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

James Q. Whitman, "Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

May 4, 2026

From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands

James Q. Whitman

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…

Charles W. A. Prior, "Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)

May 1, 2026

Treaty Ground

Charles W. A. Prior
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic (U Nebraska Press, 2026), Professor Charles W. A. Prior off…

Roundtable on Genocide Studies on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Genocide Studies International

May 1, 2026

Roundtable on Genocide Studies on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Genocide Studies International

Hosted by Kelly McFall

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…

Radio ReOrient 14:5: Racial Justice, Human Rights and Surveillance, with Alba Kapoor, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas

May 1, 2026

Radio ReOrient 14:5: Racial Justice, Human Rights and Surveillance, with Alba Kapoor, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas

Hosted by Radio Reorient

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…

How Bolsonaro was Convicted: The Role of the Judiciary During and After Autocratization

April 24, 2026

How Bolsonaro was Convicted

Luciano Da Ros and Manoel Gehrke
Hosted by Licia Cianetti

Former Brazilian president Bolsonaro was found to have attempted a coup after losing the 2022 presidential elections, and he was convicted to 27 years…

Nikki Luke, "Electric Life: Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy" (MIT Press, 2026)

April 24, 2026

Electric Life

Nikki Luke
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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…

Masako Ichihara, "Climate Change Litigation in Japan: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities for Environmental Law" (Brill, 2026)

April 19, 2026

Climate Change Litigation in Japan

Masako Ichihara
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Climate Change Litigation in Japan: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities for Environmental Law (Brill, 2026) provides the details of Japanese climate …

Manuel Barcia, "Pirate Imperialism: Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825–1870" (Yale UP, 2026)

April 18, 2026

Pirate Imperialism

Manuel Barcia
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, imperial powers around the world came into direct confrontation with local resistance in the form of …

Victor Li, "Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

April 15, 2026

Supreme Pressure

Victor Li
Hosted by Mark Klobas

Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) examines t…

Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)

April 14, 2026

The Problem of Personhood

Lisa Siraganian

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protecti…

Tim Connor et al., "Global Business and Local Struggle: Reimagining Non-Judicial Remedy for Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

April 10, 2026

Global Business and Local Struggle

Tim Connor, Annie Delaney, Fiona Haines, Kate Macdonald, and Shelley Marshall
Hosted by Caitlin Murphy

In the quest for human rights justice for communities and workers whose rights are breached by transnational businesses, non-judicial mechanisms (NJMs…

Emotions of LGBT Rights

April 6, 2026

Emotions of LGBT Rights

Senthorun Raj

In this episode of High Theory, Saronik talks to Senthorun Raj about the Emotions of LGBT Rights. Emotions from disgust and fear to love and joy shape…

Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer's Battles for Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor" (Rivertowns Books, 2025)

April 4, 2026

Not If I Can Help It

Meg Groff
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Meg Groff dedicated forty years of her life to fighting for justice for victims of domestic violence in rural and suburban Pennsylvania. Not If I Can …

Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello, "Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State" (Cornell UP, 2017)

April 4, 2026

Women Will Vote

Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello
Hosted by Mariam Olugbodi

The book, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Cornell UP, 2017) is Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello’s efforts to account for the or…

Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)

April 1, 2026

The Violence of Protection

Lee Ann S. Wang
Hosted by Ailin Zhou

The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women (Duke UP, 2026) examines U.S. laws designed to rescue immigrant surviv…

Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson, "Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away" (U Hawaiʻi Press, 2026)

April 1, 2026

Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away

Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson
Hosted by Patrick Jory

“Japanese war crimes are notorious. During the Second World War, as Japanese forces overran Southeast Asia and the Pacific, they massacred, murdered, …

Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" (Princeton UP, 2026)

March 31, 2026

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

The African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866–1930) was a key figure in liberal anticolonial thought as well as African and B…

Colloquies on European Civil Procedure: A Conversation with Marco de Benito

March 28, 2026

Colloquies on European Civil Procedure

Marco de Benito
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

This volume brings law to life through a free and lively dialogue on the new Model European Rules of Civil Procedure. In it, some of Europe's leading …

Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression:  Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)

March 25, 2026

Justifying Transgression

Gijs Kruijtzer
Hosted by Amanie Antar

How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to …

Joanna Siekiera ed., "NATO Stability Policing: Beneficial Tool in Filling the Security Gap and Establishing the Rule of Law, and a Safe and Secure Environment" (NATO Stability Policing Centre Of Excellence, 2024)

March 25, 2026

NATO Stability Policing

Joanna Siekiera ed.

Since the end of the Cold War and the resurgence of great power competition on the world stage, NATO has been in a period of transition to adapting to…