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Interviews with Scholars of the Law about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

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J. P. Messina, "Private Censorship" (Oxford UP, 2024)
May 01, 2024
Jennifer M. Black, "Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
May 01, 2024
David Pozen, "The Constitution of the War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 28, 2024
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Apr 27, 2024
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Apr 24, 2024
Egor Lazarev, "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 13, 2024
Rabiat Akande, "Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 06, 2024
Michael LeFebvre, "Collections, Codes, and Torah: The Re-characterization of Israel's Written Law" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Apr 06, 2024
W. B. Allen, "Montesquieu's 'The Spirit of the Laws': A Critical Edition" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
Yuliya Zabyelina, "Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Mar 28, 2024
Michael Davis, "Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values in Hong Kong" (Association for Asian Studies, 2023)
Mar 27, 2024
How Can We Reach International Consensus on AI Regulation?
Mar 25, 2024
Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)
Mar 24, 2024
Patryk I. Labuda, "International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 22, 2024
Kalika Mehta, "Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 20, 2024
Rachel Blumenthal, "Right to Reparations: The Claims Conference and Holocaust Survivors, 1951–1964" (Lexington, 2021)
Mar 18, 2024
Ada Maria Kuskowski, "Vernacular Law; Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 16, 2024
Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire
Mar 13, 2024
Priyasha Saksena, "Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 07, 2024
Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Christian R. Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy" (Yale UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
Jack Levin and Julie B. Wiest, "Covert Violence: The Secret Weapon of the Powerless" (Bristol University Press, 2023)
Feb 23, 2024
Devin O. Pendas, "Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 23, 2024
Isabella Alexander, "Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 22, 2024
Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Feb 22, 2024
Allyson Mower, "Developing Authorship and Copyright Ownership Policies: Best Practices" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024)
Feb 21, 2024
Max Ward, "Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan" (Duke UP, 2019)
Feb 21, 2024
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Feb 20, 2024
Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024
Tom Hamilton, "A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 19, 2024
Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (NYU Press, 2019)
Feb 16, 2024
Richard L. Hasen, "A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 15, 2024
Ryan Manucha, "Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada's Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Feb 14, 2024
Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)
Feb 14, 2024
Laura Flannigan, "Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Feb 13, 2024
James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson, "Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis" (Russell Sage, 2021)
Feb 12, 2024
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
Feb 12, 2024
Kerstin Bree Carlson, "The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa" (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
Feb 09, 2024
Calvin John Smiley, "Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition" (U California Press, 2023)
Feb 07, 2024
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Feb 05, 2024
George Fisher, "Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America's War on Drugs" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Feb 03, 2024
Chrystin Ondersma, "Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice" (U California Press, 2024)
Feb 03, 2024
Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin, "Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy" (Hachette, 2023)
Feb 02, 2024
Matthew D. Lassiter, "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau, "Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 31, 2024
Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024
Rachel Nolan, "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jan 28, 2024
Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024
Bruce Wardhaugh, "Competition Law in Crisis: The Antitrust Response to Economic Shocks" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 26, 2024
David J. Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 25, 2024
Loka Ashwood et al., "Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-By-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024
Cornelia Woll, "Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 23, 2024
Robert C. Post, "The Taft Court (10): Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024
Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024
Paul Gowder, "The Networked Leviathan: For Democratic Platforms" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024
Patricio Simonetto, "A Body of One's Own: A Trans History of Argentina" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Jan 15, 2024
Alexandra Filindra, "Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 15, 2024
Justine Nolan and Martijn Boersma, "Addressing Modern Slavery" (UNSW Press, 2019)
Jan 14, 2024
Sam Lebovic, "State of Silence: The Espionage Act and the Rise of America's Secrecy Regime" (Basic Book, 2023)
Jan 12, 2024
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jan 12, 2024
Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jan 11, 2024
Rita Kesselring, "Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa" (Stanford UP, 2017)
Jan 08, 2024
Steven Rogers, "Accountability in State Legislatures" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jan 08, 2024
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 03, 2024
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 03, 2024
Robert N. Gross, “Public vs. Private: The Early History of School Choice in America” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Jan 03, 2024
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Jan 02, 2024
Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jan 02, 2024
Justin Marceau, "Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2023
Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
Dec 29, 2023
David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
Dec 27, 2023
The Future of Migration: A Discussion with Hein de Haas
Dec 23, 2023
Emily Horowitz, "From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
Dec 19, 2023
Tom Buitelaar, "Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 19, 2023
Yasser Kureshi, "Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 18, 2023
Sara Chatfield, "In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Dec 18, 2023
Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023
Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023
Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2023
Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Dec 13, 2023
Julian Go, "Policing Empires: Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Melinda N. Ritchie, "Backdoor Lawmaking: Evading Obstacles in the US Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 12, 2023
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023
Paolo Caroli, "Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 11, 2023
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
Dec 04, 2023
Rebecca Simon, "The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023
Stephanie Convery, "After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne" (Penguin Australia, 2020)
Nov 27, 2023
Fae Garland and Mitchell Travis, "Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Disorder" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Nov 26, 2023
Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Nov 24, 2023
Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor, "Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society" (Princeton UP, 2016)
Nov 18, 2023
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Nov 16, 2023
Kay Wilson, "Mental Health Law: Abolish Or Reform?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 11, 2023
Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Nov 08, 2023
Speak Freely: The Princeton Principles
Nov 07, 2023
B Camminga, "Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Nov 06, 2023
Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
Nov 04, 2023
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
Nov 02, 2023
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
Nov 01, 2023
Paolo Sandro, "The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Nov 01, 2023
Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
Oct 30, 2023
Youcef L. Soufi, "The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Oct 27, 2023
Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer, "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
Oct 25, 2023
Jeff Kosseff, "Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Oct 24, 2023
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Oct 23, 2023
Campbell F. Scribner, "A Is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Oct 22, 2023
Matthew Guariglia, "Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York" (Duke UP, 2023)
Oct 21, 2023
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
Oct 20, 2023
The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
Oct 18, 2023
Javier Garcia Oliva and Helen Hall, "Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Oct 17, 2023
Vilja Hulden, "The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New Deal" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Oct 15, 2023
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "The Constitution's Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Oct 12, 2023
Rhoda Kanaaneh, "The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Oct 10, 2023
Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Oct 08, 2023
Andrew Monteith, "Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 08, 2023
James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Oct 05, 2023
Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Oct 03, 2023
Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Oct 01, 2023
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023
Aparna Chandra, "Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India" (India Viking, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023
Traci Cipriano, "The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-being for a Sustainable Legal Profession" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 29, 2023
Kashmir Hill, "Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It" (Random House, 2023)
Sep 28, 2023
The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns
Sep 26, 2023
Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)
Sep 25, 2023
Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 24, 2023
Kristin Surak, "The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 24, 2023
Diana Rickard, "The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 23, 2023
David Cunningham, January 6th and Asymmetrical Policing (JP, EF)
Sep 21, 2023
Valentina Capurri, "Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Sep 20, 2023
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 19, 2023
Beverley Chalmers, "Child Sex Abuse: Power, Profit, Perversion" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
Sep 16, 2023
Anthony B. Sanders, "Baby Ninth Amendments: How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Postscript: How Firearms Fuel Domestic Violence in the US
Sep 11, 2023
Aleksandra Nicole Pfau, "Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Sep 11, 2023
Tiantian Zheng, "Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Sep 10, 2023
Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Sep 06, 2023
Yanna Yannakakis, "Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico" (Duke UP, 2023)
Sep 04, 2023
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 02, 2023
Ben Mattlin, "Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World" (Beacon, 2022)
Sep 02, 2023
Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2023
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
Aug 31, 2023
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
Aug 30, 2023
Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Asad L. Asad, "Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 26, 2023
Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring, "Disability, Care and Family Law" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 23, 2023
Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment
Aug 22, 2023
Morgan L. W. Hazelton et al., "The Elevator Effect: Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
Aug 21, 2023
Becoming Justice Thomas
Aug 20, 2023
Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 16, 2023
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Aug 15, 2023
Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Aug 14, 2023
Len Niehoff and Thomas Sullivan, "Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 09, 2023
Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court
Aug 07, 2023
Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Aug 06, 2023
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
Aug 05, 2023
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
Aug 04, 2023
Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar
Aug 01, 2023
Mayur R. Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts" (Fordham UP, 2022)
Jul 30, 2023
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
Jul 30, 2023
Daisy Cheung and Michael Dunn, "Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023
The Texas Two-Step and Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder
Jul 26, 2023
Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?
Jul 24, 2023
Mere Natural Law: A Conversation with Hadley Arkes
Jul 18, 2023
Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023
Samuel Issacharoff, "Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023
Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023
Nour Halabi, "Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Jul 13, 2023
Hassan S. Khalilieh, "Islamic Law of the Sea: Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 12, 2023
J. Logan Smilges, "Crip Negativity" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jul 12, 2023
Jacqueline Kinghan, "Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jul 11, 2023
Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)
Jul 10, 2023
Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Jul 09, 2023
Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
Jul 05, 2023
Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jul 05, 2023
Glen W. Olson and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, "Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Jul 04, 2023
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
Jul 03, 2023
The Future of Oceans: A Discussion with Chris Armstrong
Jul 03, 2023
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 02, 2023
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023
Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Jun 28, 2023
Lynsey Black, "Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64" (Manchester UP, 2022)
Jun 27, 2023
Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jun 26, 2023
Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
Jun 25, 2023
Postscript: Politics, Identity, and the US Supreme Court
Jun 23, 2023
Ngaire Naffine, "Criminal Law and the Man Problem" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 23, 2023
J. Barton Scott, "Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Jun 22, 2023
Giulia Pecorella, "The United States of America and the Crime of Aggression" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 21, 2023
Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2023
David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 21, 2023
Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Jun 20, 2023
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2023
Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, "The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jun 10, 2023
Brent Willock, "The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius: Science Transforms Our Comprehension of Reeva Steenkamp's Shocking Death" (Torchflame Books, 2018)
Jun 06, 2023
Adrian Masters, "We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 03, 2023
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 01, 2023
Defining Man and Woman: A Conversation with Abigail Favale
May 31, 2023
Orly Lobel, "The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future" (PublicAffairs, 2022)
May 31, 2023
Assessing Affirmative Action: A Conversation with Jason Riley
May 29, 2023
Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 27, 2023
Myra Tawfik, "For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
May 24, 2023
The Whys and Wherefores of Migration
May 23, 2023
David Churchill et al., "Historical Criminology" (Routledge, 2021)
May 21, 2023
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 20, 2023
American Conservatism, Natural Law, and the Good Life: A Conversation with Robert P. George
May 20, 2023
Mark Paul, "The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
May 18, 2023
America & Democracy Ep. 1: Robert I. Rotberg on Corruption
May 16, 2023
Michelle Smirnova, "The Prescription-To-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023
Ewelina U. Ochab and David Alton, "State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change It" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
May 08, 2023
The Future of Guantanamo: A Discussion with James Connell
May 08, 2023
Supurna Banerjee et al., "The Violent Domestic Law: Its Practice and Strategies of Survival" (Zubaan Academic, 2022)
May 08, 2023
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi, "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" (Princeton UP, 2023)
May 07, 2023
Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 06, 2023
Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence
May 06, 2023
Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Cost of My Faith: A Conversation with Jack Phillips and Jake Warner
May 05, 2023
Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)
May 04, 2023
Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)
May 03, 2023
Rachel Dunn et al., "What Is Legal Education For?" (Routledge, 2022)
May 02, 2023
Defending Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
May 01, 2023
All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Apr 27, 2023
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Apr 24, 2023
Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 21, 2023
Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)
Apr 20, 2023
Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights: A Conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Apr 19, 2023
Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 16, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
Apr 15, 2023
Abortion and the Law
Apr 12, 2023
Nishant Kumar, "Religious Offense and Censorship of Publications: An Enquiry Through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary" (Routledge, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023
Judge Amy Coney Barrett on "The Constitution as Our Story"
Apr 08, 2023
James J. Park, "The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 07, 2023
Abortion and the Pro-Life Movement: A Conversation with Alexandra DeSanctis
Apr 05, 2023
Ronald Niezen, "The Memory Seeker" (Black Rose Writing, 2023)
Apr 03, 2023
Foluke Adebisi, "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Apr 02, 2023
Rose Parfitt, "The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Mar 31, 2023
Elizabeth M. Renieris, "Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse" (MIT Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2023
Administrative State 101: A Conversation with Adam J. White
Mar 30, 2023
Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 30, 2023
Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Mar 28, 2023
David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)
Mar 22, 2023
Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 22, 2023
Melanie Heath, "Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Mar 21, 2023
Daniel L. Hatcher, "Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 21, 2023
Liz Curran, "Better Law for a Better World: New Approaches to Law Practice and Education" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 20, 2023
Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien, "Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Mar 20, 2023
Hernán Flom, "The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Mar 16, 2023
Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 15, 2023
Miriam Bak Mckenna, "Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law" (Brill, 2022)
Mar 14, 2023
Damian Alan Pargas, "Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 13, 2023
Ke Li, "Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Mar 13, 2023
Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Mar 11, 2023
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Book, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ
Mar 07, 2023
Rohit De, "A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Mar 06, 2023
Eugénie Mérieau, "Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand's Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 06, 2023
Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 03, 2023
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough
Feb 28, 2023
Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 27, 2023
Elizabeth Lhost, "Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia" (UNC Press, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Jeffrey S. Bachman, "The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Social Media Influencers and Digital Media Regulation in Vietnam
Feb 23, 2023
Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023
Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023
Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
Feb 22, 2023
Stephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane, "In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda" (Routledge, 2023)
Feb 22, 2023
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Feb 19, 2023
Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 19, 2023
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Feb 18, 2023
Lisa Hajjar, "The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 18, 2023
Andrea G. McDowell, "We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023
Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces
Feb 17, 2023
Benjamin Hoy, "A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 11, 2023
Marvin N. Olasky and Leah Savas, "The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652-2022" (Crossway, 2023)
Feb 11, 2023
Max Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Feb 09, 2023
We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States
Feb 09, 2023
Erin in the Morning: A Interview with Erin Reed, LGBTQ+ Activist and Substacker
Feb 06, 2023
H. Jefferson Powell, "The Practice of American Constitutional Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 03, 2023
Border Lines: Refugees and the International Order
Feb 02, 2023
Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 01, 2023
Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 01, 2023
Benedict Rogers, "The China Nexus: Thirty Years in and Around the Chinese Communist Party's Tyranny" (Optimum Publishing, 2022)
Jan 28, 2023
Michael Fleming, "In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 25, 2023
Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jan 25, 2023
The History of Temp Work
Jan 24, 2023
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023
James Morton, "Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 22, 2023
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 21, 2023
Adam Lajeunesse, "Lock, Stock, and Icebergs: A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty" (UBC Press, 2016)
Jan 21, 2023
Viola Franziska Müller, "Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jan 20, 2023
Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 19, 2023
Patrick Bixby, "License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 19, 2023
Shifting Blame: What Should You "Own" and What Shouldn't You?
