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From Class Actions To Affirmative Action: An Interview With Brian Fitzpatrick
Listen now (47 mins) | Plus attorneys' fees and free speech in American law schools, twenty-five years ago versus today.
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Judicial Notice (09.16.23): Crazy And Deranged
Donald Trump v. Jack Smith, an ill-advised summer-associate outing, $20 million partner pay packages, and other legal news from the week that was.
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Tiger Mom Turned Novelist: An Interview With Amy Chua
Listen now (43 mins) | We discuss her great new book, The Golden Gate—as well as Yale Law School controversies, free speech, affirmative action, and…
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Yale Law Is No Longer #1—For Free-Speech Debacles
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Meet The October Term 2022 SCOTUS Clerks
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The Federalist Society And The Capitol Attack: What Is To Be Done?
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The Newest Insanity Out Of Yale Law School
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Affirmative Action Is Going Down
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Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Meet The October Term 2023 SCOTUS Clerks
Plus Justice Thomas's new financial disclosure, an updated feeder-judge ranking, and a ranking of law firms that hire the most clerks—not just SCOTUS…
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Judicial Notice (08.26.23): This Means War
A non-paywalled example of Judicial Notice, the weekly legal news roundup I send to paid subscribers of Original Jurisdiction.
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Fix The Court: An Interview With Gabe Roth
Listen now (46 minutes) | A longtime advocate for SCOTUS reform analyzes—and offers numerical scores for—the justices' recent ethics controversies.
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Notice And Comment: Disqualifying The Donald?
Does the Fourteenth Amendment bar Donald Trump from holding government office—including the presidency of the United States?
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An Inside Look At Litigation Finance: An Interview With Chris Bogart
Listen now (45 mins) | A former Cravath lawyer and Fortune 50 general counsel, Bogart co-founded and leads Burford Capital, the world's largest provider…
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Irreconcilable Differences: An Interview With... My Husband, Zachary Baron Shemtob
Listen now (40 mins) | Wherein we stop being polite—and start getting real—about SCOTUS, judicial celebrity, originalism, the major-questions doctrine…
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A Brief Programming Note: A Baby Announcement
Fear not—I'll continue to publish and podcast, but at a temporarily altered tempo.
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