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Modern Law Library — 171 episodes

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How we deploy the military domestically, and why

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Sherry Thomas's sleuthing librarians and gender-bent Sherlock

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Book Club: The Brethren introduces Tricky Dick's chief justice

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Your household devices are tracking you—but who else is watching?

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Introducing the Modern Law Library Book Club

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Meet the 'inscrutable' SCOTUS justice who made the Nuremberg trials possible

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The Help: What labor rights do domestic workers have

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Cold case investigation into 'Walking Tall' sheriff uncovers murder

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What place do prisons have in democracies?

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Pop culture picks of 2025

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John Lennon's lawyer explains how the musician's deportation case changed immigration law | Rebroadcast

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‘The Shadow Docket’ shines light on an increasingly uncommunicative Supreme Court | Rebroadcast

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Yale Law’s Owen Fiss talks about threats to democracy and ‘Why We Vote’ | Rebroadcast

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Users keepers: Pirates, zombies and adverse possession | Rebroadcast

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The Supreme Court’s colorful history with alcohol gets a look in ‘Glass and Gavel’ | Rebroadcast

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David Grann uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind murders of oil-rich Osage tribe members | Rebroadcast

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How to be (sort of) happy in law school | Rebroadcast

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Need to sharpen your legal writing? 10th Circuit Court judge shares his tips | Rebroadcast

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James Patterson dishes on his new legal thriller, ‘The #1 Lawyer’ | Rebroadcast

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3 trial court judges share the tough cases that stuck with them | Rebroadcast

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Try estate law for a practice with work-life balance, says ‘Lifestyle Lawyer Revolution’ author

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Barrister’s new mystery novel offers glimpse inside the Inner Temple

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How a Florida murder and an unlikely justice created a ‘criminal procedure revolution’

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What today’s rainmakers do differently

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Perplexed about AI? Richard Susskind wants to help

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‘Secrets of the Killing State’ exposes realities of lethal injection

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‘Patenting Life’ shares tales from a career on the cutting edge of science and the law

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How thinking like an athlete can make you a better lawyer

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This Harvard Law prof thinks constitutional theory is a terrible way to pick a judge

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'The Licensing Racket' takes aim at professional licensing in America

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Former Watergate prosecutor and friends reflect on life in 'Legal Briefs'

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When should life sentences be overturned? Judge shares how he decides

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Our favorite pop culture picks in 2024

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Horse-loving lawyer left the law to help run a Colorado ranch

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What went wrong–and right–with 10 famous trials

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'Watchdogs' author has no regrets about choosing civil service over the NBA

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Meet the sheriffs who believe they are ‘The Highest Law in the Land’

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'Company' is the perfect short story collection for spooky season

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The Supreme Court is a liberal body–when it comes to legal writing

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Legal thriller author David Ellis's day job? Appellate court justice

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'Shaping the Bar' author says bar exam protects legal profession, not public

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Summer reading picks and why a YMCA-funded crusade against obscenity matters today

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'The Lawyer Millionaire’ author shares the 7 biggest money mistakes lawyers can make

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‘The Originalism Trap’ author wants to see originalism dead, dead, dead

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How to strike up conversations that build your book of business

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When states’ rights and healthcare access clash

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'In the Shadow of Liberty' shines light on American immigration history

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Users keepers: Pirates, zombies and adverse possession

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James Patterson dishes on his new legal thriller, ‘The #1 Lawyer’

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'When Rape Goes Viral' looks at why cases like Steubenville happen

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NY law prof is calling on ‘Lawyer Nation’ to reform

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'Police & the Empire City' explores race and the origins of the NYPD

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Yale Law's Owen Fiss talks about threats to democracy and 'Why We Vote'

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Access to justice can be achieved, says ‘Law Democratized’ author–but not without change

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How to plan your post-law life

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Our favorite pop culture picks in 2023

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How is the true crime genre impacting the way people think about innocence?

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Law grad turns culinary passion into TikTok fame and a brand new cookbook

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How reckoning with trauma can help you, your clients and the legal profession

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Transform your negotiations with a win-win-win mindset, says author

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Tales of 3 generations of Black women intertwine to form 'Memphis'

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Complex litigation judge has 50 ideas to simplify the courts

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Summer reading and back-to-law-school tips

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Trial lawyer’s tales include wins, losses and international intrigue

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Is family court too flawed to be fixed?

