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Episode 49: Professor Jason Reinecke, patent law, AI, and innovation

A remotely recorded podcast featuring Jason Reinecke (Law School Profile), Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin. For the 49th episode of the Wisconsin Law in Action podcast, Professor Jason Reinecke discusses a wide variety of hot button topics in law practice and legal academia. Prof. Reinecke begins by tracing his interest in …

Episode 48: Professor Nathan Atkinson and the Hidden Complexity of Elections and Corporations

A remotely recorded podcast featuring Nathan Atkinson (Law School Profile), Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin. In this episode, Professor Nathan Atkinson explores a surprising parallel: elections and corporations are both systems for turning many dispersed voices into a single decision. Prof. Atkinson explains why the ranked choice reforms popularized after the …

Episode 47: Professor Alexandra Huneeus discusses Latin America’s role in shaping international law and her newly released co-edited book

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 …

Episode 46: Professor Mitra Sharafi discusses Fear of the False, her new book about colonial South Asia’s critical role in the development of forensic science

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 …

Episode 45: Professor Anuj Desai modern First Amendment questions and challenges

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 — …

Episode 44: Bridget Lavender discusses how UW Law’s State Democracy Research Initiative untangles the complex web of state level constitutional and statutory research

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 …

Episode 43: Professor Kathryn Hendley discusses Russian Law and Democratic Decline

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 …

Episode 42: Professor Sumudu Atapattu and the Intersection of Human Rights and Environmental Law

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, …

Episode 41: Professors Torey Dolan and Steve Wright discuss Louisiana v. Callais and the Voting Rights Act at the US Supreme Court

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 …

Episode 40: Professor Amanda White Eagle and the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center

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, …