Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShort Circuit 370 | Humans Only in the Copyright Office
Bad news for our AI listeners this week. The D.C. Circuit ruled that you cannot be the “author” of a copyrighted work. Only humans get that perk. Dan…
1 year, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 369 | Substantive Due Process, The Podcast
Most weeks we summarize two, sometimes three, cases from the federal courts of appeals. This week we provide to you free of charge (as always) one, s…
1 year, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 368 | Flipping the Bird
Is stretching out one’s middle finger at the police protected by the First Amendment? And whether it is or not, can the police trump up charges and a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Short Circuit 367 | The Police Power
Often in old constitutional cases you see judges of yonder years invoking this mysterious substance called “the police power.” It’s something that ha…
1 year, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 366 | I Love You But Can’t
What’s the difference between a campaign contribution and a bribe? More than the Sixth Circuit seemed to think. Or so argues Paul Sherman of IJ about…
1 year, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 365 | I Like Old Property
A long-time friend of the Institute for Justice, Robert Thomas, joins us this week. For years he’s litigated property rights cases across the country…
1 year, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 364 | Big Bats
Everyone agrees we need to build more homes. But what if those homes are going to be in your backyard? For some reason that possibility often leads t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Short Circuit 363 | The Licensing Racket
You probably know that all-too-many jobs require a license to work. But how is that license administered, who enforces its rules, and who makes the d…
1 year, 8 months ago
Short Circuit 362 | Boil the Frog to Tear Down the House
Two cases, from the Fourth and Sixth Circuits, came out within just a few days of each other, and each was about a city tearing a house down. And whe…
1 year, 8 months ago
Short Circuit 361 | Reading the Qualified Tea Leaves
We welcome back Easha Anand of Stanford Law’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic for her third (or is it fourth?) appearance. Last time she was on she h…
1 year, 8 months ago