This week, we will talk about the innovations the Latter Hojo used to secure their dominance, and about their long…
This week, Isaac and Demetria make use of a tale of revenge from 1820s Japan to discuss one of the most interesting legal practices we’ve ever seen: kataki-uchi, the system of legally permitted revenge of Japan’s samurai era. Why turn revenge into something akin to getting your license renewed at the DMV? What are the rules? And what can we learn about the nature of justice from thinking about this?
This week, we start a series on one of the also-rans of the Sengoku period: the Latter Hojo clan. Who…
This week, we cover one of the most famous tales of revenge in Japanese history: that of the two Soga…
This week, Isaac and Demetria investigate the case that grabbed headlines across 1920s America. We’ll talk about the intersection of xenophobia, violent anarchism, and the American legal system, and how all of them manifested in a bungled case that remains divisive to this day.
This week, we cover the remainder of Oda Nobunaga’s rise to power: his wars for control of central Japan in…
This week, we turn to the life and legacy of the first of Japan’s three unifiers: the warlord Oda Nobunaga,…
This episode has it all: Pope-on-pope legal drama! Corpse desecration! 3 separate French kings named Charles! Come for an explanation of the Corpse Synod, stay to find out how why it’s not easy being pope.
This week, we consider a figure who appears in two stories from the ancient collection of tales known as the…
This week we investigate the role of Japan in laying the groundwork for Vietnam’s wars against France and the United…