EU Law – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 6

October 29, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastanthony arnull, eu law, european union law, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Anthony Arnull introduces European Union law, which will have a central role as the European Union deals with the consequences of Brexit and the eurozone crisis.

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Anthony Arnull holds the Barber Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham. He has specialized in the law of the European Union for over 30 years and worked at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg from 1989-92. He has given evidence to a number of UK Parliamentary Select Committees and acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords EU Committee. In 2013-14, he served as an output assessor on the Law Sub-Panel for the 2014 Research Assessment Exercise (REF).

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Voter Fraud and Election Meddling – Episode 57 – The Oxford Comment

October 27, 2020The Oxford Comment, The Oxford Comment2016 election, 2020 election, accessible elections, caroline tolbert, dov levin, election meddling, election safety, election security, mail in voting, meddling in the ballot box, michael ritter, podcast, The Oxford Comment, vote by mail, voter suppressionoxfordacademic

On this episode of The Oxford Comment, we spoke with three scholars who specialize in electoral intervention, voter turnout, and voting laws. Caroline Tolbert and Michael Ritter, co-authors of Accessible Elections: How the States Can Help Americans Vote, and Dov Levin, author of Meddling in the Ballot Box: The Causes and Effects of Partisan Electoral Interventions, answered our questions about voting and offered solutions for the safety and security of the 2020 US presidential election and elections in the future.

Music: Filaments by Podington Bear is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

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Fashion – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 5

October 26, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastfashion, rebecca arnold, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Rebecca Arnold introduces fashion, a gigantic global industry which generates some three hundred billion dollars in revenue every year yet is often denigrated as trivial and superficial.

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Rebecca Arnold is a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities in the Department of History of Design at the Royal College of Art.

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Globalization – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 4

October 21, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastglobalisation, globalization, manfred steger, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Manfred B. Steger introduces globalization, the transformative power spearheading our interconnected world.

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Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and Global Professorial Fellow at Western Sydney University. He also served as a globalization consultant for the U.S. Department of State.

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Logic – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 3

October 18, 2020The Very Short Introductions Podcastgraham priest, logic, the very short introductions podcast, vsi, vsi25oxfordacademic

In this episode, Graham Priest introduces logic, an area which is often wrongly perceived as having little to do with rest of philosophy and even less to do with real life.

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Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a regular visitor at the University of Melbourne (where he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy), and at St. Andrews University.

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