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 185: Embassy Suites

    December 4th, 2018  |  1 hr 26 mins
    brexit, europe, international law, trade, trump

    On Brexit, trade, and Trump, with Tim Meyer.

  • Episode 184: Bleep that Bleep

    November 19th, 2018  |  1 hr 49 mins
    administrative law, climate change, coffee, design, mailbag, movies, podcasts, statutory interpretation

    Just Joe and Christian on many topics, including the AG controversy.

  • Episode 183: West Coast Model

    November 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 33 mins
    administrative law, election law, land use, property, voting

    On the housing crisis, with Chris Elmendorf.

  • Episode 182: An Editorial Board of Dodsonians

    October 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 29 mins
    ethics, law schools, scholarship

    On law review submission norms, with Scott Dodson.

  • Episode 181: The Dragon

    October 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 14 mins
    criminal law, empirical, police, prisons, race, regulation, technology

    On algorithms and bias, with Sandy Mayson.

  • Episode 180: Spectral

    September 23rd, 2018  |  2 hrs 10 mins
    feedback, legislatures, politics, scholarship, supreme court, technology

    Just Joe and Christian, on SCOTUS confirmation battles, feedback, Apple, and assorted nonsense.

  • Episode 179: Snowglobe

    September 9th, 2018  |  1 hr 26 mins
    empirical, judges, supreme court, technology

    With guest host Mike Madison, we talk with guest guest Joe Miller about citation networks.

  • Episode 178: Dear Bushrod

    August 26th, 2018  |  1 hr 16 mins
    common law, federal courts, history, judges, legislatures, state courts, statutory interpretation

    On judges, legislatures, and statutory interpretation in the early 1800s, with Farah Peterson.

  • Episode 177: The Hard Drive Has Always Been the Enemy

    August 7th, 2018  |  2 hrs 15 mins
    constitutional law, federal courts, fourth amendment, judges, movies, podcasts, politics, property, supreme court, technology

    On searches of cell tower records for location data and on many other things, with Ian Samuel.

  • Episode 176: Ultimate Monday

    July 31st, 2018  |  1 hr 3 mins
    constitutional law, judges, jurisprudence, philosophy, psychology, theory

    Joe and Christian, all pre-roll.

  • Episode 175: The Law Should Not Kick Down

    July 21st, 2018  |  1 hr 20 mins
    common law, contract, economics, equal protection, jurisprudence, politics, private ordering, technology

    On the rule of law, equality, and technology, with Paul Gowder.

  • Episode 174: Podcast of Record

    July 7th, 2018  |  2 hrs 11 mins
    animals, jurisprudence, religion, supreme court, trump

    Just Joe and Christian with nonsense and sense on bears and law.

  • Episode 173: Faithful Execution

    June 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 36 mins
    common law, constitutional law, history, originalism, trump

    On the President's fiduciary duties, with Ethan Leib and Jed Shugerman.

  • Episode 172: Apex Criminality

    June 22nd, 2018  |  1 hr 15 mins
    constitutional law, criminal law, design, federal courts, legislatures, politics, trump

    On constitutional design concerning crimes of apex officials, with Aziz Huq.

  • Episode 171: Garbage Gut

    June 12th, 2018  |  1 hr 47 mins
    constitutional law, federal courts, immigration, morality, politics, supreme court, trump

    On the Supreme Court at this moment, with Steve Vladeck.

  • Episode 170: The Starters

    May 27th, 2018  |  1 hr 36 mins
    ethics, interpretation, judges, jurisprudence, philosophy, theory, trump

    On legal pragmatism, with Charles Barzun.