The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Podcast

Sep 18 2020 81 ep. 65 mins 3.4k
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Listen to lectures by—and discussions with—the University of Chicago Law School's eminent faculty, as well as some very special guests.

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Supreme Court Preview 2020: Highlights and Perspectives

Sep 18 2020 58 mins  
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in the upcoming year. This event was recorded on September 15, 2020, and features Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, and Jennifer Nou, Professor of Law.

M. Todd Henderson, "The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize..."

Feb 05 2020 64 mins  
"The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business & Government" In this CBI, Professor Henderson will examine how Internet platforms--eBay, Uber, AirBnB--relate to the Code of Hammurabi, Medieval guilds, the New York Stock Exchange, and corporate brands. All of these institutions, along with religions and governments and families, are in large part a

Seyla Benhabib, "The End of the 1951 Refugee Convention?"

Jan 27 2020 67 mins  
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are among the most important human rights documents of the post-WW II period. Yet the universalization of the refugee status after the 1967 Protocol has given rise to a series of discrepancies between the letter of the Convention and the purposes it is being asked to serve. In particular, the five-protected categories specified by t

Joan Biskupic, "Chief Justice John Roberts: Defining the Supreme Court..."

Dec 02 2019 62 mins  
"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 a 2019 biography of Chief Justice John Roberts. Before joining CNN in 2017, Biskupic was an editor-in-charge for Legal Affairs at Reuters and, previously, the Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington Post and for USA Today. Th

Saul Levmore, "Addictive Law"

Nov 15 2019 67 mins  
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 sought. But do we have too much law and too little bargaining around it? The number of cases and judges has grown dramatically over time and many problems are outsourced to the legal system, rather than being handled person-to-person. I

William Baude and Anthony J. Casey, "Supreme Court Preview 2019: Highlights and Perspectives"

Oct 21 2019 49 mins  
On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court session opens. Each fall, the University of Chicago Law School invites faculty members to offer insight into some of the issues the Court will hear in the upcoming year. This year we heard from William Baude, Professor of Law and Aaron Director Research Scholar, and Anthony J. Casey, Professor of Law. Recorded on October 15, 2019,

Law in the Era of #MeToo: A Conversation with Valerie Jarrett

Dec 17 2018 63 mins  
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 School and former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Emily Buss is the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of Law at the Law School.

Saul Levmore, "If the Common Law was Efficient, Why Did It Decline?"

Oct 23 2018 63 mins  
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 passed down and adapted over many years) is efficient. It was an idea advanced by Richard Posner, with respect to tort law, in his time as a professor here, but it is also reflected in his and other judicial opinions which students a

Justin Driver, "The Future of the Supreme Court: The Constitution of Public Schools"

Oct 16 2018 48 mins  
Supreme Court decisions affecting the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer: these are among the defining cultural issues that the Court has addressed in eleme

M. Todd Henderson, "Lawyer CEOs"

May 30 2018 61 mins  
Does legal education matter? In this lecture, Professor Todd Henderson presents some data on this question, using the behavior of corporate executives as an instrument. Looking at the 10% of large, public company CEOs who are lawyers, the talk tries to determine whether CEOs trained as lawyers act differently than CEOs trained in other ways. Do lawyer CEO firms get sued more or les