Ipse Dixit

In this episode, Hafsa Mansoor, Seton Hall Law 3L, Center for Social Justice scholar, and student attorney at Seton Hall Immigrants' Rights and International Human Rights Clinic, discusses her paper, " Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Effective Bail Reform As A Human Rights Imperative ," forthcoming in the Elon Law Journal in 2021. Ms. Mansoor discusses tragic stories that have arisen due to the use an...

In this episode, J. Remy Green, a partner at Cohen & Green PLLC , discusses their article “ Digitizing Brandenburg: Common Law Drift Toward a Causal Theory of Imminence ,” which is published in the Syracuse Law Review. Green begins by discussing imminence as it has been applied since the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, and how imminence has been conceptualized in a spat...

In this episode,  Jennifer Brinkley , assistant professor at the University of West Florida, discusses her paper The Failure of Amanda's Law in Kentucky: Creating Best Practices for Legislatures Passing Domestic Violence Statutes , published 2019 in the Quinnipiac Law Review . Brinkley tells the shocking story leading to drafting and passage of Amanda's Law in Kentucky, while reviewing some o...

In this episode, John P. Mayer , the executive director of CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, discusses technology and legal education. He describes the history of CALI and some of its primary projects. He explains how CALI works to help law schools provide more effective legal education. And he describes how CALI is responding to the Covid-19 crisis. Among other things, he...

In this episode, Camilla Hrdy , Associate Professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law, and Mark A. Lemley , William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, discuss their article " Abandoning Trade Secrets ," which will be published in the Stanford Law Review. They begin by explaining what trade secrets are...

In this episode, William Nicholson Price II , Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School , and Jonathan I. Tietz, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, discuss their article " Acknowledgements as a Window into Legal Academia ," which will be published in the Washington University Law Review. Price and Tietz explain how publication works in legal scholarship, an...

In this episode, Gregory H. Shill , Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa discusses his essay, " Congressional Securities Trading ." Shill begins by discussing how securities regulation manages trading by corporate insiders. His essay examines how to bring those regulatory structures over to manage trading by members of Congress. He is on Twitter at @greg_shill . This...

In this episode, Rachel E. Lopez , Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Andy and Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, discusses her article " The Law of Gravity ," which will be published in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. Lopez begins by describing the role of the concept of "gravity" in international law. She observes that...

In this episode, Amanda Levendowski , Associate Professor of Law and founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy (iPIP) Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, and Laura Ahmed, a 3L at Georgetown University Law Center, discuss using Wikipedia editing as a pedagogical tool in legal education, among other things. They describe the process of Wikipedia editing and how it...

In this episode, Darya Balybina, a 3L at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, discusses her career in privacy law. In particular, she reflects on privacy issues presented by the Zoom platform, in relation to its near-universal adoption by law schools and other educational institutions. She also analyzes the class action law suit recently filed against Zoom, alleging priva...

In this episode, Rebecca Giblin , Associate Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School and Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, discusses her article " Are Contracts Enough? An Empirical Study of Author Rights in Australian Publishing Agreements ," which she co-authored with Joshua Yuvaraj and will be published in the Melbourne University Law Review. Giblin begins b...

In this episode, Luke Morgan discusses his article " The Broken Branch: Capitalism, the Constitution, and the Press ," forthcoming in the Penn State Law Review. Morgan begins by discussing the economic decline of journalism, and why applying market logic to the public good of journalism has precipitated its decline. He continues by explaining why journalism cannot exist as a market product, arguin...

In this episode, Caroline Mala Corbin , Professor of Law & Dean's Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami School of Law, discusses her article " Trump's Lies: The Unconstitutionality of Government Propaganda ," which will be published in the Ohio State Law Journal. Corbin argues that the First Amendment should limit government speech, specifically propagandistic government speech. She...

In this episode, Lisa A. Tucker , Associate Professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, discusses her article " From Contract Rights to Contact Rights: Rethinking the Paradigm for Post-Adoption Contact Agreements ," which will be published in the Boston University Law Review. Tucker begins by briefly describing the history of adoption in the United States, and how it has changed...

In this episode, Rohan Grey , incoming Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law, discusses his article, " Administering Money: Coinage, Debt Crises, and the Future of Fiscal Policy ," as well as his recent work on fiscal policy. Grey begins by describing the conventional understanding of fiscal policy and the relationship between Congress, Treasury, and the Federal Reserv...

In this episode, Michael T. Morley , Assistant Professor of Law at Florida State University School of Law, discusses his article " Election Emergencies: Voting in the Wake of Natural Disasters and Terrorist Attacks ," which is published in the Emory Law Journal. Morley begins by describing the different legal regimes governing "election emergencies," or unexpected events that affect the administra...

In this episode, Alejandro de la Fuente , Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History and Director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University, and Ariela J. Gross , John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History and Co-Director of the Center for Law, History, and Culture at...

In this episode, Ben Carter , Senior Litigation and Advocacy Counsel at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, discusses his work litigating the right to healthcare, voting, and housing. Among other things, he discusses the history and purpose of the KEJC and some of its current litigation projects. He also reflects on how the pandemic will affect low-income people in Kentucky. You can listen to Carte...

In this episode, Michael Sinha , Research Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science at Harvard Medical School and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, discusses three of his articles, " The Perils of Panic: Ebola, HIV, and the Intersection of Global Health and Law ," published in 2016 in the American Journal of Law and Med...

In this special series hosted by Jennifer Sturiale , a group of legal scholars discuss a question over drinks. This episode features Mark Lemley , William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Gus Hurwitz , Associate Professor of Law at the Nebraska College of Law, and Jacob Victor , Acting Assisting Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law discussing the following...

In this special series of coronavirus pandemic episodes,  Maybell Romero  and  Brian L. Frye  explore  Charles H. Baker, Jr. 's mixological treatise, " The Gentlemen's Companion: Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask ," which was originally published in 1939 by Derrydale Press. Each episode will feature one drink. Romero and Frye will read Baker's description of t...

In this episode, Anthony Sanders , Director of the Institute for Justice’s Center for Judicial Engagement, discusses his articles " Baby Ninth Amendments and Unenumerated Individual Rights in State Constitutions Before the Civil War ," which was published in the Mercer Law Review, and " Baby Ninth Amendments Since 1860: The Unenumerated Rights Americans Repeatedly Want (and Judges Often Don’t) ,"...

In this episode, the Honorable Justin R. Walker of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky discusses his views on judicial decisionmaking and the role of the judge. Walker begins by describing his background and how he became a judge. He reflects on impartiality and fairness, and how to ensure criminal punishment is appropriate. He discusses how he hires his law clerk...

In this episode, Anna Lukina , a graduate student at Harvard Law School, discusses her draft article "Opening the Pandora's Box: Kelsen and the Communist Theory of Law." Lukina begins by describing the basic features of Communist theories of law. She explains Hans Kelsen's "Pandora's box" objection to natural law theory, and why Kelsen believed that the objection also applied to Communist theories...

In this episode, Judge Emily Miskel of the 470th district court of Collin County, Texas discusses her work as a state court judge and how the judiciary is functioning during the coronavirus pandemic. Among other things, she reflects on how she became a judge and how becoming a judge affected her perspective on good lawyering. Judge Miskel is on Twitter at @emilymiskel . This episode was hosted by&...