The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Supreme Court Preview 2020: Highlights and Perspectives
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insi...
M. Todd Henderson, "The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize..."
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business & Government" In this CBI, Professor Henderson will examine how Inte...
Seyla Benhabib, "The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?"
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are among the most important human rights documents of the post-WW II period. Yet the universalizati...
Joan Biskupic, "Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court..."
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Saul Levmore, "Addictive Law"
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 so...
William Baude and Anthony J. Casey, "Supreme Court Preview 2019: Highlights and Perspectives"
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insi...
Law in the Era of #MeToo: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Scho...
Saul Levmore, "If the Common Law was Efficient, Why Did It Decline?"
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Justin Driver, "The Future of the Supreme Court: The Constitution of Public Schools"
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Supreme Court decisions affecting the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy....
M. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"
30 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Does legal education matter? In this lecture, Professor Todd Henderson presents some data on this question, using the behavior of corporate executives...
David Bowman, "Alternative Reference Rates: SOFR, LIBOR, and Issues for Transitions"
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
John G. Malcolm, "Current Topics in Criminal Justice Reform"
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With commentary by Professor Jonathan Masur John G. Malcolm oversees The Heritage Foundation’s work to increase understanding of the Constitution a...
Mary Anne Case, "Cultivating an Incest Taboo in the Workplace"
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Jonathan S. Masur, "The Behavioral Law & Economics of Happiness"
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 peop...
Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, “Interpreting Contracts via Surveys and Experiments”
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Interpreting the language of contracts is the most common and least satisfactory task courts perform in contract disputes. In this Chicago’s Best Id...
Henry Shue, "Gambling with Their Climate: Future Generations, Negative Emissions, & Risk Transfers"
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture defends three main theses: (I) that all decisions about the degree of ambition for emissions mitigation are unavoidably also decisions ab...
Supreme Court Preview 2017: Highlights and Perspectives
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 is...
Aaron Nielson, "The Past and Future of Deference: From Justice Scalia to Justice Gorsuch"
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With commentary by Professor Daniel Hemel Professor Nielson is a law professor at Brigham Young University and teaches/writes in the areas of adminis...
To POE or Not to POE: The Proper Evidentiary Standard for Campus Sexual Misconduct (A Debate)
21 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Featuring Professors Nancy Chi Cantalupo, Katharine Baker, Daniel Hemel, and Richard Epstein. Moderated by Professor Emily Buss. Presented by the Dome...
Gillian Thomas, "Title VII and Women in the Workplace"
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ca...
Anthony J. Casey, "The Short Happy Life of Rules and Standards"
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Kurt Lash & Alan Gura, "Does the Fourteenth Amendment Protect Unenumerated Rights?"
03 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
William H. J. Hubbard, "Empirical Study of the Supreme Court of India"
26 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
Saul Levmore, "Carrots and Sticks in Law (and Life)"
05 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
One of the great Chicago Ideas is the equivalence of positive and negative incentives. The government can motivate you by rewarding some behavior or b...
Jim Zirin & William Baude, "The Post-Election Future of the Supreme Court after Scalia"
29 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Zirin graduated from Princeton University with honors and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an edito...
Michael McConnell, "Religion and Law: Is There a Connection?"
18 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With commentary by Professor William Hubbard. Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and director of the Constitutional La...
October Term 2016: Highlights & Perspectives
04 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this First Monday event, Law School faculty discuss their insight and opinions on upcoming United States Supreme Court cases and the issues current...
John Tasioulas, "Minimum Core Obligations: Human Rights in the Here and Now"
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Tasioulas discusses the notion of the ‘minimum core obligations’ associated with economic, social and cultural human rights, such as the...
Martha Nussbaum, "Long Long Lives: Should We Want Them?"
13 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today, as our capacity to prolong life increases, people dispute whether indefinite prolongation could possibly be good. A leading bioethicist, Ezeki...
Michael Kirby, "North Korea and our Dilemma"
12 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Kirby, "North Korea and our Dilemma: How to Secure Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity by a Recalcitrant Nuclear State?" Michael Kirby...
Justin Driver, "The Southern Manifesto in Myth and Memory"
02 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Driver is Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Research Scholar. His principal research interests include constitutio...
Laura Weinrib, “Freedom of Conscience and the Civil Liberties Path Not Taken”
09 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Recent efforts by opponents of same-sex marriage and reproductive rights to reorient their agenda around religious freedom have sparked an explosion o...
