Oral Argument
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
218 episodes of Oral Argument since the first episode, which aired on December 22nd, 2013.
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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, voting
On section 2 of the 14th Amendment, with Franita Tolson.
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Episode 152: Replication
November 12th, 2017 | 1 hr 35 mins
common law, contract, empirical, scholarship
On empirics, Restatements, and consumer contracts, with Greg Klass.
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Episode 151: Hungry Ghosts
November 5th, 2017 | 1 hr 28 mins
economics, philosophy, private ordering, property, robots
On property and happiness, with David Fagundes.
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Episode 150: Shutting Down Hal
October 29th, 2017 | 1 hr 21 mins
animals, ethics, morality, property, robots, technology
On vengeance against robots, with Christina Mulligan.
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Episode 149: We've Been Given the Finger (Live at the Tech Law Institute)
October 22nd, 2017 | 54 mins 21 secs
europe, fourth amendment, international law, live, regulation, supreme court, technology
On data, live from the Tech Law Institute's conference in Atlanta.
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Episode 148: The People of Puerto Rico
October 15th, 2017 | 1 hr 43 mins
constitutional law, international law, politics, supreme court
On Puerto Rican sovereignty, with Chris Landau.
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Episode 147: Busting Famine
October 6th, 2017 | 1 hr 3 mins
guns, judges, land use, private ordering
Just Joe and Christian on all things.
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Episode 146: Somehow in the Middle
September 24th, 2017 | 1 hr 26 mins
common law, constitutional law, interpretation, judges, jurisprudence, philosophy, supreme court, theory
On Justice Souter's legal reasoning, with Charles Barzun.
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Episode 145: The Skeleton
September 8th, 2017 | 1 hr 27 mins
empirical, ip, judges, patent, supreme court, technology
On citation networks and other things.
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Episode 144: Path of Totality
August 4th, 2017 | 2 hrs 6 mins
eclipse, movies, music, nonsense, podcasts, politics
Just us in a weird episode about nothing in particular.
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Episode 142: Normativity
July 23rd, 2017 | 1 hr 19 mins
animals, jurisprudence, morality, philosophy, speed traps, theory
On the nature of law and its reasons, with Jeffrey Kaplan.
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Episode 141: The Picard Meltdown Principle
July 9th, 2017 | 1 hr 20 mins
constitutional law, federal courts, federalism, interpretation, supreme court
On anti-novelty arguments in constitutional law, with Leah Litman.
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Episode 140: Decider
July 2nd, 2017 | 1 hr 14 mins
administrative law, constitutional law, politics, presidents, professionalism, trump
On presidential legal decisionmaking, with Daphna Renan.
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Episode 139: It’s All the Stacey Show
June 25th, 2017 | 1 hr 2 mins
education, ip, legal practice, literature, trademark
On trademark, IP characters, and clinics, with Stacey Dogan.
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Episode 138: Crackdowns
June 14th, 2017 | 1 hr 7 mins
criminal law, equal protection, federal courts, interpretation, judges, police, regulation, speed traps
On crackdowns, with Mila Sohoni.