Miami Law Explainer: Recent Episodes
University of Miami School of Law
Gender violence expert professor Donna Coker breaks down how proposed cuts to federal food and health programs shift costs to states and disproportionately harm women and victims of domestic violence. Recorded November 3, 2025.
was published in 2024. His scholarly articles have been published in the Stanford Law Review Online, the Georgetown Law Journal Online, the Georgia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, twice in the Vanderbilt Law Review, and in the New York University Law Review Online. Professor Price has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Scotusblog, Notice and Comment, Administrative and Regulatory News, Law and Liberty, Balkinization, the Supreme Court of California Blog, the State and Local Government Blog, and the Take Care Blog. In fall 2023, Professor Price was the Bruce Bromley Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He has also held a fellowship at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Before entering teaching Prof. Price served for three years as an attorney in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. He has also worked as a litigator in private practice and clerked for Judge Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Price graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude and from Stanford University with honors and distinction. Between college and law school, he studied philosophy as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen and worked for a Member of Congress.
In that case, the Supreme Court, per Justice Alito, liberalized trademark registration law by holding that the disparagement exception in the Lanham Act was facially unconstitutional. His academic work has appeared in NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, Washington and Lee Law Review Online, and Federalist Society Review. His popular writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Law Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, National Review Online, and The Hill Online. He has testified before the U.S. Senate, and his work has been cited by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.Mr. Berry holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was a senior editor on the Stanford Law and Policy Review and a Bradley Student Fellow in the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Santa Fe.During law school, Mr. Berry interned at both Cato and the Institute for Justice, a public-interest law firm in Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Berry is widely acknowledged as a leading authority on the Vacancies act which is the focus of this talk today.
Episode 6 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Cody Wofsy. Currently he is the Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project where his work focuses on limiting state and local entanglement with immigration enforcement, protecting access to asylum, ensuring judicial review, and challenging abusive federal enforcement practices.He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before his work at the ACLU, he was a law clerk to Judge Marsha Berzon of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Myron Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He then won a Skadden fellowship which he spent working the with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project.He has litigated numerous cases at all levels of federal and state courts, including blocking asylum bans, limiting the use of immigration detainers, challenging the Muslim Ban, and curtailing unlawful expedited removal practices. Recently he has also been lead counsel in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s claim that the long-running understanding of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment is mistaken: according to the Justice Department, children born in the U.S. whose parents are persons who are not domiciled in the U.S. are not in fact entitled to U.S. Citizenship.He spoke to students in the seminar about Immigration Control and Rendition under the Trump Administration. Uniquely among the speakers in our seminar series, he exercised his privilege to ask that we not publish his talk in order to avoid telegraphing any litigation strategy to opposing parties who might be watching.
Burling and for the Department of Justice. Professor Koh has spent much of his career teaching at Yale Law, starting in 1985. Eventually his colleagues made him the Dean of Yale Law School. Among his notable achievements there was leading a group of students in the Human Rights Clinic in litigation against the US government’s detainment of Hattian refugees in Guantanamo. His team won the case 8-1 in the Supreme Court, Haitian Centers Council v. Sale, and the detainees were released in 1993. Professor Koh’s talk concerns administration assertions of emergency power, with particular reference to invocations of the Alien Enemies Act. Professor Koh has chosen to teach Socratically, so (with our students’ permission) we are making the entire two-hour session available publicly. Professor Koh framed his introduction around the thesis of his most recent book, The National Security Constitution (Yale Press 2024). Although that book ended with the Iran-Contra affair, the issues raised then are very similar to what we see now: The fundamental problem is the erroneous belief that the President has all the authority, or illimitable authority, over foreign affairs. Administrations tend to assert, based on United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp, 399 U.S. 304 (1936), that the president is the sole master of the foreign affairs power. But the correct approach is the tri-partite framework Justice Jackson put forward only 16 years later in his concurrence to Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co v Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952). (That case too involved foreign affairs, as President Truman sought to seize steel mills to support the war effort in Korea.) Justice Jackson distinguished between matters where the President acts with Congress, and his authority is at a maximum; if Congress is silent then the President has only whatever inherent powers are relevant; but if Congress has spoken contrary to the President’s actions, then “his power is at its lowest ebb”.) By the 1980s, the “perversion” of foreign policy showed that there was a major problem with executive overreach. This despite Congressional attempts after the Vietnam War to reign in the President via statutes such as the War Powers Act and the International Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA). IEEPA and some other statutes create special Presidential powers in emergencies. But for Trump suddenly everything is an emergency. Congress has not reacted. Yes, it takes a majority to act, but what’s interesting is that they are not even trying; instead, they hide from angry voters at home and cancel town meetings. Gone are the days when leaders in Congress told Presidents things they did not want to hear. The Courts too are not checking the President, but rather rubber-stamping the executive. After some more detailed analysis of why current claims of emergency are unfounded, Professor Koh ended on a somewhat optimistic note. Yes, we do have a constitutional crisis, as we are going to be deciding whether President Trump can nullify the rule of law for his own benefit. But it’s not over for the Supreme Court – this is the decisive year, and there some reasons to hope that there might be six votes to re-right the balance. The critical vote, Professor Koh suggested, is Chief Justice John Roberts. What the Court does this year likely will determine his place in history, and it’s unlikely he wants to join Chief Justice Rober B. Taney, whose legacy is defined by the Dred Scott decision.
Professor Somin is not just a scholar and very significant public intellectual; he’s also an effective advocate in court. He has been involved in the litigation concerning the Trump tariffs since its outset. His recent victory in the Federal Circuit will be reviewed by the Supreme Court in an expedited calendar which will have oral argument sometime during the week beginning November 3. Meanwhile the tariffs remain in place.
