Ipse Dixit
800 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIpse Dixit is a podcast on legal scholarship. Each episode of Ipse Dixit features a different guest discussing their scholarship. The podcast also features several special series.
"From the Archives" consists historical recordings potentially of interest to legal scholars and lawyers."The Homicide Squad" consists of investigations of the true stories behind different murder ballads, as well as examples of how different musicians have interpreted the song over time."The Day Antitrust Died?" is co-hosted with Ramsi Woodcock, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, and consists of oral histories of the 1974 Airlie House Conference on antitrust law, a pivotal moment in the history of antitrust theory and policy.The hosts of Ipse Dixit are:
Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of LawLuce Nguyen, a student at Oberlin College and the co-founder of the Oberlin Policy Research Institute, an undergraduate public policy organization based at Oberlin CollegeMaybell Romero, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of LawAntonia Eliason, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of LawSaurabh Vishnubhakat, Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M School of LawJohn Culhane, Professor of Law at Widener University Delaware Law SchoolBenjamin Edwards, Associate Professor of Law at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of LawMatthew Bruckner, Associate Professor of Law at Howard University School of LawComments and suggestions are always welcome at [email protected]. You can follow the Ipse Dixit on Twitter at @IpseDixitPod.
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Episodes
Henry Oliver on Late Bloomers
April 16, 2024 20:20 - 32 minutes - 16.8 MBIn this episode, Henry Oliver, a writer, speaker, and brand consultant based in London, discusses his new book, "Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Reinventing Your Life." Oliver begins by explaining what he means by a "late bloomer" and what their stories can tell us about success. He discusses many historical examples of late bloomers, describing their similarities and differences. And he shares some strategies about achieving success later in life that we can glean from the...
Phillips & Baumann on the Major Questions Doctrine & the SEC
March 22, 2024 05:21 - 38 minutes - 21.9 MBIn this episode, Todd Phillips, Assistant Professor at the Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business, and Beau J. Baumann, a Ph.D. student at Yale Law School, discuss their article "The Major Questions Doctrine's Domain," which will be published in the Brooklyn Law Review. Phillips and Baumann begin by explaining what the major questions doctrine is, how it works, and why it's important. They describe how litigants are challenging SEC enforcement actions against crypto to...
Matt Blaszczyk on Emergent Works & Copyright
March 22, 2024 04:40 - 39 minutes - 23 MBIn this episode, Matt Blaszczyk, an incoming research fellow at the University of Michigan Law School, discusses his article "Impossibility of Emergent Works’ Protection in U.S. and EU Copyright Law," which is published in the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology. Blaszczyk begins by explaining the concept of an "emergent work," or work without a human author, a category of works of authorship that includes AI generated works. He describes several efforts to register emergent works for...
From the Archives 114: Dupont's Cavalcade of America, The Constitution of the United States
March 08, 2024 06:23 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBFrom 1935-53, the DuPont Company sponsored a radio program titled "Cavalcade of America." This episode dramatized the United States Constitution. The recording consists of three 78 RPM records, which were collected and digitized by the Internet Archive. Unfortunately, the B-side of the third 78 was too damaged to digitize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Beau Baumann on Americana Administrative Law
March 08, 2024 05:05 - 35 minutes - 22 MBIn this episode, Beau Baumann, a PhD candidate at Yale Law School, discusses his article "Americana Administrative Law," which is published in the Georgetown Law Journal. Baumann describes the origins and history of the non-delegation doctrine and the major questions doctrine, explaining how both are rooted in an ideological fantasy of a Congress that never existed, ultimately in service of judicial self-aggrandizement. He reflect on how that happened, why it's a problem, and how scholars sh...
Neoshia Roemer on Equal Protection & Indian Child Welfare
March 07, 2024 22:34 - 48 minutes - 28 MBIn this episode, Neoshia Roemer, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, discusses her article "Equity for American Indian Families," which will be published in the Minnesota Law Review. Roemer explains what the Indian Child Welfare Act does, why it was created, and how some people are using equal protection arguments in order to challenge its constitutionality. She explains why ICWA is so important for both children and tribes, and why the criticisms of it are so ...
