Though much divides us these days, there are still some things we all share in common. One of them is law. From the kind of health care we receive to the laws that determine what’s a ticket and what’s a court date, law is everywhere. “Common Law” gives insight into the laws around us and what’s next. This season, Dean Risa Goluboff hosts with “Co-Counsel” Danielle Citron, John Harrison, Cathy Hwang and Greg Mitchell, who are also UVA Law professors. Transcripts are posted at commonlawpodcast ...
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A democratic republic. A revolutionary constitution for its time and place. Nuclear weapons. Religious and cultural diversity. Centuries of oppression. Polarized politics. Terrorism. An aversion to China's ascent. Divisive leadership. Are you thinking of India or the United States? As the title suggests, the world's largest democracies have a lot in common. Using comparative law methods, we examine legal and policy issues that affect India and the United States. We interview experts on both ...
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S6 E7: Medicalizing Civil Rights
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Experts increasingly use the language of medicine and disability to address social issues like poverty and racial discrimination. Professors Craig Konnoth of UVA Law and Karen M. Tani of Penn Law discuss how we got here.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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“Common Law” looks back on a season 1 episode about liability issues connected to autonomous vehicles, featuring UVA Law professor Kenneth S. Abraham and alum Mike Raschid ’86. Has the future finally arrived?Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S6 E5: Digging Into Our Forgotten Legal History
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UVA Law professors Cynthia Nicoletti and Joy Milligan join host Risa Goluboff for a discussion on how divergent approaches to digging into the past can reveal some surprising truths about law and history.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S6 E4: A Prescription for Saving Democracy
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Two former White House officials on different sides of the political aisle, Melody Barnes and John Bridgeland ’87, talk about ways to strengthen democracy and work across differences.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S6 E3: Why ESG Investing Is at a Turning Point
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The practice of investing in funds and companies that pay attention to environmental, social and corporate governance issues could be at a turning point, say UVA Law professors Quinn Curtis and Paul G. Mahoney.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S6 E2: Was Chevron Wrongly Decided?
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UVA Law professors John Duffy and Dan Ortiz discuss whether the Supreme Court will or should overturn one of its most famous decisions, Chevron, which gave administrative agencies deference in interpreting statutes.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S6 E1: Ethics at the Supreme Court
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Does the U.S. Supreme Court need more oversight in light of recent ethics concerns? UVA Law professors Amanda Frost and Richard M. Re join host Dean Risa Goluboff to discuss whether more rules are needed.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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Season 6 features the kind of robust discussions and debates that go on behind the scenes among faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law. Dean Risa Goluboff returns to host.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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How do Patent Laws Impact India-US Trade Relations?
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The Office of the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) most recent Special 301 report continued to identify India as “one of the world’s most challenging major economies with respect to protection and enforcement of IP.” The USTR has long argued that India fails to provide adequate patent protection and enforcement. What exactly are the USTR…
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S5 E8: Why Your Face Should Be a Trade Secret
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Facial recognition technology is used for everything from unlocking your phone to locking up criminals. UVA Law professor Elizabeth Rowe makes the case that biometric data like your face and fingerprints should have trade secret-level protections.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S5 E7: Playing by the Rules in Our Everyday Lives
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What makes people and organizations obey — or resist — the law? Social scientist Susan S. Silbey, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses her life’s work on the subject.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S5 E6: The Politics of Pipelines
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The federal process for reviewing proposed interstate natural gas pipelines was highly contentious several decades ago and is now more of a rubber stamp. UVA Law professor Alison Gocke looks at what changed.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S5 E5: The State of the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
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Political scientist James L. Gibson discusses his survey data suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court lost some legitimacy in the eyes of the public after overturning Roe v. Wade.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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Avoiding the Separation-of-Powers Question
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Congressional conflicts with the executive branch often set off legal battles in the courts, and cases can drag on until the point is moot. UVA Law professor Payvand Ahdout digs into why this is happening and what impact it has on the balance of power.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S5 E3: ‘Bad Habits’ and Character Evidence
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The rules on character evidence are difficult to apply and riddled with exceptions and problems, according to Teneille Brown, a University of Utah law professor who argues they need to be updated.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S5 E2: The Supreme Court Case That Could Rewrite Democracy