Episode 3 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features features Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School. He is one of the giants of legal theory in the US academy. His extensive career ranges from clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to his current status as a professor at Harvard Law. He has made major contribution to the study of constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies of constitutional review in the United States and around the world, and the creation of other “institutions for protecting constitutional democracy.” He has written extensively in legal and particularly constitutional history, with works on the development of civil rights law in the United States and a history of the Supreme Court in the 1930s. Of note is his important work in the Critical Legal Studies movement—first in helping form the theory, then in both explaining it to the legal community, and also in some cases providing internal critique and exposition. Currently Professor Tushnet is working on several short pieces on authoritarianism and the law. In this lecture, Professor Tushnet outlines the concept of “Constitutional Hardball” – something perhaps distinct from a ‘constitutional crisis’ -- a concept he first identified, and then developed in conversation with Jack Balkin, Sandy Levinson, and others. Mark Tushnet outlines his theory of constitutional hardball. The key concept is that many constitutional practices are based on long-standing norms, not constitutional text. These norms can change and evolve, especially in periods of stress. And Presidents seeking to advance their agendas can push past limits set by norms without necessarily violating any written constitutional provisions. The tendency is that when a norm breaks to serve the interest of one political party, even when a different party takes power the norm is rarely if ever restored—although Tushnet notes that an exception is the two-term limit for Presidents, which was a tradition started by George Washington and then broken by Franklin Delano Roosevelt—only to be restored via the 22nd Amendment.)Critically, while hardball pushes legal limits, and may involve controversial or disputed interpretations of Constitutional law, it clothes itself (arguably justly) in legality. Professor Tushnet argues that, so far at least, most of the Trump administration’s controversial actions are hardball; he therefore questions whether calling our current moment is not most usefully termed a ‘Constitutional crisis’.Indeed, constitutional hardball is not, he argues, inherently bad. It can be a way to adapt a governmental structure to changing times and urgent needs. In normal times, the risk that once it gets into power the other party will exercise new power claimed by the executive also serves as a check, a form of tit-for-tat as described in game theoretic solutions to the prisoner’s dilemma. To the extent that the executive overreaches anyway, we have multiple mechanisms to push back including pressure from civil society, electoral pressure, and especially pressure or even noncompliance by states as they have great influence in a federal structure.
Episode 2 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Peter Shane, the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair at Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. He joins us to discuss the legal theory at the heart of legal claims for expanded Presidential power, the Unitary Executive theory. After setting out the basis for the view that the Constitution gives the President such sweeping control of government as to prevent most Congressional attempts to structure and control it, Professor Shane offers his critique on both originalist and textualist grounds. Peter Shane is a towering figure in US constitutional and administrative law. He’s served in the Executive Branch, at the Administrative Conference of the US, been a law school Dean, visited at many law schools, and recently finished a term on the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society. He is the author of a book on separation of powers, Madison’s Nightmare: Executive Power and the Threat to American Democracy – published in 2009, making it truly timely and indeed prescient. In this lecture he lays out the roots of the Unitary Executive theory, notably a reading of Art. II, Sec 1 of the Constitution, and the Supreme Court’s 1926 Myers decision by Chief Justice and former President William Howard Taft. Professor Shane then explains why he believes the Unitary Executive theory is fundamentally mistaken based on both history and text of the Constitution. The Framers did not want government by committee, so they wanted a single and effective executive, but they clearly intended, Shane argues, for Congress to have powers to structure and in some ways limit the executive branch—a view supported by early practice and by considering the import of language beyond the start of Art. II and also parts of Art. I, which empowers Congress.
Episode 1 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Director of the Program in Law and Normative Thinking at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is one the leading experts on how democracies become autocracies and provides a checklist of factors that signal a slide from democracy to authoritarianism. In recent months, the U.S. has checked all, or nearly all, of the boxes. This wide-ranging lecture beautifully tees up the more specific topics in the weeks to come. Among the signs to watch for are: capture the legislature, claim emergency powers, capture the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and place loyalists in “independent” regulatory bodies. Use law to harass opponents, and seek to control or diminish the role of civil society including universities. Eventually the autocrat enables or encourages private violence, and then rewrites election laws to stay in power. Professor Scheppele then looks at how recent developments in the U.S. enact all or most of these factors. She concludes by suggesting that modes of resistance will depend in part on federalism, and on localities, that have the means to use local law to protect democracy.
Other Fiscal Control Strategies Speaker: Zachary S. Price, Professor of Law, UC Law San Francisco 10/27 Attacks on Civil Society (Law Firms, Universities, NGOs) Speaker: Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law, Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar, University of Chicago Law School 11/3 Role of Courts / Attacks on Courts Speaker: Stephen I. Vladeck, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts, Georgetown University Law Center 11/10 (Reserved for late-breaking developments) 11/17 Formal Correctives Including Constitutional Reform Speaker: Sanford V. Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law, University of Texas Law School 11/24 Life During a Constitutional Crisis Speaker: Bernard E. Harcourt , Corliss Lamont Professor of Law and Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School
With disaster costs exceeding $2.9 trillion since 1980, on today’s show, financial law scholar Caroline Bradley shines a light on how financial firms are managing the escalating risks of climate change as U.S. regulators step back on climate rules. Recorded October 16, 2025.
Corporate law expert George Georgiev has written extensively on private capital markets and recently participated in a meeting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, which issued a major report and recommendation on retail access to private market assets. On this week’s show, we dig into this topic which has implications for how all Americans save for retirement. Recorded October 15, 2025.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the president to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission using the emergency docket, part of a trend that has ballooned over the last several years. On this week’s show, constitutional law expert Charlton Copeland susses out presidential authority. Recorded October 1, 2025.
In a capital nearly entirely controlled by gangs, hundreds of Haitians are now trying to return to neighborhoods that have become ghost towns, forced to choose between the warnings of the police and the assurances of the armed groups who destroyed their lives. Haiti expert Irwin Stotzky, author of two books on Haiti and dozens of book chapters and papers on Haiti discusses the morass. Recorded September 24, 2025.
Landmark civil rights laws like Title IX were created decades ago to protect marginalized groups from discrimination in schools. But today, the Trump administration is using these same laws to challenge protections for transgender students and programs that support students of color, arguing that its interpretation is the one that prevents discrimination. with schools facing the potential loss of millions in federal funding. Today on our show, we are checking in with Professor Tamara Rice Lave to help us understand this dramatic shift in civil rights enforcement. Recorded on September 11, 2025.
Today on our show, we wade into the groundbreaking advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change and its potential to reshape international law and environmental protections with climate expert Jessica Owley. Recorded September 5, 2025.
Earlier this summer, a 54-year-old death row inmate in Florida’s prison system was executed for committing several murders. as a teenager, Michael Bell had spent time at the state’s notorious Arthur G. Dozier school for boys, the subject of the St. Petersburg times 2009 expose “For Their Own Good,” and “The Nickel Boys,” a fictionalized work based on dozier by Colson Whitehead, adapted into a twice Oscar nominated 2024 movie. innocence clinic director Craig Trocino susses out recent research into the connections between traumatic abuse and propensity to commit heinous crimes. Recorded on August 27, 2025.
