Oral Argument

About the show

A podcast about law, law school, legal theory, and other nerdy things that interest us.

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Episodes

  • Episode 89: Adequacy

    February 19th, 2016  |  1 hr 15 mins
    education, equal protection, school

    Education battles, with Josh Weishart.

  • Episode 88: The Blue Line

    February 13th, 2016  |  1 hr 15 mins
    feedback, law schools, live, scholarship, school

    LIVE! At the law school.

  • Episode 87: Content of the Mark

    January 31st, 2016  |  1 hr 22 mins
    constitutional law, first amendment, ip, speed traps

    Trademark and speech, with Mark McKenna.

  • Episode 86: The Further Freedoming

    January 21st, 2016  |  1 hr 3 mins
    economics, education, federal courts, feedback, philosophy, supreme court, theory

    Mailbag time!

  • Episode 85: Missouri Duel: Our Second Annual Call-Out Show

    January 1st, 2016  |  2 hrs 15 mins
    criminal law, equal protection, gender, guilt and innocence, media, movies, robots, technology

    Second annual call-out show with listeners.

  • Episode 84: Felker’s Chickens

    December 25th, 2015  |  1 hr 28 mins
    constitutional law, criminal law, federal courts, statutory interpretation

    With Steve Vladeck, a holiday-themed episode about unconstitutional imprisonment.

  • Episode 83: Embodied Joe

    December 18th, 2015  |  1 hr 8 mins
    feedback, media, writing

    The one about loneliness, Star Wars, modeling, and law.

  • Episode 82: Hymn, Part 2: Our Strategy Is a Complete Failure

    November 21st, 2015  |  49 mins 31 secs
    interpretation, philosophy, theory

    Part 2 of our conversation about the nature of law.

  • Episode 81: Hymn, Part 1

    November 15th, 2015  |  1 hr 17 mins
    internet, interpretation, privacy, statutory interpretation, theory

    On whether a hot dog is a sandwich and what law is.

  • Episode 80: We'll Do It LIVE!

    October 24th, 2015  |  1 hr 3 mins
    first amendment, internet, privacy, private ordering, technology

    Live show on data privacy.

  • Episode 79: He Said It Peabody Well

    October 18th, 2015  |  1 hr 14 mins
    feedback, judges, media, supreme court

    Talking Supreme Court, with Dahlia Lithwick.

  • Episode 78: Listener Fuller

    October 12th, 2015  |  1 hr 9 mins
    death penalty, election law, equal protection, feedback, history, morality, race, theory

    Feedback on topics large and small.

  • Episode 77: Jackasses Are People Too

    October 3rd, 2015  |  1 hr 10 mins
    criminal law, guilt and innocence, morality, theory

    On determinism, with Adam Kolber.

  • Episode 76: Brutality

    September 25th, 2015  |  1 hr 44 mins
    constitutional law, equal protection, history, race, slavery

    On slavery and Nat Turner, with Al Brophy.

  • Episode 75: Air Gap

    September 18th, 2015  |  1 hr 26 mins
    international law, robots, war

    Law, war, and killer robots, with Mary Ellen O'Connell.

  • Episode 74: Minimum Curiosity

    September 11th, 2015  |  1 hr 17 mins
    evidence, judges, prisons, trials

    Judicial web-surfing for facts, with Amanda Frost.