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Entitled

University of Chicago Podcast Network

50 episodes

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 questions around why rights matter and what’s the matter with rights. Entitled is produced with the support of University of Chicago Law School and Yale Law School, and is part of the award winning University of Chicago Podcast Network.

Episodes

  1. Sanctioned: Cuba Under the US Embargo with Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez

    · 33 min · Episode 51

    For over six decades, the U.S. embargo on Cuba has stood as one of the longest and most comprehensive sanction regimes in modern history. But what are the real-world human, economic, and geopolitical costs of economic…

  2. Electing the Bench: Mexico’s Judicial Overhaul and the Rule of Law with Julio Ríos-Figueroa

    · 32 min · Episode 50

    Mexico is navigating one of the most sweeping judicial transformations in modern constitutional history—a controversial reform replacing thousands of career federal and state judges with bench positions decided by…

  3. Who's Entitled to Passport Privilege with Dimitry Kochenov

    · 44 min · Episode 49

    While citizenship is often celebrated as a cornerstone of democracy and equality, constitutional scholar Dimitry Kochenov argues it functions as something far more troubling: a global caste system. In this episode, we…

  4. The Crisis of Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan with Rina Amiri

    · 37 min · Episode 48

    When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, they didn't just alter the country's political landscape—they systematically dismantled the legal and social reality for all women and girls. Through a…

  5. Are All Afghanistan's Women Potential Refugees? (Re-release)

    · 38 min · Episode 47

    The collapse of the Afghan government has raised grave concerns for the future of the country, particularly for women. Exit is not a generally available option, but should it be? This week, we wanted to re-release our…

  6. Caste Across Borders: Dalit Workers and Immigrant Exploitation

    · 46 min · Episode 46

    In this episode of Entitled, we examine how caste discrimination doesn’t end at the borders of India. As Dalit workers migrate to the US in search of better wages, many encounter familiar patterns of exclusion and…

  7. Inside The Fight for Freedom with Myanmar's UN Ambassador

    · 40 min · Episode 45

    In this episode of Entitled, we sit down with Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, who has served as the Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations since October 2020. Despite the February 2021 military coup, he remains in…

  8. Human Rights Under Pressure: A Conversation with Kenneth Roth

    · 41 min · Episode 44

    On this episode of Entitled, we sit down with Kenneth Roth, the longtime former executive director of Human Rights Watch and one of the world’s most prominent advocates for international human rights. Over nearly three…

  9. The Student Movement that Pushed for Change in Bangladesh

    · 42 min · Episode 43

    On this episode of Entitled, Tom and Claudia talk with human rights advocate Rafia Khondoker about the state of women’s rights and democratic freedoms in Bangladesh. Last week, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party secured…

  10. From Prison to Exile: Leopoldo López and the Fight for Venezuela

    · 52 min · Episode 42

    In this episode of Entitled, we speak with Leopoldo López about authoritarianism, resistance, and the future of Venezuela. Recorded before the U.S. intervention, the conversation centers on López’s long opposition to…

  11. Pakistan’s Supreme Court Under Strain: A Judge Resigns Amid Constitutional Attacks and Rising Authoritarianism

    · 47 min · Episode 40

    We speak to Mansoor Ali Shah, who served as the Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan until just last month. Shah is one of two judges who resigned after parliament passed a constitutional amendment that…

  12. Who's Afraid of Gender: Entitled Podcast Live

    · 56 min · Episode 41

    Why has gender—once a term of analysis and identity—become one of the most explosive political flashpoints of our time? From the halls of the United Nations to state legislatures across the United States, debates over…

  13. Silencing the Special Procedures: Sanctions and the UN Human Rights System

    · 29 min · Episode 39

    This year, the US government has issued sanctions on a number of experts from the UN to the International Criminal Court for speaking out about human rights in Gaza. President Donald Trump authorized sanctions on the…

  14. Is It Time To Rethink The Binary In Sports?

    · 40 min · Episode 37

    When South African runner Caster Semenya dominated international competitions, sports authorities demanded she prove she was “really” a woman. The rules they created—targeting women with intersex traits or naturally…

  15. What If Kings Are Good for Democracy?

    · 36 min · Episode 36

    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 possibility of leaving democracy behind? All this debate got co-host…

  16. Why Mahmoud Khalil's Lawyer Is Losing Faith In The Justice System

    · 47 min · Episode 35

    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 Columbia student and lawful permanent resident, was arrested by ICE…

  17. Are We Witnessing The End of The Postwar Order?, with Former President of the U.N. Dennis Francis

    · 34 min · Episode 34

    What happens when the country that helped design the international human rights system starts to dismantle it? In this episode, we speak with the former president of the U.N. General Assembly, Ambassador Dennis…

  18. Trump And Human Rights: Take One

    · 33 min · Episode 33

    What happens when the government turns the law into a weapon? In these first few months of the second Trump administration human rights advocates, legal scholars, and university leaders are warning of a political…

  19. Is Bitcoin Good For Human Rights?

    · 47 min · Episode 32

    This week, our co-hosts Professors Tom Ginsburg and Claudia Flores discuss bitcoin, the cryptocurrency soaring in both popularity and value. In the last month, the price of a single bitcoin has risen from around…

