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Legal Authority Beyond the State – Towards New Insights into International Law

There are now thousands of public and private regulatory bodies which seek to regulate transnational activities consequently forming a disorganised system that is instituted by, and directed towards the interests of, private actors - but why? Patrick Capps and Henrik Palmer Olsen investigate further.

Professor Henrik Palmer Olsen, Professor Patrick Capps | 28 Feb 2019

Plausible and Implausible Stories of Sexual Offences

What makes one crime story convincing and another doubtful, inside and outside the courtroom? I tackle this question in my new book Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate...

Dr. Orna Alyagon Darr | 28 Feb 2019

How Theology Shaped Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Certain intellectual schemes make reality come off as thinned out and characterless on its own, prior to what thought or language projects upon it, or as a site of emptiness, arbitrariness, and ruin, prior...

Frank B. Farrell | 27 Feb 2019

In Treaty we Negotiably Trust

“To treat is but to negotiate and to be ‘in treaty’ is but to be in negotiation”. Clive Parry. Cambridge Author, Evangelos Raftopoulos, talks about his new book, 'International Negotiation: A Process of Relational Governance for International Common Interest'.

Evangelos Raftopoulos | 27 Feb 2019

Fast Sex; Slow Love – Courtship in the Digital Age

Helen Fisher, author of 'SLOW LOVE: Courtship in the Digital Age' from 'The New Psychology of Love', 2E, edited by Sternberg & Sternberg, discusses romance and dating in the digital age.

Helen Fisher | 27 Feb 2019

Consent and Coercion in Trump’s Trade Policy

Frank J. Garcia, author of Consent and Trade, on US trade policy under the leadership of Donald Trump

Frank J. Garcia | 25 Feb 2019

Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums

In The Scientific Foundation of Zoos and Aquariums: Their Role in Conservation and Research, our goal was to showcase some of the best zoo- and aquarium-based research going on around the world. We tell stories of dolphins and penguins – we love dolphins and penguins as much as you do – but it’s the animals whose stories don’t always see the light of day who best illustrate groundbreaking efforts to save species.

Allison B. Kaufman, Meredith J. Bashaw | 22 Feb 2019

Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

Martha S. Jones joins Cambridge editor Debbie Gershenowitz for a fascinating discussion about her research, and why birthright citizenship was a core movement in the evolution of American democracy. Professor Jones' book Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America was named a finalist for the 2019 PROSE Award for best book in U.S./North American History by the American Association of Publishers.

22 Feb 2019

Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

Keri Leigh Merritt joins Cambridge editor Debbie Gershenowitz in our New York office to talk about the white underclass in 19th-century America, and how even in the antebellum South, the 1% colluded to divide poor whites and blacks. Masterless Men has been awarded the 2018 SHA Bennett H. Wall Award and the 2018 SSHA President's Book Award.

Keri Leigh Merritt | 15 Feb 2019

Facing Financial Regulation

Over recent decades, financial markets have led the global economy into a number of major collapses while contributing significantly to both economic inequality and political instability, yet regulatory...

Emilios Avgouleas, David C. Donald | 15 Feb 2019

Markets and Morals: Justifying Kidney Sales and Legalizing Prostitution

Should prostitution, or the buying and selling of sexual services, be legalized? Similarly for the monetary exchanges of many other controversial items like kidneys and other organs, blood, surrogate motherhood,...

Professor Ng Yew Kwang | 15 Feb 2019

Queer Theory Now and the Pleasure of Movement

Queer theory emerged in the midst of crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s: as the HIV/AIDS epidemic raged, scholars and activists sought to disrupt the stigmatization and erasure of LGBTQ lives in...

Tyler Bradway, E. L. McCallum | 13 Feb 2019