Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShort Circuit 423 | Civil Forfeiture Flowcharts
The Institute for Justice is once again taking a close look at civil forfeiture. One of IJ’s leaders in our civil forfeiture work, Dan Alban, joins u…
2 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 422 | My Name is Pastor Jennings
When the police ask you for an I.D., when do you have to hand it over? That depends on a lot of facts and a lot of law, including whether a state has…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 421 | What’s Your Favorite Circuit?
With a baker’s dozen of circuits it’s hard to pick a favorite. Or is it? We sit down with three lawyers and scholars to ask what their favorite circu…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 420 | A Lease for the Girlfriend
Evan Lisull of IJ tells us of a guy on probation who seems to have been pretty clever with his living arrangements. The police often don’t need a war…
3 months ago
Short Circuit 419 | Inspecting Your Business
We welcome on Sam MacRoberts of the Kansas Justice Institute for an inspection of the Fourth Amendment. Sam is the General Counsel and Litigation Dir…
3 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 418 | ICE Detention and Booze-Sniffing Dogs
[Note: This episode was down for a couple days but has been reposted. It originally dropped on March 6, 2026.] If you’ve ever wondered if a sniff is …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Short Circuit 417 | Settling with Spicy Chicken
Litigation is a risky business. Borrowing tens of millions of dollars to win a lawsuit is even more risky. And it turns out makes settling a case esp…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Short Circuit 416 | Kansas Two-Steps
In Colorado marijuana is legal under state law. In Kansas it is not. This had led Kansan police officers to stop a lot of cars with out-of-state plat…
4 months ago
Short Circuit 415 | Originalism at Stanford
An all-star conversation among Stanford professors, recorded live before Stanford students, about originalism and how it interacts with recent cases …
4 months, 1 week ago
Short Circuit 414 | Should You Sue YouTube or Work With It?
If you own rights to movies or shows and would prefer them to not end up on YouTube for free this is an episode for you. Dan Knepper of IJ explains h…
4 months, 2 weeks ago