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The Mismatch Critique of Affirmative Action

Prof. Richard Sander

The debate over affirmative action now turns on a sharp legal and empirical tension: after Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, institutions committed to diversity must pursue those goals without using race in ways the Supreme Court has deemed unlawful. The stakes are significant for law schools, employers, students, and the legal profession, because admissions practices shape educational opportunity, bar…

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Profs. Naomi Cahn and Leah Plunkett

Regulating minors’ access to social‑media platforms has become one of the most active—and contested—areas of technology policy in the United States. Legislators see rising youth…

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Autonomous Deadly Weapons

Prof. Mitt Regan

Autonomous lethal weapons, often sensationalized as “killer robots,” are no longer confined to science fiction—they are a rapidly advancing reality in modern warfare. In this…

Business and Finance

The Failing Firm Defense

With an influx of distressed companies as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “failing firm” defense has been attracting increased attention as a way…

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Inside Counsel at Scale

C.J. Mahoney

57:00

The Mismatch Critique of Affirmative Action

Prof. Richard Sander

1:04:34

AI from the Inside

Michael A. Gerstenzang

1:08:18

Rise of the Legal Technologist

Jason Boehmig

1:25:13

Law as Code: The AI Power Shift

Prof. Scott J. Shapiro

58:36

Profit, Technology, and Shifting Law Firm Leverage

Gretta Rusanow

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Building a World Litigation Empire

John B. Quinn

69 min

Law According to Karp

Brad Karp

1:02:31

Targeting a Foreign President

Scott R. Anderson

1:16:58

Bending the Knee

Jeffrey Toobin

1:11:44

A Healthier Legal Future

Dean David Jaffe

1:12:10

The AI Threat to Privacy

Daniel Solove

1:34:07

Defending Words

Prof. Nadine Strossen

1:17:19

Trump Orders: Law Firms on the Line

Prof. John Morley

1:30:42

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Profs. Naomi Cahn and Leah Plunkett

1:04:51

Confronting the Disinformation Engine

Barbara McQuade

1:30:26

A Lawyer's Addiction

Brian Cuban

59:30

Regulating AI as a Natural Monopoly

Prof. Tejas Narechania

1:01:34

Artificial Justice – Navigating an AI Evidence Crisis

Judge Paul Grimm

1:08:16

Autonomous Deadly Weapons

Prof. Mitt Regan

We all have the right to our religious beliefs, but we don’t have the right to incur, to impose harm on someone else due to those beliefs.

Jeena Shah

Associate Professor, CUNY School of Law

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Free Speech Rights

Free speech: what constitutes "incitement?"

What constitutes "incitement" under the First Amendment? When is speech so violent and dangerous that it can be prohibited by the government? In this special…

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Supreme Court

Sensitive Places under the Second Amendment

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms, but that right has been interpreted to have locational…

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Business and Finance

What is CFIUS?

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee that assesses the potential national security risks of foreign direct investment…

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