Ipse Dixit

May 15 2024 310
Ipse Dixit Podcast artwork

Ipse 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 Law
• Luce Nguyen, a student at Oberlin College and the co-founder of the Oberlin Policy Research Institute, an undergraduate public policy organization based at Oberlin College
• Maybell Romero, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law
• Antonia Eliason, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law
• Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M School of Law
• John Culhane, Professor of Law at Widener University Delaware Law School
• Benjamin Edwards, Associate Professor of Law at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
• Matthew Bruckner, Associate Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law

Comments and suggestions are always welcome at [email protected]. You can follow the Ipse Dixit on Twitter at @IpseDixitPod.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RSS feed Share
Copy RSS


Subscribe on Podcast Addict


Alison LaCroix on the Interbellum Constitution

May 15 2024 36 mins  
In this episode, Alison L. LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses her new book, "The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms," which is published by Yale University Press. LaCroix explains what made interbellum America unique and what we c

Naomi Sunshine on Reclaiming German Citizenship

Apr 30 2024 27 mins  
In this episode, Naomi Sunshine, a director in the Public Interest Law Center and Supervising Attorney in the Immigrants Right Clinic at NYU Law School, discusses the process of reclaiming German citizenship under Article 116 Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law, which provides for the restoration of German citizenship to former German citizens deprived of their German citizenship due to �

Henry Oliver on Late Bloomers

Apr 16 2024 32 mins  
In 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

Phillips & Baumann on the Major Questions Doctrine & the SEC

Mar 21 2024 38 mins  
In 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 work

Matt Blaszczyk on Emergent Works & Copyright

Mar 21 2024 39 mins  
In 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 categor

From the Archives 114: Dupont's Cavalcade of America, The Constitution of the United States

Mar 07 2024 21 mins  
From 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

Mar 07 2024 35 mins  
In 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 s

Neoshia Roemer on Equal Protection & Indian Child Welfare

Mar 07 2024 48 mins  
In 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 constitutio

Rachael Dickson on Cannabis Marks

Jan 14 2024 42 mins  
In 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 regulat

Aliza Shatzman on the Clerkships Whisper Network

Oct 24 2023 46 mins  
In 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.