Ipse Dixit

In this episode, Jess Miers , a law student at Santa Clara University School of Law, discusses her work on Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, intermediary liability, and content moderation. Miers begins by explaining how Section 230 works and why it was enacted. She reflects on how she became interested in Section 230 and technology policy. She describes the debate around Section 230 an...

In this episode, Melanie Reid , Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law at Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law, discusses her paper " A CSI Story: The Past, Present, and Future of Crime Scene Collection and What Litigators Need to Know " which was published in the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy. Reid begins by discussing the role of crime scene investigators, and how c...

In this episode, Andy Wright , Senior Fellow & Founding Editor of Just Security and Partner at K&L Gates, discusses his paper " Executive Privilege and Inspectors General ." Wright begins by talking about the unique role of inspectors general as part of the executive branch organizational structure while simultaneously beholden to Congress as a creation of statute, placing them in directly...

In this episode, Christian Burset , Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, discusses his article, " Why Didn't the Common Law Follow the Flag? ,” which was published in the Virginia Law Review. Burset is on Twitter at @cburset . Here is the abstract: This Article considers a puzzle about how different kinds of law came to be distributed around the world. The legal systems of some Eur...

In this episode M. Eve Hanan , Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law, discusses her draft article,  A Qualitative Turn In Sentencing . Hanan explains how little the policymakers setting prison sentences know about the lived experience of persons in prison. Hanan's scholarship is available on SSRN and she is on Twitter at @eve_hana...

In this episode, Nizan Packin , Assistant Professor at the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College, City University of New York and Affiliate Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance, discusses her article, " RegTech, Compliance and Technology Judgment Rule ," published in the Chicago-Kent Law Review. Packin begins by defining what Regulatory T...

In this episode, Jeffrey Bellin , Professor of Law and University Professor for Teaching Excellence at William & Mary Law School, discusses his paper " Fourth Amendment Textualism ," forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review. Bellin begins by exploring the problems with current Fourth Amendment “search” jurisprudence and its reliance on Katz v. United States’ amorphous 'reasonable expectation of...

In this episode,  Hannah Haksgaard , Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Dakota School of Law, returns and discusses her article “ Rural Practice as Public Interest Work ,” published this summer in the symposium issue of the  Maine Law Review . Prof. Hakgaard introduces listeners to the severe rural lawyer shortage faced in every state of the country. She then expl...

In this episode  Nicole M. Boyson , the Patrick F. and Helen C. Walsh Research Professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, discusses her article  The Worst of Both Worlds? Dual-Registered Investment Advisers . Boyson discusses the investment advice landscape and some of the risks for investors. The working paper is available now on  S...

In this episode, Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes , Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic at Boston University School of Law, discusses her article " Reparations for Central American Refugees ," which was published in the Denver Law Review. Sherman-Stokes begins by explaining the legal definition of "refugee" and why refugees are entitled to asylum under United States im...

In this episode, Hannah Bloch-Wehba , Assistant Professor of Law at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project, discusses her article " Global Platform Governance: Private Power in the Shadow of the State ," published in the Southern Methodist University Law Review. Bloch-Wehba begins by discussing the dynamics of policies...

In this episode, Brandon Magner , a 2018 graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law who practices labor-side employment law at the Gath Law Firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, discusses his article " Grand Theft Auto: Calibrating Laboratory Conditions to the New Normal in Union Elections ," which will be published in the Concordia Law Review. Magner begins by explaining what a union is, how...

On October 17, 1952, William H. Townsend (1890-1964) delivered an address on Kentucky legend Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903) at a meeting of the Civil War Round Table in Chicago. The address was recorded without Townsend's knowledge by Ralph G. Newman, of the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago, and released as a 2xLP set by the Lexington, Kentucky Morris Book Shop , to some acclaim. Townsend w...

In this episode, Ari Z. Bryen , Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, discusses his article " Responsa ," which will be published in the Oxford Handbook of Law and the Humanities. Bryen begins by describing the jurisprudential landscape of ancient Rome. He explains the role of jurists in the Roman legal system, focusing on their creation of "responsa" or opinions providing answe...

In this episode, Eric Kades , Thomas Jefferson Professor of Law and Cabell Research Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School, discusses his article " Of Piketty and Perpetuities: Dynastic Wealth in the Twenty-First Century (And Beyond) ," published in the Boston College Law Review. Kades begins by discussing the implications of Thomas Piketty's work related to his seminal text Capital in th...

In this episode, Matthew Lawrence , Assistant Professor of Law at Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law School and affiliate of the Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, discusses his article " The Social Consequences Problem in Health Insurance and How to Solve It ," forthcoming in the Harvard Law & Policy Review. Lawrence begins by defining...

In this episode, Louis Rosen , Reference Librarian and Associate Professor of Law Library at Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law, discusses his article " The Lawyer as Superhero: How Marvel Comics' Daredevil Depicts the American Court System and Legal Practice ," which was published in the Capital University Law Review. Rosen begins by describing the history and symbolism of Marvel's...

In this episode, Clark Asay , Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, discusses his article " Artificial Stupidity ," which will be published in the William & Mary Law Review. Asay begins by reflecting on the current state of artificial intelligence, which many experts consider still quite "stupid," in the sense that its capabilities are limited and b...

In this episode, Franita Tolson, Professor of Law and Vice-Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, discusses her article "The Spectrum of Congressional Authority Over Elections," which is published in the Boston University Law Review. Tolson begins by explaining how overlapping constitutional authorization for Congressional regulation shou...

In this episode, William Moon , Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, discusses his article " Delaware's New Competition ," forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review. Moon begins by providing a broad outline of the contemporary understanding of American corporate law, detailing how corporate law scholarship has been based upon an und...

In this episode, Bob Tarantino , an entertainment lawyer at Dentons Canada LLP in Toronto and a PhD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, discusses his dissertation, "If You Love Something, Set It Free: Open Content Copyright Licensing and Creative Cultural Expression." Tarantino's dissertation uses a study of the Dungeons & Dragons "open game license" to illustrate and investigate the use of...

In this episode, Noah Weisbord , Associate Professor of Law at Queens University Faculty of Law, discusses his book,  The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats . Weisbord begins by defining the crime of aggression, and traces its historical development from the attempts to promote peace in the 1920s through the League of Nation...

In this episode, Jay D. Wexler , Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, discusses his new book, "Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life," which is published by Redwood Press, the trade imprint of the Stanford University Press . Wexler begins by describing how the Supreme Court has historically decided Es...

In this episode, Rose Cuison Villazor , Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School, Newark, discusses her article " Anti-Sanctuary & Immigration Localism ," which she co-authored with Pratheepan Gulasekaram and Rick Su, and which was published in the Columbia Law Review. Villazor begins by explaining the concept of a "sanctuary city" and the role they play i...

In this episode, Thibault Schrepel , Affiliate Faculty at the Berkman Center at Harvard University and Assistant Professor in European Economic Law at Utrecht University School of Law, discusses his article " Antitrust Without Romance ." Schrepel begins by explaining the concept of "public choice theory" and how it can help us understand the incentives of antitrust regulators. He describes the dat...