The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Podcast

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The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Podcast episodes:

09.18.2020
Supreme Court Preview 2020: Highlights and Perspectives
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in the upcoming year. This event was...
02.05.2020
M. Todd Henderson, "The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize..."
"The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business & Government" In this CBI, Professor Henderson will examine how Internet platforms--eBay, Uber, AirBnB--relate to the Code of Hammurabi, Medieval guilds, the New York Stock Exchange, and corporate brands. All...
01.27.2020
Seyla Benhabib, "The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?"
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are among the most important human rights documents of the post-WW II period. Yet the universalization of the refugee status after the 1967 Protocol has given rise to a series of discrepancies...
12.02.2019
Joan Biskupic, "Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court..."
"Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court as its Leader and at the Center" Joan Biskupic is a full-time CNN legal analyst and author of a 2019 biography of Chief Justice John Roberts. Before joining CNN in 2017, Biskupic was...
11.15.2019
Saul Levmore, "Addictive Law"
One of Chicago’s Best Ideas was the Coase Theorem, which reminds us daily that people can bargain around law or even before legal intervention is sought. But do we have too much law and too little bargaining around it? The...
10.21.2019
William Baude and Anthony J. Casey, "Supreme Court Preview 2019: Highlights and Perspectives"
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in the upcoming year. This year...
12.17.2018
Law in the Era of #MeToo: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett
This keynote for the 2018 Legal Forum Symposium was recorded on November 2, 2018. Valerie B. Jarrett is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Law School and former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Emily Buss is the Mark and Barbara...
10.23.2018
Saul Levmore, "If the Common Law was Efficient, Why Did It Decline?"
One of the University of Chicago Law School’s best known ideas or outputs over the last fifty years is that the common law (made by judges and often passed down and adapted over many years) is efficient. It was an...
10.16.2018
Justin Driver, "The Future of the Supreme Court: The Constitution of Public Schools"
Supreme Court decisions affecting the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer: these are...
05.30.2018
M. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"
Does legal education matter? In this lecture, Professor Todd Henderson presents some data on this question, using the behavior of corporate executives as an instrument. Looking at the 10% of large, public company CEOs who are lawyers, the talk tries...
04.10.2018
David Bowman, "Alternative Reference Rates: SOFR, LIBOR, and Issues for Transitions"
The choice of new benchmark interest rate should be of special importance to practitioners as well as academics that study law and economics. As new alternative rates are being considered in the United States, this half day conference, co-sponsored by...
03.28.2018
John G. Malcolm, "Current Topics in Criminal Justice Reform"
With commentary by Professor Jonathan Masur John G. Malcolm oversees The Heritage Foundation’s work to increase understanding of the Constitution and the rule of law as director of the think tank’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. In...
02.27.2018
Mary Anne Case, "Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace"
The idea that workplaces could benefit from an incest taboo is not one of Chicago’s best, but one of Margaret Mead’s. Professor Mary Anne Case has been promoting it and explaining its relevance to Title VII enforcement long before Harvey...
02.19.2018
Jonathan S. Masur, "The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness"
A central question in law and economics is how people will behave in the presence of legal rules. An essential part of that inquiry is what makes people happy or unhappy – what increases or decreases their “subjective well-being.” There...
02.12.2018
Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, “Interpreting Contracts via Surveys and Experiments”
Interpreting the language of contracts is the most common and least satisfactory task courts perform in contract disputes. In this Chicago’s Best Ideas lecture Professor Strahilevitz proposes to take much of this task out of the hands of lawyers and...
11.21.2017
Henry Shue, "Gambling with Their Climate: Future Generations, Negative Emissions, & Risk Transfers"
This lecture defends three main theses: (I) that all decisions about the degree of ambition for emissions mitigation are unavoidably also decisions about how to distribute risk across generations and, more specifically, (II) that the less ambitious the mitigation is,...
09.20.2017
Supreme Court Preview 2017: Highlights and Perspectives
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Professors Adam Chilton, Aziz Huq, and Daniel Hemel offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in the upcoming year. Recorded on September 18, 2017, in Washington,...
05.02.2017
