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UC Hastings
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Programs from University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
Episodes
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Legally Speaking: Erwin Chemerinsky
UC Hasting’s Evan Lee welcomes Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Chemerinsky’s areas of expertise are constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He…
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Legally Speaking: Roger Wilkins
California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes Roger Wilkins, the highest-ranking African American in President Lyndon Johnson's Justice Department. Wilkins went on to serve on the editorial boards of the Washington Post, where he won a Pulitzer Prize, and the New York Times and…
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Legally Speaking: Lawrence Lessig
UC Hastings law professor Ashutosh Bhagwat welcomes Lawrence Lessig, known as the Elvis of cyberlaw. For much of his career, Lessig focused his work on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He argues copyright laws should be updated in our hybrid economy - one where commercial...
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A Conversation with Joan Williams - Legally Speaking
Hastings professor Joan C. Williams has been called a “rock star” in the field of gender studies. For more than a quarter of a century, her work in the areas of pregnancy discrimination and work-family accommodation have helped define the issue of gender equality under the law. At Hastings, in...
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A Conversation with Eva Paterson - Legally Speaking
In 1970, as a 20-year-old college student, Eva Paterson famously debated Vice President Spiro Agnew on The David Frost Show. She went on to become a fierce advocate for civil rights, eventually working for 26 years at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights – including more than a dozen years as...
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Defending Serial Killers - Legally Speaking
John Henry Browne is a criminal defense attorney in Seattle who is best known for his work on behalf of the notorious. One of his first clients was Ted Bundy—a vicious, serial killer who murdered scores of women in at least a half-dozen states. More recently, he represented Robert Bales, a former...
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The CIA's Lawyer - Legally Speaking
Over the 67-year history of the CIA, no agency staff attorney has ever wielded more influence or power than John Rizzo. A self-described “company man,” Rizzo joined the Central Intelligence Agency back in 1976 and over the next three-and-a-half decades helped guide the agency through a host of...
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In Defense of the Innocent with Barry Scheck - Legally Speaking
Over the last two decades no criminal defense lawyer in America has had a more profound impact on advancing the rights of the convicted than has Barry Scheck. In 1992, when DNA testing was still in its infancy, Scheck, along with his colleague Peter Neufeld, founded The Innocence Project, which…
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Playing Solomon: How Much is a Life Really Worth?
Kenneth Feinberg is best known for the work that he did as the Special Master of the Victim Compensation Fund that was established by Congress to distribute billions of taxpayer dollars to those who were either injured or lost loved ones during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Since then he has…
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Making Peace in the Middle East -- Legally Speaking
As both a diplomat and a scholar, Dennis Ross has had a truly extraordinary career. Under President George H.W. Bush, he led the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. He also served as a Special Envoy to the Middle East under President Bill Clinton, and was a Special Advisor to President...
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The Lawyer Who Saved Obamacare -- Legally Speaking
As the 46th Solicitor General of the United States, Donald B. Verrilli Jr. is best known for the case he made before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012 in which he successfully defended the constitutionality of President Obama's Affordable Care Act. Also that year, he scored a big victory when the…
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The Trial of Edward Snowman--Legally Speaking (Special Edition)
In late 2012, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden leaked to the press almost 200,000 classified documents exposing secrets about the scope and methods of American intelligence gathering. To some this made him a hero; to others a traitor. In this very special edition of Legally Speaking we pose…
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The Politics of International Justice - Legally Speaking
During the waning days of South Africa's apartheid era, Judge Richard Goldstone led a series of investigations that exposed the human rights abuses committed by his own country's security forces--an effort that may well have prevented a full blown civil war. He then went on to serve as the chief...
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Fighting for Women in India-Legally Speaking
In a country where as many as 100,000 rape cases are now pending in its courts, human rights attorney Rutuparna Mohanty has devoted herself to fighting for the rights of abused women and their families. In September, as a guest of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Mohanty spoke with...
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The Lawyer Who's Killing Campaign Finance Reform - Legally Speaking
No attorney in the United States has done more to weaken, if not kill, campaign finance laws than James Bopp Jr. As the principal plaintiffs attorney behind the Citizens United case, he paved the way for the U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money...
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In Search of Islamic Justice - Legally Speaking
In 2008, Sadakat Kadri began an intellectual journey that would take him to Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, as well as to his father's birthplace in Northern India, in order to better understand both the history and the meaning of Shari'a law. Kadri recounts this odyssey in his highly acclaimed 2012 book...
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Russ Feingold - Legally Speaking
Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis) is perhaps best known as the co-sponsor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (a.k.a. McCain-Feingold). He also cast the only vote in the Senate against the USA Patriot Act, which he believed posed an unacceptable threat to civil liberties. In…
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The Fight Over Guns - Legally Speaking
At a time when the debate over new gun laws couldn't be more divisive, Adam Winkler's 2011 book, Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, has drawn praise from both opponents and advocates of stricter measures. In April 2013, the UCLA law professor spoke with California Lawyer...