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The U.S. Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper tests the independent state legislature doctrine and could radically change electoral districting maps and the states’ role in federal elections, says University of Virginia law professor Bertrall Ross.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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University of Virginia School of Law professor Kim Krawiec discusses her work on taboo transactions, such as commercial surrogacy, egg and sperm markets, organ donation and sex work. Risa Goluboff and Cathy Hwang host the episode.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E14: A Bloody Revolution and an Odious Debt
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University of Virginia law professor Mitu Gulati looks at the tragic history of Haiti’s 19th-century “odious debt” to France after islanders won their freedom from slavery, and discusses whether Haiti could recoup what it lost.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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Caste in the United States
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California sued Cisco alleging that two employees who migrated from India discriminated against another employee on the basis of caste. While some members of the South Asian-American community claim caste should be a protected category in the United States others claim that doing adding it as a protected category stigmatizes all Hindus. Another way…
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Listen to the trailer of an episode on caste in the United States for the podcast A Law in Common. Host Sital Kalantry, Seattle University School of Law, is joined by guests Aziz Rana, Cornell Law School, and Anurag Bhaskar, Jindal Global Law School.Kirjoittanut India Center for Law and Justice
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S4 E13: Fighting Racial Discrimination in Our Digital Lives
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University of Pennsylvania law professor Anita L. Allen discusses her framework for stopping surveillance, fraud and exclusion targeting Black Americans online.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E12: Predicting Violence
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UVA Law professor John Monahan discusses how predicting violence became a concern for courtrooms and mental health practices nationwide, and developed alongside his own career.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E11: Why Privacy Matters
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Don’t care about information privacy because you have nothing to hide? Neil Richards, a law professor at the Washington University in St. Louis and a UVA Law alumnus, explains the extent to which companies mine data and seek to influence you, and why you should care.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E10: The President’s Power To Hire and Fire
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George Mason University law professor Jennifer Mascott discusses past and present legal challenges to the president’s power to appoint and remove executive officers.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E9: The Legal Battle Over Black Hair and Protective Hairstyles
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UVA Law graduate Doriane Nguenang ’21 discusses her Virginia Law Review article on employment litigation and natural hair and protective hairstyles for Black workers.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E8: The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory
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Psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus, a leading expert on memory, discusses how her research transformed the justice system.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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Surrogacy Laws in India and the United States
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Seattle University School of Law’s Professor Sital Kalantry and attorney Nidhi Desai at the family law firm of Desai & Miller in Chicago, Illinois, join us for an episode on surrogacy laws in India and the United States. Surrogacy laws implicate both personal and public domains and have implications for marginalized communities both nationally and …
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S4 E7: The High Cost of Pretrial Detention
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Would you rather spend a day in jail or be the victim of a burglary? UVA Law professor Megan Stevenson discusses why her research suggests almost no one should be detained pretrial.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E6: Property Taxes and Racial Gentrification
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Under some property tax schemes, white homebuyers moving into gentrifying neighborhoods might be getting a substantial tax break, explains UVA Law professor Andrew Hayashi.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E5: The Railroad Strike Case That Made History on Federal Injunctions
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UVA Law professor Aditya Bamzai discusses In re Debs and the federal government’s use of injunctions with hosts John Harrison and Risa Goluboff.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E4: Why Fair Procedures Matter in Policing
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Yale Law School professor Tom R. Tyler joins co-host and fellow psychologist Gregory Mitchell to discuss Tyler’s work on procedural justice, including a training program for Chicago police officers.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E3: Calling Out Cyberattacks
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The United States and other nations have only recently begun to publicly attribute cyberattacks to other countries, such as Russia. UVA Law professor Kristen Eichensehr proposes more transparency and legal guardrails when exposing cyberattacks.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E2: Inside the President’s Supreme Court Commission
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University of Alabama law professor Tara Leigh Grove, a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, joins hosts John Harrison and Risa Goluboff to discuss options for reform and why change is so difficult.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S4 E1: Why ESG Funds Are Shaking Up Wall Street