Rachael Dickson on Cannabis Marks
January 14, 2024 21:21 - 42 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this episode, Rachael Dickson, an Visiting Assistant Professor at the Suffolk University Law School Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic and for Trademark Examining Attorney at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, discusses her draft article "High Hopes: Cannabis Trademarks at the USPTO." Dickson begins by briefly describing the history of cannabis regulation in the United States. She explains how trademarks work and what they are intended to accomplish, and why can...
Aliza Shatzman on the Clerkships Whisper Network
October 24, 2023 21:44 - 46 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this episode, Aliza Shatzman of the Legal Accountability Network discusses her article "The Clerkships Whisper Network: What It Is, Why It's Broken, And How To Fix It," which is published in the Columbia Law Review. Shatzman is on Twitter at @AlizaShatzman. This episode was hosted by Peter Romer-Friedman on PRF Law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rachel O'Dwyer on Tokens
October 24, 2023 21:22 - 41 minutes - 22.2 MBIn this episode, Rachel O'Dwyer, a lecturer in Digital Cultures in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, discusses her new book "Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform," which is published by Verso Books. O'Dwyer explains what tokens are, how they relate to money, how they have been used at different points in time, and how they are used today. O'Dwyer is on Twitter at @Rachelodwyer. This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the U...
Claire Aubin on Holocaust Perpetrators
October 15, 2023 00:16 - 44 minutes - 25.7 MBIn this episode, Claire E. Aubin, a faculty member at Gratz College who will be a lecturer at UC Davis, discusses her work on Holocaust perpetrators, including her dissertation, "From Treblinka to Trenton: Holocaust perpetrators as immigrants to the post-war United States" and her recent article for Time magazine. Aubin explains why Holocaust perpetrators were able to emigrate to the United States without being caught, how they camouflaged themselves from immigration authorities, how some we...
Christa Laser on the Law of the Blockchain
October 07, 2023 22:52 - 44 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode, Christa Laser, Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, discusses her article "Legal Issues in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and NFTs," which will be published in the Nebraska Law Review. Laser begins by explaining that we should think about the relationship between law and the blockchain as posing questions about how to apply abstract concepts to problems posed by new technologies, not an obligation to create a new body of law. She describes ho...
Christa Laser of the Law of the Blockchain
October 07, 2023 22:52 - 44 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode, Christa Laser, Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, discusses her article "Legal Issues in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and NFTs," which will be published in the Nebraska Law Review. Laser begins by explaining that we should think about the relationship between law and the blockchain as posing questions about how to apply abstract concepts to problems posed by new technologies, not an obligation to create a new body of law. She describes ho...
David Yosifon on Agency and Well-Being
October 07, 2023 22:28 - 37 minutes - 20.8 MBIn this episode, David G. Yosifon, Peter Canisius, S.J. Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law, discusses his article "Agent Correction: Chastisement, Wellness, and Personal Ethics," which is published in the Florida State University Law Review. Yosifon begins by describing the broader scholarly project of which this article is a part, investigating how concepts derived from corporate governance can inform and promote human well-being. He describes the early modern concept ...
Zachary Catanzaro on Artificial Intelligence & Copyright Theory
September 25, 2023 21:15 - 31 minutes - 17 MBIn this episode, Zachary L. Catanzaro, Assistant Professor of Law at St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law, discusses his draft article "Beyond Incentives: Copyright in the Age of Algorithmic Production." Catanzaro begins by describing the history of the development of copyright law and how that history shaped the dominant incentives-based theory of copyright. He explains how algorithmic AI programs work, and reflects on how the development of AI technology should affect our...
Sara Protasi on Envy
September 12, 2023 21:22 - 41 minutes - 23.2 MBIn this episode, Sara Protasi, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puget Sound, discusses her book "The Philosophy of Envy," which is published by Cambridge University Press. Protasi explains how envy is different from other emotions, including jealously. She describes the different kinds of envy. And she argues that at least some kinds of envy are good and should be encouraged, even though some other kinds are bad. Protasi is on Twitter at @natadicorsa. This episode was ...
