California Lawyer

A series of in-depth interviews with prominent lawyers, judges, and academics, co-produced by California Lawyer and UC Hastings College of the Law.

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Paul Hoffman
Apr 2013
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A conversation with Paul Hoffman on human rights and the impact of the Alien Tort Statute.
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Bruce Ackerman
May 2011
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The growing powers of the presidency and the undoing of our republic.
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Michelle Alexander
Jul 2011
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Ohio State Law professor, civil rights advocate and litigator.
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Aharon Barak
Dec 2011
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Israel's most consequential supreme court justice.
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Eric Berkowitz
Sep 2012
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A conversation with attorney and author Eric Berkowitz on the history of judging desire.
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Ashutosh Bhagwat
Sep 2010
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A UC Hastings Law professor, Bhagwat contends that most Americans have a fundamental misunderstanding of how our constitutional rights are supposed to work. His book, The Myth of Rights: The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional Rights, was published in February 2010.
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Conrad Black
Apr 2013
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Conrad Black talks about his spectacular rise and fall.
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Lloyd Braun
Jan 2013
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A Q&A with Lloyd Braun, the entertainment lawyer who helped develop some of the biggest hits in television history.
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Stephen G. Breyer
Feb 2012
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What are the nine unelected justices of the U.S. Supreme Court really good for? In a wide ranging interview Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer talks about the role that the High Court plays in determining the fate of the nation.
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Erwin Chemerinsky
Mar 2011
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Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean of the UC Irvine School of Law and one of the country's foremost liberal, legal scholars. His latest book, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (Simon & Schuster), tracks the profound impact that Republican-appointed justices have had on the U.S. Supreme Court since the late 1960s.
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Alan Dershowitz
Dec 2010
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Harvard's most famous law professor talks about the erosion of civil liberties, the future of the Arab-Israeli peace process, and his own troubled adolescence.
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David Dow
Aug 2010
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A distinguished law professor at the University of Houston as well as a practicing appellate attorney, Dow has represented more than 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years. His memoir, The Autobiography of an Execution, was published in February 2010.
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Nancy Gertner
Jan 2012
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Long before Nancy Gertner became a federal judge she had made a name for herself defending a lesbian revolutionary who stood accused of killing a police officer. She then became known for her work on abortion and sex discrimination cases. Gertner talks about her unusual career with UC Hastings law professor Lisa Faigman.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Nov 2011
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Gender discrimination, the death penalty, and her elephant ride with Antonin Scalia.
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Harold Koh
November 2012
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The U.S. State Department's top lawyer talks about drones, the war in Libya, and American exceptionalism.
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David Lat
Jan 2013
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A conversation with David Lat, the irrepressible founder of Above the Law.
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Lawrence Lessig
Feb 2009
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A renowned visionary looks at the future of copyright law.
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Paul Morantz
Dec 2012
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A conversation with cult adversary Paul Morantz.
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Martha Nussbaum
Oct 2011
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A conversation with one of the world's most prominent legal philosophers about the relationship between law and emotion, animal rights, social justice, and abortion.
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Elyn Saks
Apr 2012
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The rights of the mentally ill and her own struggles with schizophrenia.
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Antonin Scalia
Jan 2011
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The U.S. Supreme Court's most outspoken justice rails against the "living" constitution.
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Sandy Tatum
Jul 2012
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One of America's best-known golfer-lawyers.
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Scott Turow
Apr 2011
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The man who reinvented the legal thriller talks about the creative process, the death penalty, and why he became a lawyer.
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Roger Wilkins
May 2009
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As the highest-ranking African American in the U.S. Justice Department during the turbulent '60s, Wilkins led the way on civil rights from inside the federal government. In this wide-ranging discussion Wilkins talks about his years in Washington and the ongoing fight for social justice.
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