Touro Law Review Podcast

In Moore v. Harper, decided last year, the Supreme Court addressed the “independent state legislature theory.” In a case arising out of an election in North Carolina, proponents of the theory contended that North Carolina’s Supreme Court did not have the authority to review a legal claim that the state legislature had adopted an illegally gerrymandered congressional map. The

Stephen Bright’s relentless pursuit of equal justice is at the center of Professor Robert Tsai’s most recent book. For nearly forty years, Bright led the Southern Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit that provided legal aid to incarcerated people and worked to improve conditions within the justice system. Among other things, Bright argued four death penalty cases at the Supreme

Professor Kennedy conducted an insightful interview with Professor Daniel Kiel, a distinguished law professor at the University of Memphis and author of the book "The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas." This literary work seamlessly blends historical narratives, legal analysis, and literary elements, comprehensively exploring the S

In 2023, Supreme Court justices made news not only for the cases decided but also for their personal conduct. As David Lat and Zach Shemtob noted in an article for The Atlantic, the news stories often involved “financial entanglements between justices and wealthy benefactors.” As Lat and Shemtob discuss with Associate Dean Rodger Citron, the intensity of the public response to

This podcast features a discussion of law and literature with author David Guterson, author of The Final Case and the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Snow Falling on Cedars. Guterson discusses with Associate Dean Rodger Citron the inspirations for The Final Case – including the death of an adopted girl in a rural county in Washington State and the life of his father, an accompl

Please join us for this week's episode featuring Lawyer and author Ray Brescia where he discusses his book Lawyer Nation. Professor Zablotsky hosts and the two discuss institutions, methodologies, history, and an analysis of dynamics in the legal system. In his book Lawyer Nation Brescia identifies six forces that represent the most significant challenges facing the legal profe

Please join us for a deep dive between Dean Burch and Dean Zakarin into the switch from the Universal Bar Examination (UBE) to the Next Gen Bar, rolling out in phases starting July 2026. Dean Burch discussed what is now tested, the new format, and gave tips on how students and schools can smoothly adjust to the change.

Few lawyers know who Martin Manton was. Even fewer, if any, law students learn about Manton while in school. That may change with the Hon. Gary Stein’s recent biography of Manton, Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham. (See Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham: Stein, Gary: 9781493072569: Amazon.com: Boo

Brief Summary: Cybercrime has become a topic of discussion in the last few years. In this Touro Law Review podcast, Nicole E. Osborne, an Associate at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., speaks about her experience and daily life as a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Practice Group. Nicole Osborne began with her journey to this world. Her path was more untraditio

This Podcast featured Magistrate Judge James M. Wicks, where he discussed his role as a magistrate, his path to get there, and advice to practitioners. Judge Wicks began discussing his various roles and positions as an attorney prior to his judgeship. He first became acquainted with the federal courts when he clerked for the Honorable Judge Arthur Spatt. Judge Spatt had a large i