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Law
Interviews with lawyers and scholars of law about their new books.
June 18, 2026
Pink Crime
A woman miscarries and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administers and loses custody of her newborn. Four …
June 18, 2026
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York-Brooklyn Campus, ha…
June 15, 2026
Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still und…
June 14, 2026
For Better and Worse
Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the highest…
June 3, 2026
The Criminal State
The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law has …
May 31, 2026
Race, Class, and Affirmative Action
In Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era (Harvard Education Press, 2026), Julie J. Park offers deft analysis of the cha…
May 31, 2026
A Scourge of Humanity
As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals …
May 29, 2026
Copyright, Contract, and Video Games
Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play (Hart Publishing, 2026) uncovers how video game contracts act as monologues of power, moulding pla…
May 25, 2026
Stories of Struggle
In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…
May 22, 2026
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship
Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and …
May 20, 2026
Debating the Constitution
Here in Episode 8 of Season 5, I interview Professor Sherif Girgis. A graduate of Princeton University, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School,…
May 17, 2026
Mississippi Law
Justin Randolph, assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, joins Michael Stauch to discuss Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in Ameri…
May 9, 2026
The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution
A provocative new history of America's constitution and an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have i…
May 9, 2026
Reclaiming the Internet
Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back (Columbia Global Reports, 2026) is an indictment of how Big Tech cloaks…
May 4, 2026
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands
Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, J…
May 1, 2026
Treaty Ground
In Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic (U Nebraska Press, 2026), Professor Charles W. A. Prior off…
May 1, 2026
Roundtable on Genocide Studies on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Genocide Studies International
2026 marks the 20th year of publishing Genocide Studies International. The journal's first issue was a special issue on genocide in Darfur. Twenty y…
May 1, 2026
Radio ReOrient 14:5: Racial Justice, Human Rights and Surveillance, with Alba Kapoor, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas
In this episode Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Alba Kapoor. Kapoor is the racial justice lead at Amnesty International UK and pre…
April 24, 2026
How Bolsonaro was Convicted
Former Brazilian president Bolsonaro was found to have attempted a coup after losing the 2022 presidential elections, and he was convicted to 27 years…
April 24, 2026
Electric Life
Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy (MIT Press, 2026) by Dr. Nikki Luke traces the intertwined history of Atlanta’s r…