stitcherLogoCreated with Sketch.
Get Premium Download App
Listen
Discover
Premium
Shows
Likes

Listen Now

Discover Premium Shows Likes

Common Law

46 Episodes

36 minutes | Jun 23, 2022
S4 E11: Why Privacy Matters
Don’t care about information privacy because you have nothing to hide? Neil Richards, a law professor at the Washington University in St. Louis and a UVA Law alumnus, explains the extent to which companies mine data and seek to influence you, and why you should care.
32 minutes | Jun 9, 2022
S4 E10: The President’s Power To Hire and Fire
George Mason University law professor Jennifer Mascott discusses past and present legal challenges to the president’s power to appoint and remove executive officers.
27 minutes | May 26, 2022
S4 E9: The Legal Battle Over Black Hair and Protective Hairstyles
UVA Law graduate Doriane Nguenang ’21 discusses her Virginia Law Review article on employment litigation and natural hair and protective hairstyles for Black workers.
30 minutes | May 12, 2022
S4 E8: The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory
Psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus, a leading expert on memory, discusses how her research transformed the justice system.
29 minutes | Apr 28, 2022
S4 E7: The High Cost of Pretrial Detention
Would you rather spend a day in jail or be the victim of a burglary? UVA Law professor Megan Stevenson discusses why her research suggests almost no one should be detained pretrial.
28 minutes | Apr 14, 2022
S4 E6: Property Taxes and Racial Gentrification
Under some property tax schemes, white homebuyers moving into gentrifying neighborhoods might be getting a substantial tax break, explains UVA Law professor Andrew Hayashi.
32 minutes | Apr 1, 2022
S4 E5: The Railroad Strike Case That Made History on Federal Injunctions
UVA Law professor Aditya Bamzai discusses In re Debs and the federal government’s use of injunctions with hosts John Harrison and Risa Goluboff.
31 minutes | Mar 17, 2022
S4 E4: Why Fair Procedures Matter in Policing
Yale Law School professor Tom R. Tyler joins co-host and fellow psychologist Gregory Mitchell to discuss Tyler’s work on procedural justice, including a training program for Chicago police officers.
31 minutes | Mar 3, 2022
S4 E3: Calling Out Cyberattacks
The United States and other nations have only recently begun to publicly attribute cyberattacks to other countries, such as Russia. UVA Law professor Kristen Eichensehr proposes more transparency and legal guardrails when exposing cyberattacks.
32 minutes | Feb 17, 2022
S4 E2: Inside the President’s Supreme Court Commission
University of Alabama law professor Tara Leigh Grove, a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, joins hosts John Harrison and Risa Goluboff to discuss options for reform and why change is so difficult.
30 minutes | Feb 3, 2022
S4 E1: Why ESG Funds Are Shaking Up Wall Street
Do ESG funds — those espousing environmental, social and governance values — live up to their label, and should they be regulated? UVA Law professor Quinn Curtis joins hosts Cathy Hwang and Risa Goluboff.
2 minutes | Jan 27, 2022
Season 4 Preview: Co-Counsel
For the fourth season of the podcast “Common Law,” launching Feb. 3, UVA Law professors John Harrison, Danielle Citron, Gregory Mitchell and Cathy Hwang will co-host with Dean Risa Goluboff. Each co-host is helping to choose guests and topics, and bringing their own expertise to the show.
32 minutes | Jun 1, 2021
S3 E9: Separate Schools, Separate Worlds
Why are many K-12 schools still struggling with racial inequity and the legacy of segregation almost 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education? University of Virginia President Jim Ryan discusses the role of the Supreme Court, public policy and higher education in addressing the issue.
31 minutes | May 11, 2021
S3 E8: The Goal of Equity in Women’s Soccer
Despite dominating in international competition, the U.S. women’s soccer team is paid far less than their male counterparts. UVA Law professor Camilo Sánchez and law student Jolena Zabel explore what players’ efforts around the world to achieve equity in pay and working conditions teach us.
29 minutes | Apr 23, 2021
S3 E7: From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd: The Trauma of Injustice
Black communities experience lasting “cultural trauma” from the lack of accountability for police and vigilante violence, explains Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig.
33 minutes | Apr 6, 2021
S3 E6: Policing the Police
UVA Law professor Rachel Harmon, author of “The Law of the Police,” says it’s time for Americans to broadly rethink how we regulate the police.
34 minutes | Mar 23, 2021
S3 E5: Regulating Private Lives
From interracial marriage to LGBTQ rights, when the Supreme Court decriminalizes private behavior, other forms of regulation step in, says New York University School of Law professor Melissa Murray.
31 minutes | Mar 9, 2021
S3 E4: The Wolf at the Door
Economic insecurity is affecting Americans’ lives in profound ways, both at home and in politics. Columbia law professor and UVA Law alumnus Michael Graetz discusses his proposals for reform.
30 minutes | Feb 23, 2021
S3 E3: Uncoupling the Benefits of Marriage
From health care to taxes, numerous financial benefits are still tied to whether you are married — even as the marriage rate is declining. UVA Law professor Naomi Cahn discusses how uncoupling benefits from marriage can be more equitable.
29 minutes | Feb 9, 2021
S3 E2: The Bias Baked Into Algorithms
UVA Law professor Deborah Hellman discusses her work on how algorithms can compound injustice, and the evolution of her theory on discrimination.
COMPANY
About us Careers Stitcher Blog Help
AFFILIATES
Partner Portal Advertisers Podswag
Privacy Policy Terms of Service Do Not Sell My Personal Information
© Stitcher 2022