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Law May 13, 2022

Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World

What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere

Mark L. Clifford

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this account of the rapid erosion of liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and civil and political rights in Hong Kong, Mark L. Clifford's latest book provides …

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General History May 13, 2022

The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials

A Solemn Tale of Horror

Sofia Stolk

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Dr. Sofia Stolk’s The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror (Routledge, 2021) addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution’s opening statement before …
Islamic Studies May 13, 2022

Innocent Until Proven Muslim

Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11

Maha Hilal

Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 published in 2022 with Broadleaf Books, Maha Hilal describes how narratives of 9/11 and …
Postscript May 13, 2022

Postscript

Post-Roe Politics

Lilly J. Goren, Rebecca Kreitzer, Andrew R. Lewis, Candis Watts Smith, and Joshua C. Wilson

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Today’s Postscript uniquely engages abortion politics by addressing structural political issues (voter suppression, gerrymandering, dilutions of minority voting, obstacles to women registering their positions politically), inconsistencies in Justice Samuel Alito’s …
On Religion May 13, 2022

On the Religious Freedom Center and the First Amendment

A Discussion with Charles C. Haynes

Charles C. Haynes

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Charles C. Haynes is vice president of the Freedom Forum Institute / Religious Freedom Center and a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center. Haynes is best known for his …
Critical Theory May 12, 2022

The Politics of Immunity

Security and the Policing of Bodies

Mark Neocleous

Hosted by Catriona Gold
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown. The …
Indian Ocean World May 12, 2022

Islamic Law in Circulation

Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean

Mahmood Kooria

Hosted by Kelvin Ng
Analyzing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean …
Medicine May 12, 2022

The Cage of Days

Time and Temporal Experience in Prison

Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison …
Critical Theory May 11, 2022

Cancel Culture

A Critical Analysis

Eve Ng

Hosted by Louisa Hann
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical media studies perspective, as both cancel practices (what people …
Law May 11, 2022

The Hughes Court

From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941

Mark V. Tushnet

Hosted by William Domnarski
Mark V. Tushnet's book The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 (Cambridge UP, 2022) describes the closing of one era in constitutional jurisprudence and the opening of another …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform May 9, 2022

Deep Deception

The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth

Helen Steel et al.

Hosted by Catriona Gold
In Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth (Ebury, 2022), five women discuss their experiences of being manipulated into serious long-term …
Science, Technology, and Society May 9, 2022

Buy Now

How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly

Emily West

Hosted by Noopur Raval
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital economy. Amazon is ubiquitous in our daily lives—we stream movies …
Law May 6, 2022

Indelible City

Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this timely book, award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger, Louisa Lim, weaves together Hong Kong's fraught political and social history with her own first hand account of the spirit …
African Studies May 5, 2022

Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa

Protection First and Justice Later

Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau

Hosted by Christopher Davey
Around the world, audiences in the mid-1990s watched the mass atrocities unfolding in Rwanda and Srebrenica in horror and disbelief. Emerging from these disasters came an international commitment to safeguard …
Public Policy May 4, 2022

Documenting Displacement

Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research

Katarzyna Grabska and Christina R. Clark-Kazak

Hosted by Lois Klassen
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power …
Science, Technology, and Society May 4, 2022

A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

John Zerilli

Hosted by Frances Sacks
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so …
Environmental Studies May 3, 2022

The Long Land War

The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

Jo Guldi

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast May 2, 2022

Breached!

Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It

Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for basic communication, finance, healthcare, and more, it is alarming how difficult it is to …
Science, Technology, and Society April 28, 2022

Silent Cells

The Secret Drugging of Captive America

Anthony Hatch

Hosted by Laura Stark
It’s no secret that the United States has the most expansive prison system of any nation in the world. And the US carceral system overwhelmingly and unjustly impacts Black and …
Law April 27, 2022

The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism

Fiona De Londras

Hosted by Jane Richards
The attacks of 9/11 changed the course of the global counter-terrorism order which has entrenched a system of global governance. This institutional creep is arguably eroding national borders, spheres of domestic …