Adams or the Dog - Special Guest Edward Larson
The academic year is underway, and Professor Amar’s crazy teaching schedule, as usual, includes co-teaching with some of the greatest constitutional scholars in the nation. This semester Akhil is joi...
5 Okt 20211h 17min
Basically Random
Our look inside the literary world continues. So many of us are aspiring or perhaps would-be authors, but what is really involved, and can we really join that world? Akhil takes you through the many ...
29 Sep 20211h 20min
Empire of History - Special Guest Gordon S. Wood
It’s fitting that our recent discussion of how authors and their books are realized is followed this week by a discussion with the finest example of a historian, Gordon Wood. We explore his new book,...
22 Sep 20211h 24min
Literary Labyrinth
It’s Constitution Week, and Akhil is “booked;” not only with events of the week, but on his book tour. Our series on scholars, schools, and scholarship resumes, then, with a comprehensive look at the...
15 Sep 20211h 34min
The Ayes and Nays Upon Texas
Texas has brazenly - or boldly, depending on your point of view - thrown down a gauntlet on abortion with their new law purporting to ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The Supreme...
8 Sep 20211h 43min
A Friendly Judge
Suppose there is a controversial issue of constitutional law. Where does one go for authoritative exposition? We continue what is essentially a discussion of expertise and authority. How do you know...
1 Sep 20211h 34min
Sabermetrics for Lawyers
What do Willie Mays and Laurence Tribe have in common? Andy and Akhil start with an Amar citation from Clarence Thomas in a case last term and branch off into a discussion of scholars’ rankings, the ...
25 Aug 20211h 49min
Confirmation Cacophony
We return to our look at all the sitting Supreme Court justices with the final two - Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. This necessarily involves revisiting the confirmation process, particularly in the...
18 Aug 20211h 36min