The French economist Thomas Piketty recently argued the merits of a common currency in an op-ed in Le Monde. Tax expert Frances Hill examines the impact. Recorded on August 14. 2025.
As artificial intelligence-generated writing becomes widespread in modern life, hallucinations are showing up with alarming frequency in legal writing. Professor Christina Frohock generates some content on recent kerfuffles in the courts. Recorded on July 21, 2025.
Vice dean and bankruptcy expert Drew Dawson explains the dips and dives that brought Spirit Airlines bankruptcy in four short months. Recorded March 27, 2025.
Director of the transaction skills program Marcia Narine Weldon looks at the issues driving Elon Musk and Sam Altman's fight for control of OpenAI. Recorded March 25, 2025
The United States Supreme Court recently ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has been scheduled for death nine times. The School of Law's Innocence Clinic director, Craig Trocino, explains the arguments. Recorded March 27, 2025.
Former White House staff economist Gabe Scheffler parses the ACA. Recorded on March 11, 2025.
Law and technology scholar Or Cohen-Sasson dives into the good and bad of tech. Recorded on February 27, 2025.
Financial law and fintech scholar Nikita Aggarwal discusses the independent agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Recorded February 28, 2024.
Criminal law expert Scott Sundby looks at the 4th Amendment's inability to keep up with tech. Recorded February 21, 2025.
Antitrust expert John Newman digs into the ticketing giant's trouble. Recorded on February 13, 2025.
Professor Tamara Lave unpacks changes to the civil rights law. Recorded February 6, 2025.
Forensic science expert Chris Fabricant joins Miami Law Innocence Clinic director Craig Trocino discussing an unjust legal system. Recorded January 8, 2025.
Consumer finance expert Nikita Aggarwal explores the popular industry. Recorded October 31, 2024.
Floridians are challenging the state's six-week access to abortion law in the upcoming election. Constitutional scholar Caroline Mala Corbin looks at the national landscape. Recorded on October 21, 2024.
Criminal law expert Scott Sundby digs into questionable executions. Recorded October 17, 2024.
Trademark and cultural heritage expert Jan Osei-Tutu tackles corporate bullying. Recorded on October 2, 2024.
Associate director of Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic Robert Latham explains new foster care rules. Recorded October 3, 2024.
Constitutional scholar Charlton Copeland laments the end of another settled law. Recorded on September 25, 2024.
Criminal law expert Tamara Lave susses out the case against Sean Combs. Recorded on September 19, 2024.
Compliance expert Marcia Narine Weldon chimes in on employee contract rules and moves by the Federal Trade Commission. Recorded on September 12, 2024.
The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows cities to clear homeless encampments while a new Florida law bans camping in public places. Homeless law expert Stephen Schnably parses the impacts of the new laws. Recorded on August 27, 2024.
If Kamala Harris ascends to the country's highest office, she will hit a lot of firsts: first woman president, first of Indian heritage, first former prosecutor. On the episode, Innocence Clinic director Craig Trocino, who has spent decades arguing in state and federal court, takes a look at what a former prosecutor as president might look like. Recorded on August 28, 2024.
In a stunning turn, a federal judge recently ruled that the tech giant violated antitrust laws. Professor John Newman, former attorney with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division, dives into the future of big tech. Recorded August 22, 2024.
It's been a once-in-a-lifetime summer in politics with suits and challenges to election law that threaten to continue up to election day and beyond. Election law expert Frances Hill joins the podcast to discuss what we know and what we don't. Recorded August 15, 2024.
Innocence clinic director Craig Trocino looks at flat fees for capital crime representation. Recorded April 11, 2024.
Criminal law expert Tamara Lave opines of the killing on the movie set. Recorded March 27, 2024.
Homeless law expert Stephen Schnably drills into a case going to the Supreme Court. Recorded March 27, 2024.
As the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere prepares for a transitional government, violence is spreading to wealthier enclaves, where bodies riddled with bullets lay in the streets. Haiti expert Irwin Stotzky, author of three books on Haiti, discusses the chaos.
U.S. laws criminalize survivors of gender-based violence. Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, who led the Obama and Biden administrations efforts to address, dives into where we are and were we are going, Recorded February 29, 2024.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the former president's claim of immunity from charges that he sought to overturn the 2020 election results, throwing the 2024 elections into chaos. Constitutional expert Frances Hill clears the air. Recorded February 29, 2024.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russia since the invasion in February 2022. Bernard Perlmutter, founder of Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic, weighs in on the efforts to have the children returned. Recorded on February 20, 2024.
Several Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases have hinged over the use of words and punctuation. Jill Barton, director of Miami Law's Legal Communications and Research Skill, writes about writing. Recorded February 13, 2024.
As today's guest, antitrust expert John Newman recently wrote, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice "have been on a tear. Recorded on February 6, 2024.
Michigan parents Jennifer and Jason Crumbly are being tried for a school shooting committed by their son. Criminal law expert Scott Sundby looks at the crime and the impact. Recorded February 1, 2024.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended two popular and elected progressive state attorneys, who promptly filed suit. Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino tracks the two cases. Recorded January 23, 2024.
Major changes are coming to legal education, with JD-Next offered as an alternative to the LSAT and the NextGen bar exam, a shorter test focusing on eight foundational concepts and principles. Miami Law Dean David Yellen weighs the pros and cons. Recorded on January 17, 2024.
Climate expert Jessica Owley unpacks the upcoming 2023 United National Climate Change Conference in Dubai. Recorded on November 8, 2023.
Fresh off a stint at the Federal Trade Commission, John Newman gets into antitrust in the news. Recorded November 1, 2023.
Miami Law's comparative law expert Pablo Rueda Saiz slogs through the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the Darien Gap, a treacherous sliver of jungle connecting Colombia and Panama, through which hundreds of thousands of migrants pass in the march to the United States. Recorded October 18, 2023.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is on trial for fraud following his company's high-profile collapse in 2022. Miami Law's Investor Rights Clinic Director Scott Eichhorn handicaps SBF's legal peril. Recorded October 19, 2023.
