Student Events Podcast

Kevin McMahon: “How FDR Paved the Way to Brown v. The Board of Education”

Kevin McMahon is Associate Professor of Political Sciencer at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. This talk was recorded April 25, 2007 as part of a series in honor of the 40th anniversary of Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court.


48:40 minutes (11.14 MB)
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2007

Clark Neily: "The Irrational Basis Test"

Clark Neily is  Senior Attorney at the Institute for Justice. This talk was presented by the University of Chicago Law School chapter of the Federalist Society and recorded on November 1st, 2006.


58:17 minutes (53.36 MB)
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2006

"US Involvement in the Darfur Conflict"

On Wednesday, November 15, 2006, the Earl B. Dickerson Chapter of the Black Law Student Association at the University of Chicago Law School hosted a discussion on the merits of US involvement in the Darfur conflict.


66:29 minutes (45.65 MB)
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2006

Richard Posner and Brian Leiter: "What Do and What Should Judges Do?"

Richard Posner is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Brian Leiter was Visiting Professor of Law when this discussion was recorded. This talk was recorded November 16, 2006.


87:39 minutes (60.18 MB)
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2006

Cass Sunstein on Thurgood Marshall's Conception of Equality

Cass Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Dist. Service Prof. of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Justice Marshall in the 1979-80 term. This talk was recorded in November, 2006, as part of a series of talks hosted by the Black Law Students Association in honor of the 40th anniversary of Thurgood Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court.


51:37 minutes (35.44 MB)
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2006

Richard Posner and Geoffrey Stone: "Presidential Power in an Age of Terror: A Debate on NSA Wiretapping"

Richard Posner is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Geoffrey Stone is Harry Kalven, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.


68:53 minutes (63.06 MB)
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2006

Justice Stephen Breyer: "A Day In the Life of a Supreme Court Justice"

Stephen Breyer is Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. This talk was recorded at an informal lunchtime gathering with University of Chicago Law School students on February 8, 2006. © 2006 The University of Chicago.


61:27 minutes (56.27 MB)
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2006

Douglas Lichtman and Randy Picker: "After Grokster"

Randal Picker is Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law and Senior Fellow at The Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory; Douglas Lichtman was Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. This discussion was presented by the Law School's Intellectual Property Law Society October 21, 2005.


58:43 minutes (80.66 MB)
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2009
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Randy Picker
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Douglas Lichtman
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