In this episode, Dan will converse with Ana Vrdoljak, a leading scholar on the law of the return of cultural heritage who teaches the University of Technology Sydney, on the state of international laws on the subjects, with particular emphasis on the tension between the former colonies and their former colonial powers

Based on one of his recently published paper, Tom Ginsburg, a distinguished scholar on constitutional studies, discusses his forward looking take on the growing possibility for a global legal system where authoritarian impulses serves as its animal spirit.

Tom Ginsburg teaches at the University of Chicago's law school and school of political science and an advisory board member of the Institute for Migrant Rights, Cianjur - Indonesia. His researches intersect between international law and comparative constitutional studies that represent the "empirical turn" in international and comparative law scholarship.

In this inaugural episode, we invite Professor Andrei Marmor, one of the world’s authorities on legal theory, to explain the most perplexing question of all in legal debate, what do we mean by “law”?

Chris Cason talks to Professor Andrei Marmor of Cornell Law School.