Jan 18, 2023
Robert Ovetz, "We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Steffen Mau, "Sorting Machines: The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century" (Polity Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Randle C. DeFalco, "Invisible Atrocities: The Aesthetic Biases of International Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan 16, 2023
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, "Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jan 11, 2023
Ciara Breathnach, "Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class: Dublin City Coroner's Court, 1876-1902" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 10, 2023
21st Century Citizenship: What Does It Mean to be a Citizen in America?
Jan 08, 2023
Jason Isralowitz, "Nothing to Fear: Alfred Hitchcock and the Wrong Men" (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2023)
Jan 07, 2023
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Jan 03, 2023
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
Jan 01, 2023
Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jan 01, 2023
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Dec 31, 2022
Ethical AI
Dec 31, 2022
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 30, 2022
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
Dec 28, 2022
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
Dec 26, 2022
Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Dec 24, 2022
Michael Ayers Trotti, "The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
Sandra Frimmel, "Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia After Perestroika" (Vernon Press, 2021)
Dec 21, 2022
Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
Jane Freeland, "Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Matthew Hall et al., "Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: Violence, Technologies, Motivations" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Elaine Pearson, "Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Alison L. Gash and Daniel J. Tichenor, "Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
Karen Levy, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 15, 2022
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
Dec 09, 2022
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Dec 08, 2022
Salvador Santino F. Regilme and Irene Hadiprayitno, "Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Dec 07, 2022
Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Dec 07, 2022
Ruti G. Teitel, "Transitional Justice" (Oxford UP, 2000)
Dec 04, 2022
Beverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 03, 2022
Civil Disobedience
Dec 02, 2022
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 30, 2022
Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 30, 2022
Anna Dziedzic, "Foreign Judges in the Pacific" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
Nov 25, 2022
Alexander Laban Hinton, "Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint
Nov 25, 2022
Frans Camphuijsen, "Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Nov 23, 2022
Aynne Kokas, "Trafficking Data: How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Amy Gajda, "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy" (Viking, 2022)
Nov 22, 2022
Anita Guerrini, "Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Aristotle to CRISPR" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Nov 16, 2022
Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022
Matthew Crain, "Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Nov 15, 2022
The Future of Data Control: A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan
Nov 15, 2022
Igor Shoikhedbrod, "Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Nov 14, 2022
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?
Nov 11, 2022
Bruce W. Dearstyne, "The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era" (SUNY Press, 2022)
Nov 11, 2022
Arvind Narrain, "India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance" (Context, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022
The Future of Rules: A Discussion with Lorraine Daston
Nov 08, 2022
Can We Square the Circle? Universalism Versus Communitarianism
Nov 07, 2022
Andrew S. Rosenberg, "Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 07, 2022
Christopher Stuart Taylor, "Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians" (Fernwood, 2016)
Nov 04, 2022
Bree Akesson and Andrew R. Basso, "From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Nov 04, 2022
Geetanjali Srikantan, "Identifying and Regulating Religion in India: Law, History and the Place of Worship" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 03, 2022
Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 03, 2022
Saba Bazargan-Forward, "Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 01, 2022
Max H. Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 01, 2022
The Future of Money Laundering: A Discussion with Oliver Bullough
Nov 01, 2022
Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey, "Mexico's Human Rights Crisis" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Oct 31, 2022
Elizabeth F. Schwartz, "Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise" (New Press, 2016)
Oct 27, 2022
Guy Lancaster, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" (U Arkansas Press, 2021)
Oct 26, 2022
Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022
Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2022
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
Oct 25, 2022
Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey, "A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England" (U Alabama Press, 2022)
Oct 25, 2022
Larisa Kingston Mann, "Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power (UNC Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Lucy Series, "Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Robert Hutchinson, "After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals" (Yale UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Elsa Sjunneson, "Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism" (Simon Element, 2021)
Oct 20, 2022
Josh Bowsher, "The Informational Logic of Human Rights" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022
Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Oct 17, 2022
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 17, 2022
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022
E. Amanda McVitty, "Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England: Gender, Law and Political Culture" (Boydell Press, 2020)
Oct 12, 2022
Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022
P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Oct 12, 2022
M. Margaret McKeown, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas" (Potomac Books, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022
Andrew Porwancher et al., "The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
Oct 10, 2022
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 06, 2022
Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)
Oct 05, 2022
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 05, 2022
Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
Sep 30, 2022
James Bessen, "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation" (Yale UP, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Kermit Roosevelt III, "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Sep 29, 2022
Chitranshul Sinha, "The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India" (India Viking, 2019)
Sep 27, 2022
Charles L. Chavis Jr., "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022
Keri Blakinger, "Corrections in Ink: A Memoir" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022
David Enrich, "Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
Timothy Paul Bowman, "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" (U of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Sep 20, 2022
Rohan J. Alva, "Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article 21, Due Process and the Constitution of India" (Harper Collins, 2022)
Sep 19, 2022
Brad Snyder, "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment" (Norton, 2022)
Sep 14, 2022
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Sep 14, 2022
Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2022
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Sep 09, 2022
Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 08, 2022
Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" (Regnery, 2022)
Sep 02, 2022
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
Sep 02, 2022
Kelly McCormick, "The Problem of Blame: Making Sense of Moral Anger" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
Ken MacLean, "Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
The Heroin Clinic
Sep 01, 2022
Leslie Kern, "Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies" (Verso, 2022)
Aug 31, 2022
This is Your Brain on Trial
Aug 31, 2022
Property Technology
Aug 30, 2022
Jeffrey D. Pugh, "The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 30, 2022
Brian DeMare, "Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
Aug 30, 2022
Derailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise
Aug 29, 2022
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Aug 26, 2022
Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
Aug 23, 2022
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law…and Changed American Jurisprudence
Aug 22, 2022
Stephen Hewer. "Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland" (Brepols, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Christopher Witko, "Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)
Aug 15, 2022
Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
Aug 11, 2022
Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Aug 10, 2022
Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten, "Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 09, 2022
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 05, 2022
Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
Aug 04, 2022
Maya Mikdashi, "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Aug 04, 2022
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Aug 03, 2022
Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Aug 02, 2022
International Association of Genocide Scholars
Jul 29, 2022
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022
Hawa Allan, "Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship" (Norton, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 28, 2022
Samantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
Jul 27, 2022
Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Jul 25, 2022
Exiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders
Jul 22, 2022
Prison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about Incarceration
Jul 21, 2022
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, "The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 19, 2022
Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2022
Willem Bart de Lint, "Blurring Intelligence Crime: A Critical Forensics" (Springer, 2022)
Jul 15, 2022
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Jul 11, 2022
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
Jul 08, 2022
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Lucia M. Rafanelli, "Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 07, 2022
Adam Hanna, "Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
Jul 07, 2022
Leila Neti, "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jul 06, 2022
Pallavi Banerjee, "The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 06, 2022
Legal Regulation of Drugs
Jul 05, 2022
Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen, "Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2022
Anna Sergi et al., "Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World" (Bristol UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2022
The Human Tragedy in Yemen
Jun 29, 2022
Francesca Lessa, "The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America" (Yale UP, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022
Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jun 24, 2022
Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 22, 2022
Mark Fathi Massoud, "Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 21, 2022
Lori A. Allen, "A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Jun 20, 2022
Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Jun 20, 2022
David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022
Judah Schept, "Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022
Aziz Z. Huq, "The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 17, 2022
Mikaela Rabinowitz, "Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 17, 2022
Rizwaan Sabir, "Shadows of Suspicion: Counterterrorism, Muslims and the British Security State" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Jun 16, 2022
Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Steven K. Green, "Separating Church and State: A History" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022
Menachem Kaiser, "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure" (Mariner Books, 2021)
Jun 14, 2022
Gian Maria Campedelli, "Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 14, 2022
Ralph Hope, "The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present" (Oneworld, 2021)
Jun 10, 2022
Risa Brooks et al., "Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 09, 2022
Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 07, 2022
Mario Daniels and John Krige, "Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 01, 2022
Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 31, 2022
Audrey L. Comstock, "Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 30, 2022
Brandon T. Jett, "Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South" (Louisiana State UP, 2021)
May 27, 2022
Abolition
May 26, 2022
Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 23, 2022
Christopher Carothers, "Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 17, 2022
Sofia Stolk, "The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror" (Routledge, 2021)
May 13, 2022
Maha Hilal, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
May 13, 2022
Mark L. Clifford, "Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
May 13, 2022
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
May 12, 2022
Mahmood Kooria, "Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 12, 2022
Mark Neocleous, "The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies" (Verso, 2022)
May 12, 2022
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral, "The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison" (Columbia UP, 2022)
May 12, 2022
Eve Ng, "Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
May 11, 2022
Mark V. Tushnet, "The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
May 11, 2022
Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 09, 2022
Helen Steel et al., "Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth" (Ebury, 2022)
May 09, 2022
Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
May 06, 2022
Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, "Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Protection First and Justice Later" (Routledge, 2021)
May 05, 2022
John Zerilli, "A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 04, 2022
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, "Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
May 04, 2022
Jo Guldi, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights" (Yale UP, 2022)
May 03, 2022
Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, "Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 02, 2022
Anthony Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2022
Fiona De Londras, "The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 27, 2022
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
Apr 26, 2022
Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Apr 26, 2022
Florence Ashley, "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)
Apr 26, 2022
Kristin Henning, "The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth" (Pantheon Books, 2021)
Apr 25, 2022
Clayton Howard, "The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Apr 25, 2022
David P. Forsythe, "Advanced Introduction to the Politics of International Human Rights" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Apr 25, 2022
Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 25, 2022
Charles Alistair McCrary, "Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Apr 25, 2022
Suzanne E. Scoggins, "Policing China: Street-Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Apr 25, 2022
Nandita Sharma, "Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants" (Duke UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2022
The University Network for Human Rights: A Discussion with Jim Calvallaro
Apr 18, 2022
Kelly Bauer, "Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Apr 18, 2022
Maia Szalavitz, "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction" (Hachette, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Matt Sheedy, "Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility " (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)
