Legally Speaking: Conversations with the Most Interesting Lawyers in the World
Legally Speaking is a series of probing interviews with prominent lawyers, judges, and academics, co-produced by UC Hastings and California Lawyer.
Interview with Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Host: Professor David Faigman; Guest: Justice Stephen G. Breyer
Justice Stephen G. Breyer Interview Video
What are the nine unelected justices of the U.S. Supreme Court really good for? In a wide ranging interview Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer talks about the role that the High Court plays in determining the fate of the nation.
Interview with Nancy Gertner
Host: Professor Lisa Faigman; Guest: Nancy Gertner
Long before Nancy Gertner became a federal judge she had made a name for herself defending a lesbian revolutionary who stood accused of killing a police officer. She then became known for her work on abortion and sex discrimination cases. Gertner talks about her unusual career with UC Hastings law professor Lisa Faigman.
Interview with Aharon Barak
Host: Martin Lasden; Guest: Aharon Barak
Aharon Barak was chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1995 to 2006, and in that role championed what he called a "constitutional revolution." In this wide ranging conversation with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden, he talks about torture, the death penalty, Arab-Israeli rights, and his own experiences as a Holocaust survivor.
Interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Host: Professor Joan C. Williams; Guest: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Interview Video
UC Hastings Professor Joan Williams welcomes U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a conversation that touches on a broad range of subjects, from opera to marriage to work/life balance, doctrinal questions, and cases from the 1970's to present, including the court's role in establishing individual rights and equal protection.
Interview with Martha Nussbaum
Host: Martin Lasden; Guest: Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum Interview Video
In a wide ranging interview, Martha Nussbaum, one of the world's most prominent moral and legal philosophers talks about the relationship between law and emotion, abortion, animal rights, and social justice.
Interview with Michelle Alexander
Host: Martin Lasden; Guest: Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander Interview Video
Michelle Alexander, a long time civil rights advocate and litigator as well as a law professor at Ohio State University, speaks with California Lawyer Magazine's Martin Lasden about Alexander's new book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
Interview with Bruce Ackerman
Host: Martin Lasden; Guest: Bruce Ackerman
Bruce Ackerman Interview Video
Marty Lasden of California Lawyer Magazine welcomes American constitutional law scholar and Yale professor Bruce Ackerman for a discussion of his new book "The Decline and Fall of the American Republic," in which he argues that the American presidency is becoming too powerful for our own good.
Interview with Scott Turow
Host: Evan Lee; Guest: Scott Turow
Writer and attorney Scott Turow is the author of nine best-selling novels. He reflects on his work as a fiction writer and a practicing attorney with UC Hastings Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Evan Lee.
The Divider
Host: Martin Lasden; Guest: Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz Interview Video
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz talks about the erosion of civil liberties, the future of the Arab-Israeli peace process, and his own troubled adolescence.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
Host: Evan Lee; Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky Interview Video
Chemerinsky discusses his thesis: “Ever since Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, conservatives have sought to dramatically change constitutional law [and] in almost every area, they succeeded.” His recently published book is entitled The Conservative Assault on the Constitution.
Interview with Justice Scalia
Host: Calvin Massey; Guest: Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia Interview Video
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia engages in a question-and-answer session with UC Hastings Professor Calvin Massey, a noted constitutional law scholar.
The Myth of Rights
Host: Martin Lasden; Guest: Ashutosh Bhagwat
UC Hastings Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat contends that most Americans have a fundamental misunderstanding of how our constitutional rights are supposed to work. His book, The Myth of Rights: The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional Rights, was published in February 2010.
On Death Row
Host: Martin Lasden; Guest: David Dow
A distinguished professor at the University of Houston Law Center, David Dow has represented more than 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years. His memoir, The Autobiography of an Execution, was published in February 2010.
Washington Insider
Host: Martin Lasden; Guest: Roger Wilkins
At age 33, Roger Wilkins became the highest-ranking African American in President Lyndon Johnson's Justice Department. He went on to serve on the editorial boards of the Washington Post, where he won a Pulitzer Prize, and the New York Times. He also wrote two highly acclaimed books and for more than two decades taught history at George Mason University.
In the Hybrid Economy
Host: Ashutosh Bhagwat; Guest: Lawrence Lessig
Recognized by Scientific American as one of the country's Top 50 Visionaries, Lessig (who is also known as the "Elvis of cyberlaw") is a professor at Harvard Law School. His most recent book is entitled Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.