Episode 8 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Professor Zachary Price, one the leading U.S. authorities on the subject of impoundments and other fiscal control strategies.Zachary Price holds the Eucalyptus Foundation Endowed Chair at UC Law in San Francisco. His work ranges from constitutional law and a…

Episode 7 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Thomas Berry , director of the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation and clerked for Judge E. Grady Joll…

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 abusiv…

Episode 5 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Professor Koh graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, with a major in Government. He studied at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship, then went back to Harvard for his J.D. Next, he c…

Episode 4 of the University of Miami School of Law's Constitutional Crisis Seminar features Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights. He is a pro…

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 …

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 o…

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 ho…

The 2025 Constitution Crisis Seminar series is organized by Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law A. Michael Froomkin. The series brings together an impressive group of leading lawyers and scholars active in writing about – and in several cases litigating – issues relating to the constitutional issues implicated by the…

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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 i…

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 …

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 discrimi…

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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 …

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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, 2025Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Former White House staff economist Gabe Scheffler parses the ACA. Recorded on March 11, 2025.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Law and technology scholar Or Cohen-Sasson dives into the good and bad of tech. Recorded on February 27, 2025.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Financial law and fintech scholar Nikita Aggarwal discusses the independent agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Recorded February 28, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Criminal law expert Scott Sundby looks at the 4th Amendment's inability to keep up with tech. Recorded February 21, 2025.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Antitrust expert John Newman digs into the ticketing giant's trouble. Recorded on February 13, 2025.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Professor Tamara Lave unpacks changes to the civil rights law. Recorded February 6, 2025.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Forensic science expert Chris Fabricant joins Miami Law Innocence Clinic director Craig Trocino discussing an unjust legal system. Recorded January 8, 2025.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Consumer finance expert Nikita Aggarwal explores the popular industry. Recorded October 31, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Criminal law expert Scott Sundby digs into questionable executions. Recorded October 17, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Trademark and cultural heritage expert Jan Osei-Tutu tackles corporate bullying. Recorded on October 2, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Associate director of Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic Robert Latham explains new foster care rules. Recorded October 3, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Constitutional scholar Charlton Copeland laments the end of another settled law. Recorded on September 25, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Criminal law expert Tamara Lave susses out the case against Sean Combs. Recorded on September 19, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Compliance expert Marcia Narine Weldon chimes in on employee contract rules and moves by the Federal Trade Commission. Recorded on September 12, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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. Re…

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Innocence clinic director Craig Trocino looks at flat fees for capital crime representation. Recorded April 11, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Criminal law expert Tamara Lave opines of the killing on the movie set. Recorded March 27, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

Homeless law expert Stephen Schnably drills into a case going to the Supreme Court. Recorded March 27, 2024.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law

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.Autor: University of Miami School of Law