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Ep. 10: Civil v. Common Law Myths

September 3, 2024 · 49 min

Professor Holger Spamann, an expert in corporate law, economics, and finance, argued during a September 2022 lecture at Harvard Law School that the differences between the two most widely used legal systems in the world, common law and…
Ep. 9: Money, Politics, and the Constitution in the ‘Golden Age’ of Capitalism

August 27, 2024 · 53 min

During a March 2023 lecture at Harvard Law School, Professor Laura Weinrib, a legal historian and constitutional and labor law scholar, described the arc of labor union power in the 20th century and its relationship to political spending.
Ep. 8: The Original Scalia 

August 19, 2024 · 1 hr 13 min

Professor Adrian Vermeule, an administrative and constitutional law expert, argued during an October 2022 panel discussion at Harvard Law School that the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia began his career on the bench as a…
Ep. 7: Building Equitable Cities Post-Pandemic

August 12, 2024 · 54 min

During a lecture in the fall of 2022, former presidential candidate and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro explained his belief that the nation’s cities are not only bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic but also…
Ep. 6: Identity Crisis: The Future of Racial Equality

August 5, 2024 · 36 min

Professor Guy-Uriel Charles, an expert on civil procedure, elections, and race and the law, discussed what he sees as the demise of America’s “civil rights consensus,” and what he believes might come next during a lecture he delivered at…

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Ep. 5: Federal Authority Without Judicial Supremacy 

July 29, 2024 · 34 min

During a February 2023 lecture at Harvard Law School, Professor Daphna Renan, a scholar of presidential power and administrative governance, argued that the judiciary should not always have the final word on the Constitution. Instead…
Ep. 4: Beyond Textualism

July 22, 2024 · 38 min

In March 2023, University of Chicago Law Professor William Baude took on textualism, the increasingly common approach to legal interpretation that emphasizes the plain language of a statute. During a lecture at Harvard Law School, Baude…
Ep. 3: On Being a Nuisance

July 16, 2024 · 42 min

A leading expert on torts, Professor John Goldberg explores nuisance law and its implications for what he called “today’s biggest litigation” in torts, a field of law that defines what counts as wrongfully injuring another person. His…
Ep. 2: Leave No Power on the Table 

July 16, 2024 · 58 min

Civil rights leader Sherrilyn Ifill, who served as the seventh president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, examined the role of race and racism in bringing about what she sees as the current democratic…
Ep. 1: A Conversation with Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer

July 10, 2024 · 56 min

Just three months after stepping down from the U.S. Supreme Court, in September 2022, Justice Stephen Breyer joined Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning to discuss his time on the nation’s highest court, the job that most shaped his…