PODCAST: Justice Frank Murphy: The Man Unafraid to Tell the Truth With Greg Zipes

When we think of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s appointments to the Supreme Court, the legends – Justices Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, and Robert H. Jackson – come to mind.  Yet FDR appointed other justices, including Frank Murphy, who is remembered today for dissenting in the infamous Korematsu case but not much else. 

Greg Zipes, an attorney and an adjunct professor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies, believes that Murphy demands more of our attention today.  He is the author of an engaging biography of Justice Murphy. In this podcast, Zipes discusses his book, Justice and Faith: The Frank Murphy Story, with Associate Dean Rodger Citron. Greg Zipes is speaking on his own behalf and not on behalf of his employer, the Department of Justice.

As their discussion shows, Murphy is as fascinating as any of the legendary justices with whom he served.  He held many interesting positions before joining the Court, was a loyal New Dealer, and, as Zipes states, was “unafraid to speak truth to power.”  Zipes elaborates on these points and addresses others relating to law, history, and biography in this podcast.  

Our guest today is author, Greg Zipes.

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PODCAST: Why Law Students Should Not Be Scared of Secured Transactions

Professor Theodore Silver discusses the core themes of Secured Transactions and the importance of the course to law students. This podcast provides perspective on the challeges of Secured Transactions course.

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Our guest today is Professor Theodore Silver.

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PODCAST: Law Teaching Strategies for a New Era

Professor Tessa L. Dysart and Professor Tracy Norton discuss the first comprehensive book on online law teaching titled Law Teaching Strategies for a New Era: Beyond the Physical Classroom. This podcast offers insight into how to take law school beyond the traditional, in-person experience.

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Our guests today are Professor Tessa L. Dysart and Professor Tracy Norton.

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PODCAST: The Legality of Vaccine Mandates

In this podcast recorded in December 2021, Professor Marianne Artusio discusses the legality of vaccine mandates in the United States. As she explains, historically courts generally applied a deferential rational basis test when evaluating legal challenges to such mandates. Professor Artusio also discusses recent vaccine mandates adopted in response to the pandemic as well as how courts have responded to lawsuits challenging those mandates.

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Our guest today is Professor Marianne Artusio.

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PODCAST: Selling Sex: (More) Evidence for Decriminalization

Listen to our latest podcast where Mr. Block discusses his co-authored publication Selling Sex: (More) Evidence for Decriminalization. Mr. Block discusses analyzing sex work from the point of view of the same labor economics that would be applied to any other industry, rather than as a romanticized or demonized group of sexual deviants, finding destigmatization of the sex work industry as central to the increased agency and well-being of sex workers and their clients. The full text of Faelynn Carroll and Mr. Block’s article can be found here.

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Our guest today is Walter Block.

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PODCAST: A Discussion of A Civil Action

Jonathan Harr’s, A Civil Action, published in 1995, is one of the best nonfiction legal thrillers ever written. It tells the riveting story of a complicated civil suit over environmental pollution that occurred in Woburn, Massachusetts. Not surprisingly, Harr’s book was adapted into a film of the same name that was released in 1998. John Travolta played the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Jan Schlichtmann, a character worthy of Shakespeare. Robert Duvall nearly steals the film as Jerry Facher, the lawyer for one of the corporate defendants.

Nearly 25 years later, the film is still a gold mine for Civil Procedure professors. In his review, Roger Ebert described A Civil Action as “John Grisham for grownups.” Schlichtmann is relentless in pursuing the case against the defendants, becoming so invested that nothing else seems to matter – an approach that has significant consequences for everyone around him as the case turns into an interminable trial. Facher, meanwhile, is a master litigator who wrings every advantage from the rules and courtroom procedures.

In this podcast, Associate Dean Rodger Citron moderates a discussion of A Civil Action with his colleagues Laura Dooley and Deseriee Kennedy.

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Our guests today are Professor Laura Dooley and Professor Deseriee Kennedy.

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PODCAST: A Conversation About Gun Regulation with Edward J. Curtis, Jr.

Listen to our latest podcast where Mr. Curtis discusses his recent publication Of Arms and the Militia: Gun Regulation by Defining “Ordinary Military Equipment.” Mr. Curtis debates that the regulation of semi-automatic riles and other arms can be achieved by defining “ordinary military equiptment” provided to militia members under the Second Amendment. The full text of the article can be found here.

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Our guest today is Edward J. Curtis, Jr.

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