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DISCOVERY presented by UW Law
by University of Washington School of Law
DISCOVERY is a podcast presented by the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, WA, featuring distinguished guests discussing today's biggest social, political and legal issues.Episodes focus on a diverse mix of legal and legal-adjacent topics through intimate conversations with experts, speakers and leaders from around the globe.For more, visit law.uw.edu/podcast.
Episodes
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The Legal Battle Over Facebook's Creation
What really happened behind the scenes of one of the defining legal battles of the early social media era? In this episode of Discovery, we speak with Scott Mosko, lead counsel in the California litigation representing Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra against Mark Zuckerberg and...
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Human Rights and the Beautiful Game
Seattle takes center stage this summer as a host city for the FIFA World Cup 2026, one of the largest global sporting events ever held in the Pacific Northwest. While most fans are focused on the excitement on the field, an equally important effort is taking place behind the scenes: ensuring that...
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Prosecuting the Parents
Should parents face criminal charges for the violent acts of their children? On this episode of the Discovery podcast, we feature a thought-provoking conversation with assistant professor of law Shirin Bakhshay from UCLA Law. Centering on the landmark People v. Crumbley case, Bakhshay explains…
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A Towing Dispute Goes to Hollywood
Imagine that you are living in your car. One day, it's stolen for a joyride, abandoned and eventually towed away. You get a court order for the return of your car, but then discover that your very home, your 1991 Camry, has been sold for $175. Later, you find out that the towing company has the…
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AI, Privacy Law and Machine Unlearning
In this episode of the Discovery podcast, Jevan Hutson, J.D. '20, incoming assistant professor of law and director of the Technology Law & Public Policy Clinic, discusses the article "Forget Me Not? Machine Unlearning's Implications for Privacy Law," which he co-authored in The Columbia Science &...
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The Yellow Brick Road of Copyright Law
In this episode of Discovery, we speak with Professor Peter Nicolas from the University of Washington School of Law about his new copyright law class, a case study of "The Wizard of Oz." The class debuted in winter quarter and included a mandatory group outing to "The Wiz" musical at Paramount...
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Making Youth Matter
What does justice look like for children caught in the gun violence epidemic? And why do courts struggle to treat kids like kids when sentencing them for serious crimes? In this episode of Discovery, we examine these issues with UW Law teaching professor Kimberly Ambrose and community member…
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A Baked-In Constitutional Conundrum
In this episode of Discovery, we speak with retired professor and Associate Dean Emeritus Hugh Spitzer, a distinguished scholar of constitutional and comparative law, about his recent Seattle Times op-ed, "This Baked-In Constitutional Conundrum Will Take Some Time to Repair." Professor Spitzer...
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Expressive Association at Work
Courts are increasingly allowing employers to invoke the First Amendment's expressive association doctrine — originally crafted for civic and membership organizations — to avoid antidiscrimination laws in the workplace. In this episode, we speak with our Toni Rembe Lecture speaker, Professor...
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Race Matters
In this episode of the Discovery podcast, we speak with Professor David B. Owens, assistant professor of law and director of the Civil Rights and Justice Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law. A nationally recognized civil rights litigator and scholar, Owens discusses his recent...
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Protecting Democracy
In this episode of the Discovery podcast, we talk with Timothy Heaphy about the similarities between the 2017 Charlottesville riot and the January 6th insurrection. Heaphy led the House investigation into the January 6th attacks on the U.S. Capitol and recently authored Harbingers: What January 6...
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The Black Box Algorithm
During the first wave of the opioid pandemic, the U.S. federal government encouraged states to establish prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) which use predictive algorithms to determine risk scores for patients. These scores, which can point correctly or inaccurately to substance use...
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They Had Standing
We interview new faculty member Jeremiah Chin, an expert on children's rights and constitutional rights, about Held v. Montana, the first constitutional climate trial led by children in U.S. history. The Montana Supreme Court ruled in favor of the 16 youth plaintiffs in December 2024 that…
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Why Would I Bother?
To open season seven of Discovery, we're discussing voter suppression through a social science lens with UW Law faculty member Danieli Evans. The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election is just weeks away and concerns around preserving voters' rights are ever-present as Americans begin casting their...
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The History of Impeachment
Some scholars call our politically fraught and hyper-partisan times "the age of impeachment." They claim the increased use of impeachment and removal proceedings signals an erosion in institutional norms, perhaps that we've even "overwhelmed" the use of impeachment and diluted impeachment of any...
