New Books in Law
Interviews with Scholars of the Law about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of the Law about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-21 20:40
- last episode published
- 2024-11-21 09:00
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- 3.76 days
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024) An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action. But is group collaboration truly the defining feature of effective democracy? In Civic ... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024) An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of collective action. But is group collaboration truly the defining feature of effective democracy? In Civic ... |
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| 2024-11-20 | It’s the UConn Popcast, and in this episode of our series on artificial intelligence, we discuss Joanna Bryson’s essay “Robots Should be Slaves.” We dive headlong into this provocative argument about the rights of robots. As scholars of cultural and so... |
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| 2024-11-18 | What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status of the least powerful members of American society? In the hands of eminent historian Laura F. Edwards, these textiles tell a revealing story of ord... |
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| 2024-11-16 |
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024) How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule of law, contract enforcement, and loan access. In From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commer... |
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| 2024-11-16 | Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling argument about gender and Islamic law that has been shockingly overlooked: Legal personhood in Islamic la... |
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| 2024-11-12 |
Sarah Cleary, "The Myth of Harm: Horror, Censorship and the Child" (Bloomsbury, 2022) The horror genre has endured a long and controversial success within popular culture. Fraught with accusations pertaining to its alleged ability to harm and corrupt young people and indeed society as a whole, the genre is constantly under pressure to s... |
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| 2024-11-11 | The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and disproportionately affects the poor and racial minorities. Yet the U.S. has never developed the capacity... |
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| 2024-11-07 | I spoke with an accomplished attorney and innovative law professor Rodger Citron of the Touro Law School about the complex relationships between history and... yes, law. We talked about how the Nuremberg trials of Nazi criminals after World War II shap... |
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| 2024-11-06 |
The Impeachment Power: A Conversation with Keith Whittington In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool (Princeton UP, 2024), we explored the historical and constitutiona... |
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