Episode 18 features Samantha Barbas, Professor of Law and Director of The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the University at Buffalo School of Law. Professor Barbas discusses her new book from University of Chicago Press (2021) The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst: Free Speech Renegade. In the 1930s and ’40s, Morris Ernst was one of America’s best-known liberal lawyers. The ACLU’s general counsel for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against artistic censorship. He successfully defended Ulysses against obscenity charges, litigated groundbreaking reproductive rights cases, and supported the widespread expansion of protections for sexual expression, union organizing, and public speech. Yet Ernst was also a man of stark contradictions, waging a personal battle against Communism, defending an autocrat, and aligning himself with J. Edgar Hoover’s inflammatory crusades.
Theophilus Edwin Coleman discusses Ghana's proposed anti-LGBTQ+ Bill and its effect on academic freedom
Melissa Crouch discusses how Myanmar's military acts as a constitutional actor
Rebecca R. French and Mark A. Nathan discuss Buddhism and Law
Mihreteab Taye discusses the institutional design of Africa's court systems
Greta LaFleur Discusses "How Sex Became Good: The Feminist Movements and Racial Politics that Made Modern Sexuality""
Nellie Drew and 3L students discuss model laws and initiatives to safeguard athletes
Athena Mutua discusses the Critical (Legal) Collective and its inaugural convening
Samantha Barbas gives some history and context on New York Times v. Sullivan, as described in her recently published book
Jorge Farinacci-Fernós discusses Puerto Rico’s Constitutional Paradox
Shaun Anderson speaks to the current nature of Title IX
Claire Cameron examines the challenge of implementing Erin’s Law
Judith Olin discusses Erin’s Law, its implications in New York State, and the broader topic of child abuse education.
Anya Bernstein discusses judicial populism and the cultures of bureaucracy
Matthew Dimick discusses income inequality, wealth redistribution, income tax, economics, Pareto optimality, and Marxism
Seth Parker Woods discusses the positioning of the cello, oral and written histories, Classical music, Black composers, and performance installations
Rachael K. Hinkle discusses briefs, lawyer experience, and the influence they have on Supreme Court decisions
Victoria Wolcott discusses the Long Civil Rights Movement and utopianism
Daniel Brantes Ferreira discusses sports betting and arbitration in Brazil
Baldy Center Season 4 Trailer
Devonya Havis discusses the nature of truth and community practices for resistance
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