New Books in Law
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Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey, "Mexico's Human Rights Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
66 hours 23 mins; October 31, 2022
Elizabeth F. Schwartz, "Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise" (New Press, 2016)
44 mins; October 27, 2022
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
88 hours 34 mins; October 26, 2022
Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
62 hours 55 mins; October 26, 2022
Guy Lancaster, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" (U Arkansas Press, 2021)
39 mins; October 26, 2022
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
59 mins; October 25, 2022
Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey, "A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England" (U Alabama Press, 2022)
41 mins; October 25, 2022
Larisa Kingston Mann, "Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)
62 hours 20 mins; October 24, 2022
Lucy Series, "Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution" (Bristol UP, 2022)
63 hours 33 mins; October 24, 2022
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; October 24, 2022
Elsa Sjunneson, "Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism" (Simon Element, 2021)
52 mins; October 20, 2022
Josh Bowsher, "The Informational Logic of Human Rights" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
51 mins; October 19, 2022
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
63 hours 6 mins; October 17, 2022
Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets" (Princeton UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 17, 2022
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
75 hours 13 mins; October 14, 2022
P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
64 hours 7 mins; October 12, 2022
Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
87 hours 11 mins; October 12, 2022
E. Amanda McVitty, "Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture" (Boydell Press, 2020)
75 hours 38 mins; October 12, 2022
M. Margaret McKeown, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas" (Potomac Books, 2022)
55 mins; October 10, 2022
Andrew Porwancher et al., "The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
80 hours 15 mins; October 10, 2022
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
90 hours 8 mins; October 06, 2022
Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)
57 mins; October 05, 2022
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; October 05, 2022
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
84 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2022
Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
61 hours 49 mins; September 29, 2022
James Bessen, "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation" (Yale UP, 2022)
45 mins; September 29, 2022
Chitranshul Sinha, "The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India" (India Viking, 2019)
44 mins; September 27, 2022
Keri Blakinger, "Corrections in Ink: A Memoir" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
61 hours 19 mins; September 22, 2022
Charles L. Chavis Jr., "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
40 mins; September 22, 2022
David Enrich, "Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice" (Mariner Books, 2022)
64 hours 10 mins; September 21, 2022
Timothy Paul Bowman, "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" (U of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
72 hours 24 mins; September 20, 2022
Rohan J. Alva, "Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India" (Harper Collins, 2022)
58 mins; September 19, 2022
Brad Snyder, "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment" (Norton, 2022)
81 hours 12 mins; September 14, 2022
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
45 mins; September 14, 2022
Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
59 mins; September 13, 2022
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
45 mins; September 09, 2022
Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
39 mins; September 08, 2022
Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" (Regnery, 2022)
43 mins; September 02, 2022
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
63 hours 34 mins; September 02, 2022
Ken MacLean, "Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar" (U California Press, 2022)
54 mins; September 01, 2022
Kelly McCormick, "The Problem of Blame: Making Sense of Moral Anger" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
65 hours 42 mins; September 01, 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
43 mins; September 01, 2022
The Heroin Clinic
51 mins; August 31, 2022
Leslie Kern, "Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies" (Verso, 2022)
51 mins; August 31, 2022
This is Your Brain on Trial
68 hours 22 mins; August 31, 2022
Property Technology
22 mins; August 30, 2022
Jeffrey D. Pugh, "The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security" (Oxford UP, 2021)
54 mins; August 30, 2022
Brian DeMare, "Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
54 mins; August 30, 2022
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
80 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2022
Derailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise
86 hours 35 mins; August 29, 2022
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
62 hours 40 mins; August 26, 2022
Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
51 mins; August 26, 2022
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
44 mins; August 23, 2022
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
61 hours 9 mins; August 22, 2022
Stephen Hewer. "Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland" (Brepols, 2022)
50 mins; August 17, 2022
Christopher Witko, "Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)
65 hours 36 mins; August 15, 2022
Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
36 mins; August 11, 2022
Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 46 mins; August 10, 2022
Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten, "Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
62 hours 55 mins; August 09, 2022
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 05, 2022
Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
58 mins; August 04, 2022
Maya Mikdashi, "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon" (Stanford UP, 2022)
65 hours 39 mins; August 04, 2022
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
53 mins; August 03, 2022
Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
45 mins; August 02, 2022
Hawa Allan, "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" (Norton, 2022)
66 hours 52 mins; July 29, 2022
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
32 mins; July 29, 2022
International Association of Genocide Scholars
22 mins; July 29, 2022
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
61 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2022
Samantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
48 mins; July 27, 2022
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
41 mins; July 25, 2022
Exiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders
34 mins; July 22, 2022
Prison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about Incarceration
63 hours 20 mins; July 21, 2022
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, "The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
32 mins; July 19, 2022
Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
66 hours 55 mins; July 15, 2022
Willem Bart de Lint, "Blurring Intelligence Crime: A Critical Forensics" (Springer, 2022)
57 mins; July 15, 2022
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
42 mins; July 11, 2022
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 08, 2022
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
24 mins; July 08, 2022
Lucia M. Rafanelli, "Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention" (Oxford UP, 2021)
41 mins; July 07, 2022
Adam Hanna, "Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
65 hours 22 mins; July 07, 2022
Pallavi Banerjee, "The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program" (NYU Press, 2022)
74 hours 7 mins; July 06, 2022
Leila Neti, "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; July 06, 2022
Legal Regulation of Drugs
14 mins; July 05, 2022
Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen, "Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
57 mins; July 01, 2022
Anna Sergi et al., "Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World" (Bristol UP, 2021)
55 mins; July 01, 2022
The Human Tragedy in Yemen
98 hours 48 mins; June 29, 2022
Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
53 mins; June 24, 2022
Francesca Lessa, "The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America" (Yale UP, 2022)
69 hours 57 mins; June 24, 2022
Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
53 mins; June 22, 2022
Mark Fathi Massoud, "Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
76 hours 13 mins; June 21, 2022
Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; June 20, 2022
Lori A. Allen, "A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
46 mins; June 20, 2022
Judah Schept, "Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia" (NYU Press, 2022)
60 hours 14 mins; June 17, 2022
David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 30 mins; June 17, 2022
Aziz Z. Huq, "The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
66 hours 32 mins; June 17, 2022
Mikaela Rabinowitz, "Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2021)
49 mins; June 17, 2022
Rizwaan Sabir, "Shadows of Suspicion: Counterterrorism, Muslims and the British Security State" (Pluto Press, 2022)
66 hours 19 mins; June 16, 2022
Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
42 mins; June 15, 2022
Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
68 hours 46 mins; June 15, 2022
Steven K. Green, "Separating Church and State: A History" (Cornell UP, 2022)
48 mins; June 14, 2022