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Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "The Legacy of Justice Anthony Kennedy with guest Jeff Fisher" Stanford law professor and co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic Jeff Fisher discusses the career of retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, his legacy, and the potential for many of his centrist decisions to be undone by the next court. Originally aired o...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Cities for Workers with guest Michelle Wilde Anderson" Stanford Law School Professor Michelle Wilde Anderson discusses her research into concentrated rural and urban poverty, which has taken her across the country to the many “dying” communities that no longer have a base of middle-class jobs. Here, she shares her view of our nation’s cr...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Purging Voter Rolls with guest Nathaniel Persily" Stanford Law Professor Nathaniel Persily discusses important recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights including one that allows Ohio to take the names of certain voters off its roles. Will this and other decisions impact one party’s voters disproportionately? Originally aired on Si...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Working on Peace with North Korea w/ guests Allen Weiner & Scott Sagan" Allen Weiner, Director of the Stanford Program on International and Comparative Law, and Scott Sagan, Political Science Professor at Stanford and Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, talk about the nuclear summit between...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Controversial Wedding Cakes with guest Pam Karlan" Stanford Law Professor and Stanford Legal co-host Pam Karlan discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to side with a Colorado cake shop owner who denied service to a gay couple who wanted him to bake a cake for their wedding. Originally aired on SiriusXM on June 23, 2018. Recorded at Stanf...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Making sense of tribal sovereignty w/ guests Gregory Ablavsky & Jared Crum" Stanford Law Professor Gregory Ablavsky, an instructor with Stanford’s Native American Amicus Brief Project and law student Jared Crum, president of Stanford’s Native American Law Student Association; discuss their work with tribal court systems, legal issues...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "The legality of Truth Detection w/ guests Hank Greely & Bob Weisberg" Stanford Law professors Hank Greely and Bob Weisberg discuss advances in truth detecting technology and how those technologies intersect with the legal system and societal ethics now and in the not too distant future. Originally aired on SiriusXM on May 26, 2018. R...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "The First Amendment on Campus with guest Michael McConnell" Law professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford, Michael McConnell talks about the First Amendment and where it begins and ends on different types of college campuses. Originally aired on SiriusXM on May 26, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video. Hosted by Sim...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Coming to America with guests Matt Ball & Qismat Amin" Stanford Law School student and Afghanistan War Veteran Matt Ball developed a friendship with Afghan native and translator Qismat Amin. The two describe meeting and working together in Afghanistan and how Qismat overcame legal obstacles and ISIS threats before finally arriving sa...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Artificial Intelligence & the Law w/ guests Mark Lemley & Michelle Lee" Stanford law professor and Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, Mark Lemley and visiting law professor Michelle Lee join Pam and Joe for a discussion on some of the legal issues that are likely to arise as Artificial intelligence b...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "States Rights w/ guests Ed Dumont, Debbie Sivas, & David Freeman Engstrom" California Solicitor General Ed Dumont talks about the rise in blue state federalism and California’s role in defending the values of its citizens in the face of an increasingly difficult to work with federal government. Law professor and director of Stanford’...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Trade wars with guest Alan Sykes" Stanford Law professor and Director of the Masters Program in International Economic Law, Business and Policy Alan Sykes discusses the benefits and drawbacks of a trade war and what it would look like if President Trump decides to engage in one. Originally aired on SiriusXM on April 14, 2018. Recorded at...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman : "Building the Legal Foundation f/ Democracy w/ guests Erik Jensen & Sean Rosenberg" Erik Jensen, director of Stanford’s Rule of Law program, is joined by Sean Rosenberg, JD/MBA student and West Point grad who served in Afghanistan, who works with Jensen in the Afghanistan Legal Ed Project designed to help nations deal with the challe...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman : "Figuring out what voters want with guest John Krosnick" Jon Krosnick is a Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Communication, and Political Science at Stanford. Jon shares his work on what voters say they want in a politician and how they expect their elected officials to vote and behave while in office. Originally aired on Siri...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Pushing Back Against Sexual Harassment w/ guests Emily Murphy & Deborah Rhode" Emily Murphy, Stanford Law graduate and Associate Law Professor at UC Hastings, shares her story of harassment at the hands of former U.S. 9th Circuit Court Judge Alex Kozinski. She also discusses what little protections law clerks have if they are harasse...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Talking about guns with guest John Donohue III" Stanford Law Professor John J. Donohue III joins us for a conversation about gun violence in America, and how the law is developing in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Nevada and five years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings in Newtown, Connecticut Originally aired on Si...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman : "Fake news w/ guests Nathaniel Persily & Deepa Seetharaman" Stanford Law Professor Nathaniel Persily shares his expertise on American election law and what can be done to combat the Fake News problem. Reporter Deepa Seetharaman covers Facebook and other social media sites for The Wall Street Journal. She discusses some of her insight...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Privacy and Body Cameras with guest Robert Weisberg" Stanford Law Professor and co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center Robert Weisberg discusses how technology is changing the laws designed to protect you from police searches and the use of police body cameras. Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 17, 2018. Recorded at S...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman : "Enforcing Immigration Laws w/ guests Jayashri Srikantiah & Kavita Narayan" Founding Director of Stanford Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and Professor of Law Jayashri Srikantiah joins Pam and Joe for a discussion about federal immigration enforcement and issues surrounding undocumented immigrants targeted by US Immigration an...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman : "Helping Our Veterans w/ guests Stephen Manley & Joe Reed" Should veterans who come home from combat and find themselves caught in the criminal justice system be offered special help? In this episode, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Stephen Manley, who has launched special treatment courts for veterans and the mentally ill, d...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman : "Untangling the New Tax Bill with guest Joe Bankman" Pam and Joe talk about the recently passed GOP tax law. Joe reveals who he thinks are the big winners and losers are and how individuals, corporations, and states are looking to reap maximum benefits. Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 20, 2018. Recorded at Stanford Video. Hosted...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Power of the Prosecutor with guest David Sklansky" David Sklansky, law professor and faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, discusses how prosecutors make decisions about which cases to pursue and what changes can be implemented for a more just criminal justice system. Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 6. Reco...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "The Sharing Economy with guests Nora Freeman Engstrom and Steve Siger" Stanford Law Professor and Associate Dean of Curriculum, Nora Freeman Engstrom shares her expertise on tort law as it relates to the gig economy. Steve Siger, managing counsel at Thumbtack and a former attorney for Uber, talks about how companies are navigating the em...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Trump's Travel Ban w/ guests Jayashri Srikantiah & Shirin Sinnar" Law professor and founding director of Stanford Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Jayashri Srikantiah and Associate Professor Shirin Sinnar discuss the legal issues surrounding the Trump administrations multiple attempts at restricting travel from several mostly...

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman : "Arguing Before the Supreme Court with guest Jeffrey Fisher" Law professor and co-director of Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic Jeffrey Fisher, shares his extensive experience arguing a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, including what it is like to prepare for and present a case. Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 23, 20...