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Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Policy Shifts under Trump: A Tutorial on the Global Economy and Trade
Episode 150
Just weeks before he was elected president of the United States, during a conversation at the Economic Club of Chicago, Donald Trump declared, “The m…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Presidential Pardon Power, from Biden and Trump to Ancient Kings
Episode 149
Presidential pardons are in the headlines again after President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. But the vast majority of presidents have used t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Exploring AI in Healthcare: Legal, Regulatory, and Safety Challenges
Episode 148
Artificial Intelligence holds the potential to transform much of our lives and healthcare professions are embracing it for everything from cost savin…
1 year, 5 months ago
Crime, the Opioid Crisis, and Gun Violence: New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin on How Action at the State Level Is Making a Difference
Episode 147
Matt Platkin, who was the youngest-ever AG in the country when he was appointed in 2022, discusses some of his public safety initiatives such as the …
1 year, 6 months ago
Racism in Property Deeds: Stanford Team Develops AI Tool to Identify and Map Racial Covenants
Episode 146
Stanford Law's Daniel Ho and computer science/law student Mirac Suzgun discuss the enduring impact of racially restrictive covenants in real estate w…
1 year, 6 months ago
Killing in Self Defense: The Legal Complexities of Abuse-Related Crimes and the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Women's Criminal Convictions
Episode 145
How are victims of intimate partner violence meant to protect themselves—and, often, their children—without winding up dead, in hospital, or prison? …
1 year, 7 months ago
Challenging Originalism: Putting the Electoral College, Presidential Immunity, and Recent SCOTUS Decisions into Historical Context
Episode 144
Is the president above the law? Is the Electoral College democratic? In this episode, historian Jonathan Gienapp critiques the mainstream use of orig…
1 year, 7 months ago
Election Stress Test: Can America's Electoral System Weather 2024?
Episode 143
As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Nate Persily forecasts complications along with it.
Persily, a Stanford law professor and a leading expe…
1 year, 8 months ago
High Court, High Stakes: The Massive Weight of Recent Supreme Court Rulings
Episode 142
The Supreme Court's latest term was marked by decisions of enormous consequence. However, the way the Court has communicated about these rulings far …
1 year, 8 months ago
How Lawyers Can Undermine Russian Sanctions and Ukraine War Effort
Episode 141
The bedrock of the legal profession is a commitment to upholding the rule of law. Unfortunately, as Stanford Law researchers discover in the complex …
1 year, 8 months ago