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Date Title & Description Contributors
2025-03-09

  Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Kristin Olbertson is the first comprehensive study of criminal speech in eighteenth-century New England, traces how the criminali...
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2025-03-08

  Kimberly Clausing, "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Critics on the Left have long attacked open markets and free trade agreements for exploiting the poor and undermining labor, while those on the Right complain that they unjustly penalize workers back home. In Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, ...
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2025-03-07

  Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology (Oxford UP, 2025) is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of digital technologies and AI. With the rapid rise of new digital technologies and artificial intelligence, ...
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2025-03-07

  Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)

In this episode, Jorge Goldstein, the author of Patenting Life: The Commercialization of Biology, delves into the critical junction where biotechnology meets patent law. With a background as a molecular biologist turned patent attorney, Goldstein offer...
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2025-03-05

  Rebecca Janzen, "Unlawful Violence: Mexican Law and Cultural Production" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)

Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017. The abundance of laws and constitutional amendments that have cropped up in response are mirrored in Mexico's fragmented cultural production of ...
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2025-03-05

  Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law--A Conversation with Janie Nitze

In the latest episode of Madison’s Notes, I spoke with Janie Nitze, co-author of Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law (Harper, 2004), a book written alongside Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Janie, a Harvard-educated attorney and former clerk...
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2025-03-04

  Jeffrey A. Lenowitz, "Constitutional Ratification Without Reason" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Constitutional Ratification Without Reason (Oxford UP, 2022) focuses on constitutional ratification, the procedure in which a draft constitution is submitted by its creators to the people or their representatives in an up or down vote determining imple...
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2025-03-04

  Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe

Alexandra Grey speaks with Karen McAuliffe about multilingual law-making. Karen is a Professor of Law and Language at Birmingham Law School in the UK. The conversation is about the important legal opinions delivered by the Advocates General at the Euro...
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2025-03-02

  Kent Kauffman, "Navigating Choppy Waters: Key Legal Issues College Faculty Need to Know" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)

While full- and part-time college faculty and lecturers go about their jobs—doing all that is seen (teaching and publishing) and unseen (class prep, grading, and researching)—little, if any time is given to the uncomfortable acknowledgment that those a...
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2025-02-26

  Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey

In this conversation, we sit down with John D. Wilsey, Professor of Church History and Philosophy at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Senior Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, to tackle the urgent and often contenti...
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