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Publishes	Daily	Episodes	1840	Founded	15 years ago
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Lisa Siraganian, "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations, and Robots" (Verso, 2026)

Over the last twenty-five years, the concept of per-sonhood has become central to many contentious debates. Corporations have won free speech protections, as if they were individuals. The right to life or freedom has been claimed on behalf of fetuses... more

Yesterday • 44 min

Tim Connor et al., "Global Business and Local Struggle: Reimagining Non-Judicial Remedy for Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

In the quest for human rights justice for communities and workers whose rights are breached by transnational businesses, non-judicial mechanisms (NJMs) are often deployed, but how effective are they? Global Business and Local Struggle: Reimagining No... more

10 Apr 2026 • 44 min

Emotions of LGBT Rights

In this episode of High Theory, Saronik talks to Senthorun Raj about the Emotions of LGBT Rights. Emotions from disgust and fear to love and joy shape the legal frameworks that attempt to govern human sexual behavior around the world. Sen cautions ag... more

6 Apr 2026 • 20 min

Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello, "Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State" (Cornell UP, 2017)

The book, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Cornell UP, 2017) is Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello’s efforts to account for the origins and strategies of the women's suffrage movement in the New York State. The book dwelled on ev... more

4 Apr 2026 • 42 min

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Recent Guests

Senthorun Raj

Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Law School; scholar/activist focusing on emotion, culture, social justice, LGBT rights and law

Manchester Law School

Episode: Emotions of LGBT Rights

Susan Goodier

Author and historian

Cornell University Press (author) / New York History Journal (board member)

Episode: Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello, "Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State" (Cornell UP, 2017)

Karen Pastorello

Chair of Women and Gender Studies Program and History professor

Tompkins Cortland Community College

Episode: Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello, "Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State" (Cornell UP, 2017)

Lee Ann Wang

Professor of Asian American Studies; author of The Violence of Protection

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Episode: Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)

Sandra Wilson

Professor of Japanese History

Murdoch University

Episode: Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson, "Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away" (U Hawaiʻi Press, 2026)

Robert Cribb

Emeritus Professor of Asian History

Australian National University

Episode: Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson, "Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away" (U Hawaiʻi Press, 2026)

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University focusing on African literary studies

Johns Hopkins University

Episode: Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Marco de Benito

Editor of Colloquies on European Civil Procedure; Jean Monnet Chair of European Civil Procedure at IE University

IE University, Brill-Neuhoff (publication)

Episode: Colloquies on European Civil Procedure: A Conversation with Marco de Benito

Gijs Kruijtzer

Author of Justifying Transgression, Muslim, Christians, and the Law 1200–1700

Leiden University (as described in interview)

Episode: Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700" (de Gruyter, 2023)

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Miranda Melcher

One of the hosts focusing on literature and legal scholarship, facilitating insightful conversations with authors and experts in the field.

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4.4 out of 5 stars from 47 ratings

A science 'grants researcher' as an interviewer on a legal podcast??
Not sure why the NB Network has science/medical 'grant researchers' with a pointed conservative agenda doing legal/law interviews. There are a lot of JDs out there more qualified to parse legal & religious books. Not impressive.
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Emotions of LGBT Rights

Q: what the heck are emotions of LGBT rights?

The guest explains that emotions are not just private feelings but social and political forces that become 'performative enactments' shaping legal categories like nondiscrimination, free speech, and religious freedom, and that studying them helps reveal how law stabilizes or disrupts rights.

Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)

Q: Could you walk us through the key legislations you discuss, like the Violence Against Women Act, and the U-Visa and T-Visa?

Wang explains how VAWA emerged amid broader crime-fighting regimes that expanded policing, how immigration laws introduced clear lines between qualified and unqualified statuses, and how U- and T-visas, while designed to protect survivors, increasingly function through state surveillance and require cooperation with law enforcement, complicating notions of protection.

Robert Cribb and Sandra Wilson, "Twelve Japanese War Criminals and One Who Got Away" (U Hawaiʻi Press, 2026)

Q: Can you give us a general overview of the wartime trials, including how many trials there were, who conducted them, and what kinds of verdicts were handed down?

There were two main sets of trials: the Tokyo Trials on an international bench and numerous national military tribunals. The international process tended to involve high-level defendants and a broader scope of charges, while the national tribunals handled more concrete, specific war crimes like murder and mistreatment. Across the seven major jurisdictions, roughly 2,400 trials occurred with about 5,700 defendants; around 4,600 were found guilty, and about 920 were executed; the rest served prison terms. Verdicts and sentences varied by court, and many were reviewed or reduced over time.

Joanna Siekiera ed., "NATO Stability Policing: Beneficial Tool in Filling the Security Gap and Establishing the Rule of Law, and a Safe and Secure Environment" (NATO Stability Policing Centre Of Excellence, 2024)

Q: How is stability policing relevant to NATO and how do member states perform it?

It is codified in NATO doctrine as a police-focused function supported by military assets when needed; it emphasizes training, empowerment, and capacity-building of local law enforcement, and it is not universally adopted in the same way across all member states due to cultural and doctrinal differences.

Q: Could you just give us... what exactly is stability policing?

Stability policing is the NATO concept of reinforcing or temporarily replacing local police to restore public order and protect human rights, employing military police with a police mindset and civilian skills to train, empower, and equip host-nation forces for sustainable security.

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