Episode 37: Dean Andrew Turner and Formalistic Legal Writing
A remotely recorded podcast with Andrew Turner (Law Repository), Assistant Dean for Academic Enhancement and Teaching Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Dean Turner discusses his newest article, Let’s Not Be Creative: Rigid …
June 17, 2025
Episode #36: Steven Wright and Constitutional Litigation, Appeals, and Sentencing Project
A remotely-recorded podcast episode with Steven Wright (Law Repository), Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Wright is the founder of the Constitutional Litigation, Appeals, and Sentencing Project (CLASP) and …
August 13, 2024
Episode 35: Ion Meyn and White-on-Black Crime
A remotely-recorded podcast episode with Ion Meyn (SSRN; Law Repository), Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Meyn discusses his new article, “White-on-Black Crime: Revisiting the Convict Leasing Narrative”, recently …
June 24, 2024
Episode 34: Jennifer Binkley and Wisconsin Family Law
A remotely-recorded podcast episode with Jennifer Binkley (Law Repository), Associate Clinical Professor and Director of the Family Court Clinic. Professor Binkley discusses her recently-published book, “Wisconsin Family Law with Forms”. It’s an essential resource for …
June 12, 2024
Episode 33: Peter Carstensen and How to Break Up Amazon
A remotely- recorded podcast episode with Peter Carstensen (SSRN; Law Repository), Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Carstensen is an expert in antitrust and is a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust …
May 30, 2024
Episode 32: Yaron Nili and Side Letter Governance
A remotely-recorded podcast episode with Yaron Nili (SSRN; Law Repository), Professor of Law and Smith-Rowe Fellow in Business Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Professor Nili is an expert in corporate law, governance, and business. His …
July 12, 2023
Episode 31: Elizabeth Manriquez and the UW Law School Digital Repository
A podcast episode with Elizabeth Manriquez (Law Repository), Head of Reference & Scholarly Services at the University of Wisconsin Law Library. This podcast celebrates the fifth anniversary of the launch of the UW Law School …
March 27, 2023
Episode 30: Richard Monette and Brackeen v. Haaland
A remotely-recorded podcast episode with Richard Monette (SSRN; Law Repository), Professor of Law and Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Monette has a conversation with Kris …
March 22, 2023
Episode 29: Nina Varsava, Precedent, Reliance, and Dobbs
A remotely-recorded podcast interview with Assistant Professor of Law Nina Varsava (SSRN; Law Repository) to discuss her forthcoming law review article. Prof. Varsava (@NinaVarsava)’s newest article is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review and is titled “Precedent, …
January 23, 2023
Episode 28: Nyamagaga Gondwe and the Tax-Invisible Labor Problem
Assistant Professor of Tax Law Nyamagaga Gondwe discusses her forthcoming article, "The Tax-Invisible Labor Problem: Care, Work, Kinship, and Income Security Programs in the IRC." Prof. Gondwe talks about how income security programs fail to recognize non-market care labor that is primarily undertaken by women.
November 21, 2022
Episode 27: Robert Yablon and Gerrylaundering
Robert Yablon, Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses his newest article, "Gerrylaundering", which introduces the concept of "gerrylaundering" in order to best describe voting district mapmakers' best efforts to lock in their favorable position by preserving key elements of their existing maps.
August 25, 2022
Episode 26: Mark Sidel and Restriction of NGOs
Mark Sidel, University of Wisconsin Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, discusses two of his recent articles, "Overseas NGOs and Foundations and Covid in China" and "Securitizing Overseas Nonprofit Work in China", which cover the increasing tendency of governments to restrict foreign investments, grants, and donations to nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in those countries.
April 25, 2022
Episode 25: Anuj Desai and Textualism
Professor Anuj Desai, University of Wisconsin Voss Bascom Professor of Law, discusses his article "Text is Not Enough," published in the Colorado Law Review, which is about textualism and statutory interpretation as seen through the lens of the 2020 Title VII Supreme Court Case Bostock v. Clayton County.
March 1, 2022
Episode 24: Bill Clune and Legal Realism to Legal Action – Innovative Law Courses at UW-Madison
University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Emeritus William (Bill) Clune discusses his new book, Legal Realism to Law in Action: Innovative Law Courses at UW Madison, which compiles articles and interviews focusing on four groundbreaking classes conceived and taught at UW Law School and the faculty responsible for them and their legacy.
January 27, 2022
Episode 23: David M. Trubek and Richard Abel and the Short Happy Life of the Yale Program in Law and Modernization
David M. Trubek (the Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Dean of International Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School) and Richard Abel (the Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA Law), to discuss their recent symposium issue, "The Short Happy Life of the Yale Program in Law and Modernization: From the Cold War to Comparative Legal Sociology and Critical Legal Studies."
November 9, 2021
Episode 22: S. Lisa Washington and Epistemic Justice in the Family Regulation System
S. Lisa Washington, the 2021-22 William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses her forthcoming Columbia Law Review article, "Survived & Coerced: Epistemic Justice in the Family Regulation System." Prof. Washington previously worked as a public defender in New York City and defended clients in family court as well as supervised students in the Cardozo Family Court Clinic.
October 5, 2021
Episode 21: Sumudu Atapattu and Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
Prof. Sumudu Atapattu, Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses her background in law and discovery of the topic of environmental law, leading her to dedicate her career to teaching environmental law. She also discusses her journey to UW-Madison from Sri Lanka and Cambridge University. She describes the book she edited and contributed to, "The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development."
July 6, 2021
Episode 20: Bonnie Shucha and Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact
Bonnie Shucha, Associate Dean for Library & Information Services and the Director of the Law Library at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses her background in librarianship and her journey to becoming associate dean and law library director at UW Law School. She also describes her recent paper, "Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics Accuracy and Promoting Scholarly Visibility," which she presented at the Spring 2021 Citation and the Law Yale Symposium.
