HeyJaredHow Our Constitution Works ... And Why It Doesn’t
Exploring the US Constitution with a critical eye looking forward and back with author, lawyer, and syndicated columnist William Cooper and Pulitzer Prize-winning American legal historian Ed Larson.Ed: law.pepperdine.edu/faculty-research/edward-larsonWill: will-cooper.com
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Laurie Levenson on the Weaponization of the DOJ (opens the original)
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Students strolling through the courtyard at Loyola Law School may occasionally be a bit baffled to hear a grown woman shouting, “Last call for a good time!” Two surprises: One, she’s talking about a law class. Second, she’s entirely not kidding. “I do want the students to love the law,” says Laurie Levenson, the author of the call and a longtime LLS professor. Her sometimes playful manner, she says, doesn’t make what goes on in her classrooms, or in the many real-world efforts she introduces stu
The New York Times Adam Liptak (opens the original)
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A wide-ranging discussion with the chief legal affairs correspondent of The New York Times and the host of The Docket, a newsletter on legal developments. According to Adam: I try to make legal materials accessible to readers by translating jargon into something like accessible prose. I aim to put lawsuits and court decisions into a larger context, staying alert to political realities and practical consequences. I draw on, among other things, legal scholarship and data-driven social-science rese
The Shadow Docket: A conversation with Professor Steve Vladeck (opens the original)
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Georgetown Law Professor Steve Vladeck joins the show to discuss his New York Times bestselling book The Shadow Docket. Steve a leading authority on the Supreme Court and his wildly popular Substack newsletter One First is essential reading for every citizen concerned with (and by) the nation's highest court.
Elections During Wartime (opens the original)
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On this episode of How Our Constitution Works ... And Why It Doesn't, we delve into a very timely and important topic: elections during wartime.
UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (opens the original)
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We discuss the biggest cases of the recent term, covering voting rights, federalism, and presidential power in the Trump era.
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