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 57: Light It on Fire and Shove It into the Atlantic

    April 17th, 2015  |  1 hr 42 mins
    criminal law, death penalty, guilt and innocence, ip, theory

    More on lines, math, IP, and the death penalty.

  • Episode 56: Cracking and Packing

    April 10th, 2015  |  1 hr 37 mins
    constitutional law, election law, equal protection, race, technology, voting

    On voting and race, with Lori Ringhand.

  • Episode 55: Cronut Lines

    April 3rd, 2015  |  1 hr 40 mins
    morality, private ordering, property, theory

    The one about standing in line, with Dave Fagundes.

  • Episode 54: No Throttling

    March 27th, 2015  |  1 hr 43 mins
    administrative law, internet, regulation, technology, telecommunications

    On the FCC's net neutrality regs, with Aaron Perzanowski.

  • Episode 53: A Satanic Level of Entropy

    March 16th, 2015  |  1 hr 28 mins
    coffee, health law and policy, interpretation, police, speed traps, statutory interpretation, supreme court

    More on King v. Burwell.

  • Episode 52: Nihilism

    March 7th, 2015  |  1 hr 35 mins
    federalism, health law and policy, interpretation, statutory interpretation, supreme court

    The one about Obamacare II, King v. Burwell.

  • Episode 51: The Faucet

    February 27th, 2015  |  1 hr 30 mins
    criminal law, empirical, police, politics, prisons, trials

    Prison populations, with John Pfaff.

  • Episode 50: We Have Fully Exhausted the Topic

    February 20th, 2015  |  1 hr 31 mins
    constitutional law, federal courts, federalism, gay marriage, supreme court

    On federal courts, with Amanda Frost.

  • Episode 49: The Pot Calling the Kettle Beige

    February 7th, 2015  |  1 hr 11 mins
    internet, ip, tax, technology, telecommunications

    From an undisclosed location.

  • Episode 48: Legal Truth

    January 30th, 2015  |  1 hr 23 mins
    coffee, criminal law, guilt and innocence, juries, trials

    On ascertaining guilt and innocence, with Lisa Kern Griffin.

  • Episode 47: Making Lisa So Mad

    January 23rd, 2015  |  1 hr 14 mins
    bodies, tax

    Clearing our ridiculous docket and on the taxation of egg donations.

  • Episode 46: Noncompetes on Steroids

    January 16th, 2015  |  1 hr 26 mins
    contract, employment, labor, technology

    On human capital, with Orly Lobel.

  • Episode 45: Sacrifice

    January 12th, 2015  |  1 hr 32 mins
    guilt and innocence, juries, scholarship, speed traps, trials

    On nonsense, feedback, probability, and reasonable doubt.

  • Episode 44: Serial

    December 23rd, 2014  |  2 hrs 27 mins
    criminal law, guilt and innocence, journalism, juries, media, trials

    We call multiple listeners and past guests to discuss the Serial podcast.

  • Episode 43: Some Stuff I Like and Some Stuff I Don’t

    December 15th, 2014  |  1 hr 22 mins
    scholarship, speed traps

    Legal scholarship doesn't suck.

  • Episode 42: Shotgun Aphasia

    November 20th, 2014  |  1 hr 33 mins
    evidence, fourth amendment, privacy, speed traps, technology

    Digital searches, with Orin Kerr.