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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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UC Hastings law professor Ashutosh Bhagwat welcomes Lawrence Lessig, known as the Elvis of cyberlaw. For much of his career, Lessig focused...

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes Roger Wilkins, the highest-ranking African American in President Lyndon Johnson's...

UC Hasting’s Evan Lee welcomes Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvi...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In late 2012, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden leaked to the press almost 200,000 classified documents exposing secrets about the scop...

During the waning days of South Africa's apartheid era, Judge Richard Goldstone led a series of investigations that exposed the human rights...

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...

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 2008, Sadakat Kadri began an intellectual journey that would take him to Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, as well as to his father's birthplace in...

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...

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...

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...

Once, he presided over the third largest newspaper empire in the entire world. He also was a celebrated author with massive biographies of b...

It was while working as an assistant U.S. attorney that David Lat fell in love with blogging. For Underneath Their Robes, his first blog, La...

UC Hastings Law School Alum Lloyd Braun began his career as an entertainment lawyer, but eventually moved over to the creative side of the b...

Los Angeles attorney Paul Morantz has devoted his professional life to fighting cults. But in the late 1970s that life almost came to an abr...

As the top lawyer for the U.S. State Department, Harold Hongju Koh is the man who both President Barak Obama and Secretary of State Hillary...

For prosecutors, as well as priests, how we have sex has long been a matter of serious concern. So serious, in fact, that whenever community...

As a partner with the Cooley law firm in San Francisco, Sandy Tatum became over the course of four decades one of America’s most influential...

MacArthur genius award recipient Elyn Saks has written extensively about the rights of the mentally ill. She has also written at length abou...

What are the nine unelected justices of the U.S. Supreme Court really good for? In a wide ranging interview with UC Hastings law professor D...

Long before Nancy Gertner became a federal judge she had made a name for herself defending a lesbian revolutionary who stood accused of kill...

Aharon Barak was chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1995 to 2006, and in that role championed what he called a "constitutional...

UC Hastings Professor Joan Williams welcomes U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a conversation that touches on a b...

In a wide ranging interview, Martha Nussbaum, one of the world's most prominent moral and legal philosophers talks about the relationship be...

Michelle Alexander, a long time civil rights advocate and litigator as well as a law professor at Ohio State University, speaks with Califor...

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz who discusses the erosion of civil l...

Marty Lasden of California Lawyer Magazine welcomes American constitutional law scholar and Yale professor Bruce Ackerman for a discussion o...

Writer and attorney Scott Turow is the author of nine best-selling novels. He reflects on his work as a fiction writer and a practicing atto...

October 2010 marked the 24th anniversary of Justice Antonin Scalia's appointment to the US Supreme Court. Well known for his sharp wit as we...