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 217: Except as to Part I(A) Yada Yada

    February 25th, 2021  |  1 hr 11 mins
    judges, jurisprudence, law schools, morality, professionalism, teaching, writing

    On judges writing separately.

  • Episode 216: Mac-a-tizer

    January 27th, 2021  |  59 mins 56 secs
    economics, health law and policy, ip, k2, politics, regulation

    On the pandemic, brightly colored food products, and more.

  • Episode 215: Whirlpool of Garbage

    January 11th, 2021  |  1 hr 30 mins
    coffee, constitutional law, election law, legislatures, politics, trials, trump

    On the attack on Congress.

  • Episode 214: Small Claims

    December 22nd, 2020  |  1 hr 15 mins
    animals, coase, common law, copyright, economics, fair use, feedback, ip, law and economics, private ordering, regulation, technology

    On small copyright claims and big social disagreements.

  • Episode 213: Blue Cheese Odyssey

    December 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 11 mins

    Scams, K2, cheese, fear, olives, flight, expertise, and the adversary system.

  • Episode 212: House of Worship

    December 7th, 2020  |  1 hr 23 mins
    constitutional law, equal protection, health law and policy, land use, politics, regulation, supreme court

    On religious discrimination and COVID.

  • Episode 211: Practice

    November 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 24 mins
    coase, economics, ethics, judges, legal practice, morality, philosophy, politics, property, religion, teaching, theory, trump

    What did we miss?

  • Episode 210: Exponential

    March 3rd, 2020  |  40 mins 46 secs
    health law and policy, politics, standing, trump

    Just Joe and Christian on the pandemic, new articles, and spring break.

  • Episode 209: The Gun Subsidy

    February 21st, 2020  |  1 hr 29 mins
    administrative law, economics, guns, law and economics, law schools, regulation, torts

    On a solution to the gun violence crisis, with Justin Van Orsdol.

  • Episode 208: Competition Corner

    February 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 5 mins
    administrative law, constitutional law, ip, legislatures, originalism, politics, presidents, regulation

    On reforming antitrust and competition law.

  • Episode 207: Bribery

    January 31st, 2020  |  1 hr 22 mins
    criminal law, economics, election law, regulation, theory

    On bribery, with Deborah Hellman.

  • Episode 206: What Are We?

    January 17th, 2020  |  1 hr 40 mins
    economics, election law, jurisprudence, law and economics, philosophy, private ordering, regulation, theory, voting

    On the segregation of markets, an article by Christian.

  • Episode 205: iBonus

    December 22nd, 2019  |  27 mins 51 secs
    legal practice, media, podcasts

    A phone call about heroes.

  • Episode 204: Theocracy

    October 13th, 2019  |  1 hr 31 mins

    On Catholic integralism and liberalism.

  • Episode 203: Fifty-Four

    September 8th, 2019  |  1 hr 43 mins
    feedback, literature, philosophy, scholarship

    Musings and mailbag.

  • Episode 202: Conversations

    August 23rd, 2019  |  1 hr 24 mins
    law schools, legal practice, literature, morality, professionalism, school, teaching

    On seminars and excellence.