Aaron Nielson, "The Past and Future of Deference: From Justice Scalia to Justice Gorsuch"
With commentary by Professor Daniel Hemel Professor Nielson is a law professor at Brigham Young University and teaches/writes in the areas of administrative law, civil procedure, federal courts, and antitrust. Before joining the faculty, Professor Nielson was a partner in the...
04.21.2017
To POE or Not to POE: The Proper Evidentiary Standard for Campus Sexual Misconduct (A Debate)
Featuring Professors Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Katharine Baker, Daniel Hemel, and Richard Epstein. Moderated by Professor Emily Buss. Presented by the Domestic and Sexual Violence Project, Defenders, Law Women's Caucus, Education and Child Advocacy Society, and UChicago Assault Awareness and Prevention...
03.07.2017
Gillian Thomas, "Title VII and Women in the Workplace"
Gillian Thomas, staff attorney at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, will discuss issues in her recently-published book, Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years about Title VII and its effects for women in the workplace. The book...
02.28.2017
Anthony J. Casey, "The Short Happy Life of Rules and Standards"
The choice between rules and standards in lawmaking is a central question. But the line between the two forms is not as clear as most scholars presume. This talk argues that the lack of a coherent unifying principle in...
02.03.2017
Kurt Lash & Alan Gura, "Does the Fourteenth Amendment Protect Unenumerated Rights?"
Professor Lash graduated from Yale Law School and served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Afterward, he joined the University of Illinois from Loyola Law School...
01.26.2017
William H. J. Hubbard, "Empirical Study of the Supreme Court of India"
"A Different Kind of Supreme Court? Empirical Study of the Supreme Court of India" Part of Chicago's intellectual tradition is a willingness to take nothing for granted. Comparative study of legal institutions often reveals to us exactly how much we take...
01.05.2017
Saul Levmore, "Carrots and Sticks in Law (and Life)"
One of the great Chicago Ideas is the equivalence of positive and negative incentives. The government can motivate you by rewarding some behavior or by penalizing your failure to behave in the preferred manner. Private parties rarely have the authority...
12.29.2016
Jim Zirin & William Baude, "The Post-Election Future of the Supreme Court after Scalia"
Jim Zirin graduated from Princeton University with honors and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. For...
11.18.2016
Michael McConnell, "Religion and Law: Is There a Connection?"
With commentary by Professor William Hubbard. Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, as well as Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a leading authority...
10.04.2016
October Term 2016: Highlights & Perspectives
In this First Monday event, Law School faculty discuss their insight and opinions on upcoming United States Supreme Court cases and the issues currently facing the Court. Featuring: Anthony J. Casey, '02, Professor of Law and Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar Nicholas Stephanopoulos,...
07.29.2016
John Tasioulas, "Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now"
Professor Tasioulas discusses the notion of the ‘minimum core obligations’ associated with economic, social and cultural human rights, such as the rights to education and health. The idea of minimum core obligations, which is a nascent doctrine in international human...
05.13.2016
Martha Nussbaum, "Long Long Lives: Should We Want Them?"
Today, as our capacity to prolong life increases, people dispute whether indefinite prolongation could possibly be good. A leading bioethicist, Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of Rahm) has written that we should all want to die at 75! I'll approach...
05.12.2016
Michael Kirby, "North Korea and our Dilemma"
Michael Kirby, "North Korea and our Dilemma: How to Secure Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity by a Recalcitrant Nuclear State?" Michael Kirby was a Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009), the nation's highest appellate and constitutional Court. In 2013-14...
05.02.2016
Justin Driver, "The Southern Manifesto in Myth and Memory"
Justin Driver is Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Research Scholar. His principal research interests include constitutional law, constitutional theory, and the intersection of race with legal institutions. Prior to joining the University of Chicago...
03.09.2016
Laura Weinrib, “Freedom of Conscience and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken”
Recent efforts by opponents of same-sex marriage and reproductive rights to reorient their agenda around religious freedom have sparked an explosion of scholarship on religious claims for exemption from generally applicable laws. Professor Weinrib will discuss an early antecedent of...
03.08.2016
Dhammika Dharmapala, "The 'Credibility Revolution' in Empirical Law and Economics"
Dhammika Dharmapala is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. The 2016 Coase Lecture was presented on February 16, 2016.
02.19.2016
Chief Judge Diane Wood, "Making Your Voice Heard"
Chief Judge Diane Wood presents "Making Your Voice Heard" and speaks on issues related to women's professional development and the difficulties they face. Judge Diane Wood is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh...
