tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51164922012-02-06T15:33:04.227+01:00English for lawaudio and video material about legal subjectsCKLnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-52054186995109520982012-02-06T15:33:00.000+01:002012-02-06T15:33:04.231+01:00
Kenya and the International Criminal Court
The Australian radio's Law Report of 31 January is devoted to an examination of the decision of the ICC to put four prominent Kenyans on trial for crimes against humanity. These men are alleged to have been behind the communal violence following the last national election. You can hear a member of Human Rights Watch, witnesses and survivors, a Kenyan CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-71672084503628469602012-02-04T07:51:00.000+01:002012-02-04T07:51:40.276+01:00
Julian Assange's extradition appeal
The Guardian has a series of articles about Julian Assange, the founder of the internet site WikiLeaks. This week the question of his extradition to Sweden to face charges of rape was before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The justices will decide whether the Swedish prosecutor who issued the warrant is a "valid judicial authority" required by the CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-19134154465756456072012-01-28T14:24:00.002+01:002012-01-28T14:25:03.668+01:00Justice
Andrew Marr explores the idea of Justice on Start the Week. Marr's guests include John Podmore who served for 25 years as a prison governor and inspector, and presents a damning indictment on Britain's prison service. Playwright Simon Stephens asks how far such a court can deal with perpetrators of terrible crimes in his play The Trial of Ubu. Professor Mike Hough tries to explain why CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-34829622906634061242012-01-25T17:40:00.000+01:002012-01-25T17:40:06.947+01:00The U.K. and the European Court of Human Rights
BBC Radio 4's programme Today has two stories today about the European Court of Human Rights and the United Kingdom. The first explains that David Cameron wants 'greater leeway' from the ECHR. Included is a presentation of some of the more memorable decisions of the Court followed by discussion proposals for reform to deal with its massive backlog CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-6166722722792778112012-01-23T10:19:00.001+01:002012-01-25T17:40:39.883+01:00Law School Exam Tips
University of Virginia School of Law professor Anne Coughlin offered law students tips on how to take an exam on Dec. 2, 2011. The explanations she gives offer an insight into legal reasoning in the United States. She contrasts "doctrinal" and "policy" analysis. "Doctrine" here does not mean the opinion of law professors. It's a rule or principle that is widely adhered to. "CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-8512843918509425732012-01-22T15:53:00.000+01:002012-01-22T15:53:04.543+01:00Megaupload site's legal troubles
This site's name promises mega uploads (usually of the illegal kind). NPR's Weekend Edition of Saturday Jan. 21 has the story of the site's closure this week after a raid in New Zealand.
4 min 16 sec, transcript available
For more information about the case, NPR has this.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-91247783004869223852012-01-21T10:10:00.001+01:002012-01-22T15:54:11.701+01:00
The Costa Concordia
Most news stories have an underlying legal problem. The shipwreck of the Costa Concordia is one example of this. NPR's Morning Edition has an interview with a professor of maritime law about the international treaties governing the law of the sea. 3 min 47 sec
For a more general presentation of the disaster, see this story on the same program. 4 min 30 sec
Transcripts CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-22531344815302135492011-12-21T06:02:00.001+01:002012-01-22T15:55:07.628+01:00
Courtroom interpreters
Australia's ABC program, The Law Report, of 6 December 2011 examines the problems of courtroom interpreters, for different foreign languages and for sign language for the deaf. Very interesting.
30 min. downloadable .mp3, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-40856477890096921302011-12-16T15:14:00.001+01:002012-01-22T15:55:59.217+01:00Chicken v. Kale
NPR's All Things Considered on Dec. 6 had an amusing story about trademark protection. A man who makes his living selling t-shirts with the message "Eat More Kale" is being sued by a company, Chick-fil-A, which accuses him of infringing its trademark, "Eat Mor Chikin." 3 min 13 sec, transcript available
(warning: one little mistake on the transcript - a spoonful of egg should be CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-60864837763111404482011-12-01T14:08:00.000+01:002011-12-01T14:08:05.887+01:00GPS and an old Constitution
NPR's Fresh Air has an interview with Jeffrey Rosen, one of the authors of a book entitled Constitution 3.0; Freedom And Technological Change, examining the question of how to interpret the American Constitution, written over 200 years ago, in the digital era. The Supreme Court will, for instance, have to decide a case this term about whether attaching a GPS device toCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-66281590876654155662011-11-29T05:14:00.000+01:002011-11-29T05:14:45.869+01:00
Soft Vengeance
NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg interviewed Albie Sacks, a former Justice on the South African Constitutional Court, while in that country. She was impressed by his variety of "vengeance" and reports on it.