Dhammika Dharmapala, "The 'Credibility Revolution' in Empirical Law and Economics"
08 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dhammika Dharmapala is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. The 2016 Coase Lecture was presented on February ...
Chief Judge Diane Wood, "Making Your Voice Heard"
19 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chief Judge Diane Wood presents "Making Your Voice Heard" and speaks on issues related to women's professional development and the difficulties they f...
Jonathan Masur, "Deference Mistakes"
22 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Tracey L. Meares, "Police Reform and Public Security"
31 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote address for the University of Chicago Law School Legal Forum Symposium 2015: Policing the Police First published in 1985, the University of C...
Douglas Hallward-Driemeier & Daniel Hemel, "Insights from the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments"
09 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
"Standing Up for Marriage Equality: Insights from the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments" Doug Hallward-Driemeier leads Ropes & Gray’s Appellate an...
Moshe Halbertal, "Three Concepts of Human Dignity"
03 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Human Dignity has become a central value in political and constitutional thought. Yet its meaning and scope, and its relation to other moral and polit...
Mary Anne Case, “Fifty Years of Griswold v. Connecticut"
17 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's birth control's fiftieth birthday! Professor Case will be discussing what Griswold—the landmark case that began the process of invalidating leg...
Panel: Theory Meets Practice: Dynamic Changes in the Election Law Landscape
10 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Panelists: - Don Harmon, JD’95, Illinois State Senator - Dan Johnson, JD’00, Progressive Public Affairs - Blake Sercye, JD'11, Associate, Jenner ...
Saul Levmore, "What Do Lawmakers Do?"
05 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Lawmakers respond to constituents, seek higher office, have lofty goals, and even learn from their mistakes. But do they actually make the world a bet...
James B. Comey, '85: "Law Enforcement and the Communities We Serve"
27 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Laura Weinrib, “Labor, Lochner, and the First Amendment”
23 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Weinrib, Assistant Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar, is a 2003 graduate of Harvar...
Axel Honneth, “Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty”
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
William H. J. Hubbard, “Newtonian Law and Economics, Quantum Law and Economics, and ...”
29 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
“Newtonian Law and Economics, Quantum Law and Economics, and the Search for a Theory of Relativity” At this law school, “law and economics” i...
Aziz Huq, “Hobby Lobby and the Psychology of Corporate Rights”
11 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
After the Hobby Lobby and Citizens United decisions, a robust public debate has emerged over corporate constitutional rights. Prof. Huq discusses ongo...
Richard A. Epstein, “Reasonable and Unreasonable Expectations in Property Law and Beyond”
05 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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 expect...
Alison Siegler, “The Courts of Appeals’ Latest Sentencing Rebellion”
28 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
For over twenty-five years, federal courts of appeals have rebelled against every Supreme Court mandate that weakens the federal sentencing Guidelines...
Rising Storm: Ways of Addressing Climate Change's Impacts on Infrastructure and Housing
06 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A Kreisman Housing Breakfast Series event co-sponsored by the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago and the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economic...
Youth/Police Conference: They Have All The Power
02 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Why does police accountability matter in this context? How does the knowledge that severe abuses—brutality, sexual assault, false arrest, even death...
Federalist Society Student Symposium: Innovation And The Administrative State
16 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Regulation can be a significant barrier to innovation, protecting incumbents and making it harder to bring new goods and services to market. Determini...
Alison LaCroix, "The Shadow Powers of Article I"
06 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court's federalism battleground has recently shifted from the Commerce Clause to two textually marginal but substantively important domain...
Omri Ben-Shahar, "The Unintended Effects of Access Justice Laws"
19 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Access Justice laws give people equal opportunity to enjoy primary goods, ensuring that access to these goods is not allocated by markets and is not t...
William Baude, "Is Originalism Our Law?"
16 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
At her confirmation hearing, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said that "we are all originalists." Is that true, and what would it mean for it to be ...
Panel: "Ferguson and Beyond: Criminal Procedure and Police Killings"
03 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This panel was moderated by Professor Siegler and included Deputy Dean Ginsburg and Professors Huq, McAdams, and Randolph Stone. The event took place...
A Conversation With Elena Kagan
11 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In a conversation with David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan reflects on decisi...
Will the Supreme Court Make Disparate Impact Disappear?
04 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A panel discussion with John Relman, Jeff Leslie, Lee Fennell, and Tara Ramchandani As part of the Law School's Diversity Month, the panelists discus...
Martha Minow, "Forgiveness, Law and Justice"
29 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Martha Minow, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law, Harvard Law School with comments by Martha Nussbaum, Aziz Huq, and Michael Schill What ...
