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Interviews with lawyers and scholars of law about their new books.

Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?

November 20, 2024

Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?

Hosted by UConn PopCast

It’s the UConn Popcast, and in this episode of our series on artificial intelligence, we discuss Joanna Bryson’s essay “Robots Should be Slaves.” We…

Laura F. Edwards, "Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (Oxford UP, 2022)

November 18, 2024

Only the Clothes on Her Back

Laura F. Edwards
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American soc…

Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Beyond the Binary

Saadia Yacoob
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani

Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling arg…

Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 16, 2024

From Click to Boom

Lizhi Liu
Hosted by Peter Lorentzen

How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…

Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

November 12, 2024

The Myth of Harm

Sarah Cleary
Hosted by Jazz Walker

The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to ha…

Anthony Grasso, "Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

November 11, 2024

Dual Justice

Anthony Grasso
Hosted by Susan Liebell

The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and di…

History and Law with Rodger Citron

November 7, 2024

History and Law

Rodger Citron
Hosted by Patryk Babiracki

I spoke with an accomplished attorney and innovative law professor Rodger Citron of the Touro Law School about the complex relationships between histo…

The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington

November 6, 2024

The Impeachment Power

Keith E. Whittington
Hosted by Laura Laurent

In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of a…

Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson, "The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

October 31, 2024

The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021

Kirsten Widner and Anna Gunderson
Hosted by Susan Liebell

There has been a lot of commentary from scholars and journalists as to the meaning of Donald Trump’s three appointments to the United States Supreme …

Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

October 30, 2024

Judging Refugees

Anthea Vogl

Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Cam…

Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures

October 23, 2024

Possessed by the Right Hand

Bernard Freamon
Hosted by Radio Reorient

In this episode, we interview Prof. Bernard Freamon on his new book Possessed by the Right Hand:The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultu…

E. L. Gaston, "Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" (Columbia UP, 2024)

October 19, 2024

Illusions of Control

E. L. Gaston
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Critic…

Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)

October 17, 2024

You Can't Teach That!

Keith E. Whittington
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented effo…

Slavery and Islam

October 16, 2024

Slavery and Islam

Jonathan Brown
Hosted by Radio Reorient

In this episode, we talk to Professor Jonathan Brown about his book, Slavery and Islam. This episode was originally published on September 27, 2019.…

The Social Contract in the Ruins: A Conversation with Dr. Paul DeHart

October 16, 2024

The Social Contract in the Ruins

Paul R. DeHart
Hosted by Laura Laurent

In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, we sit down with Dr. Paul DeHart, professor of Political Science at Texas State University and author of The…

Eric R. Schlereth, "Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America" (UNC Press, 2024)

October 14, 2024

Quitting the Nation

Eric R. Schlereth
Hosted by Hannah Nolan

Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once th…

Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

October 12, 2024

Relinquished

Gretchen Sisson
Hosted by Sharon Yam

Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the otherwise partisa…

Talking Thai Politics: Kunthika Nutcharut, Defending Disruptors

October 11, 2024

Talking Thai Politics: Kunthika Nutcharut, Defending Disruptors

Kunthika Nutcharut
Hosted by Duncan McCargo

What is it like to be a human rights lawyer in Thailand? How does the new generation of 2020s political activists differ from those of previous eras? …

Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)

October 9, 2024

Conceiving Christian America

Risa Cromer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thousa…

Frank R. Baumgartner, "Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

October 8, 2024

Suspect Citizens

Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, and Kelsey Shoub
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatically expanded the scope under which agents of the st…