Testimony: GW Law Experts Explain Election 2020

Dean Matthew speaks with Catherine Ross, Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor, GW Law. Professor Ross is an expert in first amendment law, family law, and policy issues concerning children. Professor Ross' most recently published book "Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students' First Amendment Rights"(Harvard University Press, 2015), was named the Best Book on the First Amendment by Concurring Opinions' First Amendment News, and won the Critics' Choice Book Award from the American Education Studies Association.

Dean Matthew speaks with Professor Naomi Schoenbaum, Associate Professor of Law. They discuss Professor Schoenbaum's article "The New Law of Gender Nonconformity," and transgender law, including recent Supreme Court decisions on the matter.

Dean Matthew sits down with Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, a nationally-recognized legal scholar in constitutional law, legal theory, and tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that appeared in a variety of law journals, including at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and many more. Professor Turley has also served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades.

They will discuss privacy law, and Professor Turley's recent article, "Anonymity, Obscurity, and Technology: Reconsidering Privacy in the Age of Biometrics."

Dean Matthew talks with Paul Schiff Berman, Walter S. Cox Professor of Law, a foremost theorist on globalization, legal systems, and big theoretical questions, like "what is law?"

Professor Berman will discuss his two most recent scholarly works. First, his book Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders, describes but does not discuss, his contribution to the theoretical discourse. Second, The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism, is a collection of other scholars' work, engaging with his book.

Dean Matthew sits down with Joan Meier, Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the National Family Violence Law Center at the George Washington University Law School. Professor Meier has been a clinical professor at GW Law for nearly three decades and in that time, has founded three nationally-recognized interdisciplinary domestic violence programs. Professor Meier is published widely on domestic violence, custody, clinical teaching, criminal procedure, and various Supreme Court decisions.

The two discuss Professor Meier's major study, "Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations." These findings have been written about in a variety of major news and scholarly outlets.

Professor Robert L. Glicksman, J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, discusses climate change and the regulation of the Environmental Protection Agency. He has a wealth of knowledge and experience and has published prolifically, often being critical of the regulatory approach of the Trump administration. In his articles, he channels his anger about the derogation of the administrative state and provides thoughtful and theoretical proposals for the future.

The right to keep and bear arms is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Professors Bob Cottrol and Renée Lettow Lerner discuss how are the candidates and parties are campaigning on this issue during the 2020 election and why it should matter to you. They provide commentary and analysis on how Democrats and Republicans differ on gun rights and what has changed over time with respect to gun laws. Record numbers of people on both sides of the aisle are seeking to obtain gun permits, while we deal with historical unrest amongst citizens, which is a challenge we must all face.

Over the past 5 years, the Trump Administration has pulled out of about half a dozen international agreements, while choosing to renegotiate and strengthen others. Professors Laura Dickinson and Sean Murphy, experts in international law, explain these treaties and the implications of these decisions. They also predict what a Biden Administration might look like with respect to engagement in international relationships and national security.

Laura A. Dickinson, Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law, is an expert in national security law, human rights law, the law of armed conflict, and foreign affairs privatization. She was recently appointed to The Leadership Council for Women in National Security, working to encourage greater representation of women in the top levels of the United States government.

Sean D. Murphy, Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, specializes in the fields of public international law and U.S. foreign relations law. He is a Member of the U.N. International Law Commission and was appointed its Special Rapporteur for Crimes Against Humanity.

Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew is joined by administrative law experts Professors Richard Pierce and Jonathan Siegel. They discuss their expertise on such topics as the nondelegation doctrine, Chevron deference doctrine, and presidential removal power.

Professor Pierce wrote the Administrative Law Treatise and has been cited more than 4,000 times by the courts.

Professor Siegel, an expert in the Chevron deference doctrine, will discuss his article "The Constitutional Case for a Chevron Deference," in the Vanderbilt Law Review.

Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew is joined by Professors Jeffrey Rosen and Bradford Clark, both world-renowned experts in constitutional law. On this episode, they discuss the Supreme Court, federal courts, and the US Constitution in the midst of the Amy Coney Barrett hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.