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We're kicking off our third season with a live show at William & Mary! Professor James Stern joins us as we take the birds-eye view of OT2018. This year will bring cases about excessive fines, the death penalty and just about everything in between. ...

It's our first five-mic episode! We're joined by Kent Greenfield and Adam Winkler, who both have new books about corporate personhood, as well as our bankruptcy expert, Danielle D'Onfro. Greenfield's book is "Corporations Are People Too: (And They Should Act Like It)." It comes out next...

In our (hopefully) final episode of Good Behaviour (for a while), Ian Samuel and Leah Litman discuss their favorite and least favorite moments of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. ...

We're launching a new series aimed at helping law students survive the best/worst three years of their lives. In this episode, we'll talk about study groups, thinking like your professor and the best food-related way to make it through an exam. ...

We round up the latest news on Judge Brett Kavanaugh, including speculation on documents from his time in President George W. Bush’s administration and a debate over whether Democrats should support his confirmation when they disapprove on the merits. ...

We recorded this week’s episode live at the Washington, D.C., offices of Akin Gump. We’re joined by two members of the firm’s Supreme Court and appellate practice -- Pratik Shah, a former assistant to the solicitor general, and Martine Cicconi, who worked in the White House Counsel’s...

We were in Chicago speaking at the National Foundation of Judicial Excellence's Annual Judicial Symposium this past weekend, and we took some time to eat Japanese BBQ, drink sake and record a new episode. We get caught up on our backlog of our (disappointingly male-dominated)...