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An Unprecedented Rollback of Human Rights
In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee to personal liberty does not include the right to abortion and returned the power to regulate abortion to individual states. Justice Samuel Alito said in the Court's majority opinion that the decision in Dobbs v. The...
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Big Data Searches and the Future of Criminal Procedure
Beginning with the tale of an unsolved mystery, and expanding to the U.S. Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, UW Professor of Law Mary D. Fan takes us through a look at how crimes are being solved through the use of digital searches. Keyword and geofence warrants are now tools helping law…
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The Youth Tax
The Supreme Court has categorically ruled that the application of neuroscience research to the legal culpability of minors committing crimes, no matter how serious, must be considered in the criminal justice system. In addition to maintaining public safety, the primary goals of the juvenile…
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The Extraordinary Career of Stephen Bright
In this episode of "Discovery," we interview our first return guest, Professor Robert Tsai of the Boston University School of Law. Tsai visited the UW Law Faculty Colloquium to discuss his forthcoming (and fourth) book, Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice, a historical...
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The Laws of Space Mining
If fishing in international waters is legal, what about mining asteroids and the moon for water ice and precious metals? Turns out in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) is lawful, as governed by the Outer Space Treaty and Artemis Accords, and embraced as advancing the cause of space exploration. Of...
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Operating in the Shadows
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against race-based admissions at college campuses nationwide after hearing companion cases by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) that challenged admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC). SFFA overturned the 2003…
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Congress Has Spoken
Over the last half century, Congress has passed strong laws relating to environmental protection, covering a range of resources and industries. Despite these bold and comprehensive laws, implementation can be challenging, especially when it comes to the court system's interpretation of them.…
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Set Aside and Ignored
On March 20, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Arizona v. Navajo Nation, a case in which UW Law professor Monte Mills, director of the Native American Law Center, filed an amicus brief with other professors and the Native American Rights Fund on February 8, 2023. The brief...
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Building by Building
As part of UW Law's storytelling around Black History Month, the Discovery podcast interviewed Dr. Kara Swanson, professor of law and affiliate professor of history at Northeastern University in Boston, about the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. This lesser-known event, which Dr. Swanson calls the...
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What Justice Means
U.S. Attorney Nicholas Brown is the first black U.S. attorney in Washington state history and the chief law enforcement officer in Western Washington. He chairs the Civil Rights subcommittee for all U.S. attorneys in the country. Brown recently visited UW Law as part of the Innovative Justice...
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The New Copyright Law Manifesto
Many of the performers and composers in legacy Black music have never been compensated for their cultural production, despite longstanding acceptance of their formative influence on the music industry. Copyright law doctrine includes formalities that continue to divest what is due to Black…
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First of its Kind
In 2020, the police-involved killings of Manuel Ellis in Tacoma and George Floyd in Minneapolis were two cases among many incidents across the nation which led to the recent establishment of the Office of Independent Investigations (OII) earlier this summer in Olympia. Signed into law by Governor...
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On Behalf of the People
Sexual assault affects many Washingtonians, but justice does not always come to survivors and their families. In many cases these violent felonies and sexually motivated offenses become cold cases. As a participant in the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI), Washington's Office of the...
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Utility Players
The Seattle Mariners have a three-pronged mission: to win championships, create unforgettable experiences for fans, guests and employees, and to serve their communities. In the first episode of Season Five, we take you out to the proverbial ball game for a discussion with Mariners' Executive Vice...
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The Overall Goal
Copyright law is written in such a way that suggests copyright is a grant of rights to authors, rewarding them with the commercial advantages of producing original work. However, upon closer examination, consumers who want to build on existing works of authorship also have rights that are...
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Proximity to the Problem
Deep systemic issues leading to a culture of punishment in our criminal justice system often seal the fates of children who end up incarcerated. The case of Kimonti Carter, a model prisoner who grew up as a "baby gangster" in the redlined, 1990s neighborhoods of Tacoma, Washington, is a prototype...
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Potential Within
Public interest attorneys are charged with advancing justice for all, but according to Washington Supreme Court Justice G. Helen Whitener, the practice of public interest law has lost its focus since the 1960s. Solving the intersecting inequities that face underrepresented communities requires…
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A Symbolic Issue
On March 19, 2022, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission held a second vote regarding a proposed spring bear hunting season, this time deciding 5-4 against the seasonal hunt, after a 4-4 vote in November 2021. Before the March vote, Washington's spring bear hunt was just one of eight in the...