  20. Inside the UN: Unpacking the Role of Human Rights Experts

    · 40 min · Episode 31

    United Nations special experts have a crucial role in upholding international human rights law. These independent specialists hold mandates to report and advise on different areas within human rights as special…

  21. The Future of Justice: What’s Next for Israel/Gaza in International Law?

    · 50 min · Episode 30

    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 conflict. This year, the conflict has triggered several legal cases…

  22. Is There A Place For Natural Law In Today's World?

    · 43 min · Episode 29

    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 Natural Law is that all humans are born with an innate understanding…

  23. Can Law Govern War? Gaza, Israel and Beyond

    · 48 min · Episode 28

    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, legitimate or illegal, a crime or a justified attack, but in all that…

  24. Is Gender Apartheid A Thing?

    · 49 min · Episode 27

    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 word has a very specific definition in international law. Even more…

  25. Is The Right to Read Under Threat?

    · 40 min · Episode 26

    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 since July 2021. Books that discuss topics like racial justice or…

  26. Do We Have The Right to Lie?

    · 38 min · Episode 25

    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, and even executives at corporations tell lies—big and small. As…

  27. LIVE: Free Expression & Social Media

    · 45 min · Episode 24

    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 was joined on stage by renowned scholar Genevie Laikier to have a…

  28. S3E3: The Complicated Right To Protest

    · 47 min · Episode 23

    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 the world using that right in the last few years, from the George…

  29. S3E2: Sticks and Stones: The Problem of Hate Speech

    · 52 min · Episode 22

    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 has shown that words can cause a plethora of different harms.…

  30. S3E1: How Free Is Free Speech On Campus?

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 21

    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 and Tom Ginsburg begin this season by peeling back the curtains of…

  31. Ibram X. Kendi On Policy Over Platitudes: Building an Anti-Racist World

    · 41 min · Episode 20

    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, or equity, they often focus on an important and specific topic:…

  32. The Moving Target Of Abortion Rights

    · 56 min · Episode 19

    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 forced Americans to reconsider and fight for a new vision of a…

  33. Will "Personalized Laws" Make Us More Equal?

    · 45 min · Episode 18

    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're a good driver, you could be rewarded for that good behavior with…

  34. A Roof Over Our Heads: Rights Or Real Estate?

    · 38 min · Episode 17

    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 other states, too. Most jurisdictions in the US have no right to…

  35. From Pets To Zoos, Should Animals Have Rights, Too?

    · 39 min · Episode 16

    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 exercise, and in our oceans, where humans disrupt their habitats and…

  36. S2E8: Robots & Rights: Dystopian or Deserving?

    · 45 min · Episode 15

    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 humanoid robot, AIs want to be our companions (at least, the…

  37. S2E7: Are Equal Opportunities Possible In Our Ableist World?

    · 36 min · Episode 14

    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 ableism is. In a society that largely operates without adequate…

  38. S2E6: Global Inequality: How Should Countries Share Their Wealth?

    · 37 min · Episode 13

    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 of the fact that the wealthiest country in the world, the United…

  39. S2E5: Quotas: Band-aid or Magic Bullet?

    · 49 min · Episode 12

    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 of discrimination: quotas. Over 130 countries have adopted gender…

  40. S2E4: The Equity/Equality Equation

    · 46 min · Episode 11

    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 same resources or opportunities, equity recognizes that we live in…

  41. S2E3: Constitutionalizing Equality: Why Chile Wants A New Constitution

    · 36 min · Episode 10

    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 pass or reject this constitution in a few days. In this episode of…

  42. S2E2: What Comes First: Socio-Economic or Civil and Political Equality?

    · 36 min · Episode 9

    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 you choose? It’s a question that might get a lot of mixed responses,…

  43. S2E1: What Is Equality Anyway?

    · 37 min · Episode 8

    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 (and not just any right) — the right to equality. In the first…

  44. S1E6: The River Knows Where to Go

    · 32 min · Episode 7

    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 faces increasing threats. The extension of rights to nature prompts…

  45. S1E5: Who’s Womb Is it Anyway?

    · 33 min · Episode 6

    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 LGBTQI community – the exciting possibility of founding a family of…

  46. S1E4: That “Just-in-Case” Gun

    · 32 min · Episode 5

    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 it is highly polarized. This episode broadens the lens to show how…

  47. S1E3.5: Are All Afghanistan's Women Potential Refugees?

    · 38 min · Episode 4

    The collapse of the Afghan government has raised grave concerns for the future of the country, particularly for women. Exit is not a generally available option, but should it be? On this episode, we continue our…

  48. S1E3: Rights at the Border

    · 35 min · Episode 3

    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 committed to finding increasingly creative ways to avoid having to…

  49. S1E2: Better Off Said

    · 37 min · Episode 2

    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 than in the town square. What does the right to speak freely really…

  50. S1E1: What's The Matter With Rights?

    · 40 min · Episode 1

    Lawyers and law professors Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg have traveled the world getting into the weeds of global human rights debates. On this first episode of Entitled, they begin their journey of exploring the…

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