We're off this week prepping for season two (and year two, in Megan's case) so we wanted to try something different. This is our first drink-mixing audio guide, where we'll teach you how to make the Love Grows, a cocktail invented by our show and featured in our last episode.

If you want to read about the Pimm's Cup, click here.

If you're new to the fight for racial and economic justice, or if you're looking for reading material, places to donate, and materials with which to educate yourself, please see below.

Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice 

Where to Donate   

Black Lives Matter   

What You Can Do (Megathread) 

A Guide to Allyship and Why "All Cops Are  Bastards" 

How to Support During the Black Lives Matter Movement   

Fighting Anti-Blackness Resource List (Harvard University)   

Non-Optical Accompliceship Toolkit

" 'I didn't mean to hurt anyone,' said the guy who definitely meant to hurt someone." - Ancient Iowan Proverb

Drink: Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes), an original Drunk Law School recipe.

Disclaimer: Neither of us is a lawyer. We don't know that much about the law and are trying our best. It's possible that we get stuff wrong on this show, and nothing heard in the podcast should be taken as a perfectly accurate description of standing case law. Nothing in this show constitutes legal advice, and we're not telling you that it's OK or not OK to do anything that might break the law. Please drink responsibly.

If you're new to the fight for racial and economic justice, or if you're looking for reading material, places to donate, and materials with which to educate yourself, please see below.

Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice Where to Donate  

Warning: this episode contains strong language not suitable for young listeners.

Section 1983 allows all of us to sue if our rights have been violated. But what if those rights don't exist? In 2009, the Supreme Court decided to find out.

Drinks: Hailstorm mint juleps, as made by John Dabney (further reading here).

Further reading for this episode:

Support protesters in Portland by clicking here. If you're new to the fight for racial and economic justice, or if you're looking for reading material, places to donate, and materials with which to educate yourself, please see below.

Content warning: police brutality and anti-Black violence.

Before you can sue a police officer under Section 1983, you have to pass a test—essentially demonstrating that your claim is good enough to proceed. It used to be that this test had four seemingly simple parts. But then Chief Justice Rehnquist came along. And the question is this—was William Rehnquist a reasonable man?

Drinks:  The Baldy and Blood Hound as originally created by Tom Bullock, the first Black author of a cocktail book. His book, The Ideal Bartender, is available for purchase in various reprints or for free via Project Gutenberg.

Further reading for this episode:

Justice for Elijah McClain

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Content warning: general discussion of police brutality against Black people.

What if we told you that, at least partly, the reason that police brutality persists so strongly in America today is corruption in President Nixon's Air Force? Drunk Law School is back with the first episode of a special three-part series on qualified immunity, Under Color of Law, with the case that created qualified immunity as we know it: Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982).

Drinks: Gimlet and Gin Punch made in homage to Cato Alexander, the founding father of American cocktail making.

Further reading for this episode:

If you're new to the fight for racial and economic justice, or if you're looking for reading material, places to donate, and materials with which to educate yourself, please see below.

The murder of George Floyd reinvigorated a national reckoning over police violence against Black people. And often, victims have no way to get justice. The reason? A hazy, convoluted legal doctrine known as "qualified immunity."

Drunk Law School will return on Monday, July 20, with Under Color of Law: a special three-part series that explores the origin of qualified immunity and how it intersects with police brutality.

In the meantime, the work of justice isn't finished. Breonna Taylor's killers are still free. Most U.S. cities have not passed meaningful police abolition. The United States still disproportionately kills and imprisons BIPOC, maintains segregation and unequal access to resources, and sits idly by while a global pandemic, largely controlled in nations with functioning governance, claims the lives of BIPOC at much higher rates than white people. The work continues.

If you're new to the fight for justice, or if you're looking for reading material, places to donate, and materials with which to educate yourself, please see below.

With a name like "Learned Hand," you're either destined for greatness or being bullied at school a lot. Maybe both. But at least someone can finally tell us what the fuck duty is.

Drinks: Clementine Margaritas -- mix 2 oz. Espolón Reposado Tequila, 1 oz. fresh lime juice, .5 oz clementine juice, and .5oz simple syrup with ice. Shake and serve in a salt-rimmed glass.

Disclaimer: Neither of us is a lawyer. We don't know that much about the law and are trying our best. It's possible that we get stuff wrong on this show, and nothing heard in the podcast should be taken as a perfectly accurate description of standing case law. Nothing in this show constitutes legal advice, and we're not telling you that it's OK or not OK to do anything that might break the law. Please drink responsibly.

After speaking with God and getting a little "higher" on life, a somewhat deranged and certainly narcissistic preacher from Maine named Frank Sandford decided to establish an outpost of his following, known as The Kingdom, in modern-day Israel. Things went more or less to plan—he established a chain of command between his followers and God by putting himself at the head (not culty), established "tiers" of followers (definitely not culty), and got a manslaughter conviction overturned (surely not culty in any way)—until Florence Whittaker wanted to go home.

Drinks: Omission Lager and Tanqueray Gin and tonic.

Disclaimer: Neither of us is a lawyer. We don't know that much about the law and are trying our best. It's possible that we get stuff wrong on this show, and nothing heard in the podcast should be taken as a perfectly accurate description of standing case law. Nothing in this show constitutes legal advice, and we're not telling you that it's OK or not OK to do anything that might break the law. Please drink responsibly.

A warning to listeners: this episode contains somewhat graphic descriptions of bodily harm from a construction accident.

"Mr. Worldwide to infinity

Drinks: Wild Turkey 101, Tanqueray Gin and tonic, and Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey.

Disclaimer: Neither of us is a lawyer. We don't know that much about the law and are trying our best. It's possible that we get stuff wrong on this show, and nothing heard in the podcast should be taken as a perfectly accurate description of standing case law. Nothing in this show constitutes legal advice, and we're not telling you that it's OK or not OK to do anything that might break the law. Please drink responsibly.