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 105: Bismarck’s Raw Material

    July 22nd, 2016  |  1 hr 49 mins
    europe, international law, voting

    On Brexit, with Tim Meyer.

  • Episode 104: Drunk in a Dorm Room

    July 8th, 2016  |  1 hr 32 mins
    feedback, guns, scholarship, speed traps, writing

    Feedback, with Sonja West.

  • Episode 103: All over the Gander

    July 1st, 2016  |  1 hr 21 mins
    administrative law, economics, ip, patent, regulation

    On cost-benefit in patent law, with Jonathan Masur.

  • Episode 102: Precautionary Federalism

    June 24th, 2016  |  58 mins 55 secs
    environmental law, federalism, legislatures, regulation

    Uber and federalism, with Sarah Light.

  • Episode 101: Tug of War

    June 14th, 2016  |  41 mins
    economics, guns, regulation

    About guns.

  • Episode 100: A Few Minutes in the Rear-View Mirror

    June 11th, 2016  |  1 hr 49 mins
    feedback, law schools, scholarship, teaching

    The one with special base 10 significance.

  • Episode 99: Power

    May 27th, 2016  |  1 hr 12 mins
    administrative law, interpretation, regulation, supreme court

    On the power canons, with Lisa Heinzerling.

  • Episode 98: T3 Jedi

    May 20th, 2016  |  1 hr 20 mins
    constitutional law, judges, law schools, legal practice, theory

    On theories, with Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen.

  • Episode 97: Facty

    May 13th, 2016  |  1 hr 5 mins
    evidence, federal courts, judges, supreme court

    Factiness, with Alli Larsen.

  • Episode 96: Students as Means

    May 6th, 2016  |  1 hr 25 mins
    ethics, feedback, law schools, scholarship, teaching

    The one on expedited review.

  • Episode 95: Own the Block

    April 15th, 2016  |  1 hr 14 mins
    constitutional law, evidence, first amendment, police

    Filming the police, with Jocelyn Simonson.

  • Episode 94: Bonus

    April 9th, 2016  |  49 mins 50 secs
    law schools, philosophy, theory

    The one about the public/private distinction.

  • Episode 93: Driveby

    April 2nd, 2016  |  1 hr 29 mins
    constitutional law, feedback, interpretation, ip, law schools, originalism

    All viewer mail.

  • Episode 92: Deficit Peacock

    March 18th, 2016  |  1 hr 23 mins
    administrative law, law schools, politics, scholarship, tax

    The President's power to tax, with Daniel Hemel.

  • Episode 91: Baby Blue

    March 5th, 2016  |  1 hr 14 mins
    administrative law, copyright, ip, law schools, scholarship

    Baby Blue, the Bluebook, and copyright, with Chris Sprigman.

  • Episode 90: We Are a Nation of Time-Shifters

    February 27th, 2016  |  1 hr 30 mins
    copyright, fair use, fourth amendment, ip, privacy

    On fair use, with Mike Madison.