01.22.2016
Jonathan Masur, "Deference Mistakes"
Suppose a court holds in the context of a habeas petition that a constitutional right is not yet “clearly established.” Can we conclude from this that the right does not exist? The answer, of course, is “no”—it would...
12.31.2015
Tracey L. Meares, "Police Reform and Public Security"
Keynote address for the University of Chicago Law School Legal Forum Symposium 2015: Policing the Police First published in 1985, the University of Chicago Legal Forum is the Law School’s second-oldest journal. The Legal Forum is a student-edited journal that focuses...
12.09.2015
Douglas Hallward-Driemeier & Daniel Hemel, "Insights from the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments"
"Standing Up for Marriage Equality: Insights from the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments" Doug Hallward-Driemeier leads Ropes & Gray’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice. He has presented more than 60 appellate arguments, including before the U.S. Supreme Court and every federal circuit...
12.03.2015
Moshe Halbertal, "Three Concepts of Human Dignity"
Human Dignity has become a central value in political and constitutional thought. Yet its meaning and scope, and its relation to other moral and political values such as autonomy and rights have been elusive. The lecture will explicate the value...
11.17.2015
Mary Anne Case, “Fifty Years of Griswold v. Connecticut"
It's birth control's fiftieth birthday! Professor Case will be discussing what Griswold—the landmark case that began the process of invalidating legal prohibitions on the use of birth control—looks like in the aftermath of Hobby Lobby and Obergefell. Mary Anne Case is...
11.10.2015
Panel: Theory Meets Practice: Dynamic Changes in the Election Law Landscape
Panelists: - Don Harmon, JD’95, Illinois State Senator - Dan Johnson, JD’00, Progressive Public Affairs - Blake Sercye, JD'11, Associate, Jenner & Block - Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Assistant Professor of Law Hosted by the University of Chicago Law School’s Regional Alumni Committee at Skadden Arps in...
11.05.2015
Saul Levmore, "What Do Lawmakers Do?"
Lawmakers respond to constituents, seek higher office, have lofty goals, and even learn from their mistakes. But do they actually make the world a better place? In this lecture, the first of this year’s Chicago’s Best Ideas series, Professor Levmore...
10.27.2015
James B. Comey, '85: "Law Enforcement and the Communities We Serve"
James B. Comey, class of 1985, is the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Recorded on October 23, 2015, at the University of Chicago Law School.
10.23.2015
Laura Weinrib, “Labor, Lochner, and the First Amendment”
Laura Weinrib, Assistant Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar, is a 2003 graduate of Harvard Law School. She completed her PhD in history at Princeton University in 2011. In 2000, she received an AB in...
07.17.2015
Axel Honneth, “Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty”
Even for those among us who are not altogether convinced by Isaiah Berlin's famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty," it has by now become commonplace to adopt a distinction between "negative" and "positive" liberties that largely coincides with the one...
06.29.2015
William H. J. Hubbard, “Newtonian Law and Economics, Quantum Law and Economics, and ...”
“Newtonian Law and Economics, Quantum Law and Economics, and the Search for a Theory of Relativity” At this law school, “law and economics” is a mantra. But what is the “economics” in “law and economics”? There is a tendency to see...
06.11.2015
Aziz Huq, “Hobby Lobby and the Psychology of Corporate Rights”
After the Hobby Lobby and Citizens United decisions, a robust public debate has emerged over corporate constitutional rights. Prof. Huq discusses ongoing empirical research about how the Hobby Lobby case has influenced public perceptions not just of those rights, but...
06.05.2015
Richard A. Epstein, “Reasonable and Unreasonable Expectations in Property Law and Beyond”
The notion of reasonable expectations filters in and out of many given areas of law. It is often derided as circular claim in which reasonable expectations are shaped by the law that they are supposed to shape. On...
05.28.2015
Alison Siegler, “The Courts of Appeals’ Latest Sentencing Rebellion”
For over twenty-five years, federal courts of appeals have rebelled against every Supreme Court mandate that weakens the federal sentencing Guidelines. That rebellion has intensified since the Court dealt a blow to the Guidelines a decade ago by making them...
05.06.2015
Rising Storm: Ways of Addressing Climate Change's Impacts on Infrastructure and Housing
A Kreisman Housing Breakfast Series event co-sponsored by the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago and the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics Led by University of Chicago environmental lawyer Mark Templeton, an expert panel will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of...
05.02.2015
Youth/Police Conference: They Have All The Power
Why does police accountability matter in this context? How does the knowledge that severe abuses—brutality, sexual assault, false arrest, even death—have gone unpunished inform and shape encounters between youth and police? What are the costs and harms of the absence...

