Ipse Dixit

In this episode, Suja A. Thomas , Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, discusses her article, " The Customer Caste: Lawful Discrimination by Public Businesses ," which will be published in the California Law Review. Thomas begins by describing the history of anti-discrimination laws in relation to public accommodations and how courts have interpret...

In this episode, Lee J. Strang , John W. Stoepler Professor of Law & Values at the University of Toledo College of Law, discusses his book " Originalism's Promise: A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution ," which is published by Cambridge University Press. Strang begins by explaining what he means by "originalism," and why he thinks the different versions of originalism are ultimate...

In this episode, Lara Bazelon , Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice Clinic and the Racial Justice Clinic at the University of San Francisco School of Law, discusses her article (co-authored with Bruce Green , Professor of Law at Fordham Law School), " Victims' Rights from a Restorative Justice Perspective ," forthcoming in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law this year...

In this episode, David Arditi , Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington, discusses his new book, " Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society ," which will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. Arditi begins by describing the experience of the music business from the perspective of a musician. How explains...

In this episode, Stephanie Barclay , Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, discusses her article " The Historical Origins of Judicial Religious Exemptions ," which will be published in the Notre Dame Law Review. Barclay begins by describing the current state of the law on judicial religious exemptions, as well as the conventional wisdom on the history o...

In this episode, Guy A. Rub , Professor of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, discusses his article " Owning Nothingness: Between the Legal and the Social Norms of the Art World ," which will be published in the Brigham Young University Law Review. Rub begins by explaining what conceptual art is and why it is a problem for copyright law. He describes how the art market transac...

In this episode, David M. Driesen , University Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law, discusses his article "The Unitary Executive Theory in Comparative Context," which will be published in the Hastings Law Journal . Driesen begins by explaining the unitary executive theory and why he doesn't think it is constitutionally required. He argues that expanding executive power is unwise...

In this episode, Rev. William R. Dailey , a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross and the Director of the Notre Dame Newman Center for Faith and Reason in Dublin, Ireland, discusses his path to the priesthood and career in the law and legal scholarship, as well as his interest in mixology . Dailey is on Twitter at @wrdcsc . This episode was hosted by  Brian L. Frye , Spears-Gilbert Associa...

In this episode, Jeremiah Bourgeois , a journalist, legal scholar, formerly incarcerated person, and matriculating law student, discusses his personal experiences and his legal scholarship. Bourgeois begins by describing the crime he committed and the experience of being incarcerated as a teenager. He explains how he became interested in learning and writing about the law. And he describes his own...

In this episode, Cathay Y. N. Smith , Associate Professor of Law at the University of Montana Blewett School of Law, discusses her article " Creative Destruction: Copyright's Fair Use Doctrine and the Moral Right of Integrity ," which is published in the Pepperdine Law Review. Smith begins by explaining the origins of the moral right of integrity in the Berne Convention, and its introduction into...

In this episode, Renee Hatcher , Assistant Professor of Law and Directoro of the Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic at University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School, discusses her articles " Solidarity Economy Lawyering ," which is published in the ennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, and " Towards a Solidarity Economy Approach to Community Economic Dev...

In this episode, Christopher Tomlins , Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, discusses his new book " In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History ," which is published by Princeton University Press. Tomlins begins by explaining who Nat Turner was and what happened in the Turner Rebellion. He describes the documentary record of the event, and how it has been...

In this episode, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson , Visiting Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, discusses his article Big Data Prosecution and Brady , forthcoming soon in the UCLA Law Review. Professor Ferguson begins by discussing how prosecution has changed from a purely reactive role to one that's more proactive with "intelligence-driven" strategies, and how that's enable...

In this episode, Andrew Davies , Director of Research at the SMU Deadman School of Law's Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, discusses his article Gideon in the Desert: An Empirical Study of Providing Counsel to Criminal Defendants in Rural Places , published in the Maine Law Review 2019 symposium edition. Davies discusses the issue of rural indigent defense as an issue of scarcity of resources...

In this episode, Doron Dorfman , Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law, discusses his article " Suspicious Species ," which will be published in the University of Illinois Law Review. Dorfman begins by observing that there is considerable public outrage about the abuse of disability law to bring animals into places where they are prohibited. He describes the different ki...

In this episode, Carliss N. Chatman , Assistant Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, and Anthony Michael Kreis , Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, discuss Chatman's essay " If a Fetus Is a Person, It Should Get Child Support, Due Process, and Citizenship " and Kreis's response, " Under Ten Eyes ," both of which are published in the Wash...

In 2017, University of Kentucky College of Law students Barrett Block and Zach Atwell composed a song titled "The Court is Yours," based on Nas, " The World is Yours " (1994), for an assignment in Professor Joshua Douglas's Civil Procedure class. The song was performed and recorded by Elijah. Here are the lyrics: [PR] Whose court is this? [Nas] The court is yours, the court is yours [PR] It's mine...

In 2011, Ben Carter , who is currently Senior Litigation and Advocacy Counsel at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, wrote an imaginary commencement address. It was the kind of commencement address that graduating law students will never hear, but the kind of commencement address they need to hear. You can read the text of the original address here . In light of the Coronavirus pandemic, he recorde...

In this episode, Nicholas Bagley , Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and Julian Davis Mortenson , Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, discuss their article " Delegation at the Founding ," which will be published in the Columbia Law Review. They begin by explaining what "delegation" is, in the constitutional context, and the history of the concept of...

In this episode, Nora Slonimsky , Gardiner Assistant Professor of History at Iona College, discusses her draft article "Oil, Elephant Bones, and an Act of Parliament: Mapping America's Earliest Copyright Claim." Slonimsky begins by explaining how copyright worked in 18th century England and colonial America. She describes the effort of one American mapmaker to claim a copyright in a popular map. A...

In this episode, Heidi K. Brown , Director of Legal Writing and Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, discusses her book " The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy ," which is published by the American Bar Association. She begins by explaining how introverts and extroverts are different, and how legal education and practice favor extroverts...

In this episode, Cameron Cantrell, a law student at the University of Washington School of Law, discusses potentially invasive warrants for computer searches (ex-ante versus ex-post warrant restrictions) and the police technologies widely available for decrypting mobile devices, like full device imaging for smartphones. Cameron is passionate about this topic and quite knowledgeable, bringing a stu...

In this episode, Caroline Cecot , Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, discusses her article " Transparency in Agency Cost-Benefit Analysis ," which she co-authored with Robert W. Hahn, and which will be published in the Administrative Law Review. Cecot begins by explaining what cost-benefit analysis is and how agencies use it to inform decisionmaking...

In this episode, Maybell Romero , Assistant Professor of Law at the Northern Illinois University College of Law, and Brian L. Frye , Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, discuss their new essay " The Right to Unmarry: A Proposal ." They begin by explaining how the right to unmarry is unduly burdened and how, after Obergefell , restrictions on divo...

In this episode, J. Remy Green, a partner at  Cohen & Green PLLC , discusses their article " All Your Works Are Belong to Us: New Frontiers for the Derivative Work Right in Video Games ," which is published in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. Green begins by explaining how copyright doctrine conceptualizes videogames as audiovisual works. But they observe that videogame p...