Mindfulness expert Scott Rogers explores finding happiness in a legal mind. Recorded October 4, 2023.
Civil rights expert Donald Jones opines on SCOTUS ruling in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard. Recorded October 3, 2023.
Election expert Frances Hill dispels election myths and misinformation and unpacks automatic voter registration and gerrymandering. Recorded on September 26, 2023.
Director of Miami Law's Innocence Clinic Craig Trocino unpacks the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act. Recorded September 221, 2023.
A force behind the landmark homelessness case Pottinger v. City of Miami, Stephen Schnably opines on a case that may go before the U.S. Supreme Court. Recorded September 11, 2023.
Professor Kunal Parker previews his forthcoming book, The Turn to Process. Recorded September 8, 2023.
Miami Law's Tamara Rice Lave unpacks the knowns and unknowns of former President Donald Trump's handfuls of legal woes. Recorded on August 29, 2023.
Miami Law’s Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic Doug Ruley handicaps the planet's chance of surviving the climate crisis. Recorded August 22, 2023.
With limits to abortion measures passing in many states and the battle for medical abortion medications reaching the U.S. Supreme Court docket, on today's show, constitutional law expert CAROLINE MALA CORBIN wades into the assaults on women's rights. Recorded on April 27, 2023.
The path to group and individual minority rights among immigrants is limited, says DAVID ABRAHAM. Recorded April 20, 2023.
Juries are being doxxed. SCOTT SUNDBY looks at political meddling. Recorded April 12, 2023.
The push for automated vehicles has been lauded as likely leading us to a safer driving future. But the question before us is whether the costs we pay to reach that destination are fairly distributed across economic groups. Professor William Widen says they are not. The failure to take this into account exemplifies troubling issues with the regulatory state, involving issues like industry capture of regulators and the absence of political will to protect the most vulnerable among us when innovative products hail a brighter future for all. Further, Widen addresses efforts at the state level that have inhibited local governments from addressing these issues on their own. Recorded March 10, 2023.
On today's episode, intellectual property expert ANDRES SAWICKI takes on artificial intelligence. Recorded March 14, 2023.
Pro-bono investor rights clinics are the only hope for many small investors who have been defrauded. Miami Law Investor Rights Clinic Director SCOTT EICHHORN takes a look at the industry. Recorded March 1, 2023.
On today's episode of Takeoffs and Landings, Associate Dean of Intellectual Life Charlton Copeland interviews Professor Michele DeStefano about her paper "Chicken or Egg: Diversity and Innovation in the Corporate Legal Marketplace. Recorded on February 21, 2023.
Legal education has been in flux lately. DEAN DAVID YELLEN discusses the developments. Recorded on February 14, 2023.
In Florida, the republican governor is pushing for changes to the state death penalty statutes. On this episode, Miami Law's Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino examines the developments. Recorded on February 8, 2023.
Comparative law expert PABLO RUEDA SIAZ looks at the campaign to stop oil drilling on Indigenous lands.Recorded January 26, 2023.
With voting rights measures before state legislatures, FRANCES HILL looks at the chances. Recorded January 24, 2023.
Environmental and property scholar JESSICA OWLEY discusses rehoming Confederate statues. Recorded January 11, 2023.
Constitutional scholar CHARLTON COPELAND unboxes the state of the current Supreme Court of the United States. Recorded January 11, 2023.
Through a history of immigrant worker organizing in Los Angeles in the 1990s, ANDREW ELMORE explains how the living wage movement influenced contemporary union organizing, especially Fight for $15. Recorded on November 21, 2022.
Moore v. Dempsey is examined by PATRICK GUDRIDGE through a post-Charlottesville lens. Recorded November 15, 2022.
Miami Law's DONNA COKER looks at alternative paths to justice for domestic violence perpetrators. Recorded November 10, 2022.
Using Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel Lolita, Miami Law's Christina Frohock explains how we can read the novel as a prolonged sentencing memorandum. Recorded November 2, 2022.
Prince and Warhol meet at the Supreme Court. STEVEN URICE talks to Simon Frankel about the argument. Recorded October 27, 2022.
Foster children often have little providence over decisions about their everyday lives. BERNARD PERLMUTTER looks at the alternatives, with CHARLTON COPELAND. Recorded on October 19, 2022.
The recent White House Hunger Summit looked at reducing hunger in the U.S. RIght to food expert DENISSE CORDOVA MONTES addresses best practices. Recorded October 14, 2022.
Elon Musk v. Twitter. MARCIA NADINE WELDON unboxes what’s next. Recorded September 30, 2022.
America has split between acceptance of racial history and whitewashing the past. DONALD JONES dives into the past, present, and future of racial equity. Recorded on September 22, 2022.
Republican governors are flooding progressive enclaves with migrants. PABLO RUEDA SAIZ examines the larger issues at play. Recorded September 21, 2022.
Proposed changes are in the works. Tamera Rice Lave unpacks the good and the bad. Recorded on September 14, 2022.
The right to choose is in the headlines. Caroline Mala Corbin checks all the angles of the debate. Recorded September 8, 2022.
Multidistrict litigation was roiled last week with a surprising bankruptcy decision. Drew Dawson explains. Recorded on August 31, 2022.
The CFO of the Trump organization recently pleaded guilty to more than a dozen felonies, including tax fraud and grand larceny. Miami Law's federal tax expert Frances Hills adds it all up. Recorded on August 25, 2022.
For better outcomes, tenants need representation in eviction proceedings. Miami Law's Tenants' Rights Clinic Director Jeffrey Hearne unpacks the process and the need for more attorneys. Recorded August 18, 2022.
Two cases in the courts have been closely watched recently -- the Parkland massacre and the Alex Jones/Infowars defamation case brought by two Sandy Hook massacre parents. Miami Law's innocence clinic director Craig Trocino unpacks them both. Recorded on August 11, 2022.
Employment law expert ANDREW ELMORE unpacks the current state of employee lawsuits. Recorded on April 21, 2022.
Climate change on the docket. Environmental law expert JESSICA OWLEY unpacks the stalls and the threats. Recorded April 7, 2022.
Innocence Clinic Director CRAIG TROCINO looks at the state of punishment in a partisan world with the recent SCOTUS ruler on the Boston Bomber death sentence and new Oklahoma laws. Recorded March 24, 2022.
