Oral Argument
About the show
A podcast about law, law school, legal theory, and other nerdy things that interest us.
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Episode List
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Episode 167: Fingerprint
April 15th, 2018 | 1 hr 8 mins
constitutional law, feedback, international law, interpretation, legislatures, morality, politics, trump, warJust Joe and Christian, from the mezzanine of world headquarters.
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Episode 166: Brooding Omnipresence
April 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 32 mins
common law, federal courts, interpretation, judges, jurisprudence, theoryOn finding law, with Stephen Sachs.
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Episode 165: Raging Fire
March 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 36 mins
ethics, feedback, internet, journalism, media, morality, privacy, regulation, technologyOn conversation, mental models, Facebook, and Mr. Rogers.
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Episode 164: Post-Marks-Regime World
March 10th, 2018 | 1 hr 22 mins
constitutional law, federal courts, interpretation, judges, legal practice, supreme courtOn the viability of finding narrowest grounds, with Richard Re.
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Episode 163: Woodshed
March 5th, 2018 | 1 hr 41 mins
criminal law, election law, interpretation, judges, podcasts, professionalism, statutory interpretation, votingJust Joe and Christian, into the mailbag and another topic.
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Episode 162: Wealth Gap (live at Georgia Law)
February 19th, 2018 | 54 mins 7 secs
banking, economics, history, live, race, regulation, slaveryOn black banking and the racial wealth gap, with Mehrsa Baradaran.
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Episode 161: Meta
February 4th, 2018 | 1 hr 25 mins
jurisprudence, morality, philosophy, scholarship, theory, writingOn general jurisprudence (and other things), with Scott Shapiro.
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Episode 160: In the Barrel
January 27th, 2018 | 1 hr 3 mins
constitutional law, federal courts, legal practice, military, national security, statutory interpretation, supreme courtWith Steve Vladeck, on his Supreme Court argument in Dalmazzi.
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Episode 159: Magical
January 21st, 2018 | 1 hr 15 mins
constitutional law, feedback, law school, teaching, theoryJoe and Christian on a few things.
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Episode 158: Ethical Form of Life
January 13th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
ethics, legal practice, morality, philosophy, politics, professionalism, trumpOn truth and roles, with Brad Wendel.
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Episode 157: Blocked
January 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 26 mins
economics, feedback, podcasts, politics, professionalism, supreme court, votingJust Joe and Christian, going through the mailbag and other items.
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Episode 156: Cheap Shot from the Cheap Seats
December 24th, 2017 | 1 hr 14 mins
feedback, judges, literature, podcastsJust Joe and Christian on various topics.
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Episode 155: Presidential Utterance
December 17th, 2017 | 1 hr 19 mins
administrative law, constitutional law, history, interpretation, politics, presidents, trumpOn the legal effect of presidential speech, with Kate Shaw.
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Episode 154: Third Place
December 3rd, 2017 | 1 hr 10 mins
gender, land use, literature, movies, private ordering, property, state action, trumpOn privately owned, public spaces, with Sarah Schindler.
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Episode 153: Shall Be Reduced
November 19th, 2017 | 1 hr 17 mins
constitutional law, election law, equal protection, federalism, history, originalism, race, rights, votingOn section 2 of the 14th Amendment, with Franita Tolson.