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Didn't get it in writing? There may still be a way, says author of 'Litigating Constructive Trusts'

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'My Mom, the Lawyer' explores women's work and personal lives through the eyes of their children

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SCOTUS faces ‘a catastrophic loss of institutional legitimacy,’ warns author

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‘The Shadow Docket’ shines light on an increasingly uncommunicative Supreme Court

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End of the Cold War launched new efforts to build the rule of law

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Author and lawyer explores English family's ties to Nazi Germany in 'The Mitford Affair'

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‘Never Far from Home' brings readers from NYC projects to 90s hip-hop scene to Microsoft offices

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Why NYT v. Sullivan mattered in 1964 and is under attack today

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In ‘Her Honor,’ trailblazing women judges take center stage

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In ‘Myth America,’ historians challenge misinformation about our past

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Bestselling author relished collaboration for 'Heat' follow-up

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From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse, lawyer discusses justice and due process in the digital age

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Lawyer digs into big data for new legal thriller 'Code 6'

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This lawyer tackled lifelong anxiety to free herself from 'The Box'

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Our favorite pop culture picks in 2022

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Can change really come from within the system? These 13 prosecutors think so

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'By Hands Now Known' shines light on cold cases of lynchings and racial violence

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How do you calculate damages in injury trials?

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Author and lawyer Scott Turow made generational leap for new legal thriller

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Nina Totenberg's early life, NPR legacy and friendship with the Notorious RBG

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9th Circuit judge shines light on Justice William O. Douglas’ environmental campaigns

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Sick of meetings that go off the rails? Robert’s Rules of Order can help

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Summer Pop Culture Picks and What Else We Lost When Roe was Overturned

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After collaborating with bestselling author, judge discusses new solo book

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The modern US Border Patrol is a national police force with dangerous capabilities, author warns

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Authors of '50 Lessons for Happy Lawyers' share some top tips

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Do you have what it takes to break into esports?

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Work for Canadian residential school survivors informs lawyer's debut novel

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Wiretapping's origins might surprise you

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How–and why–Kazakhstan gave up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons

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Ex-Tesla attorney leveraged her contract expertise into a book and thriving LinkedIn community

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'No Equal Justice' shares George Crockett Jr.'s civil rights legacy

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The justice system is the antagonist in retired judge's legal thriller novel

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Tough decision to make? Here’s how to break it down like a lawyer

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Regulate cryptocurrencies and fintech products before it's too late, urges author

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Need to sharpen your legal writing? 10th Circuit Court judge shares his tips

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Outcomes in state supreme courts aren't as simple as Blue vs. Red

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In 'All Her Little Secrets,' the death of an attorney's boss could bring her secrets to light

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Our favorite pop culture picks in 2021

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America's fights over medical treatment choices didn't start with COVID-19 and Ivermectin

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Discover the man behind 12 Angry Men, and the real-life case that inspired him

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Want to change a veteran's life through pro bono? There's a manual for that

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How SCOTUS enabled police abuses of civil rights–and what we can do about it

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How to market your legal services to Hispanic clients

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A tale of love, loss and conservatorships in the Golden Age of Hollywood

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How LinkedIn can help lawyers develop and market their brands

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How neurodiverse lawyers can thrive in the profession–and change it for the better

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Harper Lee Prize finalists discuss their novels, careers, and the first time they read 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

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How government actions, not personal choices, created segregated neighborhoods

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David Grann uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind murders of oil-rich Osage tribe members

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How a Chinese-American family challenged school segregation in 1920s Mississippi

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The Crime of Complicity: Examining the Role of the Bystander in the Holocaust and Beyond

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Are prisoners’ civil rights being needlessly violated by long-term solitary confinement?

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What can neuroscience tell us about crime?

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Al-Tounsi by Anton Piatigorsky: The U.S. Supreme Court through a Human Lens

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Legal Asylum by Paul Goldstein: A Satiric Look at Legal Academia

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Alberto Gonzales reflects back on Bush administration and gives his advice for Trump staff

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Was this lawyer-turned-WWII-spy the basis for James Bond?

