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Gian Maria Campedelli, "Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; June 14, 2022
Menachem Kaiser, "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure" (Mariner Books, 2021)
71 hours 20 mins; June 14, 2022
Ralph Hope, "The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present" (Oneworld, 2021)
55 mins; June 10, 2022
Risa Brooks et al., "Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
51 mins; June 09, 2022
Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
75 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2022
Mario Daniels and John Krige, "Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
83 hours 26 mins; June 01, 2022
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
61 hours 40 mins; May 31, 2022
Audrey L. Comstock, "Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
38 mins; May 30, 2022
Brandon T. Jett, "Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South" (Louisiana State UP, 2021)
64 hours 8 mins; May 27, 2022
Abolition
16 mins; May 26, 2022
Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
70 hours 51 mins; May 23, 2022
Christopher Carothers, "Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
73 hours 20 mins; May 17, 2022
Sofia Stolk, "The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror" (Routledge, 2021)
53 mins; May 13, 2022
Mark L. Clifford, "Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
67 hours 47 mins; May 13, 2022
Maha Hilal, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
73 hours 37 mins; May 13, 2022
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
79 hours 15 mins; May 12, 2022
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral, "The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison" (Columbia UP, 2022)
68 hours 35 mins; May 12, 2022
Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)
50 mins; May 12, 2022
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
78 hours 47 mins; May 12, 2022
Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
53 mins; May 11, 2022
Mark V. Tushnet, "The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; May 11, 2022
Helen Steel et al., "Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth" (Ebury, 2022)
71 hours 3 mins; May 09, 2022
Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
64 hours 27 mins; May 09, 2022
Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
53 mins; May 06, 2022
Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, "Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Protection First and Justice Later" (Routledge, 2021)
67 hours 55 mins; May 05, 2022
John Zerilli, "A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
65 hours 42 mins; May 04, 2022
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, "Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
63 hours 25 mins; May 04, 2022
Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, "Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It" (Oxford UP, 2022)
45 mins; May 02, 2022
Anthony Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
57 mins; April 28, 2022
Fiona De Londras, "The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
60 hours 59 mins; April 27, 2022
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
41 mins; April 26, 2022
Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
39 mins; April 26, 2022
Florence Ashley, "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)
50 mins; April 26, 2022
Suzanne E. Scoggins, "Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 25, 2022
David P. Forsythe, "Advanced Introduction to the Politics of International Human Rights" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
79 hours 21 mins; April 25, 2022
Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
57 mins; April 25, 2022
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
35 mins; April 25, 2022
Clayton Howard, "The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
65 hours 25 mins; April 25, 2022
Kristin Henning, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth" (Pantheon Books, 2021)
65 hours 51 mins; April 25, 2022
Nandita Sharma, "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants" (Duke UP, 2020)
67 hours 14 mins; April 20, 2022
Kelly Bauer, "Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
52 mins; April 18, 2022
The University Network for Human Rights: A Discussion with Jim Calvallaro
45 mins; April 18, 2022
Matt Sheedy, "Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility " (Routledge, 2021)
63 hours 33 mins; April 15, 2022
Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
51 mins; April 15, 2022
Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)
43 mins; April 14, 2022
Tom Theuns, "The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7" (2022)
44 mins; April 14, 2022
Erin Metz McDonnell, "Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States" (Princeton UP, 2020)
67 hours 20 mins; April 12, 2022
Elisabeth Anderson, "Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State" (Princeton UP, 2021)
69 hours 52 mins; April 11, 2022
Patrick J. McDonagh, "Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
35 mins; April 08, 2022
Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
66 hours 38 mins; April 07, 2022
Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
36 mins; April 06, 2022
Karl Kitching, "Childhood, Religion and School Injustice" (Cork UP, 2020)
72 hours 41 mins; April 05, 2022
Mark Newman, "Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
45 mins; April 01, 2022
Rama Srinivasan, "Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
66 hours 7 mins; March 31, 2022
Marie Muschalek, "Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa" (Cornell UP, 2019)
62 hours 22 mins; March 31, 2022
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
91 hours 25 mins; March 31, 2022
Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, "Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond" (UChicago Press, 2022)
81 hours 7 mins; March 30, 2022
On the Death Penalty
52 mins; March 30, 2022
Steven J. Brady, "Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865" (Cornell UP, 2022)
74 hours 5 mins; March 29, 2022
Jan-Werner Müller, "Democracy Rules" (FSG, 2021)
57 mins; March 25, 2022
Michael D. Breidenbach, "Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
87 hours 56 mins; March 24, 2022
Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla, "Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication" (NYU Press, 2021)
67 hours 49 mins; March 24, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn
66 hours 40 mins; March 23, 2022
N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
68 hours 52 mins; March 23, 2022
Labor Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Businesses
28 mins; March 21, 2022
Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)
87 hours 45 mins; March 21, 2022
Kecia Ali, ed., "Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century" (Open BU, 2021)
75 hours 14 mins; March 18, 2022
Andrew Rudalevige, "By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power" (Princeton UP, 2021)
68 hours 50 mins; March 17, 2022
Melvin I. Urofsky, "Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue" (Vintage, 2017)
53 mins; March 11, 2022
Jo Guldi, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights" (Yale UP, 2022)
62 hours 13 mins; March 11, 2022
Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
61 hours 50 mins; March 10, 2022
Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
52 mins; March 08, 2022
Randy E. Barnett and Evan D. Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit" (Harvard UP, 2021)
45 mins; March 07, 2022
Tina Sikka, "Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
37 mins; March 07, 2022
Sarah Brayne, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" (Oxford UP, 2020)
54 mins; March 04, 2022
Firmin Debrabander, "Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
48 mins; March 03, 2022
Chase Burton, "Nicole Rafter" (Routledge, 2021)
74 hours 38 mins; March 02, 2022
Lu Ann Homza, "Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates: Witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
45 mins; March 02, 2022
Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)
84 hours 9 mins; March 01, 2022
Boyd van Dijk, "Preparing for War: the Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions" (Oxford UP, 2022)
68 hours 56 mins; March 01, 2022
Julia Dehm, "Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
31 mins; February 28, 2022
Devin O. Pendas, "Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
52 mins; February 28, 2022
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Gaye T. Lansdell et al., "Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
59 mins; February 23, 2022
Albert Baiburin, "The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR" (Polity Press, 2022)
58 mins; February 23, 2022
Wouter Werner, "Repetition and International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; February 22, 2022
Timothy K. Blauvelt, "Clientalism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba" (Routledge, 2021)
82 hours 12 mins; February 18, 2022
Sara Matthiesen, "Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade" (UC Press, 2021)
61 hours 54 mins; February 16, 2022
Walter Dorn and Andrew Bartles-Smith, "Hinduism and International Humanitarian Law"
66 hours 46 mins; February 16, 2022
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, "Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching" (Verso, 2021)
57 mins; February 15, 2022
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
52 mins; February 14, 2022
A Conversation with the Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative
53 mins; February 10, 2022
Rebecca S. Natow, "Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector" (Teachers College Press, 2022)
32 mins; February 09, 2022
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
43 mins; February 08, 2022
Michelle Jurkovich, "Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger" (Oxford UP, 2020)
44 mins; February 07, 2022
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
47 mins; February 07, 2022
Elizabeth Anderson, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (Princeton UP, 2019)
54 mins; February 06, 2022
Charles Vidich, "Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine" (Praeger, 2021)
62 hours 20 mins; February 03, 2022
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)