Apr 14, 2022
Tom Theuns, "The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7" (2022)
Apr 14, 2022
Erin Metz McDonnell, "Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Apr 12, 2022
Elisabeth Anderson, "Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Apr 11, 2022
Patrick J. McDonagh, "Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 08, 2022
Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost, "The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America" (NYU Press, 2015)
Apr 07, 2022
Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
Apr 06, 2022
Karl Kitching, "Childhood, Religion and School Injustice" (Cork UP, 2020)
Apr 05, 2022
Mark Newman, "Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
Apr 01, 2022
Rama Srinivasan, "Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Mar 31, 2022
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 31, 2022
Marie Muschalek, "Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Mar 31, 2022
On the Death Penalty
Mar 30, 2022
Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy, "Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India 1947 and Beyond" (UChicago Press, 2022)
Mar 30, 2022
Steven J. Brady, "Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022
Jan-Werner Müller, "Democracy Rules" (FSG, 2021)
Mar 25, 2022
Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla, "Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication" (NYU Press, 2021)
Mar 24, 2022
Michael D. Breidenbach, "Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 24, 2022
N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022
Pandemic Perspectives 3: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn
Mar 23, 2022
Labor Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Businesses
Mar 21, 2022
Joanna Mishtal, "The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland" (Ohio UP, 2015)
Mar 21, 2022
Kecia Ali, ed., "Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century" (Open BU, 2021)
Mar 18, 2022
Andrew Rudalevige, "By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Mar 17, 2022
Melvin I. Urofsky, "Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue" (Vintage, 2017)
Mar 11, 2022
Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 10, 2022
Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 08, 2022
Randy E. Barnett and Evan D. Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Mar 07, 2022
Tina Sikka, "Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Mar 07, 2022
Sarah Brayne, "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 04, 2022
Firmin Debrabander, "Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 03, 2022
Lu Ann Homza, "Village Infernos and Witches' Advocates: Witch-hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Mar 02, 2022
Chase Burton, "Nicole Rafter" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 02, 2022
Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)
Mar 01, 2022
Boyd van Dijk, "Preparing for War: the Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Mar 01, 2022
Devin O. Pendas, "Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 28, 2022
Julia Dehm, "Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 28, 2022
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 25, 2022
Albert Baiburin, "The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR" (Polity Press, 2022)
Feb 23, 2022
Gaye T. Lansdell et al., "Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022
Rachel E Brulé, "Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 23, 2022
Wouter Werner, "Repetition and International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Feb 22, 2022
Timothy K. Blauvelt, "Clientalism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba" (Routledge, 2021)
Feb 18, 2022
Walter Dorn and Andrew Bartles-Smith, "Hinduism and International Humanitarian Law"
Feb 16, 2022
Sara Matthiesen, "Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade" (UC Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022
Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, "Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching" (Verso, 2021)
Feb 15, 2022
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
Feb 14, 2022
A Conversation with the Director of the Emerson Prison Initiative
Feb 10, 2022
Rebecca S. Natow, "Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector" (Teachers College Press, 2022)
Feb 09, 2022
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
Michelle Jurkovich, "Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 07, 2022
Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
Feb 07, 2022
Elizabeth Anderson, "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (Princeton UP, 2019)
Feb 07, 2022
Charles Vidich, "Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine" (Praeger, 2021)
Feb 03, 2022
Paul Gowder, "The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
Feb 02, 2022
Ann M. Schneider, "Amnesty in Brazil: Recompense After Repression, 1895-2010" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Feb 02, 2022
Emma Southon, "A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome" (Abrams Press, 2021)
Feb 02, 2022
Sylvia Sellers-Garcia, "The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts" (Yale UP, 2020)
Feb 02, 2022
Jane Lilly López, "Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Feb 01, 2022
Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 01, 2022
Neil J. Diamant, "Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 31, 2022
Oishik Sircar, "Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jan 28, 2022
Camilla Fitzsimons et al., "Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Justice" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022
Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022
Linda Greenhouse, "Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court" (Random House, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022
Juan Manuel del Nido, "Taxis Vs. Uber: Courts, Markets and Technology in Buenos Aires" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Jan 25, 2022
Courtney Hillebrecht, "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 25, 2022
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)
Jan 20, 2022
Colin Jerolmack, "Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jan 19, 2022
Gideon Sapir and Daniel Statman, "State and Religion in Israel: A Philosophical-Legal Inquiry" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 11, 2022
Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
Jan 10, 2022
Warren E. Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" (LSU Press, 2020)
Jan 05, 2022
Viktoriya Kim et al. "The Politics of International Marriage in Japan" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Jan 03, 2022
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
Dec 30, 2021
Diana S. Kim, "Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Dec 30, 2021
Patricia Gándara and Jongyeon Ee, "Schools Under Siege: The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Educational Equity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Dec 27, 2021
Joseph J. Ellis, "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" (Liveright, 2021)
Dec 27, 2021
Susan J. Pearson, "The Birth Certificate: An American History" (UNC Press, 2021)
Dec 27, 2021
Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Dec 24, 2021
Ethan Blue, "The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal" (U California Press, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021
Mark S. Berlin, "Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 23, 2021
Seth Barrett Tillman, "What Oath (if any) did Jacob Henry take in 1809?: Deconstructing the Historical Myths"
Dec 23, 2021
Henry Redwood, "The Archival Politics of International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021
Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 21, 2021
Warren E. Milteer, Jr., "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South" (UNC Press, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021
Michel Foucault, "Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021
Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 17, 2021
Shamira Gelbman, "The Civil Rights Lobby: The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction" (Temple UP, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021
Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., "Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Adam Hilton, "True Blues: The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2021
Alison Ritter, "Drug Policy" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 14, 2021
Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov, "American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Dec 13, 2021
Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
Dec 13, 2021
Postscript: SB-8, Dobbs, and the Politics of Abortion
Dec 10, 2021
William J. Morgan, "Sport and Moral Conflict: A Conventionalist Theory" (Temple UP, 2020)
Dec 10, 2021
James Shires, "The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East" (Hurst, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Mia Bay, "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Dec 09, 2021
Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 08, 2021
Michael Frazer, “The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Dec 07, 2021
J. Ryan Stackhouse, "Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 07, 2021
Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 07, 2021
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 06, 2021
Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian, "The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back" (New Press, 2021)
Dec 06, 2021
David Herzberg, "White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Dec 06, 2021
Nicole Nguyen, "Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Dec 03, 2021
Jeffrey S. Bachman, "Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations" (Routledge, 2019)
Dec 03, 2021
Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss, "Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
Dec 02, 2021
Avia Pasternak, "Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their States' Wrongdoings?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 01, 2021
James Kapaló and Kinga Povedák, "The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 01, 2021
Eric Berkowitz, "Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West from the Ancients to Fake News" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021
Margaret D. Jacobs, "After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2021
Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021
Jessie Barton-Hronešová, "The Struggle for Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Nov 24, 2021
Craig W. Stevens, "The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings" (Academic Press, 2020)
Nov 24, 2021
Rana M. Jaleel, "The Work of Rape" (Duke UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Daniel Lee, "The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Steven P. Brown, "Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Nov 23, 2021
Radha Kumar, "Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Nov 23, 2021
Vlad Solomon, "State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain, 1880-1914" (Boydell Press, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021
Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, "Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice" (John Wiley and Sons, 2019)
Nov 22, 2021
Postscript: The Supreme Court, Concealed Carry, and How Your Laws Might Change
Nov 22, 2021
Sana Haroon, "Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021
Dennis C. Rasmussen, "Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Adam Bonica and Maya Sen, "The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 17, 2021
Matthew Stewart, “The Epicurean Republic” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 15, 2021
The Politics of Public Prosecution in Malaysia and the Problem of Corruption
Nov 12, 2021
Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese, "Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 12, 2021
Don F. Selby, "Human Rights in Thailand" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Nov 09, 2021
Anna Saunders et al., "Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 09, 2021
Luke Clements, "Clustered Injustice and The Level Green" (Legal Action Group, 2020)
Nov 08, 2021
Jennifer Carlson, "Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Nov 08, 2021
Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)
Nov 05, 2021
Jovan Scott Lewis, "Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Nov 05, 2021
Quentin Skinner, “Quest for Freedom” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 05, 2021
Doing an Ethnography of Policing: In Conversation with Sarah Brayne
Nov 04, 2021
Renee Ann Cramer, "Birthing a Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Nov 04, 2021
Matthew J. Lacombe, "Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners Into a Political Force" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 03, 2021
Nada Moumtaz, "God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State" (U California Press, 2021)
Nov 02, 2021
David Madland, "Re-Union: How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Nov 01, 2021
Robert J. Spitzer, "The Politics of Gun Control" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 01, 2021
Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 29, 2021
Elyn Saks, “Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 28, 2021
Dilek Kurban, "Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Oct 28, 2021
John A. Dearborn, "Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Oct 28, 2021
Christine Schwöbel-Patel, "Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 26, 2021
Postscript: The Supreme Court, Concealed Carry, and How Your Laws Might Change
Oct 26, 2021
Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2021
Rebecca DeWolf, "Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict Over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
Anna Spain Bradley, "Human Choice in International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 25, 2021
Julian Roberts, “Criminal Justice: An Examination” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 21, 2021
Paulina Ochoa Espejo, "On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2021
Sonja Tiernan, "The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Social Revolution Begins" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Oct 19, 2021
Ivor Sokolić, "International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Oct 15, 2021
A Conversation About Reproductive Health and Abortion Studies
Oct 14, 2021
Kevin A. Sabet, "Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" (Forefront Books, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021
Erika Bachiochi, "The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision" (Notre Dame UP, 2021)
Oct 12, 2021
Yakov Nagen, "The Soul of the Mishna" (Maggid, 2021)
Oct 12, 2021
Mark Somos and Anne Peters, "The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea" (Brill, 2021)
Oct 11, 2021
J.C. Salyer, "Court of Injustice: Law Without Recognition in U.S. Immigration" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Oct 08, 2021
Milieudefensie v. Shell: A Tipping Point in Climate Change Litigation against Corporations?
Oct 06, 2021
Jaime Lowe, "Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Line of California's Wildfires" (MCD, 2021)
Oct 06, 2021
Alecia P. Long, "Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination As a Sex Crime" (Boundless South, 2021)
Oct 04, 2021
Linda Steele, "Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 28, 2021
Elizabeth Loftus, “The Malleability of Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Robinson Woodward-Burns, "Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics" (Yale UP, 2021)
Sep 21, 2021
Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021)
Sep 21, 2021
Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2021
Firmin DeBrabander, "Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2021
Danish Sheikh, "Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India" (Seagull Books, 2021)
Sep 20, 2021
Noah Hurowitz, "El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord" (Atria Books, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, "Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy" (Lexington, 2021)
Sep 14, 2021
Gene Slater, "Free to Discriminate: How the Nation's Realtors Created Housing Segregation and the Conservative Vision of American Freedom" (Hayday Books, 2021)
Sep 14, 2021
Virginia Miller, "Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence" (Firenze UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2021
Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government" (Palgrave Macmillian, 2021)
Sep 13, 2021
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
Sep 10, 2021
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, "The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen" (Columbia Global Reports, 2015)
Sep 10, 2021
Gender Ideologies, Conservative Christianity, and Legislation in the U.S.
