Dr. Sofia Stolk’s The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror (Routledge, 2021) addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution’s opening statement before an international criminal tribunal. Opening statements are considered to be largely irrelevant to the official legal proceedings but are simult ... Show More
Nov 20
Luke Gibson, "Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-By-Step Introduction with Texts from the Buddhist Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2025)
This textbook offers a fresh approach to learning Sanskrit, the ancient language at the heart of South Asia’s vast religious, philosophical, and literary heritage. Designed for independent learners and classrooms alike, it provides a uniquely in-depth and immersive introduction t ... Show More
41m 2s
Nov 19
Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025)
How did three words come to carry the weight of America's abortion debates? In Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025), Dr. Emily Winderman examines how this phrase shaped American reproductive politics and health care standards across generations. Drawing on ... Show More
32m 57s
Nov 18
Henry H. Sapoznik, "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City" (SUNY Press, 2025)
The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) by Henry H. Sapoznik explores a century of Yiddish popular culture in New York City. Sapoznik--the author of Klezmer! Jewish Music fro0m Old World to Our World and a Peabody Award-winning coproducer of NPR's Yid ... Show More
47m 40s
Mar 2021
The Laws of War in International Thought
Professor Pablo Kalmanovitz, International Studies Division at CIDE, Mexico City, gives a talk for the Oxford PIL discussion group. The Law of Armed Conflict is usually understood to be a regime of exception that applies only during armed conflict and regulates hostilities among ... Show More
48m 40s
Mar 2023
Chrisanthi Giotis, "Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Every two seconds a person is displaced, caught in one of the more than 40 active conflicts around the world that show no sign of ending. Since 1994, there has been ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has uprooted millions of people and resulted in the deaths o ... Show More
59m 36s
Feb 2021
The Concept of Race in International Criminal Law - and Beyond
Carola Lingaas, VID Specialised University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. Members of racial groups are protected under international law against genocide, persecution, and apartheid. But what is race – and why was this contentious term not discusse ... Show More
50m 47s
Oct 2023
Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
What it feels like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture (Penn State Press, 2021) by Dr. Stephanie Larson interrogates an underexamined reason for our failure to abolish rape in the United States: the way we communicate about it. Using affective and feminist materia ... Show More
47m 26s
Dec 2023
« Il a laissé tombé le seau avec le liquide enflammé. Le liquide a atteint Monsieur et sa combinaison a pris feu... » (rediffusion)
<p>Salariés en danger - Affaire jugée au Tribunal correctionnel de Bordeaux. <br/>À travers un tour de France des tribunaux, Justice en direct rend compte sans artifice, ni commentaire, au plus près de la réalité, du déroulement des audiences correctionnelles qui r ... Show More
28m 58s
Nov 2023
Why Did the FBI Dig Back into The Idaho Murder House?
Can you imagine standing in the very place where a grisly crime took place? What would it do to your understanding of the event, your feelings towards the accused, or the victims who lost their lives? This is the reality faced by jurors in high-profile criminal cases, and it was ... Show More
7m 20s
Apr 2023
Foluke Adebisi, "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Folúkẹ́ Adébísí’s Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility (Bristol UP, 2023) details the ways in which the law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialized hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global dispa ... Show More
58m 43s