Quinn Yeargain on Litigating Trans Rights
September 12, 2023 21:06 - 42 minutes - 27.2 MBIn this episode, Quinn Yeargain, Assistant Professor of Law at Widener University Commonwealth Law School, discusses his article, “Litigating Trans Rights in the States,” which will be published by the Ohio State Law Journal. Yeargain describes recent efforts by states to pass legislation infringing on the rights of transgender individuals, and argues that while challengers have found success challenging these laws on federal constitutional grounds, they should also challenge these laws on s...
Michael Smith on Library Crimes
August 30, 2023 18:20 - 37 minutes - 27.1 MBIn this episode, Michael Smith, Assistant Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law, discusses his article "Library Crime," which will be published in the Drake Law Review. Smith describes the different kinds of crimes that are specific to libraries, how they differ from state to state, and why they exist. He reflects on library crimes and what they can tell us about libraries as institutions. And he explain how library crimes illuminate the purposes of criminal justice more ge...
Jacob Gordon on Gang Violence & Just War Theory
August 26, 2023 20:18 - 38 minutes - 28.7 MBIn this episode, Jacob Gordon, a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, discusses his draft article "Gang Violence and Just War Theory." Gordon begins by explaining the basic premises of just war theory. He then describes common features of gangs, and how they often track with the features considered by just war theory. He argues that concepts drawn from just war theory can help us better understand the relative culpability of gang members for gang violence, and argues that gang participatio...
Paul Gowder on the Rule of Law & Black Liberation
August 22, 2023 21:07 - 49 minutes - 28.4 MBIn this episode, Paul Gowder, Associate Dean of Research and Intellectual Life and Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, discusses his book The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation which is published by Hart Publishing and available as an open-access download. Gowder begins by discussing open-access publishing and the design on the book. He explains what he means by "the rule of law" and why he sees it as fundamentally tie...
Jordi Goodman on Attribution Norms
August 17, 2023 00:29 - 36 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this episode, Jordana R. Goodman, Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses her article "Ms. Attribution: How Authorship Credit Contributes to the Gender Gap," which is published in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. Goodman begin by describing the "gender gap" and how it affects the practice of law. She explains how the "Matthew" and "Matilda" effects under-recognize the contributions of women in legal practice, and how lack of attribution helps perpetuate t...
Kenneth Adams on the Style of Contract Drafting
June 25, 2023 20:12 - 42 minutes - 29 MBIn this episode, Kenneth A. Adams, an attorney and expert on contract drafting, discusses his book, "A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting," which is published by the ABA. Adams describes how he became interested in the style of contract drafting and why he thinks it is often so bad. He explains how contract drafting can be improved and why better drafted contracts are preferable. And he provides specific examples of improved drafting from his book. In the course of the interview, Adams al...
Lisa Ramsey on Trademark Infringement & the First Amendment
June 17, 2023 21:36 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBIn this episode, Lisa P. Ramsey, Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, discusses the Supreme Court's recent decision in Jack Daniel's v. VIP products in light of her article "Raising the Threshold for Trademark Infringement to Protect Free Expression," which she co-authored with Christine Haight Farley, and which is published in the American University Law Review. Ramsey begins by describing what happened in the Jack Daniel's case and why the Supreme Court's opinion ...
Brian McBrearty on Forensic Musicology
May 05, 2023 20:25 - 35 minutes - 81.4 MBIn this episode, Brian McBreary, a forensic musicologist, explains what forensic musicologists do and how they analyze music. He describes how he became a forensic musicologist and the process by which forensic musicologists approach the analysis of songs as expert witnesses in copyright infringement litigation. And he specifically reflects on recent copyright infringement cases involving Marvin Gaye songs. McBrearty hosts the website Musicologize and is on Twitter at @brianmcbrearty. Hoste...
Sara Gras on Podcasting as Legal Scholarship
March 10, 2023 16:06 - 57 minutes - 41.2 MBIn this episode, Sara Gras, Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Peter W. Rodino, Jr. Law Library Center for Information & Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law, discusses her article "Positioning Podcasting as Legal Scholarship," which will be published in the Utah Law Review. Here is the abstract: Technology has revolutionized legal practice, education, and society generally, yet the availability of new forms of digital media has not significantly changed the locu...
