Unreliable Evidence Is Back

BBC’s programme Unreliable Evidence presented by Clive Anderson has begun a new series. The first episode looks at how English law balances the interests of parents and children. Anderson’s guests include a former president of the High Court Family Division, several senior lawyers and a law professor. 43 min, no transcript.
Further episodes include

• The Law and the Gender Pay Gap
• Human Rights on the Battlefield
• The Law of the Road

The Effectiveness of International Law

The University of Chicago Law School has posted video and audio recordings of a November 2014 talk in their "Chicago's Best Ideas" lecture series. Adam Chilton speaks about "Why We Know Very Little About the Effectiveness of International Law, and How Experiments Might Help to Change That". Chilton gives an interesting presentation of how to construct research experiments in social sciences. 38 min. of Chilton then 20 min. of questions, no transcript, but a short article about the talk is available. Very interesting.