# possibilities (video feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover possibilities. Page: Feed: --- ## [Linguistics and the Law](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41041) _2025-11-01 · Law and Justice (Video)_ Language and the law is a field growing in size and importance. While some forensic linguistics applications -- e.g. authorship attribution -- have a wider tradition, this growth is particularly acute in the domain of legal interpretation, which is increasingly using corpus data and methods. Stefan Gries, Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara, discusses two recent applications. One is from… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41041.mp4) ## [The Times of Possibility](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40431) _2025-08-05 · Law and Justice (Video)_ Legal scholar Annabel Brett explores the idea of “moral possibility”—the boundary between what laws demand and what people can realistically or ethically be expected to do. Drawing from early modern thinkers like Aquinas, Suarez, and Hobbes, Brett shows how moral impossibility has long shaped debates about legal obligation, resistance, and political agency. Commentators Melissa Lane and David… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40431.mp4) ## [Times of Change: Possibility Virtue and a Democratic Politics of Time](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40430) _2025-08-02 · Law and Justice (Video)_ Political theorist Annabel Brett of Cambridge University explores how the concept of “moral possibility” shapes law, politics, and public obligation. She explains that laws must be realistic for people to follow—what is morally possible varies by individual, culture, time, and circumstance. Drawing on early modern Catholic legal theory, Brett discusses how extreme demands (like enduring war or… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40430.mp4) ## [Subjects and Citizens: The Possibility Condition Law and Democracy](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40429) _2025-07-05 · Law and Justice (Video)_ There's a powerful idea in the history of European legal and political thought: that laws must be possible for people to follow. Annabel Brett, professor of Political Thought and History at Cambridge University, describes how from ancient times through the Renaissance, thinkers believed that demanding the impossible—whether physically or psychologically—was a hallmark of tyranny. A classic example… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40429.mp4)