Elise Maizel on Reform Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege
March 02, 2023 04:15 - 34 minutes - 25.9 MBIn this episode, Elise Bernlohr Maizel, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law School, discusses her article "The Case for Downsizing the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege." Maizel begins by describing the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine. She explains why the attorney-client privilege doctrine has always been a poor fit for corporate clients. And she proposes a new model for the attorney-client privilege in the corporate context that is both more conceptuall...
Mike Kasdan on Web3 Lawyering
January 25, 2023 05:54 - 38 minutes - 31.1 MBIn this episode, Michael J. Kasdan, a partner at Wiggin and Dana LLP, discusses his work as a lawyer in the Web3 space. Among other things, Kasdan discusses how intellectual property affects Web3 markets, including how Web3 companies are using their intellectual property rights in new and unexpected ways. This episode was hosted by Sidhant Raghuvanshi, an LLM student at UC Berkeley School of Law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aliza Shatzman on Judicial Accountability
January 13, 2023 23:37 - 35 minutes - 27 MBIn this episode, Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, discusses her new article, "The Conservative Case for the Judiciary Accountability Act," which is published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Schatzman observes that the federal judiciary has a harassment problem and describes her own experience of harassment. She describes the Judicial Accountability Act, which would impose Title VII requirements on the federal judiciary, among other protections...
Ari Cohn on the Kids Online Safety Act
December 09, 2022 21:39 - 39 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this episode, Ari Cohn, Free Speech Counsel at Tech Freedom, discusses the proposed Kids Online Safety Act, which the Senate is currently considering. Cohn begins by explaining the history of KOSA and similar previous bills, what KOSA is supposed to accomplish, and how it's supposed to accomplish that goal. He explains why KOSA as drafted presents intractable practical and First Amendment problems. And he argues that Congress should reject KOSA in its entirety. Cohn is on Twitter at @AriC...
Neil Chilson on FTC Rulemaking & AI
December 09, 2022 17:34 - 46 minutes - 27.2 MBIn this episode, Neil Chilson, a senior research fellow for technology and innovation at Stand Together and former chief technologist at the FTC, discusses the FTC's proposal to create a trade regulation rule on commercial surveillance and data security. Chilson begins by discussing the FTC's history of rulemaking and why this rulemaking proposal is important. He reflects on what the FTC might be trying to achieve in this rulemaking process and discusses some potential concerns. He also disc...
Sarah Polcz on Authorship Norms Among Songwriters
December 02, 2022 18:24 - 40 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this episode, Sarah Polcz, a fellow at Stanford Law School, discusses her articles "Co-Creating Equality," which will be published in the Southern California Law Review, and "Loyalties & Royalties," which will be published in the Hastings Law Journal. Polcz describes her empirical research on the distribution of songwriting credit in the music business. She explains how authorship norms among songwriters differ from the default rules of copyright because of the incentives that are salient...
Schwarcz, Wolff & Woods on Privilege & Cybersecurity
November 23, 2022 02:12 - 41 minutes - 29.1 MBIn this episode, Daniel Schwarcz, Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, Josephine Wolff, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and Daniel W. Woods, Lecturer of Cybersecurity at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, discuss their article "How Privilege Undermines Cybersecurity," which will be published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. They begin by explaining what the attorney-cl...
NFT Notes 24: Michele Colonna on the Art Market & the NFT Market
October 27, 2022 04:58 - 42 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this episode, Michele Colonna, an art collector, NFT advisor, and co-founder of Árthropo, a web3 native crypto art project, discusses his perspective on the art market and the NFT market. Colonna describes how he became interested in NFTs, how he views the relationship between the NFT market and the conventional art market, and where he sees the future of the NFT market heading. Colonna is on Twitter at @mcolonna65. This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of La...
