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Stanford's David Sklansky on Trump's Many Trials
Stanford Legal - May 09, 2024 13:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsCriminal law expert and former federal prosecutor David Sklansky joins Pam and Rich to discuss the New York trial and other cases against former president Trump. From state prosecutions to federal cases, they analyze the defense and prosecution strategies and implications of each trial, shedding...
AI in Government and Governing AI: A Discussion with Stanford’s RegLab
Stanford Legal - April 25, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsJoining Pam and Rich for this discussion are Professor Daniel Ho and RegLab Fellow Christie Lawrence, JD ’24 (MPP, Harvard Kennedy School of Government). Dan is the founding director of Stanford’s RegLab (Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab), which builds high-impact partnerships for dat...
Representing Clients at the Supreme Court
Stanford Legal - April 11, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsProfessor Easha Anand, co-director of the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, joins Professors Pam Karlan and Richard Thompson Ford, along with Gareth Fowler, JD '24, for a discussion about three cases that she argued before the Court this term, the people behind the case titles...
"Beware Euphoria: Unraveling America's Drug War"
Stanford Legal - March 28, 2024 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsDive into the complex history of America's drug war with George Fisher, former Massachusetts Attorney General and acclaimed scholar of criminal law. In his latest book, "Beware Euphoria," Fisher explores the moral and racial dimensions of drug prohibition, challenging conventional narratives. Jo...
Bill Gould on Dartmouth Basketball and the Changing Game of Unions and College Athletics
Stanford Legal - March 14, 2024 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsPam Karlan and labor law expert and former NLRB chair William Gould IV explore the quickly changing arena of college athletics including the push for student-athlete unionization, the debate over compensation, and other issues at the intersection of sports and academia. From the Dartmouth Colleg...
Are Frozen Embryos Children? A Discussion of the Alabama Decision on Embryo Rights and the Future of IVF Pregnancies in the US
Stanford Legal - February 29, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWhen does life begin? In this episode of Stanford Legal, co-hosts Rich Ford and Pam Karlan dig into the recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court that has sent shockwaves through the fertility treatment community. The ruling, which considers frozen embryos as children under state law, has wid...
Tackling Mass Incarceration in the US
Stanford Legal - February 15, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWhy does the U.S. have the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with individuals, communities, and taxpayers paying a steep price for lengthy prison terms for even nonviolent offenders? Michael Romano, a criminal justice lawyer who founded and directs the Three Strikes Projec...
The Constitution, Trump, and the Struggles of US Courts to Interpret History with Jack Rakove
Stanford Legal - February 01, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsImportant questions regarding Trump: can he be prosecuted for criminal wrongdoing when he was serving as president, whether the two impeachment trials matter, and if Colorado’s decision to disqualify him from the state’s primary ballots is constitutional. Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jack Ra...
Droughts, Failing Infrastructure, and Water
Stanford Legal - January 18, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsDrinkable water is a precious commodity. But as population growth, aging infrastructure, drought, and climate change pose challenges to freshwater quality and quantity in America, the safety and amount of water in parts of the U.S. is in question. With more than 140,000 separate public water sys...
Does Inequity in U.S. Patent Inventorship Matter? A Discussion on Inequality in the Patent System and how it Impacts Innovation
Stanford Legal - January 04, 2024 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWomen and minorities continue to be underrepresented in patent issuing and less often are granted credit for their innovations. We examine why this is, the impacts it has, and what can be done about it. Patents, and the protection of inventor rights, was deemed important enough that when the U.S...
Texas Abortion Restrictions, Medicated Abortions, and Reproduction Rights in a Post-Roe US
Stanford Legal - December 21, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn June, 2022 the U.S. Supreme Court delivered an historic and far reaching decision overturning Roe v. Wade and turning abortion law to the states. Less than two years on, we are seeing just how that decision is playing out as women navigate a divided country with a patchwork of reproductive r...
Mass Shootings and Guns: Examining the Court’s Interpretation of the Right to Bear Arms and the Consequences of Gun Laws in the US
Stanford Legal - December 07, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn this episode, Pam Karlan and Rich Ford explore recent 2nd Amendment Supreme Court cases, the evolution of gun laws, and the implications of increased gun accessibility in the U.S. Joined by John Donohue, an empirical researcher who is an expert on firearms and the law, they discuss the prolif...
From Sumptuary Laws to Senate Suits: Dress Codes in History and Today
Stanford Legal - November 23, 2023 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsFrom the recent Senate dress code controversy to landmark legal cases, explore the nuanced intersection of the law and fashion, gender identity, and cultural expression. Join Pam Karlan and Rich Ford to delve into the intricate world of dress codes and the law, examining their historical roots a...
Stanford Legal Podcast Trailer: Law Matters, we're here to help make sense of it
Stanford Legal - November 13, 2023 19:39 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAfter a hiatus, Stanford Legal returns to your podcast feed. Start with our first episode back, where hosts Pam Karlan and Rich Ford sit down with criminal law expert David Sklansky to unpack the numerous indictments against Donald Trump. But that's not all: our upcoming episodes will explore a ...
