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Law touches most aspects of life. Here to help make sense of it is the Stanford Legal podcast, where we look at the cases, questions, conflicts, and legal stories that affect us all every day. Stanford Legal launched in 2017 as a radio show on Sirius XM. We’re now a standalone podcast and we’re ba...
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President Trump’s Tariffs and the Separation of Powers at the Supreme Court
In April, President Trump declared a national emergency and assumed the power to levy tariffs, introducing uncertainty into global trading by reneging...
Guns, Money, and Mass Shootings
Frequent mass shootings are a distinctly American problem, with news of another tragic shooting grabbing our attention every few weeks. Yet policy cha...
U.S. Risking its Scientific Research Edge?
In this episode of Stanford Legal, host Professor Pamela Karlan interviews her Stanford Law School colleague Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette about...
Redrawing Democracy
At the urging of President Trump, the Texas legislature has launched a mid‑decade redistricting effort aimed at securing additional Republican seats i...
Trump’s Executive Orders, Culture Wars, and Civil Rights
Trump-era executive orders, police hiring standards, and college admissions all converge in a decades-long debate over disparate impact, one of the mo...
Can the Rule of Law Hold?
In this episode of Stanford Legal, Professor Pam Karlan talks about the growing politicization of the Department of Justice under the Trump administra...
Free Speech Under Fire: Greg Lukianoff Discusses the Battle for Free Expression on College Campuses
Amid escalating federal pressure on universities, Stanford Law School alum Greg Lukianoff, JD ’00, joins host Professor Pam Karlan for a sharp look at...
The Free Speech Chill
In this episode, Stanford Law Professor Evelyn Douek, a First Amendment scholar and permanent U.S. resident, expands on her recent Atlantic essay, “Ca...
Leveraging Technology to Improve Access to LA Courts
The LA Superior Court is the largest single unified trial court in the United States, serving the approximately 10 million residents of Los Angeles Co...
Trump Takes on the Federal Bureaucracy, Putting Administrative Law in the Spotlight
On February 19 of this year, President Donald Trump issued one of his first executive orders, Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, lea...
AI, Liability, and Hallucinations in a Changing Tech and Law Environment
Since ChatGPT came on the scene, numerous incidents have surfaced involving attorneys submitting court filings riddled with AI-generated hallucination...
The Trump Administration and the Rule of Law Under Pressure
On March 6, President Trump issued the executive order “Addressing Risk from Perkins Coie LLP,” essentially preventing the firm from doing business wi...
Trade Wars, Economic Chaos, and Law: Unpacking Trump's Trade Tactics with Alan Sykes
Joining Pam for this week's episode is Stanford Law Professor Alan Sykes, a leading expert on the application of economics to legal problems whose mos...
Trump’s Forced Deportations to El Salvador Prisons, Detentions, and Fear on College Campuses
Do asylum seekers in the U.S. have rights? Can the U.S. government forcibly deport them to a prison in El Salvador without due process? What about gre...
Accountability in Government: Glenn Fine on the Crucial Role of Inspectors General, the Government's Watchdogs
How do we prevent or catch mismanagement, corruption, and waste of taxpayers' dollars in federal agencies? On January 24, 2025, days into his second a...
Gaza Conflict: Governance, Rebuilding, and Legal Challenges
International Law expert Allen Weiner joins Pam for a comprehensive overview of the legal challenges and humanitarian concerns in one of the world's m...
Suing DOGE: Musk, Trump, and an Imperial Presidency
A coalition of privacy defenders led by Lex Lumina and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit on February 11 asking a federal court to sto...
Trump's Pardons: Political Violence, Hate Groups, and the Rule of Law
What are the legal implications of the unprecedented mass pardoning of the January 6th rioters? What does it say about American rule of law?
Pr...
Criminal Justice in Divided America: Can Democracy Survive a Broken Justice System?
Criminal law expert and Stanford Law Professor David Sklansky joins Pam Karlan to discuss his book Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punish...
Special Counsel Smith's Report on Trump's Interference in the 2020 Election
In this episode, Pam Karlan is joined by Stanford Law School Professor David Sklansky, a leading criminal law expert, for a wide-ranging discussion of...
