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Sinopse
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 whats a ticket and whats a court date, law is everywhere. Common Law gives insight into the laws around us and whats next. This season, hosts Risa Goluboff and Leslie Kendrick focus on The Future of Law. Goluboff and Kendrick are dean and vice dean of the University of Virginia School of Law.
Episódios
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S4 E10: The President’s Power To Hire and Fire
09/06/2022 Duração: 32minGeorge Mason University law professor Jennifer Mascott discusses past and present legal challenges to the president’s power to appoint and remove executive officers.
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S4 E9: The Legal Battle Over Black Hair and Protective Hairstyles
26/05/2022 Duração: 27minUVA Law graduate Doriane Nguenang ’21 discusses her Virginia Law Review article on employment litigation and natural hair and protective hairstyles for Black workers.
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S4 E8: The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory
12/05/2022 Duração: 29minPsychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus, a leading expert on memory, discusses how her research transformed the justice system.
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S4 E7: The High Cost of Pretrial Detention
28/04/2022 Duração: 28minWould 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.
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S4 E6: Property Taxes and Racial Gentrification
14/04/2022 Duração: 28minUnder some property tax schemes, white homebuyers moving into gentrifying neighborhoods might be getting a substantial tax break, explains UVA Law professor Andrew Hayashi.
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S4 E5: The Railroad Strike Case That Made History on Federal Injunctions
01/04/2022 Duração: 32minUVA Law professor Aditya Bamzai discusses In re Debs and the federal government’s use of injunctions with hosts John Harrison and Risa Goluboff.
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S4 E4: Why Fair Procedures Matter in Policing
17/03/2022 Duração: 30minYale 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.
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S4 E3: Calling Out Cyberattacks
03/03/2022 Duração: 31minThe 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.
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S4 E2: Inside the President’s Supreme Court Commission
17/02/2022 Duração: 32minUniversity 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.
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S4 E1: Why ESG Funds Are Shaking Up Wall Street
03/02/2022 Duração: 29minDo 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.
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Season 4 Preview: Co-Counsel
27/01/2022 Duração: 02minFor 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.
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S3 E9: Separate Schools, Separate Worlds
01/06/2021 Duração: 32minWhy 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.
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S3 E8: The Goal of Equity in Women’s Soccer
11/05/2021 Duração: 30minDespite 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.
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S3 E7: From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd: The Trauma of Injustice
23/04/2021 Duração: 29minBlack 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.
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S3 E6: Policing the Police
06/04/2021 Duração: 32minUVA 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.
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S3 E5: Regulating Private Lives
23/03/2021 Duração: 34minFrom 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.
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S3 E4: The Wolf at the Door
09/03/2021 Duração: 30minEconomic 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.
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S3 E3: Uncoupling the Benefits of Marriage
23/02/2021 Duração: 29minFrom 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.
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S3 E2: The Bias Baked Into Algorithms
09/02/2021 Duração: 29minUVA Law professor Deborah Hellman discusses her work on how algorithms can compound injustice, and the evolution of her theory on discrimination.
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S3 E1: What Happened to the ‘Promised Land’?
26/01/2021 Duração: 31minHarvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy discusses past and present visions for a “promised land” on race, and what law can do to shape it.