Touro Law Review Podcast
Touro Law Review hosts a podcast discussing the latest legal issues or topics.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 62
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Trump v. CASA: The Case of Universal Injunctions
On the last day of the 2024-25, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Trump v. CASA, involving the validity of universal injunctions. By a 6-3 vote, the Court granted the Trump administration’s r…
Reading 1984 in 2025
"Orwellian" is a critical term in our current political discourse. The phrase is often invoked in connection with the novel 1984, written by George Orwell and published in 1949. On this episode of …
The Risk to Local Governments Posed by the Current Crisis in Higher Education
Every day, it seems, brings a new national news story about higher education. Beyond the headlines, the crisis in highereducation poses economic and other risks to state and local governments that s…
SCOTUS Subject Matter Jurisdiction - Royal Canin USA v Wullshleger
On this episode, Professors Laura Dooley and John Quinn discuss Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc. v. Wullschleger, a recent Supreme Court case involving federal subject matter jurisdiction.
Royal Canin is a …
So You Want to Be a Law Professor
On this episode of the Touro Law Review Podcast, Professor Tiffany Li describes her journey from law student at Georgetown Law School to faculty member at the University of San Francisco Law School. …
The Supreme Court, the First Amendment, and Social Media
Professor Jorge Roig teaches Constitutional Law at Touro Law Center. On this episode of the Touro Law Review Podcast, Professor Roig discusses three recent Supreme Court decisions involving the appli…
A Discussion with Author and Attorney Joshua Perry about his Novel, Seraphim.
Right out of law school, Joshua Perry moved to New Orleans to work as a public defender. In the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when reformers were trying to fix a broken criminal justice sys…
Mitigating Catastrophic AI Risk
On this episode of the Touro Law Review Podcast, Touro Law Professors Peter Zablotsky and Gabriel Weil, engage in a discussion about artificial intelligence and how this technology poses potential ri…
Keeping the Faith: A Discussion with Author Brenda Wineapple about the 1925 Scopes Trial
Every era has its trial of the century. In 1925, Tennessee prosecuted John T. Scopes, a high school teacher, for teaching evolution in violation of state law. The sensational trial drew nationwide …
Law and Politics: The Case of State Judicial Elections
Alicia Bannon, Director of the Judiciary Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses the politics of state judicial elections with Associate Dean Rodger Citron. In 38 states, judges are ele…
The Demise of Chevron Deference: A Discussion with Professor David Franklin
The Supreme Court continued its project of reshaping administrative law this term. Perhaps its most widely discussed decision in this area was Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which the Cour…
A Discussion with Judge Michael Ponsor on "Point of Order."
Long before he became a federal judge, even before he went to law school in the early 1970s, Michael Ponsor wrote fiction. It was not until 2013, however, that Judge Ponsor published his first n…
The Supreme Court and the "Independent State Legislature Theory": A Discussion with Nicholas Maggio
In Moore v. Harper, decided last year, the Supreme Court addressed the “independent state legislature theory.” In a case arising out of an election in North Carolina, proponents of the theory contend…
A Discussion with Robert Tsai on "Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All"
Stephen Bright’s relentless pursuit of equal justice is at the center of Professor Robert Tsai’s most recent book. For nearly forty years, Bright led the Southern Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit…
A Discussion with Daniel Kiel on "The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas."
Professor Kennedy conducted an insightful interview with Professor Daniel Kiel, a distinguished law professor at the University of Memphis and author of the book "The Transition: Interpreting Justice…
David Lat and Zachary Shemtob on Judicial Ethics in a Populist Age
In 2023, Supreme Court justices made news not only for the cases decided but also for their personal conduct. As David Lat and Zach Shemtob noted in an article for The Atlantic, the news stories oft…
David Guterson Discusses His Novel, The Final Case.
This podcast features a discussion of law and literature with author David Guterson, author of The Final Case and the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Snow Falling on Cedars. Guterson discusses wit…
Ray Brescia on Lawyer Nation, The Past, Present, and Future of the American Legal System.
Please join us for this week's episode featuring Lawyer and author Ray Brescia where he discusses his book Lawyer Nation. Professor Zablotsky hosts and the two discuss institutions, methodologies, hi…
The Next Gen Bar: A Shift for the Good?
Please join us for a deep dive between Dean Burch and Dean Zakarin into the switch from the Universal Bar Examination (UBE) to the Next Gen Bar, rolling out in phases starting July 2026. Dean Burch …
The Hon. Gary Stein on Justice for Sale, his Biography of Martin T. Manton
Few lawyers know who Martin Manton was. Even fewer, if any, law students learn about Manton while in school. That may change with the Hon. Gary Stein’s recent biography of Manton, Justice for Sale:…