Richard McAdams, "How Law Works Expressively"
08 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Although people sometimes violate the law, there is more legal compliance than we can explain by ordinary economic theory – that legal sanctions det...
Baude, Harel, & McAdams, "How Should We Interpret our Constitutions?"
04 Dec 2014
Contributed by Lukas
How Should We Interpret our Constitutions? A Debate between Professors Baude and Harel Moderated by Professor McAdams William Baude is Neubauer Fam...
Adam Chilton, "Why We Know Very Little About the Effectiveness of International Law"
18 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
While scholars in most fields argue about how laws can be changed to maximize their effectiveness, scholars of international law still regularly debat...
Richard Posner, Empirical Legal Studies Conference keynote
13 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Richard A. Posner, Senior Lecturer in Law and a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, devoted a lunchtime keynote to discussing how judges mi...
Saul Levmore, "How Does Law Work? Concentration and Distribution Strategies"
07 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Two of the best ideas of the last half-century describe strategies for using legal remedies to solve social problems. One is the concentration of liab...
Driver, Nou & Strauss, "Constitutional Interpretation at the Roberts Court"
13 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Supreme Court Preview: Constitutional Interpretation at the Roberts Court Hear Professors Justin Driver, Jennifer ...
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "The Honor and Burden of Being First: Judge Constance Baker Motley"
05 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Brown-Nagin's talk examines the legacy of The Honorable Constance Baker Motley—and break new ground in the study of civil rights, women's ...
M. Todd Henderson, "Do Judges Follow the Law?"
03 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In a naïve model of judging, Congress writes statutes, which courts know about and then slavishly apply. But a Chicago lawyer might doubt this model,...
A Fireside Chat with David Sacks '98, Founder and CEO of Yammer
29 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Todd Henderson leads an engaging discussion with Yammer Founder and CEO, David Sacks. David has been involved in the Internet space more t...
Laws Prohibiting Sex-Selective Abortion in the United States
20 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the anti-abortion movement's legislative campaign, seven states have passed bans on sex-selective abortion and many more are pending, inclu...
R.H. Helmholz, "Magna Carta: A European Perspective"
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This talk was recorded on April 25, 2014, as the Law School's annual Loop Luncheon.
David Strauss, "Does the Constitution Always Mean What It Says?"
13 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Constitution is "the supreme Law of the Land." Of course some of its provisions are vague and must be interpreted. But when the Constitution ...
Richard McAdams, "The Expressive Powers of Law"
08 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Economics explains legal compliance via sanctions, particularly by the ability of legal sanctions to change the cost of behavior and deter noncomplian...
Lior Strahilevitz, "Personalizing Default Rules and Disclosure with Big Data"
24 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The laws of intestacy are the same for men and women even though preferences for how one's estate should be divided differ by gender. Peanut-allergic ...
Barbara Herman, "The Moral Side of Non-Negligence"
10 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Legal discussions of negligence focus on issues of harm, fault, and remedy in the context of failure to exercise reasonable care. The point of orient...
Tom Ginsburg, Jonathan Masur, and Richard McAdams, "Temporary Law: The Case of Smoking Bans"
27 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Libertarians often assert that regulation is unnecessary because the market will meet any existing consumer demand. The issue of smoking in bars is a...
Emily Buss, "Court Reform in the Juvenile Justice System"
13 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Over 100 years ago, Chicago led the way in establishing separate courts for young people who committed crimes. These Juvenile Courts, soon in operati...
Geoffrey Stone, "The President's Review Group on NSA Surveillance"
27 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor Geoffrey Stone talks about his involvement in the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communic...
Martha Nussbaum, "What Is Anger, and Why Should We Care?"
20 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
"Although everyone is familiar with the damage anger can do in both personal and public life, people tend to think that it is necessary for the pursui...
Brian Leiter, "Why Tolerate Religion?"
20 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a principled reason why religious obligations that conflict with the law are accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscienc...
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The South After Shelby County"
20 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court dismantled one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act: Section 5, which had barred southern jurisdi...
Panel on "Reconstructing Contracts: The Contracts Scholarship of Douglas Baird"
20 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A panel of leading scholars discuss Douglas Baird's pathbreaking work on Contract Law published in his new book Reconstructing Contracts. Avery Katz,...
Crime in Law and Literature Conference Plenary Talk and Panel, featuring Scott Turow
12 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded on February 7, 2014, at the University of Chicago Law School, this session featured author Scott Turow as Plenary Speaker and Law School facu...