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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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.Autor: Common Law
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S6 E6 Throwback: A Future With Autonomous Vehicles
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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?Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: 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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: 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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: Common Law
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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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: 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.Autor: Common Law
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S2 E11: ‘Carbon Dioxide Warriors’ at the Supreme Court
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Harvard Law School professor Richard Lazarus discusses how environmentalists made history with the U.S. Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency.Autor: Common Law
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S2 E10: The President’s Expanding Powers
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University of Virginia School of Law professor Saikrishna Prakash discusses his new book on how the presidency’s authority has grown and how Congress might check the executive.Autor: Common Law
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S2 E9: Learning From Pandemics of the Past
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As the world battles the novel coronavirus, University of Virginia history professor Christian McMillen discusses what lessons we can learn — and improve upon — from past pandemics.Autor: Common Law
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S2 E8: Native American Costumes and the Unwritten Constitution
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Why did colonists wear Native American costumes at the Boston Tea Party? Professor Farah Peterson investigates the history of mob protests for economic rights on the path to America’s unwritten constitution.Autor: Common Law
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S2 E7: Teaching the Law of Sexual Assault
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As women began to enter law school, educators worried about whether the curriculum was fit for female ears, UVA Law professor Anne Coughlin explains. These same issues manifest today in debates over whether professors can teach the law of sexual assault in an era of trigger warnings.Autor: Common Law
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S2 E6: A Prosecutor’s Path to Criminal Justice Reform
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Former U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance ’85 discusses a revolution in how prosecutors are thinking about and pursuing justice.Autor: Common Law
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The Supreme Court took on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan in 1964, in part, to protect the civil rights movement. But did justices go too far in making libel hard to prove? UVA Law professor Frederick Schauer explains new concerns.Autor: Common Law
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S2 E4: When School Financing Hit the Courts
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The Supreme Court said the Constitution didn’t guarantee a right to education in the 1973 case San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, but litigation aiming for equity continues, as UVA Law professor Kimberly Robinson explains.Autor: Common Law
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S2 E3: The Road Not Taken After the Civil War
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A Union effort to redistribute land to former slaves during the Civil War unraveled because of the efforts of Southern lawyers, UVA Law professor Cynthia Nicoletti explains.Autor: Common Law
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