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In 1962, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, the "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases for the "Second Series" of his "Supreme Court Cases" recordings. The scripts were directed by S.P. Puner, performed by John Randolph, Jack Curtis, and Martin Wolfson, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc...

In this episode, David Eil, a former economics professor at George Mason University and current law student at Columbia Law School, discusses his experience of moving from one discipline to another and from one side of the podium to the other. Among other things, he describes why he decided to leave economics and attend law school, and how his background in economics has informed his experience of...

In 1962, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, the "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases for the "Second Series" of his "Supreme Court Cases" recordings. The scripts were directed by S.P. Puner, performed by John Randolph, Jack Curtis, and Martin Wolfson, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc...

In this episode, Charlotte Tschider , Jaharis Faculty Fellow in Health Law and Intellectual Property at DePaul University College of Law, discusses her article " The Consent Myth: Improving Choice for Patients of the Future ," which will appear in the Washington University Law Review. Tschider briefly describes the history of data privacy regulation and how the current regulatory regime struggles...

In 1960, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each o...

In this episode, Jacob H. Rooksby , Dean of Gonzaga University School of Law, Professor of Law, and Professor of Education, discusses his experiences pursuing a deanship and becoming a dean. Rooksby became the Dean of Gonzaga Law in June 2018. He describes his background and experiences as a professor, and how he became interested in law school administration. He explains how he prepared to look f...

In 1960, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each o...

In 1960, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each o...

In this episode, Derek Miller , John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University , discusses his new book, " Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770-1911 ," which is published by Cambridge University Press. Miller provides a comprehensive history of the origins and development of the concept of copyright in performance. Among other things, he explains the dialectical r...

In 1960, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each o...

In this episode, Wesley Hottot , a Senior Attorney at the Institute for Justice, discusses the pending Supreme Court case Timbs v. Indiana , in which he represented the petitioner, Tyson Timbs. Hottot describes the background of the case and explains the constitutional issue at stake: Whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause is incorporated against the states. He discusses the process...

In 1960, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each o...

In this episode, Anthony Michael Kreis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law discusses his new article, "Anxious Masculinity: American Homophobia and the Third Sex." Kreis describes the "confusion" at the heart of the law of sexuality, and ties it to the history of the concept of gender. He describes the evolution of the policing of gender norms through American h...

In 1960, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each o...

In this episode, David J.S. Ziff , Director of the Legal Writing Program and Senior Law Lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law, discusses his article " Book Review of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation—The Worst System of Citation Except for All the Others ," which was published in the Journal of Legal Education. Ziff provides a brief history of the Bluebook, the ubiquitous...

In this episode, John Culhane , Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Family Health Law & Policy Institute at Widener University Delaware Law School, discusses his article " The Right to Say, But Not to Do: Balancing First Amendment Freedom of Expression with the Anti-Discrimination Imperative ," which was published in the Widener Law Review. Culhane reflects on the inherent tension between...

In 1960, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each o...

In this episode, Amanda Levendowski , a Clinical Teaching Fellow with the Technology Law & Policy Clinic at NYU Law, discusses her article " How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Problem ," which was published in the Washington Law Review. Levendowski explains that "artificial intelligence" algorithms use "machine learning" to create heuristics for solving problems,...

In this episode, Zvi S. Rosen, Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University School of Law, discusses his article "An Empirical Study of 225 Years of Copyright Registrations," which he co-authored with Richard Schwinn, Research Economist at the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy. Rosen and Schwinn's article "presents the first complete record...

In this episode, Jill Wieber Lens , Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville, discusses her article " Tort Law's Devaluation of Stillbirth ." Lens describes the death of her son Caleb in stillbirth and the pain caused by her loss. She explains that stillbirth is far more common than people realize, and that many stillbirths are preventable and tortious. However, the to...

In 1960, Professor  Fred Rodell  of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each o...

In this episode, Carissa Byrne Hessick , Ransdell Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project at the University of North Carolina School of Law, discusses her article " The Myth of Common Law Crimes ," which will appear in the Virginia Law Review . Hessick argues that there are two myths about "common law crimes" - first, that they no longer exist, and secon...

In 1960, Professor Fred Rodell of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each of these case...

In this episode, Orin Kerr, Frances R. and John J. Duggan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, discusses his article, " Implementing Carpenter ," which is part of his forthcoming book The Digital Fourth Amendment . Kerr describes what happened in the paradigm-shifting Supreme Court case Carpenter v. United States (2018), and why it was such a...

In 1960, Professor Fred Rodell of Yale Law School, "bad boy of American legal academia," asked his students to write scripts describing important Supreme Court cases. The scripts were directed by David Allen, performed by David Allen, Paul Sparer, and Jack Curtis, and released on LP by Educational Audio Visual, Inc. According to the record sleeve: The arguments of the lawyers in each of these case...