As Russia advances, the financial world is reeling and resetting. Marcia Narine Weldon examines the fiscal battlefield. Recorded March 10, 2022.
Campus sexual misconduct expert TAMARA RICE LAVE examines the failures and successes of the law. Recorded February 24, 2022.
Justice Stephen Breyer retires from the U.S. Supreme Court, opening a spot for President Biden to make an appointment. Constitutional law expert Charlton Copeland handicaps and the future of the court. Recorded on February 9, 2022.
Voting rights are in the spotlight, propelled by former President Trump’s “Big Lie.” Now that federal measures to overturn many Republican efforts to limit voting have failed, elections expert Frances Hill looks at what’s next. Recorded on January 26, 2022.
Last month, Miami Law's Mary Anne Franks opined in The Boston Globe that the 1st and 2nd amendments could do with an update. The piece garnered widespread attention on the left and the right. On today's show, the author of "The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to GUns and Free Speech" makes the case. Recorded January 12, 2022.
Last month, Miami Law's Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino and his students secured the release of a wrongfully convicted client, who served eight years of a 20-year sentence for armed robbery. Trocino peels back the long road to exoneration. Recorded on November 18, 2021.
As the supply chain issues have rocked global trade, has ethical sourcing taken a hit? And do consumers care? Marcia Nadine Weldon, faculty coordinator for the Business Compliance and Sustainability Concentration at Miami Law talks chains and sourcing on today's show. Recorded on November 10, 2021.
Big changes have come to college sports as state laws and NCAA rule changes offer some new protections and financial opportunities for players. Greg Levy, Miami Law's director of the entertainment, arts, and sports law post-graduate program and executive producer of "The Leadership Gameplan" with former NFL coach Marc Trestman, keeps score. Recorded on October 8, 2021.
A federal judge recently ruled in the antitrust case brought by Fortnite game maker Epic against financial rules with the Apple apps store. Antitrust expert and former attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division John Newman picks up the controller. Recorded October 8, 2021.
Climate change amplifies the divide between the haves and have not and nowhere more in the U.S. than Miami. Join Miami Law's Practitioner-in-Residence at the Mysun Foundation Environmental Justice Clinic Abigail Fleming and clinic intern Kate Dremluk to drill into the core of the issues. Recorded September 30, 2021.
Florida’s Department of Children and Families’ mismanagement impacts tens of thousands of children under its supervision. Kele Stewart and Robert Latham of the Children and Youth Law Clinic shine the light. Recorded on September 14, 2021.
Despite raging infection rates in jails and prisons, Miami Law Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino and his students continue the work of exonerating the wrongfully accused. Recorded on August 30, 2021.
Problems with access to healthcare abound throughout the United States and have been brought into sharper focus by the pandemic. Miami Law's Health Disparities Project Fredman Family Foundation Practitioner-in-Residence Dr. Timothy Loftus, and two of his students – Kristen Dagher and Lauren Jones – examine the roadblocks and the solutions to equal access to all. Recorded on August 18, 2021.
As former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin awaits sentencing for the murder of George Floyd, Miami Law’s criminal law expert and former special assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Sundby explains the process. Recorded on April 23, 2021.
The Biden Administration's $2.2 trillion infrastructure plan promises to prioritize longstanding and persistent racial injustices by transitioning to a more democratic energy system, including electrical grid and public transit. Miami Law's Fredman Foundation Practitioner in Residence at the Environmental Justice Clinic Abigail Fleming walks us around the biggest obstacles to energy justice. Recorded on April 16, 2021.
Cancel culture is rapid-fire ostracization in the time of social media mob mentality. Stories of people drummed out of their organizations over positions taken sometimes decades earlier fill the headlines and chyrons of cable news. Compliance expert Marcia Narine Weldon explains the good, the bad, and the ugly of today's phenomenon. Recorded on March 31, 2021.
Not unexpectedly, federal and state courts are awash in suits versus former President Trump and his minions. Litigation and dispute resolution expert Sergio Campos guides us through the waves. Recorded on March 25, 2021.
South Carolina recently introduced a bill to allow death by firing squad, while Virginia passed legislation to abolish the death penalty. Thirteen of the 17 federal executions carried out in the last 60 years were under the Trump presidency. Death penalty expert Scott Sundby tracks where we've been and where we are going. Recorded on March 11, 2021.
President Biden has cut off U.S. support for offensive operations in Yemen and related arms sales to Saudi Arabia, making good on a campaign promise. But relations in the region are complicated, at best. Miami Law international and comparative constitutional law expert Pablo Rueda-Saiz explains the moves. Recorded on March 1, 2021.
No other company in the world ramped up as exponentially as Amazon in the face of the pandemic, adding more than 400,000 workers globally between January and October 2020. With the explosive growth came a wave of efforts to organize by employees. Labor expert and former New York Attorney General Section Chief Andrew Elmore clocks in to unpack the union box. Recorded on March 8, 2021.
Tragically, 2020 saw another year of killings of Black people by police and wannabes, including the murders of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, father of five George Floyd in Minneapolis, and 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. The deaths prompted nationwide outrage and a national conversation about the crisis in our criminal justice system. Donald Jones, author of three books on race, equity, and social disadvantage, takes a big look. Recorded on March 1, 2021.
Democrats want to ax the filibuster to max accomplishments in the Biden era; Republicans need to save it to block the new administration's agenda. Constitutional expert Charlton Copeland brings us Filibuster 101. Recorded on February 22, 2021.
In the opening days of the new administration, President Biden took his first big swing at criminal justice reform with an executive order aimed at ending private prison contracts. Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino takes a wide look at the prospects. Recorded February 18, 2021.
Based on a single charge of incitement of insurrection against the U.S. government and lawless action at the capitol, the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is underway. Constitutional scholar Caroline Mala Corbin leads us through the maelstrom. Recorded February 11, 2021.
Retail traders took on Wall Street, kneecapping behemoth hedge funds, driving up the value of several low-performing stocks. International tax expert and longtime marker watcher Stanley Langbein reads the ticker. Recorded on February 4, 2021.
Amazon's hosting server kicked Parler off following the January 6 attack on the capitol. Parler suffered another setback when it failed to convince a federal judge to force Amazon to reinstate the site. Antitrust expert John Mark Newman untangles the argument. Recorded on January 29, 2021.