Expert Insights on Trump Indictments from David Sklansky
Stanford Legal - November 09, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe many indictments against Donald Trump, former president and current Republican frontrunner for the 2024 presidential contest, have left many scratching their heads. Is the Florida documents case more important than the Georgia election interference one? Is it all just political theatre, or i...
This Thursday: Stanford Legal Returns with Expert Insights on Trump Indictments from David Sklansky
Stanford Legal - November 06, 2023 14:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 27 ratingsJoin us this Thursday for the return of Stanford Legal, with a new episode featuring criminal law expert David Sklansky, who will break down some of the most serious charges against former president--and 2024 presidential hopeful-- Donald Trump. Sklansky, a former prosecutor and co-director of t...
Stanford Legal is Back: Law Matters, we're here to help make sense of it
Stanford Legal - November 02, 2023 13:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsAfter a hiatus, Stanford Legal returns to your podcast feed. In our first episode relaunching November 9th, join hosts Pam Karlan and Rich Ford as they sit down with criminal law expert David Sklansky to unpack the numerous indictments against Donald Trump. But that's not all: our upcoming episo...
Mishandling of Top-Secret Government Documents and the Mounting Legal Challenges Facing Donald J. Trump with David Sklansky
Stanford Legal - August 29, 2022 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsCriminal law expert David A. Sklansky discusses the August 8 search by the FBI of Donald J. Trump’s Florida residence and the legal implications of news reports that the former president took more than 700 pages of classified documents, including some related to the nation’s most covert intellige...
The New Supreme Court and Its Blockbuster Term with Pamela Karlan
Stanford Legal - August 15, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsPam Karlan, one of the nation’s leading experts on law and voting and the political process, discusses the new conservative-majority Supreme Court—and the potential consequences of its blockbuster term, including the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America with Michelle Wilde Anderson
Stanford Legal - August 15, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsUrban law expert Michelle Wilde Anderson discusses her new book, The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America, which looks at how local leaders are confronting government collapse in four blue-collar American communities—and the progress they are making against some of the seemingly ...
Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election with Michael McConnell
Stanford Legal - August 01, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWhile polls of Republican voters still show strong support for former president Trump, some of the most powerful testimony against him during the January 6 Congressional hearings have been by members of his administration and party. In this episode we hear from Stanford Law Professor Michael W. M...
What have we learned so far from the January 6 hearings, with Robert Weisberg
Stanford Legal - August 01, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsWhat have we learned from the Congressional hearings into the January 6 storming of the Capitol and then-President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election? Join Stanford criminal law expert Professor Robert Weisberg for a discussion of the hearings—what we learned and w...
Money, Guns, and Lawyers: The Uniquely American Epidemic of Mass Shootings
Stanford Legal - June 20, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsNearly ten years after the massacre of 26 students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the world has been shocked by another American school shooting—this one at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas where 19 students and two teachers were gunned down on May 24. That ca...
Law Firms and Russian Profits with Robert Daines
Stanford Legal - May 09, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsSince Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of the world’s leading companies, from investment banks to consumer goods, have shuttered their Russian operations. But Law firms have been slower to respond. Join us for a discussion with business law expert Robert Daines who has been leading ...
Overturning Roe and the Future of Abortion in the U.S. with Bernadette Meyler
Stanford Legal - May 09, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn an unusual leak from the U.S. Supreme Court, a draft memo shows the Court has decided to overrule Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal throughout the U.S. What does this mean for women seeking abortions in the U.S.? Are other rights, like same-sex mar...
Stanford Environmental Law Clinic’s Critical Environmental Cases with Debbie Sivas, Chris Meyer, and Sidni Frederick
Stanford Legal - April 25, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsStanford’s Environmental Law Clinic issues come in all sizes and shapes, from arguing successfully before the Ninth Circuit on their Endangered Species Act/NEPA case against the Forest Service, which implicated forest management issues in the face of drought and wildfire, to going before the East...
Environmental, Social, and Governance Funds with Paul Brest and Colleen Honigsberg
Stanford Legal - April 25, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsShareholders and investors alike are pressuring companies to improve their environmental, social, and governance performance. And an increasing number of funds are designated as ESG. But how do we measure—and verify—ESG? Who performs the audits and do the ratings matter? Join co-hosts Joe Bankma...
The Legacy of Justice Stephen Breyer
Stanford Legal - March 14, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe Legacy of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is discussed by Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez, who clerked for Breyer.
Covid-19, mask and vaccine mandates, and Continued Challenges Facing America’s Teachers
Stanford Legal - February 28, 2022 19:59 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsTeacher burnout—and resignations—may be leading to a crisis in education. Join Laura Juran, Chief Counsel and Associate Executive Director of the California Teachers Association, for a discussion about the challenges the nation's teachers have faced during the pandemic, when they have been on the...
The Closing of the American Mind? A Discussion about Critical Race Theory, Book Banning, and More
Stanford Legal - February 28, 2022 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratingsOver 30 state legislatures across the country have introduced bills to limit the discussion of racial history in a wave prompted by the emergence of critical race theory as a subject of political fear-mongering. In this episode, Rich and Joe are joined by Professor Ralph Richard Banks, an expert ...
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