Best Yale Law School Federalist Society Podcasts (2024)

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Josh Halpern on Anti-Boycott and Anti-BDS Legislation 40:51

1+ y ago40:51

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Josh Halpern serves as a Lecturer on Law and part-time Research Fellow at Harvard Law School, where he focuses on the corporate and constitutional law issues in boycotts and sanctions regimes. He concurrently practices appellate and complex litigation at a DC-based firm. He previously served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor Genera…

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Marc DeGirolami on Religious Establishment and the American Founding 1:00:33

1+ y ago1:00:33

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Prof. Marc DeGirolami is the Cary Fields Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, where he is also the co-director of the Center for Law and Religion. His research interests include law and religion, freedom of speech, constitutional law, jurisprudence, tort law, and criminal law. His book, The Tragedy of Religious Freedom, was publ…

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Presidents' Day with John Yoo: Executive Authority and Presidential Power 46:41

1+ y ago46:41

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Prof. John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice during t…

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz on the Religion Clauses and the Founders' Natural Rights Philosophy 53:04

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Prof. Vincent Phillip Muñoz is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. He is the Founding Director of ND’s Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government. His most recent book, Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original …

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David Blight on the Historian's Craft and the Legal Profession 1:18:02

1+ y ago1:18:02

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Prof. David Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University. Prof. Blight is one of the world's leading experts on the American Civil War and Frederick Douglass. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize in 2019 for his most recent book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. His 2001 book Race and Reunion: T…

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Roger Pilon on Natural Rights, Unenumerated Rights, and the 14th Amendment 55:37

1+ y ago55:37

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Roger Pilon holds the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato in 1988, Pilon held senior posts in the Reagan administration and was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution. Between 1989 and 2019, Dr. Pilon served as director of Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, which he …

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Presidential Hiring and Federal Civil Service Reform with Andrew Kloster 35:44

1+ y ago35:44

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Andrew Kloster is General Counsel at Personnel Policy Operations. He was previously the Associate Director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel and Deputy General Counsel of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Andrew joins the show to talk about civil service reform, public servants and the administrative state.…

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Sherif Girgis on Dobbs and the Future of the Pro-Life Movement 54:14

1+ y ago54:14

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Sherif Girgis is an Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where his research sits at the intersection of law and philosophy. His first book, What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, was co-authored with Robert P. George and Ryan T. Anderson and was cited by Justice Alito in his dissent in US v. Windsor. He also served as a law cle…

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Carson v. Makin, School Choice, and Free Exercise with Kirby West 36:47

1+ y ago36:47

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Kirby West is an attorney at the Institute for Justice. Earlier this year, she worked on the IJ team that successfully litigated Carson v. Makin at the Supreme Court of the United States. In the Season 2 opener, Kirby joins Jon and new host Robert Capodilupo to talk about Carson v. Makin, educational choice, and free exercise litigation.…

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Elbridge Colby on American Grand Strategy and Great Power Conflict 39:43

2y ago39:43

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Elbridge Colby is the co-founder and a principal of The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative designed to prepare the United States for an era of great power competition. His new book, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, lays out a plan for preventing China from establishing hegemony over East Asia. It was…

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Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld on Scholary Rigor and Intellectual Orthodoxies 42:14

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Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld is a Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. His research focuses on the distinctive social function and sense of justice at work in the criminal system. He also studies the theory and practice of democratic self-governance as both a matter of political theory and of public law. Prof. Kleinfeld joins Zack and…

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Going for Broke with Dr. Joseph Simmons: Originalism and the Bankruptcy Power 36:12

2y ago36:12

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Dr. Joseph Simmons is the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the Yale Federalist Society and a 3L at Yale Law School. Joseph joins Jon and Zack to talk about his recent note in the Yale Law Journal, “Reconstructing the Bankruptcy Power: An Originalist Approach." Joseph, Jon, and Zack talk about the Bankruptcy Clause, originalist methodology, an…

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Judge Justin Walker on Judicial Philosophy, Civil Discourse, and Legal Education 28:54

2y ago28:54

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Judge Justin Walker serves on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Before his elevation in 2020, he served as a judge on the US District Court for the District of Western Kentucky. Prior to being appointed to the bench Judge Walker, among other things, served as a speechwriter for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and taught law at the Un…

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Amb. John Bolton on International Law, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and Free Speech on Campus 34:13

2+ y ago34:13

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In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many are pursuing legal challenges in international courts against Putin’s regime. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton joins Jon and Zack to discuss why these efforts are misguided and what recent developments in the war mean for American grand strategy. Along the way, they talk about everything…

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Pilot 18:56

2+ y ago18:56

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On this pilot episode, co-hosts Jonathan Feld and Zack Austin discuss what it means to be a conservative law student at Yale Law School, their involvement with the Federalist Society, and what they hope to achieve with this new show. Every week, Constitutional Conventions looks forward to bringing you the best commentary from foremost thinkers, jud…

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Josh Halpern on Anti-Boycott and Anti-BDS Legislation 40:51

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Marc DeGirolami on Religious Establishment and the American Founding 1:00:33

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Presidents' Day with John Yoo: Executive Authority and Presidential Power 46:41

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Vincent Phillip Muñoz on the Religion Clauses and the Founders' Natural Rights Philosophy 53:04

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David Blight on the Historian's Craft and the Legal Profession 1:18:02

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Roger Pilon on Natural Rights, Unenumerated Rights, and the 14th Amendment 55:37

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Presidential Hiring and Federal Civil Service Reform with Andrew Kloster 35:44

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Sherif Girgis on Dobbs and the Future of the Pro-Life Movement 54:14

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Carson v. Makin, School Choice, and Free Exercise with Kirby West 36:47

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Elbridge Colby on American Grand Strategy and Great Power Conflict 39:43

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Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld on Scholary Rigor and Intellectual Orthodoxies 42:14

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Going for Broke with Dr. Joseph Simmons: Originalism and the Bankruptcy Power 36:12

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Judge Justin Walker on Judicial Philosophy, Civil Discourse, and Legal Education 28:54

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Amb. John Bolton on International Law, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and Free Speech on Campus 34:13

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Pilot 18:56

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