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Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court

46 mins; August 07, 2023

Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)

56 mins; August 06, 2023

The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor

42 mins; August 05, 2023

Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia

22 mins; August 04, 2023

Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar

42 mins; August 01, 2023

Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)

37 mins; July 30, 2023

Mayur R. Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts" (Fordham UP, 2022)

49 mins; July 30, 2023

Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, "Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

54 mins; July 28, 2023

The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder

57 mins; July 26, 2023

Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?

54 mins; July 24, 2023

Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes

64 hours 52 mins; July 18, 2023

Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

30 mins; July 15, 2023

Samuel Issacharoff, "Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; July 15, 2023

Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)

46 mins; July 15, 2023

Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)

39 mins; July 13, 2023

J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)

57 mins; July 12, 2023

Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

48 mins; July 12, 2023

Jacqueline Kinghan, "Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

65 hours 34 mins; July 11, 2023

Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)

55 mins; July 10, 2023

Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)

101 hours 0 mins; July 09, 2023

Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)

52 mins; July 05, 2023

Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)

47 mins; July 05, 2023

Glen W. Olson and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, "Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)

32 mins; July 04, 2023

The Future of Oceans: A Discussion with Chris Armstrong

36 mins; July 03, 2023

The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo

53 mins; July 03, 2023

G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)

72 hours 53 mins; July 02, 2023

Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

55 mins; June 29, 2023

Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

46 mins; June 28, 2023

Lynsey Black, "Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64" (Manchester UP, 2022)

38 mins; June 27, 2023

Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)

62 hours 59 mins; June 26, 2023

Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)

82 hours 18 mins; June 25, 2023

Ngaire Naffine, "Criminal Law and the Man Problem" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

33 mins; June 23, 2023

Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court

59 mins; June 23, 2023

J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

30 mins; June 22, 2023

David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)

55 mins; June 21, 2023

Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)

56 mins; June 21, 2023

Giulia Pecorella, "The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression" (Routledge, 2021)

59 mins; June 21, 2023

Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

73 hours 51 mins; June 20, 2023

Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)

51 mins; June 11, 2023

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, "The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities" (Duke UP, 2023)

67 hours 53 mins; June 10, 2023

Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

42 mins; June 10, 2023

Brent Willock, "The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius: Science Transforms Our Comprehension of Reeva Steenkamp's Shocking Death" (Torchflame Books, 2018)

69 hours 36 mins; June 06, 2023

Adrian Masters, "We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

69 hours 38 mins; June 03, 2023

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)

38 mins; June 01, 2023

Defining Man and Woman: A Conversation with Abigail Favale

49 mins; May 31, 2023

Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)

55 mins; May 31, 2023

Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley

42 mins; May 29, 2023

Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)

61 hours 1 min; May 27, 2023

Myra Tawfik, "For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law" (U Toronto Press, 2023)

62 hours 57 mins; May 24, 2023

The Whys and Wherefores of Migration

42 mins; May 23, 2023

David Churchill et al., "Historical Criminology" (Routledge, 2021)

64 hours 33 mins; May 21, 2023

Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)

43 mins; May 20, 2023

American Conservatism, Natural Law, and the Good Life: A Conversation with Robert P. George

66 hours 29 mins; May 20, 2023

Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

53 mins; May 18, 2023

America & Democracy Ep. 1: Robert I. Rotberg on Corruption

33 mins; May 16, 2023

Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)

64 hours 7 mins; May 14, 2023

The Future of Guantanamo: A Discussion with James Connell

40 mins; May 08, 2023

Supurna Banerjee et al., "The Violent Domestic Law: Its Practice and Strategies of Survival" (Zubaan Academic, 2022)

46 mins; May 08, 2023

Ewelina U. Ochab and David Alton, "State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change It" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

49 mins; May 08, 2023

Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)

82 hours 10 mins; May 07, 2023

Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)

49 mins; May 06, 2023

Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence

24 mins; May 06, 2023

Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Cost of My Faith: A Conversation with Jack Phillips and Jake Warner

29 mins; May 05, 2023

Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)

61 hours 43 mins; May 04, 2023

Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)

40 mins; May 03, 2023

Rachel Dunn et al., "What Is Legal Education For?" (Routledge, 2022)

70 hours 31 mins; May 02, 2023

Defending Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Keith Whittington

54 mins; May 01, 2023

All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo

65 hours 22 mins; April 27, 2023

Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)

63 hours 30 mins; April 24, 2023

Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; April 21, 2023

Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)

63 hours 17 mins; April 20, 2023

Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights: A Conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

62 hours 14 mins; April 19, 2023

Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

50 mins; April 16, 2023

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)

62 hours 46 mins; April 15, 2023

Abortion and the Law

111 hours 59 mins; April 12, 2023

Nishant Kumar, "Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications: An Enquiry Through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary" (Routledge, 2022)

66 hours 48 mins; April 10, 2023

Judge Amy Coney Barrett on "The Constitution as Our Story"

61 hours 52 mins; April 08, 2023

James J. Park, "The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

53 mins; April 07, 2023

Abortion and the Pro-Life Movement: A Conversation with Alexandra DeSanctis

33 mins; April 05, 2023

Ronald Niezen, "The Memory Seeker" (Black Rose Writing, 2023)

41 mins; April 03, 2023

Foluke Adebisi, "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" (Bristol UP, 2023)

59 mins; April 02, 2023

Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)

22 mins; March 31, 2023

Rose Parfitt, "The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

65 hours 59 mins; March 31, 2023

Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)

54 mins; March 30, 2023

Administrative State 101: A Conversation with Adam J. White

49 mins; March 30, 2023

Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)

26 mins; March 28, 2023

Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)

59 mins; March 22, 2023

David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)

68 hours 50 mins; March 22, 2023

Melanie Heath, "Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" (Stanford UP, 2023)

48 mins; March 21, 2023

Daniel L. Hatcher, "Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)

63 hours 52 mins; March 21, 2023

Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien, "Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

26 mins; March 20, 2023

Liz Curran, "Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education" (Routledge, 2021)

70 hours 43 mins; March 20, 2023

Hernán Flom, "The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

51 mins; March 16, 2023

Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)

57 mins; March 15, 2023

Miriam Bak Mckenna, "Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law" (Brill, 2022)

47 mins; March 14, 2023

Ke Li, "Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China" (Stanford UP, 2022)

59 mins; March 13, 2023

Damian Alan Pargas, "Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

72 hours 8 mins; March 13, 2023

Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

63 hours 48 mins; March 11, 2023

Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Book, 2022)

56 mins; March 10, 2023

Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ

25 mins; March 07, 2023

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