Fallout from the attack on the capitol reverberated throughout the world, including swift reaction from corporate America in the form of political contributions. Frances Hill, a campaign finance reform expert weighs in on the consequences. Recorded on January 21, 2021.
COVID-19 has exposed the depth of this country’s rental housing crisis. Miami Law’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic Director Jeffrey Hearne joins us to talk about the quandary and the solutions. Recorded on November 12, 2020.
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case of a Roman Catholic adoption agency's entitlement to discriminate against LGBTQ foster parents. Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinics Bernard Perlmutter and Robert Latham joined the friend of the court brief and unpack the case on this week's episode. Recorded on November 6, 2020.
Over the more than nine months since the coronavirus began spreading in the United States, jails, prisons, and detention facilities have been hard hit. Miami Law's Innocence Director Craig Trocino opens the door. Recorded October 29, 2020.
Last month, The New York Times released a series of stories on President Trump's taxes that were revelatory. Miami Law's tax expert Patricia Brown walks us through where U.S. law has come from, and where it's going. Recorded on October 22, 2020.
Last month's release of Netflix's "The Social Dilemma" shown the light on the social media giants' manipulation of its users in the quest for monetization. Cyberlaw expert Mary Anne Franks examines the legal implications. Recorded on October 16, 2020.
After a 16-month investigation, lawmakers condemned big tech's monopoly and recommended restructuring, in a 449-page Democratic-led report. Miami Law antitrust master John Mark Newman walks among the giants. Recorded on October 8, 2020.
COVID-19 has given voice to disparities of class and privilege worldwide foreshadowing those same inequities navigating climate change mitigation. Abigail Fleming, Miami Law's Fredman Foundation Practitioner in Residence guides us through what needs to change. Recorded on October 1, 2020.
International trade expert Kathleen Claussen pedals through global supply chain interruptions colliding with tariff scuffles, or why we can't we buy bikes? Recorded on September 23, 2020.
The Trump administration has used the bureaucracy to chip away at longstanding regulations aimed at equity and equality. Constitutional and administrative law expert Charlton Copeland tallies up a racist agenda. Recorded on September 17, 2020.
As wildfires -- both natural and manmade -- devastate the Amazon, COVID-19 is annihilating indigenous populations. International and comparative constitutional law and human rights expert Pablo Rueda-Saiz shines the light. Recorded on September 10, 2020.
From Kodak to McDonalds to wokewashing and cancel culture, compliance expert Marcia Weldon rounds up the summer of missteps and misdeeds in corporate America. Recorded on 3 September 2020.
As Postmaster General Louis DeJoy moves to suppress mail-in voting, elections expert FRANCES HILL drops a letter of explanation. Recorded on August 27, 2020.
Gamemaker Epic fires a shot across the bow at Apple over the big tech’s app store terms and conditions. Former DOJ antitrust attorney John Mark Newman takes over the controller. Recorded on August 20, 2020.
Business and technology law expert Daniel Ravicher, director of Miami Law’s Startup Practicum, unpacks the U.S. government’s real or imagined threat to the sale of TikTok. Recorded August 12, 2020.
The civil rights call “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?” takes on renewed urgency in the wake of protests and rioting sparked by the death of George Floyd. Osamuda James tackles continued racial inequality. Recorded on June 4, 2020.
What do you do when you are ordered to stay home and you have no home? How do people experiencing homelessness -- many who suffer from poor health -- deal with the threat of COVID-19? Stephen Schnably, who was at the center of a federal landmark decision protecting the rights of the homeless, looks at the issues through the lens of the pandemic. Recorded on May 14, 2020.
The chaos that has accompanied the spread of COVID-19 has exacerbated mental health and substance abuse issues. Dean of Students Janet Stearns steps lively into her advocacy for student well-being. Recorded on April 22, 2020.
Jails and prisons are a perfect storm for a deadly disease carried easily in close quarters and rapidly spread by exhalation. Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino exposes the gaps in a flawed system that is constitutionally protected. Recorded April 16, 2020.
During the COVID-19 pandemonium, founding legal rights are taking a backseat. Constitution expert CAROLINE MALA CORBIN wades into the morass. Recorded on 9 April 2020.
As the global pandemic sweeps the globe and education go remote, Michele DeStefano adroitly navigates the fast-moving stream. Recorded on April 2, 2020.
High anxiety is baked into learning and practicing law. Mindfulness expert Scott Rogers pitches the guide to conquering the stress wave. Recorded on February 20, 2020.
Real-life exonerations stories provide go-to fodder for the entertainment industry. Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino digs behind the lens. Recorded February 20, 2020.
U.S. banks get in step with EU and ICC climate-change efforts. International financial expert Caroline Bradley weighs the endeavors. Recorded February 28, 2020.
Pier One, Boys Scouts, and McClatchy are on the chopping block. Bankruptcy expert Andrew Dawson handicaps the odds of survival. Recorded on February 27, 2020.
Juries and judges have been very much in the news of late. Scott Sundby, author of "A Life and Death Decision," unscrolls the Roger Stone and Harvey Weinstein trials. Recorded on February 27, 2020.
Trump pardoned and commuted a host of white-collar criminals. Tax expert Stanley Langbein dives into the presidential get-out-of-jail-free card. Recorded on February 20, 2020.
Street artists, who bring art to the masses via graffiti, struggle to protect and control their images. Miami Law's patent and trademark master Daniel Ravicher explains. Recorded on February 12, 2020.
As Harvey Weinstein's New York criminal trial draws to a close and his LA trial looms, Miami Law's Mary Anne Franks parses the impact of the global #MeToo movement. Recorded February 6, 2020.
Environmental law and policy expert Jessica Owley, recently returned from the U.N. Climate Change conference in Madrid, unrolls the talks, widely denounced as producing the worst outcomes in 25 years of climate negotiations. Recorded on January 21, 2020.
Witchhunt or constitutional crisis? As President Trump's trial gets underway, constitutional scholar Frances Hill talks history and relevance. Recorded January 23, 2020.
Trade agreements and tariff wars continue to dominate world markets. Miami Law expert Kathleen Claussen, a former associate general counsel at the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, takes on trade. Recorded on 16 January 2020.
The women of U.S. Soccer’s fight, on the pitch and in the courts, keeps scoring goals. Miami Law’s chief class action referee Sergio Campos delivers the commentary. Recorded November 18, 2019.
