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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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Litigation

State Laws Restricting Vaccine Mandates

In the spring and summer of 2021, several states across the United States passed laws restricting COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Some states prohibit state and local…

Interview

Building a World Litigation Empire

John B. Quinn

In this episode of New Law Order, a limited series and podcast co-hosted by Joel Cohen and Yale Law Professor John Morley, John B. Quinn,…

Interview

Trump Orders: Law Firms on the Line

Prof. John Morley

Presidential directives issued in early 2025 single out and impose severe restrictions on specific law firms—restrictions such as barring lawyers from federal buildings, revoking security…

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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

68

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

Scroll Control

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

[There are] all kinds of hacks of people who have died whose accounts have not been closed, have not been taken care of. You don’t just have to be alive to have someone hack into your internet account.

Prof. Naomi R. Cahn

UVA Law School

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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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