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Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts" (Cornell UP, 2026)

In Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Maria A. Sanchez tackles a central tension in global governance: how international human rights courts balance their mandates with the imperative to respect national ... more

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Christopher Munn, "Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong" (Hong Kong UP, 2025)

Who bore the burdens of empire?

Christopher Munn's Penalties of Empire: Capital Trials in Colonial Hong Kong (Hong Kong UP, 2025) explores how judges, juries, and lawyers strove to deliver justice during the 150 years when the death penalty was in ... more

17 Mar 2026 • 1 hr 10 min

Alex Powell, "Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration" (Bristol UP, 2026)

Utilizing critical legal methodologies, Alex Powell's Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration (Bristol UP, 2026) gives a vital and needed analysis of migration and queer life. With deep consideration to the role of systemi... more

17 Mar 2026 • 1 hr

Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across the North, and to the civil rights movement’s struggle for a truly equal education for all. How did... more

11 Mar 2026 • 36 min

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Recent Guests

Michelle Adams

Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law, University of Michigan

University of Michigan Law School

Episode: Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

Maud Bracke

Professor of Modern European History at the University of Glasgow; author of Reproductive Rights in Modern France, Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford University Press, 2025).

University of Glasgow

Episode: Maud Anne Bracke, "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford UP, 2025)

Amy Littlefield

Author of Killers of Roe, My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights

Author, Journalist

Episode: Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)

David L. Eng

Professor of English and related programs at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

Episode: David L. Eng, "Reparations and the Human" (Duke UP, 2025)

Mallory E. Sorelle

Co-author of 'Uncivil Democracy' and expert in civil legal justice

Princeton University Press

Episode: Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Jamila Michener

Co-author of 'Uncivil Democracy' and scholar focused on political power and justice access

Princeton University Press

Episode: Jamila Michener and Mallory E. Sorelle, "Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power" (Princeton UP, 2026)

Andrea Mansker

David E. Onetam Professor of Modern European History at the University of South in Swinney, Tennis, specializing in French Cultural and Gender History.

University of South in Swinney, Tennis

Episode: Andrea Mansker, "Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2024)

Allison Powers

Legal historian and social historian of international law, assistant professor in the history department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Episode: Allison Powers, "Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Sally Low

Author, legal historian with a doctorate in legal history from the University of Melbourne

Episode: Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 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

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Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

Q: How did the political shift on the Supreme Court influence the Milliken decision, and why does the host emphasize the timing of the case?

The election of Nixon and the arrival of the Burger Court brought a more conservative tilt that limited the scope of Brown's desegregation doctrines, making the Milliken ruling more likely to confine desegregation within state boundaries; the timing mattered because a different court era might have produced a different outcome.

Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

Q: Why did Judge Roth decide to pursue a metropolitan remedy that included surrounding districts rather than limiting desegregation to Detroit?

Judge Roth recognized that meaningful desegregation required access to a broad, regional mix of students; limiting the remedy to Detroit would incentivize white flight to the suburbs and undermine the economic and social viability of the city, thus he extended the remedy to include multiple districts.

Michelle Adams, "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (FSG Press, 2025)

Q: Where did the idea of the containment come from and how did it connect to the housing and school segregation problems in Detroit?

The containment emerged as a legal and evidentiary framework during the trial, tying together racially restrictive housing practices, redlining, and school zoning to show that state and local actions effectively confined Black residents to the center city, which justified the need for a comprehensive desegregation remedy.

Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)

Q: What did you learn about the early fundraising models and their influence on the Hyde Amendment and abortion politics?

The guest discusses direct mail fundraising as a pivotal, democratizing tool that also fed donor class dynamics, explaining how fundraising strategies helped sustain the policy and how activists navigated compromises while pursuing long-term goals.

Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)

Q: Could you talk a little bit about how this book came to be, kind of what the synopsis is and why you decided to write it?

She explains her decade-plus coverage of abortion rights, the moment after Roe was overturned, and her move to frame the history as a 'real life whodunit' to uncover the behind-the-scenes figures driving policy, using archival material and interviews to reveal motives, failures, and the human cost.

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