Sep 08, 2021
Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Sep 08, 2021
Gregory Werden, "The Foundations of Antitrust: Events, Ideas, and Doctrines" (Carolina Academic Press, 2020)
Sep 07, 2021
Scott Veitch, "Obligations: New Trajectories in Law" (Routledge, 2021)
Sep 07, 2021
Charles C. Camosy, "Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality" (New City Press, 2021)
Sep 06, 2021
Emilie Hafner-Burton, “Improving Human Rights” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 03, 2021
Tímea Drinóczi and Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, "Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary" (Routledge, 2021)
Sep 03, 2021
Herbert M. Kritzer, "Judicial Selection in the States: Politics and the Struggle for Reform" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 02, 2021
Judith Levine and Erica Meiners, "The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence" (Verso, 2020)
Sep 01, 2021
Mara Buchbinder, "Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America" (U California Press, 2021)
Aug 31, 2021
Donald A. Barr, "Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Aug 30, 2021
Gregory Bourke, "Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
Aug 27, 2021
Gary Shiffman, "The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 25, 2021
Ken Starr, "Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty" (Encounter, 2021)
Aug 23, 2021
Rebecca Hamlin, "Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Aug 23, 2021
Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
Amy J. Rutenberg, "Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Aug 18, 2021
Justin Marceau, "Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 18, 2021
Charles Foster, “Defined By Relationship” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021
Camillia Kong, "Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 16, 2021
Samantha Barbas, "The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Aug 13, 2021
Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, "Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement" (Post Hill Press, 2021)
Aug 13, 2021
Nita Farahany, “Neurolaw” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 12, 2021
Megan Goodwin, "Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Aug 09, 2021
Benjamin T. Smith, "The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
Aug 06, 2021
Radhika Vivas Mongia, "Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State" (Duke UP, 2018)
Aug 05, 2021
Kanika Batra, "Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 05, 2021
John Dunn, “Democracy: Clarifying the Muddle” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 04, 2021
Shelby Grossman, "The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: How the State Shapes Private Governance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Aug 04, 2021
Leo Casey, "The Teacher Insurgency: A Strategic and Organizing Perspective" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)
Aug 04, 2021
Frans-Willem Korsten, "Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
Aug 04, 2021
Sarah Hepola on Drinking in a "Dry" Texas County
Aug 03, 2021
Lani Watson, "The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 02, 2021
Stephen Skowronek et al., "Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021
Francis Wade, "Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'" (Zed Books, 2017)
Jul 28, 2021
Linda Colley, “Constitutional Investigations” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 27, 2021
Moshe Halbertal, "Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 27, 2021
Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck, "Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 26, 2021
Meena Bose and Andrew Rudalevige, "Executive Policymaking: The Role of the OMB in the Presidency" (Brookings, 2020)
Jul 22, 2021
David Scott, "For Abolition: Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics" (Waterside Press, 2020)
Jul 20, 2021
Yujie Zhu and Christina Maags, "Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 20, 2021
Megan D. McFarlane, "Militarized Maternity: Experiencing Pregnancy in the U. S. Armed Forces" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 19, 2021
Mallory E. SoRelle, "Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jul 19, 2021
China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers
Jul 16, 2021
Violence, Gender, and Policing in Colombia: In Conversation with Dr. Jon Gordon
Jul 16, 2021
Ken Ellingwood, "First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
Jul 16, 2021
Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2021
Benjamin Allen Coates, "Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 15, 2021
William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021)
Jul 13, 2021
Nafiseh Ghafournia, "Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence" (Melbourne UP, 2019)
Jul 09, 2021
Christian Lund, "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jul 09, 2021
Stefan Vogler, "Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 07, 2021
Erin R. Pineda, "Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 07, 2021
Rahul Rao, "Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 06, 2021
Elizabeth Hinton, "America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since The 1960s" (Liveright, 2021)
Jul 06, 2021
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 06, 2021
Allison Alexy, "Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jul 02, 2021
Heather Douglas, "Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
Sinja Graf, "The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
Chandran Kukathas, "Immigration and Freedom" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
Spencer W. McBride, "Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
J. Laite, "Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)
Jun 30, 2021
Hélène Landemore, "Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 28, 2021
Giovanni Mantilla, "Lawmaking Under Pressure: International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jun 25, 2021
Josephine Donovan, "The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Jun 25, 2021
Michael W. McConnell, "The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2021
Alec Karakatsanis, "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System" (New Press, 2019)
Jun 23, 2021
No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?
Jun 22, 2021
Natalie West and Tina Horn, "We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival" (Feminist Press, 2021)
Jun 21, 2021
Patricia Somers and Matt Valentine, "Campus Carry: Confronting a Loaded Issue in Higher Education" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021
Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs, "From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 18, 2021
Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr, "A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
Jun 16, 2021
David Arditi, "Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Jun 16, 2021
Javier Guerrero C., "Narcosubmarines: Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs" (Palgrave, 2020)
Jun 15, 2021
Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux, "Challenging Choices: Canada's Population Control in the 1970s" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Jun 15, 2021
Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jun 14, 2021
Martin Halliwell, "American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
Jun 11, 2021
Amaka Okechukwu, "To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jun 11, 2021
C. Kong and A. Ruck Keene, "Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005" (Jessica Kingsley, 2018)
Jun 10, 2021
David Skarbek, "The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 09, 2021
George Klosko, "Why Should We Obey the Law?" (Polity Press, 2018)
Jun 09, 2021
George Szmukler, "Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jun 09, 2021
Hannah Jones, "Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control" (Zed Books, 2021)
Jun 07, 2021
Fei-Hsien Wang, "Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Jun 07, 2021
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jun 04, 2021
Samy Ayoub, "Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Hanafi Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 04, 2021
Maneesha Deckha, "Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Jun 04, 2021
Nate Holdren, "Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 03, 2021
Suzanne M. Hall, "The Migrant's Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Nelson Johnson, "Darrow's Nightmare: The Forgotten Story of America's Most Famous Trial Lawyer" (Rosetta Books, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Eva Rosen, "The Voucher Promise: 'Section 8' and the Fate of an American Neighborhood" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 02, 2021
Geoff Lindsay and Wayne Hudson, "Australian Jurists and Christianity" (Federation Press, 2020)
Jun 01, 2021
Gregg D. Caruso, "Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 01, 2021
Julia Laite, "The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice" (Profile Books, 2021)
May 31, 2021
Katarzyna Person, "Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation" (Cornell UP, 2021)
May 28, 2021
Pirates of the South China Sea: A Brief Introduction to Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia with Professor Justin Hastings
May 27, 2021
Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)
May 26, 2021
Tom Barker, "Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
May 26, 2021
Alex Wellerstein, "Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
May 24, 2021
Jessica Ordaz, "The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity" (UNC Press, 2021)
May 24, 2021
Ned Richardson-Little, "The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 21, 2021
Michelle Schwarze, "Recognizing Resentment: Sympathy, Injustice, and Liberal Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 20, 2021
Erin Stewart, "The Missing Among Us: Stories of Missing Persons and Those Left Behind" (NewSouth, 2020)
May 19, 2021
Joseph McQuade, "A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 19, 2021
Matthew Clair, "Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court" (Princeton UP, 2020)
May 18, 2021
David R. Boyd, "The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World" (ECW Press, 2017)
May 18, 2021
A. Dirk Moses, "The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
May 14, 2021
Cristina Beltrán, "Cruelty As Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
May 13, 2021
Andrew T. Walker, "Liberty for All: Defending Everyone's Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age" (Brazos Press, 2021)
May 13, 2021
Lisa Waddington and Anna Lawson, "The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Practice" (Oxford UP, 2018)
May 12, 2021
Poulami Roychowdhury, "Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 11, 2021
David Alan Sklansky, "A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What it Means for Justice" (Harvard UP, 2020)
May 07, 2021
Jillian C. York, "Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism" (Verso Book, 2021)
May 06, 2021
Rustamjon Urinboyev, "Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia," (U California Press, 2020)
May 04, 2021
Richard Brookhiser, "Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea" (Basic Books, 2019)
May 04, 2021
Jennifer Lackey, "The Epistemology of Groups" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 03, 2021
Bradford Pearson, "The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration and Resistance in World War II America" (Atria, 2021)
May 03, 2021
Katie Cruz, "The Work of Sex Work: Prostitution, Unfreedom and Criminality at Work" (2020)
Apr 30, 2021
Henry Reynolds, "Truth Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement" (NewSouth, 2021)
Apr 30, 2021
Susan Ware, "American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote, 1776-1965" (Library of America, 2020)
Apr 28, 2021
Terri E. Givens, "Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 22, 2021
Lorna N. Bracewell, "Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Apr 21, 2021
Joseph P. Laycock, "Speak of the Devil: How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 20, 2021
Postscript: Biden's First 100 Days
Apr 19, 2021
Y. Yvon Wang, "Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Apr 16, 2021
Allison B. Wolf, "Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Apr 13, 2021
Karen Petrou, "Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America" (Wiley, 2021)
Apr 13, 2021
Alexandra Kemmerer, "Human Dignity in Context" (Nomos/Hart, 2018)
Apr 12, 2021
Pedro Gustavo Teixeira, "The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market" (Hart, 2020)
Apr 12, 2021
Junaid Quadri, "Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 09, 2021
Michael Rosino, "Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and Media in the War on Drugs Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 09, 2021
Alison Mountz, "The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Apr 09, 2021
Rory Kress, "The Doggie in the Window: How One Dog Led Me from the Pet Store to the Factory Farm to Uncover the Truth of Where Puppies Really Come From" (Sourcebooks, 2018)
Apr 07, 2021
Stuart P. Green, "Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 07, 2021
Siobhán Hearne, "Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 07, 2021
Sasha Roseneil, "The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe." (UCL Press, 2020)
Apr 07, 2021
Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work
Apr 06, 2021
Thomas David Parker, "Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism" (World Scientific, 2019)
Apr 02, 2021
Thomas C. Holt, "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 01, 2021
Luke Russell, "Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
Daniel C. Mattingly, "The Art of Political Control in China" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Apr 01, 2021
Stephen Snelders, "Drug Smuggler Nation: Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920-95" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Mar 31, 2021
Stuart Rees, "Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities" (Policy Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2021
Saher Selod, "Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Mar 29, 2021
Karen Woods Weierman, "The Case of the Slave-Child, Med: Free Soil in Antislavery Boston" (U Massachusetts Press, 2019)
Mar 26, 2021
Chuck Collins, "The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions" (Polity, 2021)
Mar 26, 2021
Sean R. Roberts, "The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 24, 2021
Aaron Griffith, "God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Mar 19, 2021
Courtney E. Thompson, "An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 19, 2021
Police Reform in Argentina: A Discussion with Leslie MacColman
Mar 17, 2021
Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mar 15, 2021
Antonio Gasparetto Júnior, "Atmósfera de plomo: las declaraciones de estado de sitio en la Primera República Brasileña" (Tirant lo Blanch, 2019)
Mar 15, 2021
Liat Ben-Moshe, "Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Mar 12, 2021
Edward A. David, "A Christian Approach to Corporate Religious Theory" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Mar 12, 2021
Jonathan Herring, "Law and the Relational Self" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Mar 11, 2021
Monica D. Fitzgerald, "Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 11, 2021
Annika Smethurst, "On Secrets" (Hachette, 2020)
Mar 10, 2021
Transitional Justice with Colleen Murphy
Mar 09, 2021
Melissa Moschella, "To Whom Do Children Belong?: Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children's Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Mar 09, 2021
Democracy, Protest, and Progress with Melvin Rogers
Mar 02, 2021
Duncan McCargo, "Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Mar 01, 2021
Ronald J. Deibert, "Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society" (House of Anansi, 2020)
Feb 26, 2021
Enrico Bonadio, "Protecting Art in the Street: A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti" (Dokument Forlag, 2020)
Feb 25, 2021
A. Hollis-Brusky and J. C. Wilson. "Separate But Faithful: The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 22, 2021
Signe Rehling Larsen, "The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union" ((Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 19, 2021
Kenneth V. Faunce, "Heavy Traffic: The Global Drug Trade in Historical Perspective" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 2021
Christopher T. Fleming, "Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 17, 2021
Henry T. Greely, "CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans" (The MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 15, 2021
