Law in Action: A UW Law School Podcast

An interview with Assistant Professor of Law Nina Varsava at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Prof. Varsava discusses her forthcoming article, "Precedent, Reliance, and Dobbs". The article examines treatment of stare decisis in the 2022 majority Dobbs opinion focusing on its approach to reliance. The article argues that the justices’ refusal to recognize the reliance interest at stake is inconsistent with the Court’s previously prevailing stare decisis doctrine and is also mistaken as a matter of first principles, undermining basic rule of law values.

An interview with Assistant Professor of Tax Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School Nyamagaga Gondwe.

Prof. Gondwe discusses her forthcoming article, "The Tax-Invisible Labor Problem: Care Work, Kinship, and Income Security Programs in the IRC."

An interview with Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School Robert Yablon.

Prof. Yablon discusses his recent article on the concept of "gerrylaundering", an idea related to gerrymandering.

An interview with Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin Law School Mark Sidel.

Prof. Sidel discusses his recent pieces on the increasing tendency of governments to restrict foreign investments, grants, and donations to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in those countries.

An interview with Voss Bascom Professor of Law Anuj Desai, discussing his forthcoming article, "Text is Not Enough," which focuses on textualism and statutory interpretation through the lens of the 2020 Supreme Court Title VII case Bostock v. Clayton County.

An interview with University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Emeritus William (Bill) Clune.

Prof. Clune's research focused on school finance, school law, special education, and systemic educational policy. This podcast interview discusses his new book, Legal Realism to Law in Action: Innovative Law Courses at UW Madison, published Dec. 2021 by Pro Quo Books. It compiles articles and interviews focusing on 4 groundbreaking classes conceived and taught at UW Law School and the faculty responsible for them and their legacy.

An interview with the Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, David Trubek and the Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA Law, Richard Abel.


Profs Trubek and Abel discuss their recent symposium, “The Short Happy Life of the Yale Program in Law and Modernization: From the Cold War to Comparative Legal Sociology and Critical Legal Studies.” Profs Trubek and Abel were the main professors managing this program at Yale Law School and they talk about each of their research interests and how the program came about and its goals and ideas.

An interview with Prof. S. Lisa Washington, the 2021-22 William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School.


Prof. Washington discusses her forthcoming article on how the family regulation system mirrors the criminal justice system and in practice finds that parents encounter a system as coercive, intrusive, and disempowering, especially for marginalized communities.

An interview with Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Prof. Sumudu Atapattu.

Prof. Atapattu discusses various issues on the topic of environmental justice and sustainable development, especially as it pertains to the Global South.

An interview with Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library Bonnie Shucha of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Dean Shucha discusses various issues surrounding the scholarly visibility of legal academia publishing and the role that law libraries have to play in enhancing visibility, impact, and discoverability.