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

Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around

June 4, 2026

Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around

Phil Gilbert

Phil Gilbert is best known for leading IBM’s transformation as their General Manager of Design, a project that updated the work of 400,000 IBM employe…

Mary R. Lanni, "Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their Legacy and Evolution" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

June 4, 2026

Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids

Mary R. Lanni
Hosted by Mel Rosenberg

In this illuminating conversation with librarian-author Mary R. Lanni, we celebrate her brand new book, Using Nursery Rhymes with Today’s Kids: Their …

Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)

June 3, 2026

The Criminal State

Lawrence Douglas

The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law has …

Julie J. Park, "Race, Class, and Affirmative Action: College Admissions in a New Era" (Harvard Education Press, 2026)

May 31, 2026

Race, Class, and Affirmative Action

Julie J. Park
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

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…

David Petruccelli, "A Scourge of Humanity: The Origins of Interpol and the End of Empire in Central and Eastern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 31, 2026

A Scourge of Humanity

David Petruccelli
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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 …

Amy Thomas, "Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play" (Hart Publishing, 2026)

May 29, 2026

Copyright, Contract, and Video Games

Amy Thomas

Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play (Hart Publishing, 2026) uncovers how video game contracts act as monologues of power, moulding pla…

Learning Languages on Social Media

May 26, 2026

Learning Languages on Social Media

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Yeong Ju Lee about her new book Social Media and Language Learning: …

Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)

May 25, 2026

Stories of Struggle

Claudia Smith Brinson
Hosted by Matt Simmons

In Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina (U South Carolina Press, 2020), longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson detail…

Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy" (MIT Press, 2026)

May 24, 2026

How Deeply Human Is Language?

Yosef Grodzinsky
Hosted by Mariam Olugbodi

How Deeply Human Is Language? Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy (MIT Press, 2026) is Yosef Grodzinsky’s exploration of the criticality of the lin…

Samuel Markind, "Music Between Your Ears: How Musical Engagement Powers the Human Brain" (JHU Press, 2025)

May 24, 2026

Music Between Your Ears

Samuel Markind
Hosted by Gregory McNiff

Explores the profound power of music to influence brain function and well-being. IPA 2026 Distinguished Favorite in the Music Category Why does musi…

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds., "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Florida, 2025)

May 23, 2026

Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century

Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible eds.
Hosted by Daniel Moran

A guide for today’s classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-chal…

Anna O. Law, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants" (Oxford UP, 2026)

May 22, 2026

Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship

Anna O. Law
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and …

S5E8 Debating the Constitution: On Originalism's Most Pressing Quarrels with Sherif Girgis

May 20, 2026

Debating the Constitution

Sherif Girgis
Hosted by Ryan Shinkel

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,…

Justin Randolph, "Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside (UNC Press, 2026)

May 17, 2026

Mississippi Law

Justin Randolph
Hosted by Michael Stauch

Justin Randolph, assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, joins Michael Stauch to discuss Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in Ameri…

Reflection-In-Motion

May 14, 2026

Reflection-In-Motion

Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday

Reflection-in-Motion: Reimagining Reflection in the Writing Classroom (Utah State UP, 2025) considers how reflective practice is embedded in daily cou…

Fabio Rojas, "From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline" (JHU Press, 2010)

May 13, 2026

From Black Power to Black Studies

Fabio Rojas

The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential politica…

Alexander Klein, "Consciousness is Motor: William James on Mind and Action" (Oxford UP, 2025)

May 10, 2026

Consciousness is Motor

Alexander Klein
Hosted by Carrie Figdor

When it comes to consciousness, William James is well-known for his descriptions of it rather than his theory of it and its relation to the body. In C…

Brenda Boyle, "American War Stories" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

May 10, 2026

American War Stories

Brenda M. Boyle
Hosted by John Armenta

In American War Stories (Rutgers UP, 2021) Brenda Boyle examines how the story of war is told in the Unites States and how these stories of war work t…

Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)

May 9, 2026

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

Mark Peterson

A provocative new history of America's constitution and an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have i…

Dennis Sherwood, Missing the Mark: Why So Many School Exam Grades are Wrong – and How to Get Results We Can Trust" (Canbury Press, 2022)

May 9, 2026

Missing the Mark

Dennis Sherwood
Hosted by John Gibbs

"One in four grades may be wrong.""25% of exam grades are incorrect.""Grades are misleading and often wrong." In Missing the Mark: Why So Many School…