M. Haentjens and P. De Gioia-Carabellese, "European Banking and Financial Law" (Routledge, 2020)
Feb 12, 2021
Michael R. Auslin, "Asia's New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" (Hoover Institution Press, 2020)
Feb 08, 2021
Thomas P. Crocker, "Overcoming Necessity: Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
Feb 01, 2021
James E. Baker, "The Centaur's Dilemma: US National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution" (Brookings, 2020)
Jan 28, 2021
GerShun Avilez, "Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Jan 26, 2021
A. Pohlman et al., "The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 25, 2021
Emmanuel Kreike, "Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jan 25, 2021
Lara M. Brown, "Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership" (Routledge, 2020)
Jan 21, 2021
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang, "Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jan 18, 2021
Matthew McManus, "A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights" (Palgrave, 2020)
Jan 15, 2021
Chris Hamby, "Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice" (Little Brown, 2020)
Jan 14, 2021
K. Mistry and H. Gurman, "Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jan 13, 2021
Christoph Menke, "Critique of Rights" (Polity, 2019)
Jan 13, 2021
Virginia Torrie, "Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Jan 11, 2021
Daniel Horowitz, "Entertaining Entrepreneurs: Reality TV's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jan 08, 2021
Ilya Shapiro, "Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court" (Gateway, 2020)
Jan 06, 2021
Vernon Bogdanor, "Britain and Europe in a Troubled World" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jan 06, 2021
Michael Kagan, "The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line" (U of Nevada Press, 2020)
Jan 04, 2021
Ryan T. Anderson, "What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense" (Encounter Books, 2020)
Dec 30, 2020
Simon J. Gilhooley, "The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 28, 2020
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, "After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency" (Lawfair Press, 2020)
Dec 24, 2020
Joseph David, "Kinship, Law and Politics: An Anatomy of Belonging" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 23, 2020
How To Use Your First Amendment Rights On Campus (and Off)
Dec 17, 2020
Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 16, 2020
Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2020
Kimberley Brownlee, "Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 11, 2020
Mithu Sanyal, "Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo" (Verso, 2019)
Dec 11, 2020
O. Carter Snead, "What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Dec 09, 2020
Ashley E. Lucas, "Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Dec 08, 2020
Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 04, 2020
E. Chemerinsky and H. Gillman, "The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 04, 2020
Anjali Vats, "The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Dec 01, 2020
Jinee Lokaneeta, "The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020
Kaius Tuori, "Empire of Law: Nazi Germany, Exile Scholars and the Battle for the Future of Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020
Tabassum Fahim Ruby, "Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 27, 2020
Judith Brett, "From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting" (Text Publishing, 2019)
Nov 25, 2020
Paulina O. Espejo, "On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Nov 20, 2020
Nicholas Guyatt, "Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation" (Basic Books, 2016)
Nov 20, 2020
Michael C. Davis, "Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Nov 19, 2020
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, "Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020
S. F. C. Daly, "A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020
Katja M. Guenther, "The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020
Ido Hartogsohn, "American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century" (MIT Press, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020
Lindsay Farmer, "Making the Modern Criminal Law: Criminalization and Civil Order" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Nov 12, 2020
Laura DeNardis, "The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 11, 2020
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020)
Nov 10, 2020
R. H. Helmholz, "Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice" (Harvard UP, 2015)
Nov 09, 2020
John Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas" (U of South Carolina Press, 2020)
Nov 05, 2020
Tera W. Hunter, "Bound In Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 05, 2020
Erica Marat, "The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Nov 05, 2020
Paolo Astorri, "Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720)" (Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh, 2019)
Nov 02, 2020
Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates" (U California Press, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020
Eddie Cole, "The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020
F. H. Buckley, "American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Break-Up" (Encounter Books, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020
Thomas Abt, "Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence" (Basic Books, 2019)
Oct 29, 2020
John Yoo, "Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power" (All Points Book, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020
William L. Saunders, "Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases Under Scrutiny" (Peter Lang, 2019)
Oct 27, 2020
Richard L. Hasen, "Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy" (Yale UP, 2020)
Oct 21, 2020
Melissa Crouch, "The Constitution of Myanmar: A Contextual Analysis" (Hart, 2019)
Oct 20, 2020
Charles L. Zelden, "Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Growing Crisis in American Democracy" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
Oct 16, 2020
C. Chan and F. de Londras, "China’s National Security: Endangering Hong Kong’s Rule of Law?" (Hart, 2020)
Oct 15, 2020
Joseph E. David, "Kinship, Law and Politics: An Anatomy of Belonging" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Oct 14, 2020
A. B. Cox and C. M. Rodríguez, "The President and Immigration Law" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 14, 2020
Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 13, 2020
Julie Hardwick, "Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 13, 2020
Mira L. Siegelberg, "Statelessness: A Modern History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2020
Chris Lombardi, "I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters and Objectors to America’s Wars" (The New Press, 2020)
Oct 09, 2020
Hannah L. Walker, "Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation, and Race" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 08, 2020
John Loughlin, "Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Oct 06, 2020
Chris Fenton, "Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, and American Business" (Post Hill Press, 2020)
Oct 05, 2020
Serena Parekh, "No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 01, 2020
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020
Jennifer Cobbina, "Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America" (NYU Press, 2019)
Sep 24, 2020
Annelien de Dijn, "Freedom: An Unruly History" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 23, 2020
Katherine M. Young, "How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Sep 22, 2020
Zuraidah Ibrahim, "Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year of Water and Fire" (World Scientific, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020
Christopher Robertson, "Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance is Incomplete and What can be Done About" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Sep 21, 2020
Christopher Marquis, "Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020
Debjani Bhattacharyya, "Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Sep 21, 2020
Jonathan Robinson, "Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives" (Brill, 2020)
Sep 18, 2020
Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Sep 17, 2020
Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 16, 2020
Kathryn Sikkink, "The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities" (Yale UP, 2020)
Sep 16, 2020
Edward C. Valandra, "Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities" (Living Justice Press, 2020)
Sep 11, 2020
Alexander Kaye, "The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 09, 2020
Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism" (Verso, 2019)
Sep 08, 2020
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, "Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)
Sep 08, 2020
Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Sep 07, 2020
J. Herbst and S. Lovegrove, "Brexit And Financial Regulation" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 04, 2020
Sara Mayeux, "Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2020)
Sep 01, 2020
Matthew D. Wright, "A Vindication of Politics: On the Common Good and Human Flourishing" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Sep 01, 2020
Oumar Ba, "States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Aug 26, 2020
Renisa Mawani, "Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)
Aug 24, 2020
Philip Thai, "China's War on Smuggling: Law, Illicit Markets, and State Power on the China Coast" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Aug 24, 2020
Colin Rose, "A Renaissance of Violence: Homicide in Early Modern Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 18, 2020
Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 18, 2020
Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Aug 17, 2020
Ting Zhang, "Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Aug 14, 2020
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf, "The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace" (All Point Books, 2020)
Aug 06, 2020
Nathan Carlin, "Pastoral Aesthetics: A Theological Perspective on Principlist Bioethics" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aug 05, 2020
Michael A. Olivas, "Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA" (NYU Press, 2020)
Aug 03, 2020
Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration" (U California Press, 2020)
Jul 31, 2020
Poul Kjaer, "The Law of Political Economy: Transformation in the Function of Law" (Cambridge UP, 2020
Jul 31, 2020
David A. Harris, "A City Divided: Race, Fear and the Law in Police Confrontations" (Anthem Press, 2020)
Jul 30, 2020
Nadine El-Enany, "Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2020
Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of International Law in The Americas: Empires and Legal Networks" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Jul 30, 2020
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, "The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jul 30, 2020
Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 29, 2020
M. C. Stevenson et al. (eds.), "The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law and Public Policy" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 28, 2020
Jan Doering, "Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 28, 2020
Mary Kathryn Nagle, "Sovereignty" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
Jul 28, 2020
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, "Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Jul 27, 2020
R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court (NYU Press, 2020)
Jul 27, 2020
Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jul 24, 2020
Laurie M. Wood, "Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020
Andrew S. Baer, "Beyond the Usual Beating" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020
Tamar Herzog, "A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jul 22, 2020
Giulia Bonazza, "Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States 1750–1850" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Jul 21, 2020
Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism Under the Law" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jul 20, 2020
Andreas Fulda, "The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong" (Routledge, 2020)
Jul 17, 2020
Jeremy Gans, "The Ouija Board Jurors: Mystery, Mischief and Misery in the Jury System" (Waterside Press, 2017)
Jul 15, 2020
Francine Hirsch, "Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 09, 2020
Richard Gergel, "Unexampled Courage" (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)
Jul 08, 2020
Adam Goodman, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 29, 2020
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Jun 29, 2020
Regina M. Paulose, "People’s Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law" (Routledge, 2020)
Jun 26, 2020
A. de la Fuente and A. J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020
Robert T. Chase, "We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners’ Rights in Postwar America" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020
Laura A. Dean, "Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia" (Policy Press, 2020)
Jun 23, 2020
Gabriel Finder, "Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Jun 22, 2020
Ken O. Opalo, "Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2020
Minou Arjomand, "Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jun 18, 2020
Micol Seigel, "Violence Work: State Violence and the Limits of Police" (Duke UP, 2018)
Jun 17, 2020
Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights After the First World" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jun 15, 2020
Robert C. McGreevey, "Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Jun 15, 2020
Robert Nichols, "Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jun 15, 2020
Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jun 15, 2020
Kathleen Hale and Mitchell Brown, "How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections" (Georgetown UP, 2020)
Jun 12, 2020
Jennifer Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 10, 2020
A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair? Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Jun 10, 2020
Daniel Q. Gillion, "The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jun 09, 2020
Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jun 04, 2020
Arlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Relations of Criminal Responsibility" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 03, 2020
Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam, "Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
Jun 03, 2020
Javier Semper Vendrell, "The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
Jun 03, 2020
Bharat Malkani, "Slavery and the Death Penalty: A Study in Abolition" (Routledge, 2018)
Jun 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jun 01, 2020
Jane Gordon, "Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement" (Routledge, 2019)
May 28, 2020
Carl Suddler, "Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York" (NYU Press, 2019)
May 28, 2020
Mary Fraser, "Policing the Home Front, 1914-1918: The Control of the British Population at War" (Routledge, 2018)
May 26, 2020
Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna, "Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society" (Routledge, 2019)
May 26, 2020
Adam M. Sowards, "An Open Pit Visible from the Moon" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
May 21, 2020
Yaacov Yadgar, "Israel’s Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 21, 2020
Paul Matzko, "The Radio Right" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 20, 2020
Toshihiro Higuchi, "Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis" (Stanford UP, 2020)
May 20, 2020
Brandon K. Winford, "John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights" (UP Kentucky, 2019)
May 19, 2020
Jia Lynn Yang, "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965" (Norton, 2020)
May 14, 2020
Randy E. Barnett, "An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know" (Wolters Kluwer, 2019)
May 12, 2020
Sonali Chakravarti, "Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
May 11, 2020
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) )
May 11, 2020
Victor Uribe-Urán, "Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic" (Stanford UP, 2016)
May 08, 2020
Antony Dapiran, "City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong" (Scribe, 2020)
May 07, 2020
What Laws Lie in the Shadow of the Acquittal?
