I talk with Kim Krawiec, Sullivan and Cromwell Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Professor Krawiec is an expert in taboo trades and financial regulation, and has written multiple articles and book chapters on these topics. We discuss taboo markets, sex work, kidney exchange, Bad Art Friend, feminism, and the limits of markets.

I talk with Greg Klass about his forthcoming paper on Arthur L. Corbin, forthcoming in Scholars of Contract Law (James Goudkamp & Donal Nolan eds., Hart Publishing). 

Greg Klass is a contracts and legal theory scholar at Georgetown. 

Nate Oman is a Professor of Law at William and Mary Law School. Nate has written extensively about contract theory and law and religion, and he is the author of several articles and books, including The Dignity of Commerce, published in 2016 by the Chicago University Press. In this episode, we talk about his work on contract theory.

In this episode, I talk with Mitu Gulati, Amanda Dixon, and Hadar Tanne, who coauthored the paper “Lipstick on a Pig: Specific Performance Clauses in Action.” 

Mitu is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. He is an expert in sovereign debt restructuring and the law of contracts. Amanda and Hadar were his students at Duke University School of Law. 

Jody Kraus teaches at Columbia University, he is a lawyer and a philosopher by training, and focuses his scholarship on the relationship between moral and economic theories of law in general, with particular emphasis on contract law. Robert Scott is a Professor Emeritus at Columbia, and is an internationally recognized scholar and teacher in the fields of contracts, commercial transactions, and bankruptcy, and one of the leading figures of the economic analysis of contract law. 

I talk to them about the work on personal sovereignty and against equity in American contract law.

In the first episode of Season 2, I talk with Courtney Cox, Associate Professor at Fordham University School of Law, about her paper "Confronting Normative Uncertainty." 

I talk with Kish Parella, Associate Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, on her work on negligent contracts.

I talk with Nicolas Cornell, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. Professor Cornell works on ethics and private law theory, and his work has been published on Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Yale Law Journal, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among others. We talk about his work on rights and wrongs, competition wrongs, preemptive forgiving, and his upcoming book.

Yael Lifshitz is Lecturer in Property Law at King’s College London. She works on property law, energy law and natural resources, and has written extensively about property law and theory and the governance of energy and natural resources. We talkabout her paper The Geometry of Property, published in the University of Toronto Law Journal.

Zoë Sinel is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario. Professor Sinel works on private law and legal theory, with a particular focus on civil remedies for private wrongdoing, and is one of the leading voices in recent Canadian private law theory. We talk about corrective justice, private law theory, and the influence of Ernest Weinrib and John Gardner.