Yale Law
by Yale Law School
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Description
Members of the Law School's renowned faculty and distinguished legal experts and scholars from around the world share their views on philosophical and practical issues related to law and justice.
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Confronting the Threats to Our Homeland | Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff discusses how the Department prepares for and mitigates threats to our national security. Secretary Chertoff's lecture was the Sam and Ronnie Heyman Lecture on Public Service at Yale Law School. | 4/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dean Harold Koh | Dean Harold Koh is the Yale Law School's 15th Dean in its almost 200-year history. Dean Koh talks about his first four years in the role of Dean, his life accomplishments and his plans for the future of the School. | 8/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yale Law School: The Admission Process for Prospective Students | Yale Law School Dean of Admissions, Asha Rangappa '00 talks about the admissions process for prospective students. | 11/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth | In his new book, Professor Ellickson, a property law specialist, explores the internal dynamics of the home and applies transaction cost economics, sociological theory, and legal analysis as he examines how the home is ordered. The Household illustrates how households are formed and how they choose to govern themselves. | 2/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How I Survived "Survivor" and other Professional Challenges | Yul Kwon a 2000 graduate of the Yale Law School, talks about surviving "Survivor" and other professional challenges. After 39 days sparring with 20 contestants in four tribes divided by race, Yul was the winner of the hit TV show "Survivor" in fall 2006. Yul discusses this unique experience, along with highlights of his varied professional careers. | 4/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beyond Recognition | Professor Dean Spade of Seattle University talks about the limitations of current popular legal equality demands emerging under the "trans rights" framework. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The World's Dream About Itself: The Story You Must Tell | Author Heidi Durrow presented a Dean's Lecture titled " The World's Dream About Itself: The Story You Must Tell" in March 1, 2010. Durrow is the author of the "The Girl Who Fell From The Sky". | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lifecycle Investing Interview | Emily Bazelon, editor of Slate Magazine interviews Professors Ian Ayres and Barry Nailbuff on their new book " Lifestyle Investing" and diversification of investing. | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The $500.00 Diet | In the $500 Diet, author and law professor Ian Ayres offers an audio presention companion to his recently published book "Carrots & Sticks" | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dignity, Voice, Story | The following podcast is a recording of Jean Koh Peters’ inaugural lecture as the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law. The lecture, titled “Dignity, Voice, Story,” touches upon Professor Peters’ work representing children and refugees and her approach to clinical law teaching. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills: The GED and the Problem of Soft Skills in America | James Heckman, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago speaks on the topic of “Hard Evidence on Soft Skills: The GED and the Problem of Soft Skills in America.” | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change, Courts, and the Common Law | Doug Kysar is a path-breaking scholar in the areas of environmental law and torts. His book Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity (Yale University Press2010) seeks to reinvigorate environmental law and policy by offering novel theoretical insights on cost-benefit analysis, the precautionary principle, and sustainable development. Professor Kysar is also the co-author of a leadingcasebook, The Torts Process (2007). | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vision, Values, and Environmental Law | In this podcast, Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Douglas Kysar speaks on his book Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity. Following Kysar’s remarks, Robert Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law, Loyola University New Orleans, discusses Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World. These remarks were delivered on December 2, 2010 at Yale Law School. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Civility Important? | Yale Law School Professor Stephen L. Carter, author of "Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy," shares his thoughts on the issue of civility in politics in this lecture, which was originally delivered at Yale Law School on February 17, 2011. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Rachel Schneider on Banking the Unbanked | Ms. Schneider is an industry expert in the area of the underbanked marketplace. In her role as Vice President, Innovation and Research, at the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), she works with financial services companies, and conducts academic and industry research in order to help meet CFSI’s goal of transforming the US financial services marketplace, and meeting the needs of unbanked and underbanked Americans. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Talk with Jose Antonio Vargas | Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist who has written substantial articles for noteworthy newspapers and magazines such as the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and the New Yorker. In 2011, Vargas wrote an essay for The New York Times Sunday Magazine titled “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” in which he chronicled the years he has spent hiding his immigration status after learning as a teen that his green card was fake. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Guantánamo Moment | P. Sabin Willett, Partner at Bingham McCutchen, delivered the 2011-2012 Preiskel-Silverman Lecture, titled “Your Guantánamo Moment” at Yale Law School on October 24, 2011. In this lecture, Willett discusses his own work trying to win freedom for Uighur prisoners seized during the Afghanistan War and held at Guantánamo Bay. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Post | In his new book, titled Democracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: a First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State, Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post ’77 shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion," is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessary for a modern democracy to thrive. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 18 Episodes |