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What can past presidential history teach us about today?

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John Lennon's lawyer explains how the musician's deportation case changed immigration law

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A seismic shift in how the US wages war and what it means for the American public

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Freedom isn't the end of the story for exonerees

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How a 1980s lynching case helped bring down the Klan

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In ‘The Last Good Girl,’ Allison Leotta tackles the fraught subject of campus rape

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Before stop-and-frisk there were vagrancy laws; ‘Vagrant Nation’ explores their rise and fall

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Prosecutor's book offers first-hand look at 'Making a Murderer' subject Steven Avery

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Harper Lee Prize winner tells how history and race shaped her Southern gothic novel

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Linda Fairstein chats about her Alex Cooper series--and reveals an exciting new project

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Grammar nerds, meet your Comma Queen

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Author tells tangled tale of the $19B verdict against Chevron in 'Law of the Jungle'

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All is not as it seems for 9th Circuit clerk in ATL founder's new novel (podcast)

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How a series of attacks by a breakaway Amish sect became a landmark hate-crimes case

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Boies and Olson reveal the backstory of the case against California’s Proposition 8 (podcast)

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Growing up during BTK serial-killing spree informed author’s new crime novel (podcast)

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Why should 9/11 terrorism trials be held at ‘Mother Court’ in New York? Author explains (podcast)

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How 50 children were saved from Nazi Germany by a Philadelphia lawyer and his wife (podcast)

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This 18th-century British judge helped SCOTUS decide the fate of Guantanamo detainees (podcast)

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‘Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance’ author shares weird-but-true laws from around the globe (podcast)

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What makes lawyers great romance novelists? (gallery and podcast)

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What martial arts training can do for lawyers (podcast)

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What were the best legal novels of 2013? (podcast)

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Unconventional childhood helps ‘Free Spirit’ author to advocate for domestic-abuse victims (podcast)

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Government surveillance revelations are having a chilling effect on lawyers, says author (podcast)

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Rosa Parks’ attorney: ‘If the story would be told, I’d have to tell it’ (podcast)

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Author on how ‘tremendously radical’ women blazed trails into the legal profession (podcast)

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The life and lovers of legendary Hollywood lawyer (podcast)

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‘Lawyer Bubble’ author discusses what the future looks like for today’s new lawyers

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Want to protect individual freedom? Have a strong central government, says ‘Rule of the Clan’ author

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What if Crim Law was taught by cartoons?

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How to practice law in a ‘sharing economy’ (Podcast)

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Is Batman a State Actor? ‘Law of Superheroes’ Authors Dish on Comics in the Courtroom

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‘Conspiracy of Silence’ Allowed Judges’ Kids-for-Cash Scandal to Occur, Says Author

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Voter Fraud v. Voter Suppression: Author Explains That Neither Is Quite What We Think

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‘Good Girls Revolt’ Author Discusses Groundbreaking 1970s Sex-Discrimination Suit Against Newsweek

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Author Describes Clash of Titans Jefferson and Marshall in ‘The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr’

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After Going from BigLaw to ABC News, Author of ‘Exit Interview’ Witnessed Seismic Changes

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‘Five-Finger Discount’ Costs Billions, Says Author of Shoplifting Book ‘The Steal’

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Scalia Discusses Views on Textualism and the Process of Co-Writing His New Book

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Federal Judge Pens Memoir About His Time on the Bench and His High-Profile Cases in ‘Disrobed’

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‘Failing Law Schools’ Author Challenges Law Schools to Make Dramatic Changes

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‘Breach of Trust’ Tells Ripped-from-the-Headlines Tale of Government Corruption and Intrigue

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Author Discusses How to Identify and Deal with an ‘Almost Psychopath’

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Lack of Online Privacy Rights Is Very Troubling, Says Author

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‘Show Trials’ Author Advocates for Systemic Changes to Immigration Courts

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‘Born, Not Raised’ Author Discusses the Flaws in the Juvenile Justice System

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‘Devil in the Grove’ Author Discusses Early Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Case