May 06, 2020
Mallika Kaur, "Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict: The Wheat Fields Still Whisper" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
May 05, 2020
Julia Stephens, “Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
May 01, 2020
Jyoti Puri, "Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India" (Duke UP, 2016)
May 01, 2020
Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal" (Rowland and Littlefield, 2020)
Apr 30, 2020
Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life" (U California Press, 2020)
Apr 30, 2020
Paul M. Renfro, "Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 30, 2020
María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Apr 30, 2020
Lee Vinsel, "Moving Violations: Automobiles, Experts, and Regulations in the United States" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Apr 30, 2020
Jathan Sadowski, "Too Smart" (MIT Press, 2020)
Apr 29, 2020
Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety" (Policy Press, 2018)
Apr 29, 2020
Alex Jeffrey, "The Edge of Law: Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 29, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Great Books: Melissa Schwartzberg on Rousseau's "The Social Contract"
Apr 28, 2020
Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell, "Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Apr 27, 2020
Magda Teter, "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Apr 23, 2020
Pauline Shanks Kaurin, "On Obedience: Contrasting Philosophies for the Military, Citizenry, and Community" (Naval Institute Press, 2020)
Apr 22, 2020
David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland, "Learning From Franz L. Neumann" (Anthem Press, 2019)
Apr 22, 2020
Nicola Lacey, "In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Apr 20, 2020
K. Aronoff, et al., "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal" (Verso, 2019)
Apr 14, 2020
Maddalena Marinari, "Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965" (UNC Press, 2020)
Apr 14, 2020
Cassia Roth, "A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Apr 10, 2020
Katherine Franke, "Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
Apr 10, 2020
David G. Garcia, "Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality" (U California Press, 2018)
Apr 09, 2020
Emotions of a Defence Lawyer: Management Strategies and Role in the Construction of Justice
Apr 08, 2020
J. S. Hirsch and S. Khan, "Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus" (Norton, 2020)
Apr 06, 2020
Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Apr 06, 2020
Jon Piccini, "Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Apr 03, 2020
Katharina Pistor, "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Apr 02, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Mar 27, 2020
Maurice Finocchiaro, "On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 26, 2020
Edward E. Curtis IV, "Muslim American Politics and the Future of US Democracy" (NYU Press, 2019)
Mar 26, 2020
Ahmet T. Kuru, "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Mar 25, 2020
Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment" (U California Press, 2020)
Mar 24, 2020
Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Mar 20, 2020
Amy Reed-Sandoval, "Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 20, 2020
Spencer Dew, "The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Mar 20, 2020
Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She" (Liveright, 2020)
Mar 17, 2020
Benjamin Wittes, "Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office" (FSG, 2020)
Mar 16, 2020
Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2019)
Mar 12, 2020
Jacob Turner, "Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Mar 12, 2020
Sarah Burns, "The Politics of War Powers: The Theory and History of Presidential Unilateralism" (UP of Kansas, 2020)
Mar 09, 2020
Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 05, 2020
Steven D. Smith, "Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac" (Eerdmans, 2018)
Mar 05, 2020
Darryl Li, "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Mar 04, 2020
David J. Gunkel, "Robot Rights" (MIT Press, 2018)
Feb 27, 2020
Eva van Roekel, "Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Feb 26, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Feb 21, 2020
Sohaira Siddiqui, "Law and Politics Under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Feb 21, 2020
Steve Suitts, "Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement" (NewSouth Books, 2020)
Feb 21, 2020
Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" (St. Martin's, 2018)
Feb 20, 2020
Eric Lomazoff, "Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy: Politics and Law in the Early American Republic" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Feb 18, 2020
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, "Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018" (U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2019)
Feb 14, 2020
Ayelet Hoffman Libson, "Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Feb 12, 2020
Julie MacArthur, "Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion" (Ohio UP, 2017)
Feb 11, 2020
Jay Wexler, "Our Non-Christian Nation" (Redwood Press, 2019)
Feb 11, 2020
Jodie Adams Kirshner, "Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promise" (St. Martin's Press, 2019)
Feb 07, 2020
Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 06, 2020
David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, "Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America" (UC Press, 2020)
Feb 05, 2020
Michael Bobelian, "Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court" (Schaffner, 2019)
Feb 05, 2020
Russell A. Newman, "The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities" (MIT Press, 2019)
Feb 03, 2020
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam” (First Edition Design, 2017)
Jan 31, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Gregory P. Downs, "The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 29, 2020
Leah Stokes, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 28, 2020
Daniel Denvir, "All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It" (Verso, 2020)
Jan 27, 2020
James M. Banner, Jr., "Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today" (The New Press, 2019)
Jan 22, 2020
Jane H. Hong, "Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion" (UNC Press, 2019)
Jan 17, 2020
Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Positive Second Amendment: Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jan 10, 2020
Jenna Jordan, "Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jan 08, 2020
Leor Halevi, "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jan 07, 2020
Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing" (Stanford Law Books, 2017)
Jan 02, 2020
Andrew Israel Ross, "Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris" (Temple UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2019
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump" (NYU Press, 2019)
Dec 30, 2019
Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Hate Speech" (One Signal, 2019)
Dec 30, 2019
Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dec 23, 2019
Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South" (UNC Press, 2016)
Dec 20, 2019
Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary" (Haymarket Books, 2018)
Dec 18, 2019
G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 17, 2019
Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom" (Pegasus Books, 2019)
Dec 16, 2019
Stephen F. Knott, "The Lost Soul of the American Presidency" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Dec 13, 2019
Louis Hyman, "Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream became Temporary" (Viking, 2018)
Dec 13, 2019
Laura Cabrera, "Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Dec 12, 2019
William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Dec 09, 2019
Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public Interest: Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dec 09, 2019
David H. McIntyre, "How to Think about Homeland Security" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Dec 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
James Gordon Finlayson, "The Habermas-Rawls Debate" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Nov 22, 2019
Elizabeth Bernstein, "Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking and the Politics of Freedom" (U Chicago, 2018)
Nov 21, 2019
Michael Romano and Todd Curry, "Creating the Law: State Supreme Court Opinions and The Effect of Audiences" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 19, 2019
David McCraw, "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts" (All Points Books, 2019)
Nov 18, 2019
Mary Anne Franks, “The Cult of the Constitution” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Nov 13, 2019
William P. Hustwit, "Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education" (UNC Press, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019
S. Deborah Kang, "The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Nov 11, 2019
Alexander L. Hinton, "Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer" (Duke UP, 2016)
Nov 04, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 01, 2019
Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Nov 01, 2019
W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Oct 30, 2019
Amy Carney, "Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS" (Toronto UP, 2018)
Oct 25, 2019
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Saul Cornell, "The Partisan Republic: Democracy, Exclusion, and the Fall of the Founders’ Constitution, 1780s-1830s" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 23, 2019
Vladimir Dzuro, "The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Oct 22, 2019
Steven White, "World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency, and Civil Rights Advocacy" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 18, 2019
Rita Kesselring, "Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa" (Stanford UP, 2017)
Oct 17, 2019
Farhat Haq, "Shariʿa and the State in Pakistan: Blasphemy Politics" (Routledge, 2019)
Oct 16, 2019
Richard Bell, "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
Oct 16, 2019
David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 16, 2019
Eric D. Weitz, "A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Oct 15, 2019
Joshua Tallis, "The War for Muddy Waters: Pirates, Terrorists, Traffickers, and Maritime Security" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
Oct 15, 2019
Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs” (McGill-Queens UP, 2018)
Oct 11, 2019
Matthew Hitt, "Inconsistency and Indecision in the United States Supreme Court" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Oct 10, 2019
Candy Gunther Brown, "Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?" (UNC Press, 2019)
Sep 26, 2019
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, "Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Sep 24, 2019
Melissa E. Sanchez, "Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition" (NYU Press, 2019)
Sep 19, 2019
Michael F. Conlin, "The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Sep 17, 2019
Amanda L. Tyler, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 09, 2019
Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Sep 05, 2019
Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Sep 05, 2019
Hendrik Hartog, "The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North" (UNC Press, 2018)
Sep 05, 2019
Bianca Premo, "The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 02, 2019
Emily Dufton, "Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America" (Basic Books, 2017)
Aug 30, 2019
Simon Balto, "Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago From Red Summer to Black Power" (UNC Press, 2019)
Aug 22, 2019
Paul Finkelman, "Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 19, 2019
Kevin M. Baron, "Presidential Privilege and the Freedom of Information Act" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)
Aug 14, 2019
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, "Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic" (NYU Press, 2019)
Aug 12, 2019
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Aug 09, 2019
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, "Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America" (Princeton UP, 2017)
Aug 07, 2019
Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Aug 05, 2019
Sarah Seo, "Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Aug 01, 2019
Cynthia Nicoletti, "Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Jul 31, 2019
Cynthia Nicoletti, "Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Jul 31, 2019
Jessica Lowe, "Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jul 29, 2019
Sam Erman, "Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 25, 2019
Anne Twitty, "Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Jul 23, 2019
Kimberly Welch, "Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South" (UNC Press, 2018)
Jul 18, 2019
Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Jul 17, 2019
Brian Haara, "Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America" (Potomac Books, 2015)
Jul 17, 2019
Marc Stein, "Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe" (UNC Press, 2013)
Jul 12, 2019
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jul 10, 2019
Jonathan Gienapp, "The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 10, 2019
Yuko Miki, "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 05, 2019
Camisha Russell, "The Assisted Reproduction of Race" (Indiana UP, 2018)
Jun 20, 2019
Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and the Entente: The First World War in the Syrian and Lebanese Diaspora, 1908-1925" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2019
Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jun 19, 2019
Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico" (U California Press, 2019)
Jun 18, 2019
Kara Ritzheimer, "'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Jun 18, 2019
Ben Merriman, "Conservative Innovators: How States Are Challenging Federal Power" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jun 14, 2019
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jun 11, 2019
Mark Galeotti, “The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia” (Yale UP, 2018)
Jun 10, 2019
Ian Saxine, "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (NYU Press, 2019)
Jun 06, 2019
Demetra Kasimis, "The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jun 03, 2019
Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 31, 2019
Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Prevention" (RAND Corporation, 2019)
May 30, 2019
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 27, 2019
J. Dyck and E. Lascher, "Initiatives without Engagement: A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
May 17, 2019
Diane Tober, "Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Biopolitics and the Making of Modern Families" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
May 15, 2019
Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 08, 2019
Carrie Baker, "Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
May 08, 2019
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
May 06, 2019
Jonathan Marks, "The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 02, 2019
Mollie Gerver, "The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation" (U Edinburgh Press, 2018)
May 01, 2019
Abraham A. Singer, "The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Apr 30, 2019
Chip Colwell, "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Apr 19, 2019
Jill Stauffer, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard" (Columbia UP, 2015)
Apr 19, 2019
Max Felker-Kantor, "Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD" (UNC Press, 2018)
Apr 09, 2019
Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Apr 09, 2019
Michael A. Schoeppner, "Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Apr 04, 2019
Controversial Ideas and “No Platforming” with Jeff McMahan
Mar 26, 2019
Steve Luxenberg, "Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation" (Norton, 2019)
Mar 22, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Richa Kaul Padte, "Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Pornography" (Penguin Viking, 2018)
Mar 19, 2019
Andrew T. Fede, "Homicide Justified: The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and Atlantic World" (U Georgia Press, 2017)
Mar 18, 2019
Democratic Faith and Social Change with Eddie Glaude, Jr.
