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Shehnaz Haqqani, "Feminism, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam: Negotiating Islamic Law and Gender" (Oneworld, 2024)
84 hours 54 mins; December 13, 2024
Leslie Beth Ribovich, "Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools" (NYU Press, 2024)
59 mins; December 13, 2024
Melissa B. Jacoby, "Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal" (New Press, 2024)
49 mins; December 13, 2024
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
57 mins; December 12, 2024
Mie Nakachi, "Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2021)
71 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2024
Casey B. K. Dominguez, "Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers" (UP of Kansas, 2024)
58 mins; December 09, 2024
Richard J. Golsan, "Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's First Trial for Crimes Against Humanity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
84 hours 9 mins; December 06, 2024
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
50 mins; December 06, 2024
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
64 hours 2 mins; December 03, 2024
Samantha A. Vortherms, "Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China" (Stanford UP, 2024)
60 hours 46 mins; November 30, 2024
Olivia Chilcote, "Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians" (U Washington Press, 2024)
83 hours 54 mins; November 30, 2024
Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan: Can He Really Do It?
30 mins; November 28, 2024
Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah, "Green Rush: The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States" (NYU Press, 2024)
54 mins; November 28, 2024
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; November 26, 2024
Sandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
99 hours 16 mins; November 26, 2024
Megan Rae Blakely, "Technology, Intellectual Property Law, and Culture: The Tangification of Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2024)
42 mins; November 25, 2024
Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
63 hours 15 mins; November 25, 2024
Kevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
52 mins; November 24, 2024
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
67 hours 34 mins; November 24, 2024
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
71 hours 52 mins; November 24, 2024
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
97 hours 50 mins; November 21, 2024
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
97 hours 50 mins; November 21, 2024
Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
29 mins; November 20, 2024
Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 18, 2024
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
56 mins; November 16, 2024
Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
90 hours 24 mins; November 16, 2024
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
58 mins; November 12, 2024
Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
58 mins; November 11, 2024
History and Law with Rodger Citron
71 hours 29 mins; November 07, 2024
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
49 mins; November 06, 2024
Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
67 hours 19 mins; October 31, 2024
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination
69 hours 49 mins; October 30, 2024
Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
27 mins; October 23, 2024
E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)
62 hours 7 mins; October 19, 2024
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
55 mins; October 17, 2024
The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart
58 mins; October 16, 2024
Slavery and Islam
36 mins; October 16, 2024
Eric R. Schlereth, "Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America" (UNC Press, 2024)
56 mins; October 14, 2024
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
81 hours 28 mins; October 09, 2024
Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
36 mins; October 08, 2024
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, "Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians" (NYU Press, 2024)
76 hours 41 mins; October 07, 2024
Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
28 mins; October 07, 2024
Megan Bradley et al., "IOM Unbound?: Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
102 hours 50 mins; October 05, 2024
Deepa Das Acevedo, "The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
33 mins; October 03, 2024
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
81 hours 36 mins; October 03, 2024
Samuel Ely Bagg, "The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 8 mins; October 01, 2024
Caterina Fugazzola, "Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China" (Temple UP, 2023)
59 mins; September 26, 2024
Ethical Machines: A Conversation with Reid Blackman
52 mins; September 25, 2024
David M. Driesen, "The Specter of Dictatorship: Judicial Enabling of Presidential Power" (Stanford UP, 2021)
57 mins; September 23, 2024
Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy, "An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer" (Cornell UP, 2024)
50 mins; September 22, 2024
Gergely Gosztonyi, "Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices" (Springer, 2023)
Michael Willrich, "American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (Basic Books, 2023)