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In Pursuit of Torturers - Legally Speaking
More than any other lawyer in the country, Paul Hoffman is responsible for turning an obscure 1789 law called the Alien Tort Statute into a potent weapon. Under the ATS, Hoffman has, on behalf of the tortured, successfully sued foreign nationals, as well as corporations, in U.S. federal courts…
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The Trials and Triumphs of Conrad Black - Legally Speaking
Once, he presided over the third largest newspaper empire in the entire world. He also was a celebrated author with massive biographies of both Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon to his credit. But that was all before he served three years in federal prison for fraud and obstruction of justice....
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Making Mischief in the Blogosphere - Legally Speaking
It was while working as an assistant U.S. attorney that David Lat fell in love with blogging. For Underneath Their Robes, his first blog, Lat went undercover to poke fun at the very judges he tried cases in front of. Then, in 2006, he founded Above the Law, which has since become one of the...
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A Conversation with Lloyd Braun - Legally Speaking
UC Hastings Law School Alum Lloyd Braun began his career as an entertainment lawyer, but eventually moved over to the creative side of the business. Since then he's had a hand in developing some of the biggest hit shows in television history, including Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy,...
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The Lawyer Synanon Tried to Kill - Legally Speaking
Los Angeles attorney Paul Morantz has devoted his professional life to fighting cults. But in the late 1970s that life almost came to an abrupt end when one of the cults he litigated against planted a live rattlesnake in his mailbox. Morantz speaks with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden…
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A Conversation with Harold Koh - Legally Speaking
As the top lawyer for the U.S. State Department, Harold Hongju Koh is the man who both President Barak Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have most depended on to insure that the administration's policies conform with international law. In this in-depth discussion, Koh speaks with...
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Sex and Punishment: A Conversation with Eric Berkowitz - Legally Speaking
For prosecutors, as well as priests, how we have sex has long been a matter of serious concern. So serious, in fact, that whenever community standards are challenged, the response is often repression, and, sometimes, severe punishment. Eric Berkowitz is an attorney in San Francisco who has…
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Legally Speaking: Sandy Tatum
As a partner with the Cooley law firm in San Francisco, Sandy Tatum became over the course of four decades one of America’s most influential lawyers. He's also known as the "Dean of American golf." Tatum was a moving force behind the multi-million-dollar renovation of Harding Park Golf Course in...
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Legally Speaking: Elyn Saks
MacArthur genius award recipient Elyn Saks has written extensively about the rights of the mentally ill. She has also written at length about her own bouts with serious mental illness. In this very candid interview Saks, who is a tenured law professor at the University of Southern California,...
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Legally Speaking: Stephen Breyer
What are the nine unelected justices of the U.S. Supreme Court really good for? In a wide ranging interview with UC Hastings law professor David Faigman, Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer talks about the role that the High Court plays in determining the fate of the nation. Series:...
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Legally Speaking: Nancy Gertner
Long before Nancy Gertner became a federal judge she had made a name for herself defending a lesbian revolutionary who stood accused of killing a police officer. She then became known for her work on abortion and sex discrimination cases. Gertner talks about her unusual career with UC Hastings…
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Legally Speaking: Aharon Barak
Aharon Barak was chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1995 to 2006, and in that role championed what he called a "constitutional revolution." In this wide ranging conversation with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden, he talks about torture, the death penalty, Arab-Israeli rights…
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Legally Speaking: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
UC Hastings Professor Joan Williams welcomes U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a conversation that touches on a broad range of subjects, from opera to marriage to work/life balance, doctrinal questions, and cases from the 1970's to present, including the court's role in...
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Legally Speaking: Martha Nussbaum
In a wide ranging interview, Martha Nussbaum, one of the world's most prominent moral and legal philosophers talks about the relationship between law and emotion, abortion, animal rights, and social justice. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21302]
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Legally Speaking: David Dow
California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes David Dow, distinguished professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Dow has represented more than 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years. His memoir, The Autobiography of an Execution, was published in February 2010. Series:...
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Legally Speaking: Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander, a long time civil rights advocate and litigator as well as a law professor at Ohio State University, speaks with California Lawyer Magazine’s Martin Lasden about Alexander’s new book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." Series: "Legally…
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Legally Speaking: Alan Dershowitz
California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz who discusses the erosion of civil liberties, the future of the Arab-Israeli peace process, and his own troubled adolescence. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21096]
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Legally Speaking: Ashutosh Bhagwat
California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes UC Hastings Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat who contends that most Americans have a fundamental misunderstanding of how our constitutional rights are supposed to work. His book, “The Myth of Rights: The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional...
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Legally Speaking: Bruce Ackerman
Marty Lasden of California Lawyer Magazine welcomes American constitutional law scholar and Yale professor Bruce Ackerman for a discussion of his new book "The Decline and Fall of the American Republic," in which he argues that the American presidency is becoming too powerful for our own good....
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Legally Speaking: Scott Turow
Writer and attorney Scott Turow is the author of nine best-selling novels. He reflects on his work as a fiction writer and a practicing attorney with UC Hastings Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Evan Lee. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20874]
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Legally Speaking: Antonin Scalia
October 2010 marked the 24th anniversary of Justice Antonin Scalia's appointment to the US Supreme Court. Well known for his sharp wit as well as his originalist approach to the Constitution, Justice Scalia consistently asks more questions during oral arguments and makes more comments than any...
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