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Entitled
Rights matter, but conversations about rights can be polarizing, confusing and frustrating. Lawyers and law professors Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg have traveled the world getting into the weeds of global human rights debates. On Entitled, they use that expertise to explore the stories and thorny...
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Is It Time To Rethink The Binary In Sports?
When South African runner Caster Semenya dominated international competitions, sports authorities demanded she prove she was “really” a woman. The rul...
What If Kings Are Good for Democracy?
What does it mean when people start calling Donald Trump a king? And why are some political theorists — on both the right and left — exploring the pos...
Why Mahmoud Khalil's Lawyer Is Losing Faith In The Justice System
As student protests over Gaza sweep college campuses, one case is testing the limits of free speech and immigration law in America. Mahmoud Khalil, a...
Are We Witnessing The End of The Postwar Order?, with Former President of the U.N. Dennis Francis
What happens when the country that helped design the international human rights system starts to dismantle it?
In this episode, we speak with th...
Trump And Human Rights: Take One
What happens when the government turns the law into a weapon? In these first few months of the second Trump administration human rights advocates, leg...
Is Bitcoin Good For Human Rights?
This week, our co-hosts Professors Tom Ginsburg and Claudia Flores discuss bitcoin, the cryptocurrency soaring in both popularity and value. In the la...
Inside the UN: Unpacking the Role of Human Rights Experts
United Nations special experts have a crucial role in upholding international human rights law. These independent specialists hold mandates to report...
The Future of Justice: What’s Next for Israel/Gaza in International Law?
Since our last episode on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza, we wanted to do an update on where international law currently stands in the c...
Is There A Place For Natural Law In Today's World?
We've all heard about different kinds of laws...but there is a higher order law that often gets overlooked—it's called Natural Law. The idea behind Na...
Can Law Govern War? Gaza, Israel and Beyond
When it comes to discussion about the conflict in Gaza, there is an endless parade of commentators on both sides telling us what is right or wrong, le...
Is Gender Apartheid A Thing?
The word apartheid gets used in many different contexts to indicate the severity of crimes across the globe. But its use is controversial because the...
Is The Right to Read Under Threat?
In recent years, book bans have swept the nation. According to PEN America, more than 4,000 books have been banned in some capacity in public schools...
Do We Have The Right to Lie?
As kids, we all heard someone tell us that it's wrong to lie...but as we grew older, we realized that people lie all the time. Politicians, presidents...
LIVE: Free Expression & Social Media
We’re doing something special for this month’s episode. In October of 2023, we hosted a live recording here at the University of Chicago. Tom Ginsburg...
S3E3: The Complicated Right To Protest
Some might say one of the most important ways we exercise the right to free expression is through protests. And we’ve certainly seen groups all over t...
S3E2: Sticks and Stones: The Problem of Hate Speech
We all know the phrase: “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” But is that actually true? Recent research in psychology...
S3E1: How Free Is Free Speech On Campus?
On the third season of Entitled, we're circling back to the first fundamental right: the freedom of speech. Lawyers and law professors Claudia Flores...
Ibram X. Kendi On Policy Over Platitudes: Building an Anti-Racist World
On our last season, we focused entirely on the idea of equality from an international perspective. But when it comes to domestic questions of equality...
The Moving Target Of Abortion Rights
For the first time in decades, the future of abortion rights in the US is uncertain. With the overturning of Roe v Wade in 2022, The Supreme Court has...
Will "Personalized Laws" Make Us More Equal?
In a world with personalized laws, each person would be subject to different legal rules and their own personally-tailored laws. For example, if you'r...
A Roof Over Our Heads: Rights Or Real Estate?
More than half a million people are currently homeless in the United States. It's a crisis that extends beyond California and is trending upwards in o...
From Pets To Zoos, Should Animals Have Rights, Too?
Animals suffer at the hands of humans every day. Not just in factory farms, but also in our homes, where pets don’t receive enough attention or exerci...
S2E8: Robots & Rights: Dystopian or Deserving?
Artificial intelligence is all around us—it listens to us, even watches us, and waits for our daily demands. From Alexa to Siri, to Sophia, the social...
S2E7: Are Equal Opportunities Possible In Our Ableist World?
Sixty-one million adults in the United States live with a disability — that's one in four adults, a staggering number when you consider how widespread...
S2E6: Global Inequality: How Should Countries Share Their Wealth?
While borders have the ability to divide countries both politically and socially, wealth drives an even bigger wedge between us. How do we make sense...
S2E5: Quotas: Band-aid or Magic Bullet?
Fixing discrimination isn't as easy as putting anti-discrimination laws on the books. But, there is a tool that can at least chip away at the effects...
S2E4: The Equity/Equality Equation
There are two words that sound pretty similar, but they're not synonyms: equality and equity. While equality means that everybody should be given the...
S2E3: Constitutionalizing Equality: Why Chile Wants A New Constitution
After years of community protests, and months of legal work, Chile finalized a draft of a brand new constitution this summer. Chileans will vote to pa...
S2E2: What Comes First: Socio-Economic or Civil and Political Equality?
Would you put a price tag on your rights? If you had to choose between your socio-economic rights or your freedom to peacefully protest, what would yo...
S2E1: What Is Equality Anyway?
Lawyers and law professors Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg kick off the second season of Entitled — and this time, they’re focusing on one human right...
S1E6: The River Knows Where to Go
The rights of nature are enshrined in a number of constitutions around the world, and there is a growing movement to extend rights to nature as it fac...
S1E5: Who’s Womb Is it Anyway?
Today, medical advances make it possible for a woman to have a baby on behalf of someone else. This has given many people – including many in the LGBT...
S1E4: That “Just-in-Case” Gun
The right to bear arms is an American touchstone, found in very few other countries. Many think it should not be a right at all, and the debate over...
S1E3.5: Are All Afghanistan's Women Potential Refugees?
The collapse of the Afghan government has raised grave concerns for the future of the country, particularly for women. Exit is not a generally availab...
S1E3: Rights at the Border
The right to seek and enjoy asylum has never been more important than in today’s global landscape. At the same time, countries have never been more co...
S1E2: Better Off Said
Free speech is one of those all important rights but one whose scope changes over time. Today, it is more likely to take place behind a screen rather...
S1E1: What's The Matter With Rights?
Lawyers and law professors Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg have traveled the world getting into the weeds of global human rights debates. On this firs...