Dialectic

Jan 27 2025 38 ep. 36 mins 5
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We explore current legal issues through the critical lens of the UCLA Law Review.

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Episode 9.3 - Shielding the Police with Joanna Schwartz

Jan 27 2025 58 mins  
In this episode we are joined by Joanna Schwartz, Professor of Law and Faculty Direct of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law to discuss her book Shielded, which explores the various ways in which the police are protected from accountability for misconduct.

Episode 9.2 - Reproducing Inequality with Thalia González & Paige Joki

Oct 10 2024 60 mins  
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Thalia González of UC San Francisco School of Law and Paige Joki, Staff Attorney at the Education Law Center-PA (ELC) and the Leader of the ELC's Black Girls Education Justice Initiative, to discuss their recently published article "Reproducing Inequality: Racial Capitalism and the Cost of Public Education," which is the first-of-its-kin

Episode 9.1: Race, Professionalism, and White Supremacy with Leah Goodridge

Mar 20 2024 44 mins  
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Dialectic volume 72! In this episode, host Kyler McVoy and guest Leah Goodridge discuss the racial dynamics of professionalism and its origins in settler-colonial and white supremacist ideologies, expanding on Leah's recently published essay: Professionalism as a Racial Construct. Professionalism as a Racial Construct: https://www.uclalawre

Episode 8.2: Professor Sanford Williams: Friends, Family, and the FCC

Jan 16 2024 21 mins  
Go behind the scenes with UCLA Law lecturer and telecoms expert Sanford S. Williams, who has worked at the FCC since 1999 and is currently Special Adviser to the FCC Chairwoman and a Deputy Managing Director of the FCC. Episode transcripts are available on our website.

Episode 8.1: Desert Flower: Bibi Barba, Aboriginal Art Theft, and the IGC

Apr 24 2023 17 mins  
In 2012, Australian Aboriginal artist Bibi Barba Googled herself. She found an entire boutique hotel designed in her image. Episode transcripts are available on our website. Music by Podington Bear and the Free Music Archive.

Episode 7.5: Tribal Sovereignty, Decolonization, and Abolition with Grace Carson

Dec 28 2022 56 mins  
In this episode, Grace Carson discusses the intersections of abolition theory and decolonization theory, and how Tribes should reconsider systems of punishment and instead create systems of care and liberation as outlined in her article, Tribal Sovereignty, Decolonization, and Abolition: Why Tribes Should Reconsider Punishment, which will be punished in December 2022.

Episode 7.4: Beyond the Schoolhouse Doors: Anti-Black Racism and the Exclusion of Black Caregivers with Paige Joki and Thalia Gonzalez

Dec 06 2022 69 mins  
This work, calls upon the civil rights and education justice communities to expand their vision of school discipline law and policy reform to include the often ignored, yet deeply impacted lives of parents, caregivers, and families. Deploying what critical race theorists define as storytelling or counter-narratives, the authors share Nyla’s story to bring forward an all too commo

Episode 7.3: Exploring Music Law with Professor Susan Genco

Dec 06 2022 29 mins  
In this episode, we sit down with UCLA Law Professor Susan Genco to learn more about her illustrious career in the music industry and discuss contemporary issues in music law.

Episode 7.2: Academic Success in Law School

Oct 27 2022 91 mins  
Academic Success with Professor Pavel Wonsowicz and Professor Patrick Goodman.  On this episode, Professor Wonsowicz and Professor Goodman joins hosts Alyssa Sanderson and Nicole Powell to discuss best strategies to succeed in law school.

Episode 7.1: CRT Forward

Oct 03 2022 42 mins  
UCLA School of Law is home to the Critical Race Studies specialization which provides students with legal frameworks to understand how racism permeates through United States institutions, and provides a lens through which to understand current social disparities. In 2021, UCLA Law launched CRT Forward, an initiative created to track legislation aimed at forbidding the tea