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Anika Singh Lemar Confronts Connecticut’s Housing Crisis

April 15, 2025 · 40 min

Clinical Professor of Law Anika Singh Lemar talks about the struggle to build more affordable housing in Connecticut and the three clinics she leads at the Law School that work on housing issues. She also discusses her ideas about making…
Marisol Orihuela on Fighting for Mental Health Justice

February 25, 2025 · 42 min

Clinical Professor of Law Marisol Orihuela talks about leading a new clinic focused on mental health justice, how mental health and criminal justice are intertwined, and the importance of decompressing during stressful times. Episode…
Keith Whittington Tells Why Free Speech Can’t be Taken for Granted

January 14, 2025 · 41 min

Professor Keith Whittington discusses the heightened interest in academic freedom and free speech issues on university campuses and his work leading a new center at Yale Law School focused on these topics. He also delves into his recent…
Season Two, Episode Nine: Stephen Carter

June 4, 2024 · 42 min

Professor Stephen Carter discusses the delight he still finds in teaching after 40 years. A prolific writer, Carter also shares his approach to writing fiction and nonfiction and reflects on lessons learned while clerking for Supreme Court…
Season Two, Episode Eight: Muneer Ahmad

April 30, 2024 · 49 min

Clinical Professor Muneer Ahmad explains why students are indispensable to the work of the Law School’s clinics. He discusses the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, including the extraordinary 24-hour period in which the clinic…

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Season Two, Episode Seven: Harold Hongju Koh

March 26, 2024 · 41 min

Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh’s family history is deeply intertwined with Yale Law School. For our bicentennial in 2024, Koh shares his family’s story and reflects on his tenure as Dean from 2004 to 2009…
Season Two, Episode Six: Robert Post

February 20, 2024 · 38 min

For Yale Law School’s bicentennial in 2024, Sterling Professor of Law Robert Post ’77 reflects on his tenure as Dean from 2009 to 2017. He also discusses his 35-year quest to write the definitive history of the Supreme Court under Chief…
Season Two, Episode Five: Guido Calabresi

January 16, 2024 · 33 min

For Yale Law School’s bicentennial in 2024, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Guido Calabresi ’58 reflects on his tenure as Dean from 1985 to 1994. He discusses his work to restore the law school building to its former glory and start the…
Season Two, Episode Four: Amy Kapczynski

December 19, 2023 · 34 min

Professor Amy Kapczynski discusses her work on global health and justice issues and explains how intellectual property law can improve access to lifesaving AIDS drugs. She also shares lessons learned from the COVID pandemic and her love of…
Season Two, Episode Three: James Forman Jr.

November 21, 2023 · 44 min

Professor James Forman Jr. discusses his criminal justice work and his Pulitzer-Prize winning book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. He also describes the Law School Access Program, an innovative pipeline program…
Season Two, Episode Two: Monica Bell

October 24, 2023 · 38 min

Professor Monica Bell discusses her research at the intersection of law and sociology including her work on legal estrangement, which seeks to understand why people and groups feel excluded in relationships to governmental institutions…
Season Two, Episode One: Mike Wishnie

September 19, 2023 · 49 min

Professor Mike Wishnie discusses the Veterans Legal Services Clinic’s litigation challenging long-standing racial disparities in the VA’s administration of veterans’ benefits. He also describes the clinic’s suit seeking disclosure of…

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About the show

Hosted by Dean Heather K. Gerken, Inside Yale Law School offers a window into the rich academic life of Yale Law School. Each episode features a conversation with a different Yale Law School faculty member, highlighting the deep and varied perspectives, experience, and expertise housed within these walls. The podcast seeks to shed new light on the core problems facing the world today and on the extraordinary scholars and teachers working to understand and tackle them.