Colloquy

Welcome to Colloquy, a podcast produced by Northwestern University Law Review Online. Join us for our first episode with our very own, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Dean Clopton! On this episode, we discuss Dean Clopton's journey to this point, the special place that is NU Law, and how to say "amicus" briefs. For more information on NULR and NULRO, please visit https://northwesternlawreview....

In this episode, activist Kempis “Ghani” Songster and Professor Rachel Lopez discuss their article, written with co-author Terrell Carter: Redeeming Justice. You can read their article here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3728752. After Jones, mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles remain unconstitutional; if someone under 18 is sentenced to life without parole...

In this episode, professor and attorney David Shapiro discusses the recent Supreme Court decision in Jones v. Mississippi. Professor Shapiro argued for the Petitioner, Brett Jones, before the Supreme Court. You can read the Court’s decision here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-1259_8njq.pdf.

In this episode, professor and attorney David Shapiro discusses the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Jones v. Mississippi. Professor Shapiro argued for the Petitioner, Brett Jones, before the Supreme Court.

In this episode, Amanda Frost, Professor of Law at American University, discusses her Essay, Alienating Citizens, in which she declares that denaturalization is back. Over the past couple of years, she explains, the Trump Administration has revived denaturalization. This episode and her Essay situate denaturalization within the Trump Administration’s broader approach to immigration. Under a policy...

In this episode, Professor Michele Goodwin discusses her Essay, The Transgender Military Ban: Preservation of Discrimination Through Transformation, which she co-authored with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Their Essay contends that the Trump Administration’s ban on transgender individuals serving in the military is based on prejudice and bias, lacking any legitimate justification. The Essay identifies s...

Danny Greenfield and Maggie Filler of the MacArthur Justice Center discuss solitary confinement. Namely, why we should end it, why we should care about it, and why listeners should come to Northwestern Law Review's 2019 Symposium: Rethinking Solitary Confinement. Rethinking Solitary Confinement will be held at Northwestern Law on November 8, 2019, and will feature activists, lawyers, survivors, an...

In this episode of Below the Line, Professor Issa Kohler-Hausmann discusses her article, Eddie Murphy and the Dangers of Counterfactual Causal Thinking About Detecting Racial Discrimination. Bonus! Watch Eddie Murphy's "White Like Me" here: https://youtu.be/l_LeJfn_qW0

In this episode of Below the Line, Professor Daniel Croxall of McGeorge School of Law discusses craft beer law and his essay "Cheers to Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Craft Beer Viable."

In this episode, Professor Clay Calvert discusses his essay "Reconsidering Incitement, Tinker, and the Heckler's Veto on College Campuses: Richard Spencer and the Charlottesville Factor."

In this episode of Below the Line, Professor Courtlyn Roser-Jones joins us to discuss her article in Volume 112 Issue 4, "Reconciling Agency Fee Doctrine, the First Amendment, and the Modern Public Sector Union," and the Janus v. AFCSME oral argument.

Northwestern University Law Review members Arielle Tolman (Editor-in-Chief) and Thomas Rousse (Senior Online Editor) chat with Professors Wendy Espeland (Northwestern, Sociology) and Michael Sauder (University of Iowa, Sociology) about Engines of Anxiety, their book on the pressures and effects of the U.S. World and News Report ranking system on law schools.

Administrative law got you down? Well, sit on down and listen to our Online team discuss all things admin with BYU Law Professor Aaron Nielson. We discuss some recent admin caselaw and some interesting scholarship you ought to read over break.

In this edition of the Northwestern University Law Review Online Podcast Series, Duke Law Professor Joseph Blocher speaks with Senior Online Editor Matt Monahan to explain the problematic logic behind reading the Fifth Amendment as an express support for the constitutionality of capital punishment.

In this episode of the Northwestern University Law Review Online’s podcast series, Online Managing Editor Abi Hoverman sits down with Clinical Professor Laura H. Nirider to discuss her work representing Brendan Dassey, made famous by Netflix’s Making a Murderer docuseries. Professor Nirider takes a deep dive into Brendan Dassey’s confession, analyzes various coercive interrogation techniques, and...

In this podcast, Professors Steven Calabresi and Andrew Koppelman discuss the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia with NULR Senior Online Editor Matthew Monahan.

In this podcast, Peter R. Dubrowski discusses The Ferguson v. JONAH Verdict and a Path Towards National Cessation of Gay-to-Straight “Conversion Therapy” with NULR Online Articles Editor Leah Rizkallah.

In this podcast, Professor Monu Bedi discusses The Curious Case of Cell Phone Location Data: Fourth Amendment Doctrine Mashup with NULR Online Articles Editor Carlo Felizardo.

In this podcast, Aneil Kovvali discusses Who Are You Calling Irrational?, his book review of Cass R. Sunstein’s Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism, with NULR Online Articles Editor Carlo Felizardo.

In this podcast, Cathy Hwang and Professor Benjamin P. Edwards discuss their essay The Value of Uncertainty with NULR Online editor William Gohl.

In this podcast, Professor Howard M. Wasserman discusses his essay Crazy in Alabama: Judicial Process and the Last Stand Against Marriage Equality in the Land of George Wallace with NULR Online editor William Gohl.

In this podcast, Professor Destiny Peery moderates a panel of Patrick Brayer, Professor Sarah Jane Forman, and Professor Peter A. Joy, who recently published a three-part series on racial bias in jury selection following a series of high-profile, racially charged events occurring across the country during summer 2014.

NULR Online Articles Editor Carlo Felizardo interviews Julius Miner Moot Court problem editor Scott Shelton, along with competition finalists Whitney Woodward and Christian Colburn, about the competition and the Supreme Court’s pending decision about the False Claims Act’s first-to-file bar in Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Carter.

In this podcast, Professor Michael A. Carrier discusses his essay, How Not to Apply Actavis, with NULR Online editor Brian O’Connell.

In this podcast, Professor Todd Haugh discusses his essay SOX on Fish: A New Harm of Overcriminalization with NULR Online editor Jeff Wojciechowski.