May 19, 2021
Episode 19: Anne Smith and the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic
Anne Smith, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses her background in law and how it led her to the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic at UW Law as well as the history of the Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic.
March 10, 2021
Episode 18: Steph Tai, Food Law, and Climate Change
Steph Tai, Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, is an expert in food law and talks about two recently published articles: "In Fairness to Future Generations of Eaters" and "Legalizing the Meaning of Meat". Both articles discuss food law and how the law preserves and defines food as we know it, as well as the intersection of climate change and food law.
February 10, 2021
Episode 17: Dean Daniel Tokaji and Election Law
Dean Daniel P. Tokaji, the Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, is an expert in voting law. He discusses two recent pieces he authored on the topic: "Truth, Democracy, and the Limits of Law," which deals with the importance of truth in democracy, and "#2DaysOut: Ten Things to Watch for on (and after) Election Day," a symposium contribution for the Election Law Blog.
January 20, 2021
Episode 16: Stewart Macaulay’s Enduring Influence on the Study of Contracts
Stewart Macaulay, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School, is internationally recognized as the leader of the law-in-action approach to the study of contracts. In this interview, he discusses a new book on his work, "Stewart Macaulay: Selected Works," published in October by Springer.
December 17, 2020
Episode 15: Alta Charo and COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines
R. Alta Charo, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, is a leading expert in bioethics and discusses the development of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines and the procedures and legal issues that surround each. She talks about how vaccine distribution can be expected, how a vaccine gets approved, and how federal, state, and local law and agencies come into play.
December 4, 2020
Episode 14: Cecelia M. Klingele and Labeling Violence
Cecelia M. Klingele, University of Wisconsin Law School Associate Professor, discusses two recently-published articles: Labeling Violence and Making Sense of Risk. Both articles deal with ideas about risk assessment tools and criminal justice reform.
November 6, 2020
Episode 13: Steven Wright and the Coyotes of Carthage
Steven Wright, University of Wisconsin Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, discusses his new debut novel, The Coyotes of Carthage. He talks about his background in both law and creative writing and how he came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for an M.F.A. after receiving his J.D. and clerking for a federal judge.
July 30, 2020
Episode 12: Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender and Society Editor-in-Chief
A remotely-recorded podcast interview with Helenka Budzynska Mietka, the incoming Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender, and Society editor-in-chief. Helenka begins by discussing her academic background and interests and then moves into the history of WJLGS.
June 30, 2020
Episode 11: Wisconsin International Law Journal Editor-in-Chief
Emily Capodarco, the outgoing Wisconsin International Law Journal (WILJ) editor-in-chief, discusses her scholarly background and research interests and the history of WILJ (est. 1982).
June 24, 2020
Episode 10: Wisconsin Law Review Editors-in-Chief
Featuring the outgoing and incoming editors-in-chief of the Wisconsin Law Review, Olivia Radics (outgoing) and Anya Gersoff (incoming) discuss the Law Review and its recent publications, upcoming plans, and symposia.
May 27, 2020
Episode 9: Richard Monette and Work on Tribal Grants
Richard Monette, University of Wisconsin Law School Professor and Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center, discusses a series of initiatives he is involved with and several working papers he is working on, which include a recent $1 million dollar grant to the Menominee Nation.
April 3, 2020
Episode 8: Tonya Brito and The Child Support Debt Bubble
Tonya L. Brito, Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, discusses her recently published article, “The Child Support Debt Bubble.” Professor Brito’s article uses qualitative data to examine the problem of exorbitant child support debt owed by noncustodial fathers in no- and low-income and predominantly Black families.
March 6, 2020
Episode 7: Yaron Nili and Corporate Board Diversity
Yaron Nili, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses his recently published article, “Board Diversity by Term Limits?”, coauthored with Darren Rosenblum.
January 31, 2020
Episode 6: Keith Findley and the Science and Law Underlying Post-Conviction Challenges to Shaken Baby Syndrome Convictions
Keith A. Findley, Associate Professor of Law, discussed three recent scholarly works. "The Science and Law Underlying Post-Conviction Challenges to Shaken Baby Syndrome Convictions: A Response to Professor Imwinkelried" and "Reducing Error in the Criminal Justice System" were both published in the 2018 volume of the Seton Hall Law Review.
January 15, 2020
Episode 5: David S. Schwartz and The Spirit of the Constitution
David S. Schwartz, Foley & Lardner Bascom Professor of Law, discusses his new book, “The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland”, where he chronicles 200 years in the life of one of the most important U.S. Supreme Court cases in history.
December 9, 2019
Episode 4: Meg Gaines and How HIPAA Harms Care and How to Stop It
Meg Gaines, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Patient Partnerships, discusses two articles: a forthcoming article on prior authorization reversals and "How HIPAA Harms Care, and How to Stop It," both coauthored with Donald Berwick, M.D. Link to Meg's TEDMED Talk on related topics.
November 25, 2019
Episode 3: Michele LaVigne and Under the Hood
Michele LaVigne, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Public Defender Project, discusses her article "Under the Hood: Brendan Dassey, Language Impairments, and Judicial Ignorance" (coauthored with Sally Miles).
November 1, 2019
Episode 2: BJ Ard and Market Refusal in Copyright
BJ Ard, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses his working paper on "Market Refusal in Copyright." Professor Ard is inspired by how the law responds to technology-based challenges and a 2014 Supreme Court decision sparked the idea for this paper.
September 24, 2019Episode 1: Yaron Nili and Successor CEOs
Yaron Nili, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, discusses his recently published article, Successor CEOs. Professor Nili explains what led him to research this topic and the larger impact the paper will have on Corporate Governance research.
August 20, 2019