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Do ESG funds — those espousing environmental, social and governance values — live up to their label, and should they be regulated? UVA Law professor Quinn Curtis joins hosts Cathy Hwang and Risa Goluboff.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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For the fourth season of the podcast “Common Law,” launching Feb. 3, UVA Law professors John Harrison, Danielle Citron, Gregory Mitchell and Cathy Hwang will co-host with Dean Risa Goluboff. Each co-host is helping to choose guests and topics, and bringing their own expertise to the show.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E9: Separate Schools, Separate Worlds
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Why are many K-12 schools still struggling with racial inequity and the legacy of segregation almost 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education? University of Virginia President Jim Ryan discusses the role of the Supreme Court, public policy and higher education in addressing the issue.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E8: The Goal of Equity in Women’s Soccer
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Despite dominating in international competition, the U.S. women’s soccer team is paid far less than their male counterparts. UVA Law professor Camilo Sánchez and law student Jolena Zabel explore what players’ efforts around the world to achieve equity in pay and working conditions teach us.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E7: From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd: The Trauma of Injustice
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Black communities experience lasting “cultural trauma” from the lack of accountability for police and vigilante violence, explains Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E6: Policing the Police
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UVA Law professor Rachel Harmon, author of “The Law of the Police,” says it’s time for Americans to broadly rethink how we regulate the police.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E5: Regulating Private Lives
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From interracial marriage to LGBTQ rights, when the Supreme Court decriminalizes private behavior, other forms of regulation step in, says New York University School of Law professor Melissa Murray.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E4: The Wolf at the Door
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Economic insecurity is affecting Americans’ lives in profound ways, both at home and in politics. Columbia law professor and UVA Law alumnus Michael Graetz discusses his proposals for reform.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E3: Uncoupling the Benefits of Marriage
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From health care to taxes, numerous financial benefits are still tied to whether you are married — even as the marriage rate is declining. UVA Law professor Naomi Cahn discusses how uncoupling benefits from marriage can be more equitable.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E2: The Bias Baked Into Algorithms
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UVA Law professor Deborah Hellman discusses her work on how algorithms can compound injustice, and the evolution of her theory on discrimination.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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S3 E1: What Happened to the ‘Promised Land’?
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Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy discusses past and present visions for a “promised land” on race, and what law can do to shape it.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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What role can law play in making society more equitable? "Common Law" hosts Risa Goluboff and Leslie Kendrick will explore how inequities touch our lives, sometimes in unexpected ways. Tune in Jan. 26 for the first episode.Kirjoittanut Common Law
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Sex Selective Abortion in India and the United States
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Cornell Law School's Sital Kalantry and Mary John at the Center for Women's Development Studies in New Delhi join us for an incredibly interesting episode on sex-selective abortion in India and the United States. We talk about the practice's prevalence in both countries, the laws against it, the need for changing attitudes, and the roadmap going fo…
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Financial crisis responses in the 21st century
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Cornell Law School's Professor Dan Awrey and University of Michigan Law School's Vic Khanna join us to discuss financial markets (or as our guests call it, the broader financial system) in both countries. We discuss the history of financial markets in both countries, the need for a robust financial system, the current legal framework, the challenge…
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Indian and American financial systems: the history and current framework
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Cornell Law School's Professor Dan Awrey and University of Michigan Law School's Vic Khanna join us to discuss financial markets (or as our guests call it, the broader financial system) in both countries. We discuss the history of financial markets in both countries, the need for a robust financial system, the current legal framework, the challenge…
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Explaining bankruptcy ft. India's new bankruptcy reforms
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Adam Feibelman, Renuka Sané, and Bhargavi Zaveri join us to discuss American and Indian bankruptcy. We demystify this innovative legal tool, discuss how both countries look at bankruptcy, and dive deep into India's new bankruptcy reforms enacted in 2016.Kirjoittanut Cornell India Law Center
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Nuclear nonproliferation and the Indo-US relationship
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The Stimson Center's Seema Gahlaut joins us to discuss India’s historical and contemporary role in the international nuclear order, the impact of nuclear nonproliferation on the Indo-US relationship, and the future of nuclear weapons.Kirjoittanut Cornell India Law Center
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