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 137: Steve Vladeck Pincer Move

    June 2nd, 2017  |  1 hr 19 mins
    constitutional law, federal courts, military, national security, statutory interpretation, supreme court

    On the civilian-military divide, with Steve Vladeck.

  • Episode 136: The Coase of Copyright

    May 26th, 2017  |  1 hr 18 mins
    coase, copyright, interpretation, ip, juries, literature

    On reading and meaning in copyright law, with Zahr Said.

  • Episode 135: Alexandria

    May 13th, 2017  |  1 hr 19 mins
    copyright, fair use, internet, ip, scholarship

    On the Google Books settlement, with James Grimmelmann.

  • Episode 134: Crossover

    May 6th, 2017  |  1 hr 32 mins
    constitutional law, federal courts, judges, podcasts, politics, supreme court

    On the Supreme Court, with Dan Epps and Ian Samuel.

  • Episode 133: Too Many Darn Radio Buttons

    April 28th, 2017  |  1 hr 14 mins
    common law, contract, economics, interpretation, law and economics, private ordering

    On boilerplate contracts, with Jim Gibson.

  • Episode 132: The Soul of Music

    April 21st, 2017  |  1 hr 9 mins
    copyright, ip, music, private ordering, property

    On copyright in music, with Joe Fishman.

  • Episode 131: Because of Sex

    April 14th, 2017  |  1 hr 16 mins
    employment, equal protection, gender, interpretation, judges, rights, statutory interpretation

    On sexual orientation discrimination, with Anthony Kreis.

  • Episode 130: Simian Mentation

    April 7th, 2017  |  1 hr 15 mins
    common law, constitutional law, federalism, feedback, interpretation, judges, legislatures, statutory interpretation, theory

    On submarine statutes.

  • Episode 129: All My Cussin'

    March 31st, 2017  |  1 hr 18 mins
    constitutional law, feedback, immigration, teaching, trump

    Into the mailbag.

  • Episode 128: Federalism-palooza

    March 17th, 2017  |  1 hr 12 mins
    constitutional law, federalism, politics

    On polarization and executive federalism, with Jessica Bulman-Pozen.

  • Episode 127: I Own My Fist

    February 24th, 2017  |  1 hr 16 mins
    coase, copyright, fair use, ip, property, rights, theory

    On property and copyright, with Christopher Newman.

  • Episode 126: Permanently Banned

    February 10th, 2017  |  1 hr 14 mins
    administrative law, constitutional law, federal courts, immigration, supreme court

    On immigration law, with Jason Cade.

  • Episode 125: The Elephant

    February 3rd, 2017  |  1 hr 9 mins
    constitutional law, federal courts, first amendment, immigration, politics, religion, supreme court, trump

    On the rights of non-citizens, with Steve Vladeck.

  • Episode 124: Sung Hero

    January 28th, 2017  |  1 hr 21 mins
    constitutional law, ethics, feedback, politics, robots, trump

    Topics of the day and mailbag.

  • Episode 123: Cruising Altitude

    January 13th, 2017  |  1 hr 16 mins
    ip, law and economics, private ordering, property, regulation, technology, theory

    On governing knowledge commons, with Mike Madison.

  • Episode 122: Choose Your Own Adventure

    December 30th, 2016  |  1 hr 6 mins
    ip, law schools, property, teaching, textbooks

    On open-source casebooks, with Jeremy Sheff.