From the Archives 113: McGruff's® SMART KIDS Album
October 27, 2022 01:36 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBIn 1987, the National McGruff Campaign released McGruff's® SMART KIDS Album on cassette for $5. The album consisted of 11 songs ostensibly performed by McGruff the Crime Dog, explaining why drugs are bad. Here's the track list: Winners Don’t Use No. No, No! Marijuana Inhalants Cocaine & Crack Alcohol Just Say No Smart Kids Make Your Body Last I’ll Decide on My Own I’m Glad I’m Me Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NFT Notes 23: Robin Schmidt on Journalism in the Metaverse
October 18, 2022 15:54 - 40 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this episode, Robin Schmidt, a journalist covering web3, decentralized finance, NFTs, and the metaverse. Schmidt explains how he became interested in the web3 space and how he made the move from commercial motion picture production to journalism. He describes his work at The Defiant creating video journalism covering developments in decentralized finance, and his approach to creating that content. And he describes his new project BasedAF which will focus on the metaverse. You can watch Sc...
Scott Shapiro on War & International Law
October 06, 2022 17:11 - 48 minutes - 27.1 MBIn this episode, Scott J. Shapiro, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, discusses his book The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (Simon & Schuster 2018) and his essay "Putin Can’t Destroy the International Order by Himself," both of which he co-authored with Oona A. Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. Shapiro is on Twitter at @scottjshapiro. This episode was hosted b...
NFT Notes 22: Christa Laser on NFTs & Intellectual Property
October 04, 2022 08:34 - 48 minutes - 17 MBIn this episode, Christa Laser, Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, discusses her work on blockchain, NFTs, and intellectual property, from the perspective of a law professor and former intellectual property litigator. Among other things, she discusses blockchain patents, copyright in NFT images, and trademark in NFT brands. Laser is on Twitter at @ChristaLaser. This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentuc...
Anjali Vats on Critical Race Theory & Intellectual Property
October 04, 2022 07:30 - 32 minutes - 24.9 MBIn this episode, Anjali Vats, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses her book "The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans," which is published by Stanford University Press. She explains how critical race theory can and should inform our understanding of the history of intellectual property. Vats is on Twitter at @raceip. This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the Univer...
William Organek on Mass Tort Bankruptcies
October 04, 2022 06:57 - 43 minutes - 33.9 MBIn this episode, William Organek, program fellow at the bankruptcy project at Harvard Law School, discusses his new article, "A Bitter Result": Purdue Pharma, a Sackler Bankruptcy Filing, and Improving Monetary and Nonmonetary Recoveries in Mass Tort Bankruptcies. Billy explains why he thinks that creditors in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy received a better result than they would have if some Sackler family members were forced to file their own bankruptcy cases. In particular, he talks about ...
Andrea Bopp Stark & Geoffrey Walsh on Carceral Bankruptcy
October 04, 2022 06:36 - 42 minutes - 31.7 MBIn this episode, Andrea Bopp Stark and Geoffrey Walsh, both staff attorneys at the National Consumer Law Center, discuss their work on fines and fees in bankruptcy case, with a particular focus on their article, Sentenced to a Life of Debt: It Is Time for a Reassessment of How Bankruptcy Law Intersects with Fines and Fees to Keep People in Debt. Geoff and Andrea explain how state and local governments have funded mass incarceration through the imposition of fines and fees in the criminal law...
Paul Edelblut on Lucy v. Zehmer
July 26, 2022 14:51 - 30 minutes - 24.3 MBIn this episode, Paul Edelblut, the grandson of Welford O. Lucy, discusses the iconic 1954 contract case Lucy v. Zehmer and what he learned about it from his grandfather. This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jorge Contreras on Gene Patents
June 28, 2022 02:21 - 46 minutes - 34.9 MBIn this episode, Jorge L. Contreras, Professor of Law at the University of Utah College of Law, discusses his book "The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA," which is published by Algonquin Books. Contreras describes the landmark Supreme Court patent case Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics and explains why it was important. He recounts the story of the case and how he reported on it. And he reflects on what it can tell us about pate...
Jordana Goodman on Authorship Credit and the Gender Gap
May 10, 2022 20:46 - 50 minutes - 37.9 MBIn this episode, Jordana Goodman, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Law, discusses her new article Ms. Attribution: How Authorship Credit Contributes to the Gender Gap. She argues that misattribution in the authorship of legal work disparately impacts underrepresented members of the legal profession, with a focus on women in patent law. In her article, Professor Goodman reports empirical findings from a large novel dataset of agency actions and respon...
