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In this episode, Michael L. Smith , soon to be an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, discusses his article " Generative AI and the Purpose of Legal Scholarship ," which will be published in the University of Massachusetts Law Review. Smith begins by describing recent law review articles claiming that the use of generative AI will transform legal scholarship. H...

In this episode, Ian J. Murray , a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School, discusses his article " The Offshore Origins of Regulatory Arbitrage: Charting a Critical Conceptual History ," which will be published in the William and Mary Business Law Review. Murray begins by describing the concept of conceptual history and explaining the origin of the concepts of arbitrage and regulatory arbitrage. He...

In this episode, Kevin Frazier, an AI Innovation and Law Fellow at UT Austin School of Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare , and Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School , discuss their draft article " Large Language Scholarship: Generative AI in the Legal Academy ." They begin by explaining what an AI model is, what kind of AI models they are talki...

In this episode, Nicholas Bruckman , a documentary filmmaker, discusses his new film " Minted ," which documents the "non-fungible token" or NFT phenomenon of the early 2020s. Bruckman begins by describing his background as a documentary filmmakers, as well as how he became interested in cryptocurrencies and NFTs. He explains how he first started working on Minted and how the film developed over t...

In this episode, Michael Assis , a PhD candidate at the Bard Graduate Center, discusses his scholarship on art, digital art, and NFTs, including his dissertation in progress, Decentralized Objects: Non-fungible Tokens in the Age of Web3 . Among other things, Assis explains what NFTs are and how they relate to the history and theory of art and digital art. He discusses how the concept of authentici...

At the 1977 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Barbara Ringer, the eighth Register of Copyrights, gave a presentation titled "Implementing the Copyright Law: What Librarians Should Know," in which she explained how the Copyright Act of 1976, of which she was the principle drafter, would affect libraries and librarians. This is a recording of her presentation. Many thanks to Zvi...

In this episode, Zvi Rosen , Assistant Professor of Law at the Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School and incoming Associate Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, discusses his draft article " AI Authorship: A Case of History Repeating Itself? " Rosen explains how copyright law and the Copyright Office have wrestled with concept of copyright in...

In this episode, Jill Hasday , Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, discusses her new book, " We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality ," which is published by Oxford University Press. Hasday explains how men have historically used rhetoric to minimize the role of women in clai...

In this episode, Rohan Grey , Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University School of Law, discusses his draft article " Digitizing the Fisc ." Grey begins by explain how the Trump administration and Elon Musk have seized unilateral control of the administrative state through federal payment systems. He explains how those systems work and why their current structure makes it impossible for C...

In this episode, Dan Rabinowitz , founder and CEO of Pre/Dicta , a litigation analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence to predict the outcome of lawsuits, explains how the platform works, why it is useful, and who might find value in using it. This episode was hosted by  Brian L. Frye , Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitte...

In this episode, Gregory M. Dickinson , Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law, discusses his article " The Patterns of Digital Deception ," which is published in the Boston College Law Review. Dickinson begins by explaining why it's important to prevent online fraud, but also important to prevent it effectively and efficiently. He observes that many curren...

In this episode, Jonathon J. Booth , Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, discusses his draft article, "A New Satanic Panic." Booth begins by describing the "satanic panic" of the 1980s and early 1990s, during which many people were prosecuted for and even convicted of crimes associated with imaginary satanic rituals. He explains how the satanic panic began and why...

In this episode, Sarah Fackrell (formerly Burstein), Professor and Co-Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses her article The Counterfeit Sham , which is published in the Harvard Law Review. Fackrell begins by explaining why counterfeiting is uniquely bad and why design patent infringement is different from counterfeiting. She then explains ho...

In this episode, Samantha Alecozay , a practicing faculty member at St. Mary’s University School of law, and the founding attorney of Alecozay Law Firm, PLLC, discusses her forthcoming article, “The Small Business Killer: How FinCEN Enforcement of the CTA Could Destroy the Last Bastion of the American Dream,” which will be published by the Lincoln Memorial University Law Review. In the meantime, i...

In this episode, Rohan L. Grey , Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law, discusses his new article " Public Spending, Price Stability, and the Green Transition: A Reassessment ," which is published in the George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law. Grey begins by explaining why inflation is a policy problem and how we have historically tried to manage it....

In this episode, Matthew Steilen , Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo School of Law, discusses his draft article "Magna Carta and the Origins of Legislative Power," which is part of a book project. Steilen begins by explaining the origins and purpose of Magna Carta. He then focuses on Chapter 12 of Magna Carta, which requires "common counsel." He explains why the conventional wisdom abo...

In this episode, Oliver Traldi , a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, discusses his new book " Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction ," which is published by Routledge. Here is the description of the book: Anyone who’s had an argument about politics with a friend may walk away wondering how this friend could possibly ho...

In this episode, Alison L. LaCroix , Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses her new book, " The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms ," which is published by Yale University Press. LaCroix explains what made interbellum America unique and what we can learn from...

In this episode, Naomi Sunshine , a director in the Public Interest Law Center and Supervising Attorney in the Immigrants Right Clinic at NYU Law School, discusses the process of reclaiming German citizenship under Article 116 Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law, which provides for the restoration of German citizenship to former German citizens deprived of their German citizenship due to “political, raci...

In this episode, Henry Oliver , a writer, speaker, and brand consultant based in London, discusses his new book, " Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Reinventing Your Life ." Oliver begins by explaining what he means by a "late bloomer" and what their stories can tell us about success. He discusses many historical examples of late bloomers, describing their similarities and differen...

In this episode, Todd Phillips , Assistant Professor at the Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business, and Beau J. Baumann , a Ph. D. student at Yale Law School, discuss their article " The Major Questions Doctrine's Domain ," which will be published in the Brooklyn Law Review. Phillips and Baumann begin by explaining what the major questions doctrine is, how it works, and why...

In this episode, Matt Blaszczyk , an incoming research fellow at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses his article " Impossibility of Emergent Works’ Protection in U.S. and EU Copyright Law ," which is published in the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology. Blaszczyk begins by explaining the concept of an "emergent work," or work without a human author, a category of works of a...

From 1935-53, the DuPont Company sponsored a radio program titled " Cavalcade of America ." This episode dramatized the United States Constitution. The recording consists of three 78 RPM records, which were collected and digitized by the Internet Archive . Unfortunately, the B-side of the third 78 was too damaged to digitize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Beau Baumann , a PhD candidate at Yale Law School, discusses his article " Americana Administrative Law ," which is published in the Georgetown Law Journal. Baumann describes the origins and history of the non-delegation doctrine and the major questions doctrine, explaining how both are rooted in an ideological fantasy of a Congress that never existed, ultimately in service of jud...

In this episode, Neoshia Roemer , Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, discusses her article " Equity for American Indian Families ," which will be published in the Minnesota Law Review. Roemer explains what the Indian Child Welfare Act does, why it was created, and how some people are using equal protection arguments in order to challenge its constitutionality. She e...