{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Law","slug":"new-books-in-law-435148","podcast_index_feed_id":435148,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT9194668674","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ed004316-efde-11e8-9046-ff9798033c68/image/ae1a67b1e26a70ce7206b645623e48a3.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1864,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T20:20:35.462151+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-law-435148"},"episode":{"title":"Lawrence Douglas, \"The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice\" (Princeton UP, 2026)","slug":"lawrence-douglas-the-criminal-state-war-atrocity-and-the-dream-of-international-justice-princeton-up-2026","published_at":"2026-06-03T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-law-435148/lawrence-douglas-the-criminal-state-war-atrocity-and-the-dream-of-international-justice-princeton-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-law-435148","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5017552035.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5017552035.mp3","summary":"The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thought to trace the shifting legal response to state aggression and atrocities, from Leopold’s rule over the Congo to Putin’s war in Ukraine. At its heart is Lawrence Douglas’s fresh interpretation of the law’s reckoning with Nazi aggression and atrocity. He shows how the Nuremberg trials challenged centuries of thought—rooted in Hobbes and other canonical thinkers—that shielded sovereigns from legal scrutiny. Yet Nuremberg’s bid to frame aggression as the cornerstone of a new order of international criminal law largely failed, giving way to a system now centrally concerned with crimes against humanity and genocide—while leaving unresolved the legality and effectiveness of using force to stop the worst violations of human rights. Providing rare historical perspective on the dilemmas facing international courts, The Criminal State is a sweeping, provocative history of the struggle to bring perpetrators of state violence to justice. Our guest is Professor Lawrence Douglas, who is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. Our host is Eleonora Mattiacci, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. She is the author of \"Volatile States in International Politics\" (Oxford University Press, 2023). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law","meta_description":"The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice (Princeton University Press, 2026) offers a gripping account of how law has conf…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3139,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-law-435148/episodes/lawrence-douglas-the-criminal-state-war-atrocity-and-the-dream-of-international-justice-princeton-up-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-law-435148/lawrence-douglas-the-criminal-state-war-atrocity-and-the-dream-of-international-justice-princeton-up-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}