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Additional Podcast Resources

We hope that the postcast links below will be of interest to APLA members.  This is a very small selection of the vast resources available. (last updated March 2009)

Introduction to Podcasting and Using Podcasts in the Classroom
Legal and Political Anthropology-related Podcasts

Some Academic Podcast Portals, Anthropology and Beyond
(Note: Many university websites now include a podcast section on which links to lectures and events from different departments are available. To find these, simply type 'podcasts' into the search engine within the University website.)
Some suggested iTunes free downloads (both video and audio podcasts)
  • Law and Justice in Japan (Author: Prof. Alan Macfarlane, University of Cambridge, February 2008)


  • Moral Panics and Terrorism (also entitled 'Moral Panics and the Law') (Author: Prof. Alan Macfarlane, University of Cambridge, February 2008)


  • History of Legal Anthropology (Parts I and II) (Author: Prof. Alan Macfarlane, University of Cambridge, February 2008)


  • Headscarves and Human Rights (Author: Multiple scholars, including Cynthia Baker and Mary Hegland, Public Roundtable co-sponsored by Santa Clara University and the Ethics Center)


  • A portal to various University of California, Berkeley podcasts available through iTunes (http://itunes.berkeley.edu/)
Popular Resources: Podcasts from NPR and other mainstream media sources
  • NPR's This American Life, Episode 331: 'Habeas Schmabeas 2007' (Winner of a Peabody Award)
    (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1185)
    The right of habeas corpus has been a part of our country's legal tradition longer than we've actually been a country. It means that our government has to explain why it's holding a person in custody. But now, the War on Terror has nixed many of the rules we used to think of as fundamental. At Guantanamo Bay, our government initially claimed that prisoners should not be covered by habeas—or even by the Geneva Conventions—because they're the most fearsome enemies we have. But is that true? Is it a camp full of terrorists, or a camp full of our mistakes?


  • NPR's This American Life, Episode 180: 'Immigration'
    ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=170)
    We live in a big enough country that there are lots of laws too obscure for most of us to have heard of... but which actually affect tens of thousands of lives in huge ways. This show deals with one of them: a 1996 immigration law that the Immigration Service itself says is unfair. Most of the law's original sponsors in Congress now say they went too far, and that they were too harsh when they passed the law. And yet most of the law's key provisions still stand unchanged.


  • NPR's This American Life, Episode 210: 'Perfect Evidence'
    (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=210)
    After a decade in which DNA evidence has freed over 100 people nationwide, it's become clear that DNA evidence isn't just proving wrongdoing by criminals, it's proving wrongdoing by police and prosecutors. In this show, we look at what DNA has revealed to us: how police get innocent people to confess to crimes they didn't commit and how they get witnesses to pin crimes on innocent people. There have always been suspicions that these kinds of things take place. With DNA, there's finally irrefutable proof.


  • Learn Out Loud, a resource for mainstream media social science and politics-related podcasts (http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory/Politics and http://www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory/Social-Sciences)


  • Free Video Lectures: An assortment of academic lectures on social science topics (http://freevideolectures.com/socialsciences.php)
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