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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Author interviews show how legal doctrines become instruments of power, resistance, recognition, and remedy.
New Books in Law turns author interviews into careful examinations of how legal ideas acquire political force. Conversations move from John J. Parker's Supreme Court confirmation and labor record to Ernst Fraenkel's legal practice under Nazi rule.
A rejected Supreme Court nominee's labor ruling puts your 'but was it legal?' reflex on trial.
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A piracy case tied to slave trading and a Boston trial reveals the selective reach of suppression.
Piracy becomes a test of imperial priorities in Dr. Amanda Melcher's conversation with Professor Manuel Barcia about Pirate Imperialism. Barcia traces how different imperial systems tried to suppress piracy for distinct ideological, political, and commercial reasons, and the…
John J. Parker's failed 1930 nomination shows how Supreme Court confirmations became political flashpoints.
The episode follows how John J. Parker's 1930 Supreme Court nomination became more than a routine confirmation fight, tracing the way Herbert Hoover's pick was pulled into a larger argument over labor, precedent, and political power.
A careful look at what personhood loses when moral significance is separated from social obligation.
Lisa Sarganian follows personhood as it stretches beyond human beings and becomes a matter of public concern. In The Problem of Personhood, the discussion keeps returning to two traits that make those expanded accounts work: a distinct individual or entity, and one with moral…
A grounded look at how human rights remedies depend on where corporate leverage actually sits.
Global Business and Local Struggle follows the uneven path of human rights remedies when corporate value chains run through local economies and institutions that do not always fit neatly together.
A thoughtful look at how emotions shape LGBT rights, law, and public political life.
LGBT rights come through here as a matter not only of law or policy, but of political feeling. In conversation with Santoran Raj, the episode keeps returning to what emotions do once they enter public life: joy, hope, compassion, disgust, and anxiety all carry force.
A clear look at how law and violence worked together to drive Jewish lawyers out of Nazi Germany.
Douglas Morris offers a sharp account of Ernst Fraenkel's career and the way Nazi power moved through both force and law. The strongest section sets the "prerogative state" beside the "normative state" and makes the point without fuss: intimidation and legal procedure did not…
Dan Carlin's solo essays connecting executive power, historical collapse, and American democracy.
Two hosts and a correspondent unpack one Latin America story a week, from Chile's election to Iran's war.
Ryan Evans interviews defense and intelligence insiders, from Ukraine's front lines to Marine marksmanship doctrine.
Lawfare's weekly panel turns Supreme Court rulings and war-powers fights into legal debate.
Douglas Morris discusses his book 'Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany', exploring how Fraenkel, a Jewish lawyer, practiced law, represented political defendants, and developed the Dual State theory while evading arrest in Nazi Germany.
This episode opens with a promotional clip from the Disorder podcast featuring an Epstein survivor's powerful story, then transitions to a New Books Network audience survey announcement and an introduction by host Dr.
This episode features an interview with Douglas Morris about his book 'Legal Sabotage', which examines Ernst Fraenkel's role in Hitler's Germany, framed within the New Books Network's academic podcasting context.
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Mark Clovis interviews Victor Lee on New Books in Law about Supreme Pressure, Lee's 2025 book on John J.
New Books in Law speaks with Lisa Sarganian about The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots, a Verso book published in 2026.
New Books in Law's Global Corporation Special Series discusses Tim Connor and Fiona Haynes's 2025 Cambridge University Press book, Global Business and Local Struggle: Reimagining Non-Judicial Remedy for Human Rights.
New Books Network's Hi Theory episode on Emotions of LGBT Rights features Dr.
An interview with historians about their book on the women's suffrage movement in New York State.
An interview with Professor Li-Anne Wong about her book on how U.S.
This episode features an interview with a scholar discussing their book on Japanese war crimes in Southeast Asia during World War II.
An academic interview podcast where scholars discuss their recently published research with an expert in their field.
This episode features an interview with authors of a new book on state-sponsored terror and democracy, preceded by a survey announcement.
Tanisha Fazal's Wars of Law traces the decline of declarations of war and peace treaties after 1945 alongside the expansion of international humanitarian law.
Muwatana's report argues that Yemenis are not simply starving; they are being starved by parties to the conflict.