Legally Speaking: Lawrence Lessig
UC Hastings law professor Ashutosh Bhagwat welcomes Lawrence Lessig, known as the Elvis of cyberlaw. For much of his career, Lessig focused...
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20 of 39 episodesLegally Speaking: Roger Wilkins
California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes Roger Wilkins, the highest-ranking African American in President Lyndon Johnson's...
Legally Speaking: Erwin Chemerinsky
UC Hasting’s Evan Lee welcomes Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvi...
A Conversation with Joan Williams - Legally Speaking
Hastings professor Joan C. Williams has been called a “rock star” in the field of gender studies. For more than a quarter of a century, her...
A Conversation with Eva Paterson - Legally Speaking
In 1970, as a 20-year-old college student, Eva Paterson famously debated Vice President Spiro Agnew on The David Frost Show. She went on to...
Defending Serial Killers - Legally Speaking
John Henry Browne is a criminal defense attorney in Seattle who is best known for his work on behalf of the notorious. One of his first clie...
The CIA's Lawyer - Legally Speaking
Over the 67-year history of the CIA, no agency staff attorney has ever wielded more influence or power than John Rizzo. A self-described “co...
In Defense of the Innocent with Barry Scheck - Legally Speaking
Over the last two decades no criminal defense lawyer in America has had a more profound impact on advancing the rights of the convicted than...
Playing Solomon: How Much is a Life Really Worth?
Kenneth Feinberg is best known for the work that he did as the Special Master of the Victim Compensation Fund that was established by Congre...
Making Peace in the Middle East -- Legally Speaking
As both a diplomat and a scholar, Dennis Ross has had a truly extraordinary career. Under President George H.W. Bush, he led the U.S. State...
The Lawyer Who Saved Obamacare -- Legally Speaking
As the 46th Solicitor General of the United States, Donald B. Verrilli Jr. is best known for the case he made before the U.S. Supreme Court...
The Trial of Edward Snowman--Legally Speaking (Special Edition)
In late 2012, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden leaked to the press almost 200,000 classified documents exposing secrets about the scop...
The Politics of International Justice - Legally Speaking
During the waning days of South Africa's apartheid era, Judge Richard Goldstone led a series of investigations that exposed the human rights...
Fighting for Women in India-Legally Speaking
In a country where as many as 100,000 rape cases are now pending in its courts, human rights attorney Rutuparna Mohanty has devoted herself...
The Lawyer Who's Killing Campaign Finance Reform - Legally Speaking
No attorney in the United States has done more to weaken, if not kill, campaign finance laws than James Bopp Jr. As the principal plaintiffs...
In Search of Islamic Justice - Legally Speaking
In 2008, Sadakat Kadri began an intellectual journey that would take him to Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, as well as to his father's birthplace in...
Russ Feingold - Legally Speaking
Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis) is perhaps best known as the co-sponsor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (a.k.a. McCa...
The Fight Over Guns - Legally Speaking
At a time when the debate over new gun laws couldn't be more divisive, Adam Winkler's 2011 book, Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear...
In Pursuit of Torturers - Legally Speaking
More than any other lawyer in the country, Paul Hoffman is responsible for turning an obscure 1789 law called the Alien Tort Statute into a...
The Trials and Triumphs of Conrad Black - Legally Speaking
Once, he presided over the third largest newspaper empire in the entire world. He also was a celebrated author with massive biographies of b...