California Burning: LA Fires, Climate Change, and Insurance Nightmares with Environmental Lawyer Debbie Sivas
The fires in Los Angeles, fueled by drought and the notorious Santa Ana winds, have wreaked devastation on the largest county in the United States, ta...
Tariffs, Trade Wars, and Policy Shifts under Trump: A Tutorial on the Global Economy and Trade
Just weeks before he was elected president of the United States, during a conversation at the Economic Club of Chicago, Donald Trump declared, “The mo...
The Presidential Pardon Power, from Biden and Trump to Ancient Kings
Presidential pardons are in the headlines again after President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. But the vast majority of presidents have used th...
Exploring AI in Healthcare: Legal, Regulatory, and Safety Challenges
Artificial Intelligence holds the potential to transform much of our lives and healthcare professions are embracing it for everything from cost saving...
Crime, the Opioid Crisis, and Gun Violence: New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin on How Action at the State Level Is Making a Difference
Matt Platkin, who was the youngest-ever AG in the country when he was appointed in 2022, discusses some of his public safety initiatives such as the A...
Racism in Property Deeds: Stanford Team Develops AI Tool to Identify and Map Racial Covenants
Stanford Law's Daniel Ho and computer science/law student Mirac Suzgun discuss the enduring impact of racially restrictive covenants in real estate wi...
Killing in Self Defense: The Legal Complexities of Abuse-Related Crimes and the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Women's Criminal Convictions
How are victims of intimate partner violence meant to protect themselves—and, often, their children—without winding up dead, in hospital, or prison? I...
Challenging Originalism: Putting the Electoral College, Presidential Immunity, and Recent SCOTUS Decisions into Historical Context
Is the president above the law? Is the Electoral College democratic? In this episode, historian Jonathan Gienapp critiques the mainstream use of origi...
Election Stress Test: Can America's Electoral System Weather 2024?
As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Nate Persily forecasts complications along with it.
Persily, a Stanford law professor and a leadin...
High Court, High Stakes: The Massive Weight of Recent Supreme Court Rulings
The Supreme Court's latest term was marked by decisions of enormous consequence. However, the way the Court has communicated about these rulings far u...
How Lawyers Can Undermine Russian Sanctions and Ukraine War Effort
The bedrock of the legal profession is a commitment to upholding the rule of law. Unfortunately, as Stanford Law researchers discover in the complex w...
The Future of Environmental Regulation Following SCOTUS’ Overruling of the Chevron Doctrine
Do courts have the expertise to decide on important environmental law issues? Pam Karlan and Rich Ford speak with environmental law expert Debbie Siva...
David Sklansky on Judge Cannon's Controversial Case Dismissal and Trump's Legal Battles
Will the three remaining cases against former president Donald Trump ever get to trial? After Judge Cannon's controversial dismissal of charges in the...
Jennifer Chacón Discusses the Failures of U.S. Immigration Policy and How the Law is Developing
Control of the border and illegal immigration are again in the headlines and the centerpiece of a divisive presidential campaign. Here to help make se...
Former Federal Judge Michael McConnell Discusses Presidential Immunity and Trump Cases with Pam Karlan
Should presidents be immune from prosecution? If yes, under what circumstances? Stanford Professor Michael McConnell, a former federal judge, joins Pa...
Justice for All? Why We Have an Access to Justice Gap in America—And What to Do About It
Is legal representation in the U.S. only for the rich and corporations? That's a question that we'll explore in this episode of Stanford Legal with gu...
The Legacy of Brown v. BOE: Success or Failure?
In this episode, Rich and Pam discuss the successes and failures of Brown v. Board of Education with their colleague, Rick Banks. Marking the 70th ann...
Stanford's David Sklansky on Trump's Many Trials
Criminal law expert and former federal prosecutor David Sklansky joins Pam and Rich to discuss the New York trial and other cases against former presi...
AI in Government and Governing AI: A Discussion with Stanford’s RegLab
Joining Pam and Rich for this discussion are Professor Daniel Ho and RegLab Fellow Christie Lawrence, JD ’24 (MPP, Harvard Kennedy School of Governmen...
Representing Clients at the Supreme Court
Professor Easha Anand, co-director of the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, joins Professors Pam Karlan and Richard Thompson Ford,...