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A Very Small Stake
The U.S. Supreme Court has endorsed companies' ability to block class actions through mandatory individual arbitration clauses. A recent policy-based critique balances the purely legal, doctrinal perspective of class actions by examining issues through the lens of economics. Depending on...
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The Injury Point
As the result of a broad societal shift recognizing the injuries of violence, it's been said that we live in an "age of trauma." Emotional trauma has fueled legal and policy social justice reforms in the three key social justice movements of our time: #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, and climate…
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A Major Impact
Exploring space involves launching satellites which create debris. The international community is working on the process of debris mitigation and traffic coordination to avoid interference and future collisions. Though technical regulations exist, there are no binding regulations nor enforcement...
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No time to sit on the sidelines
In 2020, the United States held its first presidential election in a pandemic. It was expected that nationwide voting by mail would cause issues, but few expected a partisan fight over access to voting during a pandemic. Elisabeth Frost is a partner at Perkins Coie, which has the oldest political...
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From Paper to Policy
Since George Floyd's murder this past summer, dozens of bills have been introduced at the Washington Legislature intending to increase accountability and transparency among police forces. ACLU of Washington attorney Enoka Herat has worked on many of them, including two landmark pieces of...
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A Flag in the Sand
Over the past four years, members of America's business community have taken increasingly stronger steps in opposition of divisive policies, actions and rhetoric of the Trump presidency. That footfall became heaviest following the 2020 election and Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Now with states...
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Diminishing Returns
Yakama Nation v. Klickitat County involves a dispute that dates back 150 years and encompasses issues central to Tribal sovereignty in Washington state. Revolving around the status of tract of land on the Yakama Reservation's southern boundary, the case calls in to play a legal framework that has...
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In Defense of Data
Data is one of the world's most valuable commodities, and every second companies are collecting lots of it. With so much information available, open data offers limitless opportunities to benefit the greater public. Figuring out how to license it effectively, however, has proved tricky. Steven...
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Legalizing Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy
Oregon Measure 109 is a landmark piece of legislation that creates a legal market for psilocybin-assisted therapy in the state — the first of its kind anywhere in the United States. On this episode, hear from Dave Kopilak, the law's primary drafter, who shares insights into what it takes to put...
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Redress, Reparations and the Fight for Racial Justice
The Japanese American incarceration during World War II is a black eye on U.S. history. In the four decades that followed, activists and community leaders waged what was ultimately a successful campaign for redress and reparations on behalf of those who were sent to the internment camps. On this...
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Health Care is Complicated
California v. Texas is a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court that is the first major challenge to the Affordable Care Act since the appointment of the court's newest justice. Over the past decade, the ACA has been surprisingly resilient despite constant legal battles — and this one…
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Matched Bet
Recent legislation and several key developments this past year are impacting the future of gaming on Tribal lands in Washington. HB 2638 is of particular significance, which last March legalized sports wagering at Tribal casinos. Rion Ramirez and David Trujillo have been at the negotiating table...
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Fight, Flight or Freeze
Law students can be notoriously hard on themselves amid the pressure cooker that is law school. That stress, says Dr. Isaiah Pickens, manifests in a number of ways, including feelings of imposterism that can be hard to shake. 2020 certainly hasn't made the experience any easier, but Pickens…
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Off and Running
When COVID-19 first gained a foothold in Washington, Taya Briley knew her world was about to be turned upside down. As executive vice president and general counsel of the WSHA, Briley is one of the Washington medical community's key leaders tasked with spearheading response efforts to the rapidly...
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(I Hope I Can) VOTE!
The one-two punch of COVID-19 and political efforts to undermine the voting process has made this U.S. presidential election unlike any other. Yet despite these challenges, mail-in and early voting are driving record turnout across the country. Now with the election just one week away, what if...
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Two for One
The Trump Administration has pursued one of the most aggressive deregulatory agendas since the Reagan years, leveraging a variety of political and legal tactics to do so. As the United States ramps up toward the 2020 election, University of Chicago Law School Professor Jonathan Masur details how...
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Interpretation and Fact
Leading forensics expert Dr. Geoffrey Baird is no stranger to the courtroom. Over the years, he has been called upon regularly to share insights and analysis in some of the country's biggest, most high-profile cases. A litigator's abilities to effectively wield forensic evidence and present…
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DISCOVERY is a podcast presented by the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, WA, featuring distinguished guests discussing today's biggest social, political and legal issues.Episodes focus on a diverse mix of legal and legal-adjacent topics through intimate conversations with experts, speakers and leaders from around the globe.For more, visit law.uw.edu/podcast.
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