Everyone is trying to get a bite of the massive profits raked in by multinational techs like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Miami Law’s tax treaty virtuoso Patricia Brown untangles 100 years of tumult. Recorded on November 13, 2019.
The 2020 presidential candidates have nothing on the 1912 lineup when it comes to antitrust. John Mark Newman susses out the historical significance and handicaps the race to break big tech. Recorded November 6, 2019.
In the decade since the national shame of a colony of sex offenders made homeless by draconian residency restrictions, how far has the city and nation moved in finding humane and successful rehabilitation? Miami Law’s director of Tenants’ Rights Jeffrey Hearne parses the depressing lack of progress. Recorded October 28, 2019.
The most controversial and unpopular piece of the Affordable Care Act is the “Cadillac Tax,” a 40% excise tax on the most generous employer-provided health insurance plans. Its implementation has been delayed twice by Congress. Miami Law’s newest professor of health law and policy, Gabriel Scheffler takes the temperature of the ACA and the tax. Recorded on October 16, 2019.
In 2002, a 17-year-old Jamaican illegal immigrant was arrested, charged and convicted -- along with a 41-year-old accomplice, in a string of 17 sniper murders across the United States. Lee Boyd Malvo is serving 10 consecutive life sentences in Maryland and Virginia. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week regarding the constitutionality of Malvo’s sentencing as a juvenile. Miami Law’s criminal law expert Tamara Rice Lave weighs the arguments. Recorded October 15, 2019.
In March, scores of parents, coaches, and others involved in college entrance decisions were charged in a conspiracy dubbed Operation Varsity Blues. As the cases wind their way through the courts, conflicts are arising at every turn. The Director of Professional Responsibility and Ethics Program Jan Jacobowitz explains why it matters. Recorded on October 2, 2019.
As Washington roils under the chaos of an impeachment inquiry, Miami Law’s Caroline Mala Corbin takes a measured and methodical review of the history and the process of toppling a presidency. Recorded on September 3, 2019.
The Trump administration aims to decimate a decades-old court settlement that limited holding times of children in immigration detention, in the announcement of the new rule recently. Miami Law’s immigration clinic associate director Romy Lehner looks at the rule, the history, and the push back. Recorded on September 13, 2019.
California is braced for a battle royale with the Trump administration over the revocation of the state’s federal waiver on emissions. Thirteen other states and several car makers follow California’s standards aimed at lowering tailpipe emissions, the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Constitution expert Charlton Copeland taps into states’ rights versus the federal mandate. Recorded September 19, 2019.
Palm Beach billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s victims still want justice and his associates can’t back away fast enough. Miami Law’s Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino looks at what’s left to litigate. Recorded on September 12, 2019.
The Canadian social media startup, Kik Interactive, is poised to challenge Washington’s meddling in the cryptocurrency industry. Miami Law’ startup expert Dan Ravicher untangles the arguments. Recorded on September 4, 2019.
With leading indicators forecasting a softening or an outright recession, President Trump and his administration have muddied the debate with contradictory tweets and statements. Miami Law’s tax expert Stanley Langbein untangles the morass. Recorded on August 28, 2019.
The Trump administration significantly weakened the Endangered Species Act by enacting new rules that apply financial considerations to the evaluation of critical habitat. Jessica Owley, Miami Law’s new environmental law expert untangles the debate. Recorded on August 22, 2019.
Major stumbles from big tech -- think Cambridge Analytica and the recent Nancy Pelosi viral video -- have caused a rift in the love affair with Congress, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission. Miami Law’s antitrust expert John Mark Newman explores the landscape. Recorded on August 16, 2019.
U.S. companies are increasingly taking stands on social issues. Think Dick’s Sporting Goods and Levi’s signaling their support for gun control; and now Salesforce, the business software behemoth announced barring business that sell assault weapons from using its customer relationship management system. Mary Anne Franks, whose latest book The Cult of the Constitution looks at the deadly devotion to guns and free speech, unboxes both the debate and the divide. Recorded on June 12, 2019.
From Alexa and Florence, the chatbot nurse, to privacy exposure on social media to blockchain and artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the landscape of compliance. Corporate governance and social responsibility expert unpacks the brave new world facing compliance leaders. Recorded on May 16, 2019.
All law schools must evolve to stay current in the legal marketplace, arming attorneys with pertinent skills to the practice. Miami Law Dean Patricia D. White drills into the future of legal education.
Drew Adams is, by every definition, a young man, yet the county school board where he lives wants him to use the gender-neutral or girls’ facilities at his high school. The Florida high school senior’s case has made it to the U.S. Court of Appeals with the support of 21 attorneys general. Constitutional expert Charlton Copeland unlocks the historical and contextual debate. Recorded on April 9, 2019.
More than 60 Americans traveled to Syria to join ISIS. Capture fighters have been returned to the U.S. to face justice but the brides of the caliphate are being held in legal limbo. Immigration law and historian Kunal Parker unboxes the bride brouhaha.
On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court waded into the fray during arguments over the partisan manipulation of congressional districts, or gerrymandering. Miami Law's Frances Hill’s scholarship often focuses on the intersection of tax law, federal election law, and the constitution. She is a highly-sought after commentator, has authored an amicus brief and has been a signer on other briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court over campaign finance issues. Recorded on March 28, 2019.
Last week, a Florida jury deadlocked on attempted manslaughter charges against a white policeman in the shooting of a Black mental health therapist. The officer testified that he was aiming at an autistic man who he thought was holding the therapist hostage when he fired three bullets. Seven years ago, a self-appointed neighborhood watch volunteer gunned down a black teenager walking back from a convenience store. From the shooter’s acquittal by a Florida jury grew the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Criminal and constitutional law expert Donald Jones looks at how the landscape has changed through the lens of the movement. Recorded on March 20, 2019.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that they are returning the Gilded Coffin of the Priest Nedjemankh after evidence was unearthed that it was looted during the Arab Spring in 2011. The FBI has asked for governments’ assistance in returning from more than 40,000 cultural artifacts from everywhere from the Indo-Pacific region to the bones of 500 Arikara Native Americans that were illegally amassed by an Indiana collector. Art and museum law expert and lifetime member of the Archaeological Institute of America Stephen Urice digs in on the context and significance of these events. Recorded on March 8, 2019.
