Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast

Julie Suk


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The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and David’s back on the pod. More importantly, we’re thrilled this week to be joined by Julie Suk, Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law in New York City, to discuss her new book After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It. After Misogyny, like much of Professor Suk’s scholarship, including her first book, is impressively interdisciplinary, centering women and gender in the legal, historical, sociological, and political stories of liberal constitutionalism. 

After Sam lays out all of the different fields that After Misogyny contributes to, ranging from feminist legal theory to comparative constitutionalism, Professor Suk explains her focus on the structural and legal aspects of misogyny. We discuss Professor Suk’s appropriation of the term “unjust enrichment” from private law, and how it explains what, on her view, is wrong with misogyny. Come with us on a journey through Prohibition and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment in America and cross the pond to Sweden, Ireland, and France. We round out our wide-ranging conversation discussing the limits, but also the necessity, of legal and constitutional approaches to social problems. All this and more on this week’s pod – take a listen and find out.

This podcast is generously supported by Themis Bar Review.

Referenced Readings

  • Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne

  • The War on Alcohol by Lisa McGirr

  • Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent

  • Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It by Richard Reeves

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