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Law
Interviews with lawyers and scholars of law about their new books.
August 4, 2026
Pink Crime
A woman miscarries—and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administered—and loses custody of her newborn. Four…
August 3, 2026
The Valley
There were two days to Christmas and Lewis felt like everything was spinning out of control. He wondered what he would say to the judge this time.…
July 29, 2026
American Infidelity
Today I'm speaking with Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette Unive…
July 26, 2026
Heritage Fever
The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, …
July 25, 2026
Gerontocracy in America
A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it. As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmities and …
July 25, 2026
Fear of the False
Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia (Cornell University Press, 2026) uncovers colonial South Asia's critic…
July 23, 2026
Cast Out
In Cast Out: A Call For A Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration (Beacon Press, 2026), civil rights lawyer Joseph Margulies insists that those w…
July 23, 2026
The Authority of International Courts
Why do some international courts wield broad authority while others face pushback or fade into irrelevance? The Authority of International Courts: A B…
July 22, 2026
A Jurisprudence of Conversations
Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model of innovative…
July 19, 2026
Border Afterlives
Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting (University of Arizona Press, 2026) begins with the undocumen…
July 17, 2026
Across Oceans of Law
In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway …
July 17, 2026
Animals and the Right to Politics
The assumption that only humans can engage in politics—that only humans are 'zoon politikon'—is foundational to the Western tradition of political phi…
July 15, 2026
Private Power and Democracy's Decline
Today I'm speaking with Mordecai Kurz, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University. We are discussing his latest book, Private …
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…