Taboo Trades Podcast: Eggonomics with Diane Tober
My guest today is Diane Tober, an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Department of Anthropology and Institute for Social Science Research. She is a medical anthropologist with a…
Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 12/8/2025)
The latest Substack connects three domains where law, norms, and market design intersect: • The organ-donation paradox, where ex-post gifts are celebrated while ex-ante payment remains illegal. • Feeding America’s…
Taboo and Repugnant Roundup
New Substack: Taboo & Repugnant Roundup This issue examines several consequential developments in reproductive and higher-education policy: • The rising use of elective IVF and PGT, and the shaky foundations…
Taboo Trades Podcast: Prabha Kotiswaran on Reproductive Labor in India
My guest today is Prabha Kotiswaran, a Professor of Law & Social Justice at King’s College London. Professor Kotiswaran’s main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist…
Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (1/24)
This week’s roundup brings together multiple strands of interest to scholars working on courts, health policy, bioethics, and market governance. The discussion of private judges highlights a notable shift in…
Taboo and Repugnant Roundup (Week of 11/17)
This week’s substack review spans the full terrain of repugnant markets: incentives for deceased donation, private-law innovation for intimate relationships, competing narratives about living donor transplantation in India, and a…
Taboo And Repugnant Weekly News
This week’s Taboo and Repugnant Recap covers pushback against the New York Times’ reporting on organ donation, Jeff Skopek’s fascinating arguments about animals that are “created to be killed,” and…
Taboo Trades Podcast: Jeff Skopek on Created To Be Killed
My guest today is Jeff Skopek, a Professor of Law and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Law, Medicine, and Life Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School…
Taboo Trades Podcast: Market Solutions to Fish and Wildlife Preservation with Jonathan Adler
My guest today is Jonathan Adler, Cabell Research Professor and Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School. Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven…