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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

61 hours 58 mins; January 03, 2024

Robert N. Gross, “Public vs. Private: The Early History of School Choice in America” (Oxford UP, 2018)

66 hours 10 mins; January 03, 2024

Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)

51 mins; January 02, 2024

Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)

58 mins; January 02, 2024

Justin Marceau, "Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

65 hours 26 mins; December 31, 2023

Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

67 hours 15 mins; December 29, 2023

David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)

61 hours 37 mins; December 27, 2023

The Future of Migration: A Discussion with Hein de Haas

37 mins; December 23, 2023

Emily Horowitz, "From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

60 hours 7 mins; December 20, 2023

Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen

58 mins; December 19, 2023

Tom Buitelaar, "Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Oxford UP, 2023)

62 hours 0 mins; December 19, 2023

Yasser Kureshi, "Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

61 hours 32 mins; December 18, 2023

Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)

55 mins; December 18, 2023

Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

25 mins; December 15, 2023

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

45 mins; December 15, 2023

Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)

31 mins; December 15, 2023

Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

66 hours 57 mins; December 13, 2023

Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)

42 mins; December 12, 2023

Julian Go, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US" (Oxford UP, 2023)

53 mins; December 12, 2023

Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)

57 mins; December 11, 2023

Paolo Caroli, "Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism" (Routledge, 2022)

97 hours 1 min; December 10, 2023

Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)

60 hours 32 mins; December 04, 2023

Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)

73 hours 57 mins; December 04, 2023

Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

42 mins; November 28, 2023

Stephanie Convery, "After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne" (Penguin Australia, 2020)

58 mins; November 27, 2023

Fae Garland and Mitchell Travis, "Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Patienthood" (Bristol UP, 2022)

56 mins; November 26, 2023

Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)

73 hours 7 mins; November 24, 2023

Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor, "Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society" (Princeton UP, 2016)

43 mins; November 18, 2023

Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

58 mins; November 16, 2023

Kay Wilson, "Mental Health Law: Abolish Or Reform?" (Oxford UP, 2021)

61 hours 17 mins; November 11, 2023

Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)

58 mins; November 08, 2023

Speak Freely: The Princeton Principles

59 mins; November 07, 2023

B Camminga, "Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)

51 mins; November 06, 2023

Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians

59 mins; November 04, 2023

Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)

56 mins; November 02, 2023

The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff

39 mins; November 01, 2023

Paolo Sandro, "The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

70 hours 38 mins; November 01, 2023

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

49 mins; October 31, 2023

Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)

71 hours 59 mins; October 30, 2023

Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)

74 hours 17 mins; October 27, 2023

Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

55 mins; October 27, 2023

Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

45 mins; October 25, 2023

Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

64 hours 19 mins; October 24, 2023

Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)

58 mins; October 23, 2023

Campbell F. Scribner, "A Is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education" (Cornell UP, 2023)

60 hours 44 mins; October 22, 2023

Matthew Guariglia, "Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York" (Duke UP, 2023)

61 hours 15 mins; October 21, 2023

Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)

70 hours 13 mins; October 20, 2023

The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren

43 mins; October 18, 2023

Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall, "Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

50 mins; October 17, 2023

Vilja Hulden, "The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New Deal" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

63 hours 46 mins; October 15, 2023

Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)

51 mins; October 12, 2023

Rhoda Kanaaneh, "The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America" (U Texas Press, 2023)

44 mins; October 10, 2023

Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)

74 hours 36 mins; October 08, 2023

Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

47 mins; October 08, 2023

James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

88 hours 1 min; October 05, 2023

Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

37 mins; October 03, 2023

Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

96 hours 11 mins; October 01, 2023

Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)

52 mins; September 30, 2023

Aparna Chandra, "Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India" (India Viking, 2023)

72 hours 27 mins; September 30, 2023

Traci Cipriano, "The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-being for a Sustainable Legal Profession" (Routledge, 2023)

30 mins; September 29, 2023

Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)

37 mins; September 28, 2023

The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns

63 hours 28 mins; September 26, 2023

Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)

107 hours 31 mins; September 26, 2023

Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)

63 hours 58 mins; September 25, 2023

Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

44 mins; September 24, 2023

Kristin Surak, "The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires" (Harvard UP, 2023)

65 hours 44 mins; September 24, 2023

James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)

74 hours 23 mins; September 23, 2023

Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)

48 mins; September 23, 2023

David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)

31 mins; September 21, 2023

Valentina Capurri, "Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

30 mins; September 20, 2023

David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

66 hours 44 mins; September 19, 2023

Beverley Chalmers, "Child Sex Abuse: Power, Profit, Perversion" (Grosvenor House, 2022)

55 mins; September 16, 2023

Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)

49 mins; September 13, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US

62 hours 45 mins; September 11, 2023

Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)

46 mins; September 11, 2023

Tiantian Zheng, "Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

23 mins; September 10, 2023

Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)

56 mins; September 06, 2023

Yanna Yannakakis, "Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico" (Duke UP, 2023)

62 hours 12 mins; September 04, 2023

Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

35 mins; September 02, 2023

Ben Mattlin, "Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World" (Beacon, 2022)

39 mins; September 02, 2023

Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)

104 hours 48 mins; September 01, 2023

Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)

59 mins; August 31, 2023

Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)

47 mins; August 31, 2023

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

41 mins; August 30, 2023

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)

61 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2023

Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)

75 hours 41 mins; August 27, 2023

Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)

58 mins; August 27, 2023

Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)

92 hours 54 mins; August 27, 2023

Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)

73 hours 23 mins; August 26, 2023

Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring, "Disability, Care and Family Law" (Routledge, 2021)

66 hours 57 mins; August 23, 2023

Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment

52 mins; August 22, 2023

Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)

56 mins; August 21, 2023

Morgan L. W. Hazelton et al., "The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; August 21, 2023

Becoming Justice Thomas

56 mins; August 20, 2023

Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)

35 mins; August 16, 2023

Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

22 mins; August 16, 2023

Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)

45 mins; August 15, 2023

Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

53 mins; August 14, 2023

Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

69 hours 30 mins; August 09, 2023

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