“Making a Murderer” docu-series star Steven Avery served 18 years for a sexual assault and attempted murder he did not commit. Soon after release, the same county arrested and convicted him of murder. Twelve years into his current sentence, he has won the right to an appeal. Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino walks us through the case. Recorded on March 8, 2019.
With states positioning to act if the landmark Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court, the woman’s right to choose is more at risk today than at any other time since its passing in 1974. Constitutional law expert Caroline Mala Corbin makes sense of the flurry of legislative activity. Recorded on February 22, 2019.
As dozens of lawsuits were filed at the end of January in Indiana, home of the NCAA, the future of football is under fire. Sports law expert and director of Miami Law’s Sports Law Track tackles the gridiron of the legislation. Recorded February 14, 2019.
Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezo’s salvo aimed dead on at American Media Publisher David Pecker’s threat to publish salacious images. Miami Law cyber civil rights expert Mary Anne Franks answers the question: journalism or extortion? Recorded February 12, 2019.
Verifiable information and truth have been replaced with hyperbole and alternate facts in some sectors of the American consciousness in the topsy-turvy time of Trump. Communications law expert Lili Levi untangles the media morass.
At the heart of Frank v. Gaos, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, is an $8.5 million settlement from Google that ended up squarely in the pockets of everyone except those who were harmed by the tech giant’s violation. Class action expert Sergio Campos untangles not just the money trail but the possible outcomes. Recorded on January 31, 2019.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Texas ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, even as even more Americans kept their coverage. Health rights expert JoNel Newman diagnoses the program’s past, present, and future. Recorded on January 23, 2019.
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted pedophile and registered sex offender but escaped a long sentence in federal prison by cutting a secret deal with then U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta. Celeste Higgins, associate director of Miami Law’s litigation skills program and longtime federal public defender, tucks into the agreement, the victims, and the political fallout. Recorded in the Explainer studios on January 17, 2019.
As the United Kingdom staggers toward the March 29 exit from the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May’s support has continued to erode. Miami Law British and European financial law expert Caroline Bradley digs into the building and fast-moving chaos. Recorded in the Explainer studios on January 10, 2019.
The U.S. has seen increasing numbers of children presenting at the southern border, either with family or without. Thousands are shuttled into camps or a patchwork of foster agencies across the country. Even in the best of examples, the children suffer from being separated from their families or people they know. Children and Youth Law Clinic Director Bernard Perlmutter carves out how we got here and where we are going. Recorded in the Explainer Studios on November 15, 2018.
Acting Dean Osamudia James parses the widening gulf in the state of race in the United States and unpacks the ProPublica examination of racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. Recorded in the Explainer studios on November 5, 2018.
Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino digs into the horrific Tree of Life crime scene and new evidence gathered in the case of Steven Avery, star of the Netflix breakout hit, “Making a Murderer.” Recorded in the Explainer studios on October 30, 2018.
From rancorous speech to pipe bombs, the U.S. is awash in partisanship. Apple and the big social platforms removed Infowars content from their sites. Miami Law’s Dr. Mary Anne Franks, president and policy director for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, tackles the issues of free speech in a world of hate. Recorded in the Explainer studios on October 25, 2018.
The recent UN Climate Change Report contained dire forecasts of widespread wildfire, crippling food shortages, and mass coral reef die-offs as soon as 2040. Miami Law Environmental Justice Clinic’s Natalie Barefoot takes on the news. Recorded in the Explainer studios on October 16, 2018.
With the Kavanaugh hearings and confirmation in the rearview mirror, sexual assault expert and Miami Law Professor Tamara Rice Lave looks at the long-last impact of the nomincation that captured the nation. Recorded in the Explainer studios on October 11, 2018.
With the midterms just weeks away, voter disenfranchisement is on the lips of leaders in both parties. Constitutional law professor Charlton Copeland and political scientist Gregory Koger suss the vote, past, present, and future on the latest episode of the Explainer. Recorded in the Explainer studios on October 3, 2018.
Brexit and Trump’s retaliatory tariffs and upending of long-standing trade deals are rippling through world markets. Miami Law’s Caroline Bradley, former lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Kathleen Claussen, former associate general counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, unbox trade in the time of Trump. Recorded September 25, 2018.
Musk tweets; he tokes; he drives the markets crazy. Teresa Verges, Miami Law’s Investor Rights Clinic Director and former assistant director of the SEC’s Miami Enforcement Office, wades into the morass to discuss what happens to investors when the CEO takes his hands off the wheel.
The recent use of the powerful opioid Fentanyl in Nebraska execution and Pope Francis’s declaration that all executions are unacceptable in the eyes of the Church has invigorated the capital punishment debate. Scott Sundby, professor of criminal law and author of “A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty,” joins the Explainer to look at all the angles.
Plastic guns are a security nightmare. A do-it-yourselfer with a half decent shop is unlikely to produce one on their own but with the help of technical spec blueprints, it poses a real threat. Michael Froomkin, a technology and internet law guru, talks about the complicated legal maneuvering underway to permanently block the release of 3D gun blueprints online.
The Miami Law Explainer is a weekly podcast from the University of Miami School of Law where faculty and clinician experts examine and explain the law one headline at a time. Join us as we take a smart look at the news of the day bringing context, relevance, and significance.
Kunal Parker, an expert on immigration and nationality law, unpacks what’s behind the citizenship question on the 2020 census and the battle to stop its inclusion. Is it a veiled attempt to Caucasian-ize the United States? Episode recorded on August 20, 2018.
Drew Dawson, an expert in federal bankruptcy, explains where the victims of Harvey Weinstein stand after the bankruptcy and sale of the Weinstein Company. Once all the company debts are paid, what is left for those who suffered? Episode recorded on August 1, 2018.
Brendan Dassy, the nephew of “Making a Murderer” co-defendant Steven Avery, asked for his case to be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court. Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino unpacks the reasons the court may have passed and what the future holds for the boy who was 16 at the time of the crime. Episode recorded on June 26, 2018.
Dan Ravicher, director of Miami Law’s Startup Practicum, takes a closer look at the case of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. The youngest self-made female billionaire, once lauded as Steve Jobs reincarnate, was indicted in June on 11 federal criminal counts. Episode recorded on June 25, 2018.