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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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Inside Counsel at Scale

C.J. Mahoney

Inside Counsel at Meta Scale What does it mean to serve as chief legal officer at a company operating at the scale of Meta? The…

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Targeting a Foreign President

Scott R. Anderson

On January 3, 2026, U.S. forces conducted an operation inside Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro after armed resistance and an…

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Rise of the Legal Technologist

Jason Boehmig

In an era where technology is rapidly reshaping the legal landscape, the rise of the legal technologist is both inevitable and transformative. This evolution raises…

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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

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

What has changed in the last five or six years is how often the court is intervening in this context, how it's intervening, and the court is treating these orders at presidential, and intervening inconsistently.

Prof. Stephen Vladeck

Georgetown University Law Center

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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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