Aliza Shatzman on Holding Judges Accountable
April 29, 2022 02:02 - 35 minutes - 27.6 MBIn this episode, Aliza Shatzman, an attorney and advocate based in Washington, DC, discusses her article "Untouchable Judges? What I've learned about harassment in the judiciary, and what we can do to stop it," which will be published in the UCLA Journal of Gender & Law. Here is the abstract: Drawing from the author’s own experience of gender discrimination, harassment, and retaliation during her clerkship and in the years following it by a former DC Superior Court judge, this Article analy...
Henry Thompson on Mafia Courts
February 23, 2022 05:18 - 37 minutes - 30.4 MBIn this episode, Henry A. Thompson, a Ph.D. student in economics at George Mason University, discusses his article "Cosa Nostra Courts." Here is the abstract: This paper uses economic reasoning to analyze the traditions and institutions of one of the most successful criminal organizations in modern history: La Cosa Nostra (LCN). Drawing on recently declassified FBI reports, the paper's analysis shows that LCN's core institutions are best understood as attempts to protect its secrecy, an ass...
NFT Notes 21: Laura Shin on the Story of Ethereum
February 23, 2022 04:08 - 36 minutes - 30.4 MBIn this episode, Laura Shin, journalist and host of the Unchained podcast, discusses her new book "The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze," which is published by Public Affairs. Shin describes how she became interested in cryptocurrency, how she told the story of the creation of Ethereum, and what she learned while researching the story. This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentuc...
Sarah Burstein & Saurabh Vishnubhakat on the Truth About Design Patents
February 23, 2022 03:51 - 34 minutes - 19.4 MBIn this episode, Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Saraubh Vishnubhakat, Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law, discuss their article "The Truth About Design Patents," which will be published in the American University Law Review. Here is the abstract: Design patents are hot. Scholars and policymakers are increasingly focusing on this once-niche area of law. However, many of the empirical studies in this area—including old on...
NFT Notes 20: Sarah Moosvi on DAOs and the NFT Art Community
February 23, 2022 03:27 - 43 minutes - 14.7 MBIn this episode, Sarah Moosvi of Protean DAO, Tara Digital Collective and aGENDAdao discusses now she became interested in NFTs and DAOs. Among other things, she explains why DAOs are a useful tool for NFT artists, and how NFT artists use the DAO structure in their work. She also reflects on problems with the DAO structure, including inequities DAOs can perpetuate, especially in relation to members of minoritized communities. This interview was conducted in the convention center at Art Basel...
NFT Notes 19: Simon Indelicate on Creating an NFT Collection
January 19, 2022 03:43 - 54 minutes - 43 MBIn this episode, Simon Indelicate of The Indelicates describes the creation and sale of his first NFT collection, which consisted of 30 "perpetual admission tickets" for an "imaginary theme park" called Arcadia Park. Simon describes his career as an independent musician, including the creation of the Arcadia Park album. He explains how he repurposed the album for an NFT collection, and why it was consistent with his long-standing objections to the music industry and how it uses copyright. He...
Rebecca Curtin on Fanny Holmes's Impact on Bleistein
January 19, 2022 02:57 - 31 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode, Rebecca Curtin, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, discusses her article "The Art (History) of Bleistein," which will be published in the Journal of the Copyright Society. Curtin begins by explaining why Justice Holmes's opinion in Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., 188 U.S. 239 (1903) is such a landmark of copyright doctrine. She observes that Holmes made many unusual and unnecessary observations about the nature of art in the opinion, and argues that...
NFT Notes 18: Aleksandra Artamonovskaja on the Art Market & the NFT Market
November 26, 2021 19:11 - 41 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this episode, Aleksandra Artamonovskaja, co-founder of Electric Artifacts and head of marketing at Fragcolor, discusses her work curating digital art and NFTs. Artamonovskaja begins by describing her background in the traditional art market. She explains how she became interested in digital art and NFTs, and how the rapid rise of the NFT market has changed the art world. She reflects on what those changes mean for artists and collectors. And she discusses some of the trends in the art mar...