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From Torture to Trump: How the Expansion of Executive Power after 9/11 Eroded Accountability and the Rule of Law
Episode 4
The Bush administration’s use of torture after 9/11 was aided by government lawyers who provided contorted legal justifications for its use against d…
3 hours ago
When Lawyers Stop Following the Rules: How Politics Became Law
Episode 3
What happens when lawyers stop believing that law and politics are different things? Constitutional law scholar Deborah Pearlstein joins host Katy Gl…
2 weeks ago
Principle vs. Profit: How Institutions Lose Their Way
Episode 2
Bribery is the corruption we prosecute. But according to Lawrence Lessig, it's institutional corruption that poses the most danger to American democr…
4 weeks ago
What Does Legal Authoritarianism Look Like?
Episode 1
What does authoritarianism look like when it operates through law? In the first episode of “Lawyer Without Law,” hosts Katy Glenn Bass and Madhav Kho…
1 month, 1 week ago
"Lawyering Without Law," a New Podcast from the Knight First Amendment Institute
What happens when law becomes a tool of democratic decline?
Authoritarianism is often framed as lawless. But many of the most effective assaults on de…
1 month, 2 weeks ago