UC Hastings Professor Joan Williams welcomes U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a conversation that touches on a broad range of subjects, from opera to marriage to work/life balance, doctrinal questions, and cases from the 1970's to present, including the court's role in establishing individual rights and equal protection. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 22928]

In a wide ranging interview, Martha Nussbaum, one of the world's most prominent moral and legal philosophers talks about the relationship between law and emotion, abortion, animal rights, and social justice. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21302]

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes David Dow, distinguished professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Dow has represented more than 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years. His memoir, The Autobiography of an Execution, was published in February 2010. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21659]

Michelle Alexander, a long time civil rights advocate and litigator as well as a law professor at Ohio State University, speaks with California Lawyer Magazine’s Martin Lasden about Alexander’s new book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21301]

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz who discusses the erosion of civil liberties, the future of the Arab-Israeli peace process, and his own troubled adolescence. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21096]

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes UC Hastings Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat who contends that most Americans have a fundamental misunderstanding of how our constitutional rights are supposed to work. His book, “The Myth of Rights: The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional Rights,” was published in February 2010. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21660]

Marty Lasden of California Lawyer Magazine welcomes American constitutional law scholar and Yale professor Bruce Ackerman for a discussion of his new book "The Decline and Fall of the American Republic," in which he argues that the American presidency is becoming too powerful for our own good. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20909]

Writer and attorney Scott Turow is the author of nine best-selling novels. He reflects on his work as a fiction writer and a practicing attorney with UC Hastings Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Evan Lee. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20874]

October 2010 marked the 24th anniversary of Justice Antonin Scalia's appointment to the US Supreme Court. Well known for his sharp wit as well as his originalist approach to the Constitution, Justice Scalia consistently asks more questions during oral arguments and makes more comments than any other Supreme Court justice. And, according to one study, he also gets the most laughs from those who come to watch these arguments. In September 2010, Justice Scalia spoke with UC Hastings law professor Calvin Massey. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20773]