University of Miami School of Law: Explainer

Criminal law expert Scott Sundby looks at the 4th Amendment's inability to keep up with tech. Recorded February 21, 2025.

Antitrust expert John Newman digs into the ticketing giant's trouble. Recorded on February 13, 2025.

Professor Tamara Lave unpacks changes to the civil rights law. Recorded February 6, 2025.

Forensic science expert Chris Fabricant joins Miami Law Innocence Clinic director Craig Trocino discussing an unjust legal system. Recorded January 8, 2025.

Consumer finance expert Nikita Aggarwal explores the popular industry. Recorded October 31, 2024.

Floridians are challenging the state's six-week access to abortion law in the upcoming election. Constitutional scholar Caroline Mala Corbin looks at the national landscape. Recorded on October 21, 2024.

Criminal law expert Scott Sundby digs into questionable executions. Recorded October 17, 2024.

Trademark and cultural heritage expert Jan Osei-Tutu tackles corporate bullying. Recorded on October 2, 2024.

Associate director of Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic Robert Latham explains new foster care rules. Recorded October 3, 2024.

Constitutional scholar Charlton Copeland laments the end of another settled law. Recorded on September 25, 2024.

Criminal law expert Tamara Lave susses out the case against Sean Combs. Recorded on September 19, 2024.

Compliance expert Marcia Narine Weldon chimes in on employee contract rules and moves by the Federal Trade Commission. Recorded on September 12, 2024.

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows cities to clear homeless encampments while a new Florida law bans camping in public places. Homeless law expert Stephen Schnably parses the impacts of the new laws. Recorded on August 27, 2024.

If Kamala Harris ascends to the country's highest office, she will hit a lot of firsts: first woman president, first of Indian heritage, first former prosecutor. On the episode, Innocence Clinic director Craig Trocino, who has spent decades arguing in state and federal court, takes a look at what a former prosecutor as president might look like. Recorded on August 28, 2024.

In a stunning turn, a federal judge recently ruled that the tech giant violated antitrust laws. Professor John Newman, former attorney with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division, dives into the future of big tech. Recorded August 22, 2024.

It's been a once-in-a-lifetime summer in politics with suits and challenges to election law that threaten to continue up to election day and beyond. Election law expert Frances Hill joins the podcast to discuss what we know and what we don't. Recorded August 15, 2024.

Innocence clinic director Craig Trocino looks at flat fees for capital crime representation. Recorded April 11, 2024.

Criminal law expert Tamara Lave opines of the killing on the movie set. Recorded March 27, 2024.

Homeless law expert Stephen Schnably drills into a case going to the Supreme Court. Recorded March 27, 2024.

As the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere prepares for a transitional government, violence is spreading to wealthier enclaves, where bodies riddled with bullets lay in the streets. Haiti expert Irwin Stotzky, author of three books on Haiti, discusses the chaos.

U.S. laws criminalize survivors of gender-based violence. Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, who led the Obama and Biden administrations efforts to address, dives into where we are and were we are going, Recorded February 29, 2024.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the former president's claim of immunity from charges that he sought to overturn the 2020 election results, throwing the 2024 elections into chaos. Constitutional expert Frances Hill clears the air. Recorded February 29, 2024.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russia since the invasion in February 2022. Bernard Perlmutter, founder of Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic, weighs in on the efforts to have the children returned. Recorded on February 20, 2024.

Several Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases have hinged over the use of words and punctuation. Jill Barton, director of Miami Law's Legal Communications and Research Skill, writes about writing. Recorded February 13, 2024.

As today's guest, antitrust expert John Newman recently wrote, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice "have been on a tear. Recorded on February 6, 2024.