, "The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
42 mins; August 09, 2025
Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
40 mins; August 05, 2025
Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
67 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2025
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; July 27, 2025
Christopher T. Fleming, "Equity and Trusts in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (British Academy, 2025)
58 mins; July 23, 2025
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
47 mins; July 20, 2025
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
81 hours 53 mins; July 20, 2025
Simon Butt, "Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
42 mins; July 15, 2025
David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
29 mins; July 13, 2025
Alexander Lian, "Stereoscopic Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Legal Education" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
38 mins; July 13, 2025
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
55 mins; July 13, 2025
Chinese Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law – a Conversation with Dr. Martin Lavicka
25 mins; July 08, 2025
Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster, "Green Transitional Justice" (Routledge, 2025)
69 hours 36 mins; July 07, 2025
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
53 mins; July 03, 2025
Secrets of the Killing State
73 hours 40 mins; July 03, 2025
Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; June 30, 2025
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
64 hours 21 mins; June 30, 2025
Jennifer R. Nájera, "Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education" (Duke UP, 2024)
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
Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025)
65 hours 37 mins; June 17, 2025
The Freedom Academy
57 mins; June 10, 2025
Brando Simeo Starkey, "Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System" (Doubleday, 2025)
62 hours 39 mins; June 06, 2025
Anthony C. Infanti, "The Human Toll: Taxation and Slavery in Colonial America" (NYU Press, 2025)
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
S4 E40 Interpretations of the Second Amendment: A Conversation with Joel Alicea
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
Postcript: Calibrating the Outrage-Democratic Erosion, Legality, and Politics
44 mins; May 21, 2025
Nicholas Barry et al., "Constitutional Conventions: Theories, Practices and Dynamics" (Routledge, 2025)
51 mins; May 20, 2025
Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025)
66 hours 9 mins; May 19, 2025
Dionne Koller, "More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; May 18, 2025
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
35 mins; May 14, 2025
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; May 13, 2025
Constitutional Crisis or a Stalemate?
46 mins; May 12, 2025
Lara Montesinos Coleman, "Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights" (Duke UP, 2023)
73 hours 10 mins; May 10, 2025
Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 21 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)
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
Stephen H. Legomsky, "Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 05, 2025
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
67 hours 52 mins; April 28, 2025
Jeff Sebo, "The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why" (Norton, 2025)
64 hours 40 mins; April 27, 2025
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
54 mins; April 26, 2025
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
56 mins; April 24, 2025
Tadashi Ishikawa, "Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan" (Cambridge UP., 2024)
66 hours 35 mins; April 23, 2025
Philip V. McHarris, "Beyond Policing" (Legacy Lit, 2024)
46 mins; April 23, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
33 mins; April 22, 2025
Constitutional Private Law: A Conversation with Garrett West
53 mins; April 16, 2025
Engage and Evade in 2025: Asad L. Asad on Latino Immigrants in America
51 mins; April 12, 2025
Kathleen Thelen, "Attention, Shoppers!: American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; April 08, 2025
James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
53 mins; April 05, 2025
Giacinto della Cananea, "The Common Core of European Administrative Laws: Retrospective and Prospective" (Brill/NIjhoff, 2023)
54 mins; March 30, 2025
Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, "Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
61 hours 11 mins; March 30, 2025
Mikhail Goldis, "Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
48 mins; March 28, 2025
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
51 mins; March 24, 2025
Postscript: Not a Matter of Left or Right: Historians Fighting Censorship
43 mins; March 24, 2025
Gerald J. Postema, "Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law" (Oxford UP, 2022)
61 hours 54 mins; March 23, 2025
Ahmed M. Abozaid, "Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt: Permanent Exceptions in the War on Terror" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 16 mins; March 22, 2025
Andrew Clapham, "War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
63 hours 6 mins; March 21, 2025
Simon Rabinovitch, "Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History" (Yale UP, 2024)
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
Postscript: How Trump’s Executive Order Contradicts Birthright Citizenship
41 mins; March 13, 2025
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
52 mins; March 12, 2025
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
46 mins; March 09, 2025
Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; March 08, 2025
Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
67 hours 29 mins; March 07, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; March 07, 2025
Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
59 mins; March 05, 2025
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze
43 mins; March 05, 2025
Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 43 mins; March 04, 2025
Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe
48 mins; March 04, 2025
Kent Kauffman, "Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
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
Elsa Stamatopoulou, "Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena: The Global Movement for Self-Determination" (Routledge, 2024)
68 hours 0 mins; February 23, 2025
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 17, 2025
Marie-France Fortin, "The King Can Do No Wrong: Constitutional Fundamentals, Common Law History, and Crown Liability" (Oxford UP, 2024)
72 hours 4 mins; February 14, 2025
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, "The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 12, 2025
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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)
107 hours 33 mins; December 14, 2024