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Governmental Power and Constitutional Liberty

Prof. Jeffrey Rosen

CEO Emeritus, National Constitution Center; Professor of Law, George Washington University

At a dinner party in 1791, Thomas Jefferson pointed to the portraits on his wall, Locke, Bacon, and Newton, and called them the greatest men in history. Alexander Hamilton replied that the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar. From that exchange, Jeffrey Rosen argues, came America's two political parties and the argument that has defined every constitutional crisis…

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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…

COVID-19

Can You Sue If You Get Sick from the COVID Vaccine?

Are pharmaceutical companies or businesses that mandate employee vaccinations liable if someone gets sick from adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine? What if a business…

Elections and Politics

What is DAPA?

In 2014, the Department of Homeland Security created Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), an immigration relief program to authorize…

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Governmental Power and Constitutional Liberty

Prof. Jeffrey Rosen

65:00

How Diversity Fails, Even Without Villains

David B. Wilkins on the rational drivers of bias in the legal profession

David B. Wilkins

1:11:06

Negotiation Strategy and Gender

Terri Adler

1:06:00

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

1:03:11

Legal Deserts: Rural Lawyer Scarcity

Prof. Lisa Pruitt

When you save a firm [in bankruptcy], what's critically important is knowing whether that firm has a future.

Prof. Edward Morrison

Professor at Columbia 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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