Mar 12, 2019
Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 11, 2019
Trent MacNamara, "Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 04, 2019
Jocelyn M. Boryczka, "Suspect Citizens: Women, Virtue, and Vice in Backlash Politics" (Temple UP, 2012)
Feb 27, 2019
Religious and Political Identities with Michele F. Margolis
Feb 19, 2019
Duncan Williams, “American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War” (Harvard UP, 2019
Feb 18, 2019
David Ray Papke, "Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor" (Michigan State UP, 2019)
Feb 15, 2019
Debra Thompson, "The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Feb 12, 2019
The Constitution as a Public Ethos with Corey Brettschneider
Feb 05, 2019
Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 04, 2019
Leigh Goodmark, "Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence" (U California Press, 2018)
Feb 04, 2019
Zeb Tortorici, "Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain" (Duke UP, 2018)
Feb 01, 2019
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Jan 25, 2019
Hidetaka Hirota, "Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2018) 
Jan 23, 2019
Clarence Taylor, "Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City" (NYU Press, 2018)
Jan 18, 2019
Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs" (U California Press, 2018)
Jan 17, 2019
John Witte, Jr., "The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jan 15, 2019
William D. Green, "The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Jan 08, 2019
Helena Rosenblatt, "The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jan 04, 2019
Peter Hart-Brinson, "The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture" (NYU Press, 2018)
Dec 27, 2018
Daniel Stahl, "Hunt for Nazis: South America's Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes" (Amsterdam UP, 2018)
Dec 26, 2018
Ayça Çubukçu, "For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Dec 19, 2018
Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Dec 12, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Adam Malka, "The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation" (UNC Press, 2018)
Dec 04, 2018
Jennifer Altehenger, "Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1989" (Harvard U Asia Center, 2018)
Dec 04, 2018
Shobita Parthasarathy, “Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Nov 21, 2018
Yael Ben-zvi, “Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories” (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
Nov 15, 2018
Mike Ananny, “Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures For a Public Right to Hear” (MIT Press, 2018)
Nov 05, 2018
J. Obert, A. Poe, A. Sarat, eds., “The Lives of Guns” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Nov 01, 2018
Nathan K. Finney and Tyrell O. Mayfield, “Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics” (Naval Institute Press, 2018)
Oct 31, 2018
Jeffrey D. Sachs, “A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Oct 10, 2018
Deborah Jaramillo, “The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry” (U Texas Press, 2018)
Oct 09, 2018
K. Dittmar, K. Sanbonmatsu, and S. Carroll, “A Seat at the Table: Congresswomen’s Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Oct 08, 2018
Daniel E. Ponder, “Presidential Leverage: Presidents, Approval, and the American State” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Oct 04, 2018
Candice Delmas, “A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Oct 01, 2018
B. P. Owensby and  R. J. Ross, “Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America” (NYU Press, 2018)
Sep 28, 2018
Mary Fulbrook, “Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Sep 27, 2018
Svetlana Stephenson, “Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Sep 26, 2018
Sarah E. Holcombe, “Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Sep 26, 2018
Ken Ilguas, “This Land is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back” (Plume, 2018)
Sep 25, 2018
Jonathan W. White, “Lincoln on Law, Leadership, and Life” (Cumberland House, 2015)
Sep 13, 2018
Lev Weitz, “Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Sep 04, 2018
Samuel Moyn, “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Sep 04, 2018
Sarah E. Igo, “The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Aug 28, 2018
Philip Thai, “China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Aug 21, 2018
Gary Fields, “Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror” (U California Press, 2017)
Aug 16, 2018
Ron Fein, “The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump” (Melville House, 2018)
Aug 15, 2018
Thomas Mulligan, “Justice and the Meritocratic State” (Routledge Press, 2018)
Aug 13, 2018
Heather Schoenfeld, “Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Aug 08, 2018
Allan Greer, “Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Aug 06, 2018
Katherine Benton-Cohen, “Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 30, 2018
Sarah Igo, “The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jul 25, 2018
William Kuby, “Conjugal Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United States” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 16, 2018
Stephen C. Yeazell, “Lawsuits in a Market Economy: The Evolution of Civil Litigation” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Jul 10, 2018
Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 04, 2018
Linda Ross Meyer, “Sentencing in Time” (Amherst College Press, 2017)
Jul 03, 2018
Martha S. Jones, “Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jul 02, 2018
Adam Tanner, “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records” (Beacon Press, 2017)
Jun 28, 2018
Rick Hasen, “The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption” (Yale UP, 2018)
Jun 25, 2018
Lauren-Brooke Eisen, “Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Jun 25, 2018
Ramon Harvey, “The Qur’an and the Just Society” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
Jun 25, 2018
Christopher W. Schmidt, “The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Jun 22, 2018
Victor Li, “Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House” (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2018)
Jun 20, 2018
Eric Miller, “The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States” (Lexington Books, 2017)
Jun 15, 2018
William A. Edmundson, “John Rawls: Reticent Socialist” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Jun 01, 2018
David Faris, “It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics” (Melville House, 2018)
May 30, 2018
Matthew R. Pembleton, “Containing Addiction: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America’s Global Drug Wars” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017
May 25, 2018
Epistemic Vice with Ian James Kidd
May 24, 2018
Jon D. Michaels, “Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic” (Harvard UP, 2017)
May 17, 2018
Paul Cartledge, “Democracy: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2016)
May 14, 2018
Sam Lebovic, “Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America” (Harvard UP, 2016)
May 10, 2018
Barry Wimpfheimer, “The Talmud: A Biography” (Princeton UP, 2018)
May 10, 2018
Stephen Riley, “Human Dignity and Law: Legal and Philosophical Investigations” (Routledge, 2018)
May 10, 2018
B.J. Mendelson, “Privacy: And How to Get It Back” (Curious Reads, 2017)
May 03, 2018
Christy Ford Chapin, “Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
May 02, 2018
Emilie Lucchesi, “Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz-Age Chicago” (Chicago Review, 2017)
May 02, 2018
Pablo Piccato, “A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)
Apr 27, 2018
Greg Berman and Julian Adler, “Start Here: A Roadmap to Reducing Mass Incarceration” (The New Press, 2018)
Apr 23, 2018
Alexandra Cox, “Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Apr 16, 2018
Allison Varzally, “Children of Reunion: Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations” (UNC Press, 2017)
Apr 13, 2018
Sharla Fett, “Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade” (UNC Press, 2017)
Apr 12, 2018
Jonathan Daly, “Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin” (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Apr 10, 2018
R. Shep Melnick, “The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education” (Brookings Institution Press, 2018)
Apr 10, 2018
Jimmy Patino, “Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego” (UNC Press, 2017)
Apr 05, 2018
Fahad Bishara, “A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Apr 03, 2018
Mikaela M. Adams, “Who Belongs?: Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South” (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Apr 03, 2018
Deondra Rose, “Citizens by Degree: Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Mar 26, 2018
Laurie Marhoefer, “Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis” (U Toronto Press, 2015)
Mar 19, 2018
Jesse Rhodes, “Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Mar 19, 2018
Kali Nicole Gross, “Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Mar 13, 2018
Nic Cheeseman, “Institutions and Democracy in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 12, 2018
Policing and Political Division with Alex Vitale
Mar 08, 2018
Sida Liu and Terence C. Halliday, “Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Mar 06, 2018
Dan Healey, “Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Mar 06, 2018
Taisu Zhang, “The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship Property in Preindustrial China and England” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 27, 2018
Daphna Hacker, “Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Feb 23, 2018
Douglas Kriner and Eric Schickler, “Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Feb 21, 2018
Katrina Jagodinsky, “Legal Codes and Talking Trees” (Yale UP, 2016)
Feb 21, 2018
Richard D. Brown, “Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War” (Yale UP, 2017)
Feb 13, 2018
Leon Wiener Dow, “The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
Feb 09, 2018
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, “Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War” (UNC Press, 2016)
Jan 29, 2018
Public Debate and Respectful Engagement with John Corvino
Jan 25, 2018
Stephen G. Craft, “American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy” (Kentucky UP, 2017)
Jan 18, 2018
Constitutional Reform in Iceland with Jon Olafsson
Jan 11, 2018
Seth Barrett Tillman on the Foreign Emoluments Clause and President Trump
Jan 10, 2018
Stewart Patrick, “The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World” (Brookings Institution Press, 2017)
Jan 08, 2018
David J. Carlson, “Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature” (U of Oklahoma Press, 2016)
Jan 05, 2018
Mark Fenster, “The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Dec 30, 2017
Testimony and Anonymity with Sandy Goldberg
Dec 28, 2017
Frank Baumgartner, et al., “Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 22, 2017
Samantha Lomb, “Stalin’s Constitution” (Routledge, 2017)
Dec 21, 2017
Forrest Nabors, “From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction” (U. Missouri Press, 2017)
Dec 13, 2017
Steven P. Remy, “The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 13, 2017
Colleen Murphy, “The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Dec 11, 2017
Stephen F. Williams, “The Reformer: How One Liberal Fought to Preempt the Russian Revolution” (Encounter Books, 2017)
Nov 30, 2017
Lawrence R. Douglas, “The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Nov 27, 2017
Melissa Milewski, “Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to the Civil Rights Era” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Nov 24, 2017
Keith Richotte Jr., “Claiming Turtle Mountain’s Constitution: The History, Legacy, and Future of a Tribal Nation’s Founding Documents,” (UNC Press, 2017)
Nov 20, 2017
Stephanie Hinnershitz, “A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South” (UNC Press, 2017)
Nov 14, 2017
Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)
Nov 13, 2017
Sandra F. Sperino and Suja A. Thomas, “Unequal: How American Courts Undermine Discrimination Law” (Oxford University Press, 2017
Nov 06, 2017
Claire Higgins, “Asylum by Boat: Origins of Australia’s Refugee Policy” (New South Press, 2017)
Nov 03, 2017
Free Speech and Free Thinking with Seana Shiffrin
Oct 19, 2017
James Forman Jr., “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017)
Oct 17, 2017
Mairaj Syed, “Coercion and Responsibility in Islam: A Study in Ethics and Law” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Sep 19, 2017
Tracy A. Thomas, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law” (NYU Press, 2016)
Sep 06, 2017
Carwyn Jones, “New Treaty, New Tradition: Reconciling New Zealand and Maori Law” (U. British Columbia Press, 2016)
Sep 01, 2017
Johanna Neuman, “Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote” (NYU Press, 2017)
Aug 29, 2017
Patricia Sloane-White, “Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 29, 2017
Mengia Hong Tschalaer, “Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 27, 2017
Daniel Bennett, “Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement” (U. Press of Kansas, 2017)
Aug 21, 2017
Timothy LaPira, “Revolving Door Lobbying: Public Service, Private Influence, and the Unequal Representation of Interests” (U Press of Kansas, 2017)
Aug 14, 2017
Riki Wilchins, “TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media, and Congress…and Won!” (Riverdale Avenue Books, 2017)
Jul 26, 2017
Jon Kukla, “Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
Jul 24, 2017
Sarah Eltantawi, “Shari’ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria’s Islamic Revolution” (U. California Press, 2017)
Jul 12, 2017
William Davenport Mercer, “Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2017)
Jul 06, 2017
David R. Mayhew, “The Imprint of Congress” (Yale UP, 2017)
Jul 03, 2017
Sverre Molland, “The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong” (U. Hawaii Press, 2012)
Jun 30, 2017
Josh Chafetz, “Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers” (Yale UP, 2017).