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The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Podcast episodes:

Supreme Court Preview 2020: Highlights and Perspectives

M. Todd Henderson, "The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize..."

Seyla Benhabib, "The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?"

Joan Biskupic, "Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court..."

Saul Levmore, "Addictive Law"

William Baude and Anthony J. Casey, "Supreme Court Preview 2019: Highlights and Perspectives"

Law in the Era of #MeToo: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett

Saul Levmore, "If the Common Law was Efficient, Why Did It Decline?"

Justin Driver, "The Future of the Supreme Court: The Constitution of Public Schools"

M. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"

David Bowman, "Alternative Reference Rates: SOFR, LIBOR, and Issues for Transitions"

John G. Malcolm, "Current Topics in Criminal Justice Reform"

Mary Anne Case, "Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace"

Jonathan S. Masur, "The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness"

Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, “Interpreting Contracts via Surveys and Experiments”

Henry Shue, "Gambling with Their Climate: Future Generations, Negative Emissions, & Risk Transfers"

Supreme Court Preview 2017: Highlights and Perspectives

Aaron Nielson, "The Past and Future of Deference: From Justice Scalia to Justice Gorsuch"

To POE or Not to POE: The Proper Evidentiary Standard for Campus Sexual Misconduct (A Debate)

Gillian Thomas, "Title VII and Women in the Workplace"

Anthony J. Casey, "The Short Happy Life of Rules and Standards"

Kurt Lash & Alan Gura, "Does the Fourteenth Amendment Protect Unenumerated Rights?"

William H. J. Hubbard, "Empirical Study of the Supreme Court of India"

Saul Levmore, "Carrots and Sticks in Law (and Life)"

Jim Zirin & William Baude, "The Post-Election Future of the Supreme Court after Scalia"

Michael McConnell, "Religion and Law: Is There a Connection?"

October Term 2016: Highlights & Perspectives

John Tasioulas, "Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now"

Martha Nussbaum, "Long Long Lives: Should We Want Them?"

Michael Kirby, "North Korea and our Dilemma"

Justin Driver, "The Southern Manifesto in Myth and Memory"

Laura Weinrib, “Freedom of Conscience and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken”

Dhammika Dharmapala, "The 'Credibility Revolution' in Empirical Law and Economics"

Chief Judge Diane Wood, "Making Your Voice Heard"

Jonathan Masur, "Deference Mistakes"

Tracey L. Meares, "Police Reform and Public Security"

Douglas Hallward-Driemeier & Daniel Hemel, "Insights from the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments"

Moshe Halbertal, "Three Concepts of Human Dignity"

Mary Anne Case, “Fifty Years of Griswold v. Connecticut"

Panel: Theory Meets Practice: Dynamic Changes in the Election Law Landscape

Saul Levmore, "What Do Lawmakers Do?"

James B. Comey, '85: "Law Enforcement and the Communities We Serve"

Laura ​Weinrib, ​“Labor, ​Lochner, ​and ​the ​First ​Amendment”

Axel Honneth, “Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty”

William H. J. Hubbard, “Newtonian Law and Economics, Quantum Law and Economics, and ...”

Aziz Huq, “Hobby Lobby and the Psychology of Corporate Rights”

Richard A. Epstein, “Reasonable and Unreasonable Expectations in Property Law and Beyond”

Alison Siegler, “The Courts of Appeals’ Latest Sentencing Rebellion”

Rising Storm: Ways of Addressing Climate Change's Impacts on Infrastructure and Housing

Youth/Police Conference: They Have All The Power

Laura Weinrib, “Labor, Lochner, and the First Amendment”