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A remotely recorded podcast featuring Alexandra Huneeus (Law School Profile), Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In this episode, Prof. Huneeus joins the pod to discuss her book, Latin American Law in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Alejandro Chehtman and Sergio Puig. Prof. Huneeus explains that Latin America has long …

A remotely recorded podcast with Mitra Sharafi (Law School Profile), Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In this episode of Wisconsin Law and Action, Professor Mitra Sharafi provides insight into her newest book, Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia, published by …

A remotely recorded podcast with Anuj Desai (Law School Profile), Volkman-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In this episode of Wisconsin Law and Action, Professor Anuj Desai speaks about the nature of First Amendment law and its institutional contexts. Desai explains that free speech serves four core social values — …

A remotely recorded podcast with Bridget Lavender (Law School Profile), State Democracy Research Initiative (SDRI) staff attorney at the University of Wisconsin Law School. For this episode, Bridget joins the podcast to provide a deep dive into the difficulties of researching, explaining, and influencing state-level cases and statutes. Bridget highlights how it is SDRI’s mission …

A remotely recorded podcast with Professor Kathryn Hendley (Law Repository), Roman Z. Livshits & Theodore W. Brazeau Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Hendley joins the Wisconsin Law in Action podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on how law actually functions in the real world — from the …

A remotely recorded podcast with Professor Sumudu Atapattu (Law Repository), Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. On this episode of the podcast, Sumudu Atapattu discusses a wide range of topics that she has examined in her prolific scholarship, focusing on the tension between human rights, climate change, …

A remotely recorded podcast with Professor Torey Dolan (Law Repository) and Professor Steve Wright (Law Repository) at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In a special edition of the Wisconsin Law In Action podcast, Professors Dolan and Wright both join us to discuss how the Voting Rights Act has been challenged and debated at the …

A remotely recorded podcast with Professor Amanda White Eagle (Law Repository), Director of the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center (GLILC) at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. White Eagle discusses the positive impact of the GLILC as well as the Native November Symposium and the Coming Together of People’s Conference. In a wide-ranging chat, …

A remotely recorded podcast with Professor Joshua Braver (Law Repository), Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prof. Braver joins the podcast to discuss a variety of recently published books, and articles that revolve around the complicated question of disobedience, in today’s military, among citizens wishing to re-write constitutions, and in legal …

A remotely recorded podcast with Elizabeth Manriquez (Law Repository), Head of Reference and Scholarly Support at the University of Wisconsin Law School Library. Elizabeth joins the podcast to discuss her newest book chapter about Bowie Kent Kuhn, the Major League Baseball Commissioner from 1969 to 1984 and licensed attorney, published in Attorneys in the Baseball …