University of Miami School of Law: Explainer

Gender violence expert professor Donna Coker breaks down how proposed cuts to federal food and health programs shift costs to states and disproportionately harm women and victims of domestic violence. Recorded November 3, 2025.

Episode 8 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Professor Zachary Price, one the leading U.S. authorities on the subject of impoundments and other fiscal control strategies. Zachary Price holds the Eucalyptus Foundation Endowed Chair at UC Law in San Francisco. His work ranges from constitutional law and administrative law to criminal and civil law enfor...

Episode 7 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Thomas Berry , director of the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation and clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circu...

Episode 6 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Cody Wofsy. Currently he is the Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project where his work focuses on limiting state and local entanglement with immigration enforcement, protecting access to asylum, ensuring judicial review, and challenging abusive federal enforcement practices. He is a graduate...

Episode 5 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Professor Koh graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, with a major in Government. He studied at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship, then went back to Harvard for his J.D. Next, he clerked on the D.C. Circuit for Judge Malcolm Richa...

Episode 4 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights. He is a prolific writer: In addition to writing many academic...

Episode 3 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features features Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School. He is one of the giants of legal theory in the US academy. His extensive career ranges from clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to his current status as a professor at Harvard Law. He has made...

Episode 2 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Peter Shane, the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. He joins us to discuss the legal theory at the heart of legal claims for expanded Presidential power, the Unitary Executive theory. After setting out the basis for the view that the Constitution gi...

Episode 1 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Director of the Program in Law and Normative Thinking at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is one the leading experts on how democracies become autocracies and provides a ch...

The 2025 Constitution Crisis Seminar series is organized by Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law A. Michael Froomkin. The series brings together an impressive group of leading lawyers and scholars active in writing about – and in several cases litigating – issues relating to the constitutional issues implicated by the Trump Administration’s assertive interpretation o...

With disaster costs exceeding $2.9 trillion since 1980, on today’s show, financial law scholar Caroline Bradley shines a light on how financial firms are managing the escalating risks of climate change as U.S. regulators step back on climate rules. Recorded October 16, 2025.

Corporate law expert George Georgiev has written extensively on private capital markets and recently participated in a meeting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, which issued a major report and recommendation on retail access to private market assets. On this week’s show, we dig into this topic which has implications for how all Americans save for retirem...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the president to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission using the emergency docket, part of a trend that has ballooned over the last several years. On this week’s show, constitutional law expert Charlton Copeland susses out presidential authority. Recorded October 1, 2025.

In a capital nearly entirely controlled by gangs, hundreds of Haitians are now trying to return to neighborhoods that have become ghost towns, forced to choose between the warnings of the police and the assurances of the armed groups who destroyed their lives. Haiti expert Irwin Stotzky, author of two books on Haiti and dozens of book chapters and papers on Haiti discusses the morass. Recorded Sep...

Landmark civil rights laws like Title IX were created decades ago to protect marginalized groups from discrimination in schools. But today, the Trump administration is using these same laws to challenge protections for transgender students and programs that support students of color, arguing that its interpretation is the one that prevents discrimination. with schools facing the potential loss of...

Today on our show, we wade into the groundbreaking advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change and its potential to reshape international law and environmental protections with climate expert Jessica Owley. Recorded September 5, 2025.

Earlier this summer, a 54-year-old death row inmate in Florida’s prison system was executed for committing several murders. as a teenager, Michael Bell had spent time at the state’s notorious Arthur G. Dozier school for boys, the subject of the St. Petersburg times 2009 expose “For Their Own Good,” and “The Nickel Boys,” a fictionalized work based on dozier by Colson Whitehead, adapted into a twic...

The French economist Thomas Piketty recently argued the merits of a common currency in an op-ed in Le Monde. Tax expert Frances Hill examines the impact. Recorded on August 14. 2025.

As artificial intelligence-generated writing becomes widespread in modern life, hallucinations are showing up with alarming frequency in legal writing. Professor Christina Frohock generates some content on recent kerfuffles in the courts. Recorded on July 21, 2025.

Director of the transaction skills program Marcia Narine Weldon looks at the issues driving Elon Musk and Sam Altman's fight for control of OpenAI. Recorded March 25, 2025

Vice dean and bankruptcy expert Drew Dawson explains the dips and dives that brought Spirit Airlines bankruptcy in four short months. Recorded March 27, 2025.

The United States Supreme Court recently ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has been scheduled for death nine times. The School of Law's Innocence Clinic director, Craig Trocino, explains the arguments. Recorded March 27, 2025.

Former White House staff economist Gabe Scheffler parses the ACA. Recorded on March 11, 2025.

Law and technology scholar Or Cohen-Sasson dives into the good and bad of tech. Recorded on February 27, 2025.

Financial law and fintech scholar Nikita Aggarwal discusses the independent agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Recorded February 28, 2024.