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A woman miscarries—and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administered—and loses custody of her new...
There were two days to Christmas and Lewis felt like everything was spinning out of control. He wondered what he would say to the judge this...
Today I'm speaking with Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willam...
The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitu...
Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia (Cornell University Press, 2026) uncovers colonial South Asi...
A leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it. As Americans debate President Biden’s infirmi...
Why do some international courts wield broad authority while others face pushback or fade into irrelevance? The Authority of International C...
Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model of...
Border Afterlives: Migrant Deaths, Forensic Investigations, and the Politics of Haunting (University of Arizona Press, 2026) begins with the...
The assumption that only humans can engage in politics—that only humans are 'zoon politikon'—is foundational to the Western tradition of pol...
In 1914 the British-built and Japanese-owned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered b...
A New Approach to Political Speech: Democratic Theory, Constitutional Law, and Public Liberty After January 6 (de Gruyter, 2026) challenges...
Today I'm speaking with Mordecai Kurz, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University. We are discussing his latest book...
The history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained citizenship, and almost immediately achieved full legal...
A revealing look at the decline in formal employment in favor of hiring contractors, freelancers, temps, and marginal workers, who are exclu...
The First Emancipation : The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France (Princeton UP, 2026) is a dramatic account of how slaver...
Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War (Edinburgh UP, 2026) by Dr. Kate Dannies examines the gend...
The United States has traditionally been a great promoter of international justice – forging the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after World W...
Now more than ever, the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold themselves to account. Despite pressure...
In Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge UP, 2025), Jonathon W. Penney explores the increasing w...