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October 5, 2024
IOM Unbound?
It is an era of expansion for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an increasingly influential actor in the global governance of migrat…
October 3, 2024
The Battle for Sabarimala
The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India (Oxford UP, 2024) tells the story of one of contemporary India’s most conte…
October 3, 2024
Vigilante Nation
Law professors Jon Michaels and David Noll use their expertise to expose how state-supported forms of vigilantism are being deployed by MAGA Republica…
October 1, 2024
The Dispersion of Power
We commonly think of democracy as a social order governed by the people’s collective will. Given the size of the modern states, this picture is typic…
September 26, 2024
Words Like Water
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term th…
September 25, 2024
Ethical Machines
Join us as we discuss Dr. Reid Blackman’s new book: Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI (Harvard …
September 23, 2024
The Specter of Dictatorship
At the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked whether we have a republic or a monarchy. He replied “A Repub…
September 22, 2024
An Irish Passion for Justice
In the city of New York from the 1930s to the 1990s, Irish attorney Paul O’Dwyer was a fierce and enduring presence in courtrooms, on picket lines, an…
September 22, 2024
Censorship from Plato to Social Media
In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purposes are still part of everyday life. Will filtering…
September 21, 2024
Embodying Irish Abortion Reform
Dr. Aideen O'Shaughnessy is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lincoln. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, …
September 18, 2024
Celebrating Constitution Day, Part. 2
In this conversation, we dive into key issues shaping the legal landscape today: the complexities of constitutional interpretation, the evolving role …
September 16, 2024
A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other
Many scholars and members of the press have argued that John Roberts’ Supreme Court is exceptional. While some emphasize the approach to interpreting …
September 15, 2024
Indefinite
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have b…
September 14, 2024
The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland
Mary McAuliffe is a historian and lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD. Her latest publications include (is The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn co-authored with…
September 11, 2024
Celebrating Constitution Day, Part 1
Join us for an in-depth exploration of Professor Cass Sunstein's latest work, Campus Free Speech (Harvard University Press, September 2024). Togethe…
September 9, 2024
Rot and Revival
One of the great divides in American judicial scholarship is between legal scholars who take the justices at their word and assume that those words de…
September 5, 2024
A Second Chance
The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some of the defendants to have come before U.S. District Co…
September 4, 2024
On the Politics of Islamic Law and Institutions in Qatar
An interview with Dr. Alexandre Caeiro in which we discuss Islamic law and institutions in Qatar, secularisation and the Ottomans. This episode was o…
September 4, 2024
Hate Speech and Academic Freedom
Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on B…
September 3, 2024
Against Constitutional Originalism
The legal theory of constitutional originalism has attracted increasing attention in recent years as the US Supreme Court has tilted with the weight o…