Jun 19, 2017
Mary E. Adkins, “Making Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New State Constitution” (University Press of Florida, 2016)
May 31, 2017
Ryan Alford, “Permanent State of Emergency: Unchecked Executive Power and the Demise of the Rule of Law” (McGill Queens UP, 2017)
May 27, 2017
Amy Ziettlow and Naomi Cahn, “Homeward Bound: Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss” (Oxford UP, 2017)
May 18, 2017
David Garland, “The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2016)
May 15, 2017
Susanna L. Blumenthal, “Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Apr 18, 2017
John Hudak, “Marijuana: A Short History” (Brookings, 2016)
Apr 15, 2017
Bert Ingelaere, “Inside Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice After Genocide” (U. Wisconsin Press, 2016)
Apr 13, 2017
James Q. Whitman, “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Apr 12, 2017
Free Speech Matters with Robert George
Apr 05, 2017
Brandon Kendhammer, “Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy and Law in Northern Nigeria” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
Apr 04, 2017
Seth Barrett Tillman, “Ex Parte Merryman: Myth, History, and Scholarship,” Military Law Review 481 (2016)
Apr 04, 2017
Edward J. Balleisen, “Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Mar 27, 2017
Christopher Lowen Agee, “The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972” (U. Chicago Press, 2014)
Mar 09, 2017
Benjamin Schonthal, “Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of the Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Mar 03, 2017
Ryan Muldoon, “Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World: Beyond Tolerance” (Routledge, 2017)
Mar 01, 2017
Iza Hussin, “The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
Feb 21, 2017
Anna Law, “The Immigration Battle in American Courts” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Feb 13, 2017
John Hadley, “Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals” (Lexington Books, 2015)
Feb 09, 2017
Telesphore Ngarambe, “Practical Challenges in Customary Law Translation: The Case of Rwanda’s Gacaca Law” (OSSREA, 2015)
Feb 06, 2017
Mitchel Roth, “Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo” (U. North Texas Press, 2016)
Feb 01, 2017
Fred Feldman, “Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve from Our Country” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Feb 01, 2017
Karen J. Greenberg, “Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State” (Crown Publishers, 2016)
Jan 27, 2017
K. Sabeel Rahman, “Democracy Against Domination” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Jan 23, 2017
Samson Lim, “Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand” (U of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Jan 21, 2017
Sara L. Crosby, “Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America” (U. Iowa Press, 2016)
Jan 20, 2017
Timothy Sandefur, “The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do About It” (Encounter Books, 2016)
Jan 16, 2017
Alan J. Levinovitz, “The Limits of Religious Tolerance” (Amherst College Press, 2016)
Jan 14, 2017
Rebecca S. Natow, “Higher Education Rulemaking: The Politics of Creating Regulatory Policy” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Jan 04, 2017
Timothy S. Huebner, “Liberty and Union: The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism” (U. Press of Kansas, 2016)
Dec 19, 2016
Jen Manion, “Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Dec 19, 2016
Lena Salaymeh, “Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Dec 02, 2016
Karen Tani, “States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights and American Governance, 1935-1972” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Nov 28, 2016
Vicki Lens, “Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in Court” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Nov 21, 2016
Leon Wildes, “John Lennon vs The U.S.A.: The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History” (Ankerwycke, 2016)
Nov 21, 2016
Marc Steinberg, “England’s Great Transformation: Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
Nov 14, 2016
Sally Engle Merry, “The Seduction of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
Nov 07, 2016
Heather Ann Thompson, “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” (Pantheon, 2016)
Nov 01, 2016
Suja A. Thomas, “The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental Constitutional Role of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Juries” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Oct 31, 2016
Jill Gentile, “Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire” (Karnac Books, 2016)
Oct 21, 2016
Natalie Byfield, “Savage Portrayals: Race, Media, and the Central Park Jogger Story” (Temple UP, 2014)
Oct 21, 2016
Damien M. Sojoyner, “First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Oct 21, 2016
Jonathan Todres and Sarah Higinbotham, “Human Rights in Children’s Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of the Law” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Oct 18, 2016
Debbie Levy, “I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark” (Simon and Schuster, 2016)
Oct 14, 2016
Bob Mionske, “Bicycling and the Law: Your Rights as a Cyclist” (VeloPress, 2007)
Oct 13, 2016
Adam Benforado, “Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice” (Penguin Random House, 2016)
Oct 08, 2016
Terri Diane Halperin, “The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Testing the Constitution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
Sep 26, 2016
Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph, “A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies ” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)
Sep 19, 2016
Katherine Turk, “Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Sep 19, 2016
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
Sep 19, 2016
Greg Eghigian, “The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany” (U. of Michigan Press, 2015)
Sep 09, 2016
Martha Nussbaum, “Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 01, 2016
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, “The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Aug 29, 2016
Samantha Barbas, “Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America” (Stanford Law Books, 2016)
Aug 25, 2016
Kathleen J.P. Tabor and Jan I. Berlage, “Maryland Equine Law: A Legal Guide to Horse Ownership and Activities” (Go Dutch Publishing, 2011)
Aug 17, 2016
Marie Lall, “Understanding Reform in Myanmar: People and Society in the Wake of Military Rule” (Hurst, 2016)
Aug 15, 2016
Michael Lesher, “Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in the Orthodox Jewish Communities” (McFarland, 2014)
Aug 03, 2016
Josh Lambert, “Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture” (NYU Press, 2014)
Jul 18, 2016
Nick Cheesman, “Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Jun 30, 2016
Marlene Trestman, “Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin” (Louisiana State UP, 2016)
Jun 26, 2016
Srimati Basu, “The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India” (U of California Press, 2015)
Jun 13, 2016
Bernard Harcourt, “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age” (Harvard UP, 2015)
May 17, 2016
Mary Ziegler, “After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate” (Harvard UP, 2016)
May 10, 2016
Matthew H. Sommer, “Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China” (U of California Press, 2015)
May 04, 2016
Peter K. Enns, “Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
May 02, 2016
Kathleen Holscher, “Religious Lessons: Catholic Sisters and the Captured Schools Crisis in New Mexico” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Apr 30, 2016
Douglas Clark, “Gunboat Justice: British and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943)” (Earnshaw Books, 2016)
Apr 11, 2016
Mariah Adin, “The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s” (Praeger, 2014)
Mar 24, 2016
Mitra Sharafi, “Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Mar 02, 2016
Richard L. Hasen, “Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections” (Yale UP, 2016)
Feb 15, 2016
Patrick Hagopian, “American Immunity: War Crime and the Limits of International Law” (U of Massachusetts Press, 2013)
Jan 26, 2016
S. Matthew Liao, “The Right to be Loved” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jan 05, 2016
Anthony Maniscalco, “Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution: Shopping Malls and the First Amendment” (SUNY Press, 2015)
Jan 04, 2016
Hina Azam, “Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Nov 25, 2015
Sara Bronin and Ryan Rowberry, “Historic Preservation in a Nutshell” (West Academic Publishing, 2014)
Nov 08, 2015
Azizah al-Hibri, “The Islamic Worldview: Islamic Jurisprudence” (ABA Books, 2015)
Oct 27, 2015
Kerry Eleveld, “Don’t Tell Me to Wait: How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama’s Presidency” (Basic Books, 2015)
Oct 22, 2015
Ruben Flores, “Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Oct 20, 2015
Lawrence M. Friedman, “The Big Trial: Law as Public Spectacle” (UP of Kansas, 2015)
Oct 05, 2015
Stephen Macedo, “Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage” (Princeton University Press, 2015)
Oct 01, 2015
Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sep 26, 2015
Guy Burak, “The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Sep 23, 2015
Natalia Molina, “How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts” (University of California Press, 2014)
Sep 02, 2015
Christine Desan, “Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Aug 25, 2015
Eva Hemmungs Wirten, “Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information” (U of Chicago, 2015)
Aug 01, 2015
Barak Kushner, “Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Aug 01, 2015
Laura F. Edwards, “A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jul 26, 2015
David George Surdham, “The Big Leagues Go to Washington: Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989” (U of Illinois Press, 2015)
Jul 24, 2015
Winnifred F. Sullivan, “A Ministry of Presence: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and the Law” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
Jul 12, 2015
Claire Virginia Eby, “Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
Jun 23, 2015
Mark S. Wagner, “Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen” (Indiana UP, 2015)
Jun 20, 2015
Nicholas R. Parrillo, “Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940” (Yale UP, 2013)
Jun 02, 2015
Marion Holmes Katz, “Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice” Columbia University Press, 2014
Jun 02, 2015
Jon L. Mills, “Privacy in the New Media Age” (University Press of Florida, 2015)
May 25, 2015
J. Bronsteen, C. Buccafusco, and J. S. Masur, “Happiness and the Law” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
May 12, 2015
Kirt von Daacke, “Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson’s Virginia” (UVA Press, 2012)
Apr 16, 2015
Leigh Ann Wheeler, “How Sex Became a Civil Liberty” (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Apr 06, 2015
Robert P. Burns, “Kafka’s Law: ‘The Trial’ and American Criminal Justice” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
Mar 13, 2015
Seana Shiffrin, “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Mar 02, 2015
J. Douglas Smith, “On Democracy’s Doorstep” (Hill and Wang, 2014)
Feb 20, 2015
Joseph M. Gabriel, “Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry” (U Chicago Press, 2013)
Feb 19, 2015
Emilie Cloatre, “Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa” (Palgrave, 2013)
Feb 09, 2015
Susan Byrne, “Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote” (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
Jan 29, 2015
Jan Lemnitzer, “Power, Law and the End of Privateering” (Palgrave, 2014)
Jan 22, 2015
Kenneth Prewitt, “What Is Your Race?: The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans” (Princeton University Press 2013)
Jan 13, 2015
Jothie Rajah, “Authoritarian Rule of Law: Legislation, Discourse and Legitimacy in Singapore” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Dec 15, 2014
John V. Orth, “Self-Defense” (The Green Bag, 2010)
Nov 24, 2014
Melvin Ely, “Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War” (Vintage Books, 2004)
Oct 21, 2014
Kara W. Swanson, “Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Oct 20, 2014
Lynette J. Chua, “Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State” (Temple UP, 2014)
Oct 15, 2014
Joshua Fershee, “Energy Law: A Context and Practice Casebook” (Carolina Academic Press, 2014)
Oct 13, 2014
Susan Haack, “Evidence Matters: Science, Proof, and Truth in the Law” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Oct 01, 2014
Guy Chet, “The Ocean is a Wilderness: Atlantic Piracy and the Limits of State Authority, 1688-1856” (U of Massachusetts Press, 2014)
Sep 22, 2014
Jeremy Lipschultz, “Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law, and Ethics” (Routledge, 2014)
Sep 07, 2014
Ovamir Anjum, “Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought: The Taymiyyan Moment” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Aug 22, 2014
Marianne Constable, “Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Aug 16, 2014
Bruce Ackerman, “We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution” (Harvard UP, 2013)
Aug 02, 2014
Michael Bryant, “Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966” (University of Tennessee Press, 2014)
Jul 15, 2014
Nick Smith, “Justice through Apologies: Remorse, Reform, and Punishment” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jul 02, 2014
Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown, “Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic” (University of Pennsylvania, 2014)
Jun 28, 2014
Austin Sarat, “Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty” (Stanford UP, 2014)
Jun 18, 2014
Olivier Zunz, “Philanthropy in America: A History” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Jun 16, 2014
Morris B. Hoffman, “The Punisher’s Brain: The Evolution of Judge and Jury” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 11, 2014
Marci A. Hamilton, “God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Jun 07, 2014
Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger, “Robert Love’s Warnings” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
May 21, 2014
Lawrence Goldstone, “Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies” (Ballentine, 2014)
May 18, 2014
Federico Fabbrini, “Fundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective” (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Apr 21, 2014
Stephen C. Neff’s Justice Among Nations: A History of International Law (Harvard UP, 2014)
Apr 13, 2014
Sean D. Murphy et al., “Litigating War: Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Apr 06, 2014
Ayesha Chaudhry, “Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition” (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Mar 29, 2014
Andrew L. Russell, “Open Standards in the Digital Age” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Mar 27, 2014
Arica L. Coleman, “That the Blood Stay Pure” (Indiana UP, 2014)
Mar 18, 2014
Odette Lienau, “Rethinking Sovereign Debt” (Harvard UP, 2014)
Mar 09, 2014
Ahmad Atif Ahmad, “The Fatigue of the SharÄ«’a” (Palgrave, 2012)
Mar 01, 2014
Sara Bannerman, “The Struggle for Canadian Copyright: Imperialism to Internationalism, 1842-1971”
Feb 11, 2014
Joseph Carens, “The Ethics of Immigration” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Feb 01, 2014
Patrick Weil, “The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Jan 28, 2014
Jay Wexler, “The Odd Clauses: Understanding the Constitution Through Ten of Its Most Curious Provisions (Beacon, 2012)
Jan 23, 2014
Samuel Moyn, “The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Jan 14, 2014
Ahmed El Shamsy, “The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Jan 10, 2014
Rumee Ahmed, “Narratives of Islamic Legal Theory” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Dec 20, 2013
Susan D. Carle, “Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Dec 02, 2013
Darryl E. Flaherty, “Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2013)
Nov 17, 2013
Adam R. Shapiro, “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Sep 27, 2013
David Garland, “Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition” (Harvard UP, 2010)
Aug 05, 2013
Michael F. Armstrong, “They Wished they were Honest: The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption” (Columbia Press, 2012)
Jun 19, 2013
Thane Rosenbaum, “Payback: The Case for Revenge” (Chicago UP, 2013)
May 08, 2013
Steven J. Harper, “The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis” (Basic Books, 2013)
May 01, 2013
James Q. Whitman, “The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War” (Harvard UP, 2012)
Apr 29, 2013
Andrew Koppelman, “The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Apr 24, 2013
Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez, “Math on Trial” (Basic Books, 2013)
Mar 13, 2013
Daniel McCool, “The Most Fundamental Right: Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act” (Indiana UP, 2012)
Feb 27, 2013
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr., “Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help” (Basic Books, 2012)
Feb 22, 2013
Par Cassel, “Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Sep 13, 2012
Barry Kernfeld, “Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution Since 1929” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
May 17, 2012
David Ball and Don Keenan, “Reptile: The Manual of the Plaintiff’s Revolution” (Balloon Press, 2009)
May 01, 2012
Lynn Stout, “Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People” (Princeton UP, 2010)
Feb 22, 2012
James Unnever and Shaun L. Gabbidon, “A Theory of African American Offending: Race, Racism, and Crime” (Routledge, 2011)
Sep 15, 2011
Martha Minow, “In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Sep 07, 2011
Rajshree Chandra, “Knowledge as Property, Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights” (Oxford UP, 2010)
Aug 04, 2011
Kimbrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, “Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling” (Duke University Press, 2011)
Aug 04, 2011
Walter Olson, “Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America” (Encounter Books, 2011)
May 01, 2011
Brandon L. Garrett, “Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong” (Harvard UP, 2011)
Mar 25, 2011
Charles Lane, “The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction” (Henry Holt, 2008)
Mar 11, 2011
Noah Feldman, “Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices” (Twelve, 2010)
Mar 03, 2011
Valerie Hebert, “Hitler’s Generals on Trial: The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg” (University Press of Kansas, 2010)
Aug 27, 2010
Yuma Totani, “The Tokyo War Crimes Trials: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of World War II” (Harvard UP, 2008)
Apr 04, 2009
Laura Wittern-Keller, “The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court” (University of Kansas Press, 2008)
Nov 07, 2008
Laura Wittern-Keller, “Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to Film Censorship 1915-1981” (University of Kentucky Press, 2008)
Apr 04, 2008