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Law
Interviews with lawyers and scholars of law about their new books.
July 10, 2026
A New Approach to Political Speech
A New Approach to Political Speech: Democratic Theory, Constitutional Law, and Public Liberty After January 6 (de Gruyter, 2026) challenges convention…
July 6, 2026
Who Is American?
The history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship, and almost immediately achieved full legal rights. Y…
July 5, 2026
Disposable Workers
A revealing look at the decline in formal employment in favor of hiring contractors, freelancers, temps, and marginal workers, who are excluded from t…
July 2, 2026
The First Emancipation
The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France (Princeton UP, 2026) is a dramatic account of how slavery and race …
July 1, 2026
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War (Edinburgh UP, 2026) by Dr. Kate Dannies examines the gender and fam…
June 30, 2026
Above the Law
The United States has traditionally been a great promoter of international justice – forging the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after World War II and …
June 24, 2026
Escaping Justice
Now more than ever, the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold themselves to account. Despite pressure to adhere…
June 23, 2026
Chilling Effects
In Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge UP, 2025), Jonathon W. Penney explores the increasing weaponizati…
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 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 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…