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Southeast Asian Studies
March 1, 2021
Fighting for Virtue
Justice and Politics in Thailand
Duncan McCargo
Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Anyone who has taken any interest in the politics of Thailand at all in the last two decades could not help but have noticed the part that the country’s judiciary …
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National Security
February 26, 2021
Reset
Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
Ronald J. Deibert
Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Ronald Deibert is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Director of The Citizen Lab, a public interest research organization that uncovers privacy and human …
Law
February 25, 2021
Protecting Art in the Street
A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti
Enrico Bonadio
Hosted by Nick Pozek
There has recently been a sharp increase in cases where corporations have been sued by street and graffiti artists because their artworks had been used and exploited without the artists’ …
Political Science
February 22, 2021
Separate But Faithful
The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture
Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua C. Wilson
Hosted by Susan Liebell
How do we understand the nuances of efforts by Christian conservatives to affect American law – and evaluate their success? What lessons do they hold for other social movements? Dr …
European Studies
February 19, 2021
The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union
Signe Rehling Larsen
Hosted by Tim Jones
“The autarkic European nation-state, if it ever existed, was the exception rather than the rule. Nevertheless it is the myth of the self-sufficient nation-state that lies at the heart of …
Indian Religions
February 17, 2021
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence
Christopher T. Fleming
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence (Oxford UP, 2021) provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (dāya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmaśāstra). It examines the evolution of different …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
February 17, 2021
Heavy Traffic
The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective
Kenneth V. Faunce
Hosted by Lucas Richert
Much of the world's politics revolve around questions about the development of the international market for drugs; the roles merchants, government officials, and drug manufacturers played in shaping this market …
European Studies
February 12, 2021
European Banking and Financial Law
Matthias Haentjens and Pierre De Gioia-Carabellese
Hosted by Tim Jones
Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regulation since Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in …
Law
February 8, 2021
Asia's New Geopolitics
Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
Michael R. Auslin
Hosted by Jane Richards
Is the Indo-Pacific already the most dominant in terms of global power, politics, and wealth? In his newest book, Michael R. Auslin considers the key issues facing the Indo-Pacific which have ramifications …
Philosophy
February 1, 2021
Overcoming Necessity
Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism
Thomas P. Crocker
Hosted by Robert Talisse
A core duty of government is keeping those it governs safe. However, in modern democratic states, government is structured by a Constitution, which establishes constraints and checks on the power …
National Security
January 28, 2021
The Centaur's Dilemma
US National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution
James E. Baker
Hosted by Kyle Beadle
From facial recognition to online shopping, artificial intelligence has become the backbone of the internet and has led to an unprecedented extraction and utilization of personal data. As a result …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 26, 2021
Black Queer Freedom
Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire
GerShun Avilez
Hosted by John Marszalek
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic …
Genocide Studies
January 25, 2021
The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide
Annie Pohlman, Jess Melvin, Saskia E. Wieringa
Hosted by Kelly McFall
How do you hold a government accountable for crimes it refuses to acknowledge? Today's book, The International People's Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide (Routledge, 2019) emerges out of the International …
Environmental Studies
January 25, 2021
Scorched Earth
Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature
Emmanuel Kreike
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
In Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature (Princeton UP, 2021), Emmanuel Kreike offers a global history of environmental warfare and makes the case for why it should …
Political Science
January 21, 2021
Amateur Hour
Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership
Lara M. Brown
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political scientist Lara Brown’s new book, Amateur Hour, is a complex and important multi-method study of the presidency, starting from the original conception of the office at the constitutional convention …
Eastern European Studies
January 18, 2021
Roma Rights and Civil Rights
A Transatlantic Comparison
Felix B. Chang and Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang
Hosted by Steven Seegel
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang's Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2020) tackles the movements for - and expressions of - equality for Roma in …
Science
January 15, 2021
CRISPR People
The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
Henry T. Greely
Hosted by Galina Limorenko
What does the birth of babies whose embryos have gone through genome editing mean—for science and for all of us? In November 2018, the world was shocked to learn that …
Critical Theory
January 15, 2021
A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights
Matthew McManus
Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The tradition of political liberalism has a long and complicated history, filled with twists, turns, critiques and responses that have filled books, essays and lectures for several centuries now. Questions …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
January 14, 2021
Soul Full of Coal Dust
The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice
Chris Hamby
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Chris Hamby about his book Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice (Little Brown, 2020). Hamby looks into why there has …
Critical Theory
January 13, 2021
Critique of Rights
Christoph Menke
Hosted by Dominik Finkelde
Christoph Menke, who is professor of philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt Germany and considered the most important representative of the third generation of the "Frankfurt School of Critical …
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