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10 February 2026

The Power Of Law In Dictatorships – Professor Ben Nathans On The Soviet Dissident Movement (Podcast)

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In our latest episode of Bad News, Good Lawyers, host Tom Firestone, head of our Government Investigations & White Collar Practice, is joined by Benjamin Nathans, Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

They discuss Professor Nathans' Pulitzer Prize-winning book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, and explore the role of law in dictatorships, including the concept of "civil obedience" and how a dictatorship's own laws can be used to combat it.

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