7 min 42 sec, transcript available
CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-86713327801387905982011-11-21T08:22:00.000+01:002011-11-21T08:22:14.386+01:00
Webinar on the American Constitution
For those interested in the American Constitution, the American Constitutional Society, a liberal think tank, has published a downloadable online book, Keeping Faith with the Constitution, and this fall has added a "webinar"(web seminar) - 15 min. lectures (plus 15 min. of questions) by 9 scholars. You can download the sound file and both the relevant CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-86861075877337991482011-11-20T05:14:00.000+01:002011-11-20T05:14:11.826+01:00
More on Judicial Decision-Making
C-Span Classroom has a video of a panel discussion by 4 eminent judges on judicial decision-marking. 2 judges from the highest state courts and 2 federal appeals court judges answered questions about how they decide cases. 1h03min, no transcript, but closed captioning can be activated (click on the [CC] box)CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-21957225758982228222011-11-18T06:40:00.000+01:002011-11-18T06:40:23.813+01:00
U.K. Supreme Court
From The Guardian of 25 October - The Guardian's legal affairs correspondent, Owen Bowcott, gained exclusive access to the court and interviewed five justices who explained how they reach judgments of national significance. Very interesting.
11 min., no transcript, but a long article accompanies the story.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-35633035408485894402011-11-17T15:16:00.000+01:002011-11-17T15:16:59.885+01:00
Challenge to Health Care Law before the U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Nov. 14th agreed to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law ("The Affordable Care Act") this spring. It has scheduled a very unusual five and a half hours of oral argument instead of the usual one hour. The Federalist Society, a conservative think tank, organised a debate on Nov. 12th CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-81341970491476905082011-11-17T05:58:00.000+01:002011-11-17T05:58:12.324+01:00
Unpaid Internships Challenged
NPR's All Things Considered of November 16, 2011 reports on a class-action lawsuit which includes a young man who was an unpaid intern during the filming of Black Swan who claims that he should have been paid for his six months of work. You can find out more about the case here.
4 min 54 sec, streaming or downloadable .mp3, transcript available
CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-58591928008472305582011-11-07T12:57:00.000+01:002011-11-07T12:57:57.703+01:00
The rule of law in China
Australian Broadcasting Company's The Law Report of 25 October, with Damien Carrick, has a report on the rule of law in China.
30 min., streaming or downloadable .mp3, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-8190976254590177802011-11-04T14:10:00.000+01:002011-11-04T14:10:48.243+01:00
Artificial Intelligence and the Law
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School hosted a panel discussion entitled "Artificial Intelligence - A Legal Perspective"on October 27, 2011. Panelists included Ian Kerr, John O. McGinnis, Lawrence B. Solum and Mary-Anne Williams. The moderator was Ryan Calo.
video, 1h47sec., no transcript
CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-20108851175899116712011-11-03T07:18:00.000+01:002011-11-03T07:18:44.877+01:00
Plea bargains and lawyer misconduct
NPR's Morning Edition of October 31st has a story about two cases argued this week before the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue is whether a plea bargain can be attacked if it was based on a lawyer's bad advice or unethical conduct. In both cases, the defendants claim that their lawyers' conduct was so bad that it amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel.
3 CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-4080517448432881272011-11-03T06:24:00.003+01:002011-11-03T06:59:48.231+01:00Unreliable Evidence
BBC Radio 4's Unreliable Evidence with Clive Anderson has just finished a new series. This week the last programme was a discussion of The Lawyer's Dilemma: Defending the Guilty, Suing the Innocent. Other programmes in this series include Reporting The Law (press coverage of trials) and The Law and Government Spending Cuts.
45 min. no transcripts, streaming on BBC's iPlayer, CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-63875888655824771322011-10-25T18:43:00.001+02:002011-10-25T18:56:48.268+02:00Law in Action is back
Law in Action, with Joshua Rozenberg, began a new series on 18 October. The first program in the series explored contentious legal issues which arose from the August riots, asking when does rushed justice become rough justice? On 25 October Joshua Rozenberg looked at the expanding role of public inquiries and independent reviews, their practices and procedures and how CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-65311613340487752782011-10-18T06:28:00.001+02:002011-10-18T07:18:12.156+02:00Hot Coffee
Hot Coffee, a documentary about the civil justice system, was featured on Democracy Now! of Jan. 25, 2011. The title of the film refers to the case of Stella Liebeck who sued McDonald's for injuries she received from scalding coffee. In the first segment of the news program, Ms Liebeck's daughter and son-in-law are interviewed. In another segment, a former judge on the Mississippi CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-67630916648600417472011-10-16T07:58:00.000+02:002011-10-16T07:58:33.310+02:00Stéphane Hessel
Stéphane Hessel, author of Time for Outrage (in French Indignez-Vous) was interviewed on Democracy Now, Oct. 10.
18 min 54 sec - downloadable .mp3 and .mp4 (video), transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-38373609403532004102011-10-12T10:02:00.000+02:002011-10-12T10:02:19.459+02:00Employment of non E.U. nationals in France
Deutsche Welle World has a story about the plight of non-E.U. nationals wanting to work in France after a change in French immigration rules. 3 min. streaming and downloadable .mp3, no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-26753484526245127212011-10-10T06:42:00.000+02:002011-10-10T06:42:50.413+02:00
Columbus Day
Today is Columbus Day in the United States, a day which marks the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World on October 12, 1492. It became a federal holiday in 1937. Since 1971, the holiday has been fixed to the second Monday in October. One of Columbus' legal documents, his Book of Privileges, is presented here. 2:13 min. no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-18101737708128226302011-10-09T10:53:00.000+02:002011-10-09T10:53:01.953+02:00
Squatters in England
The Guardian has done a podcast about squatters' and homeowners' rights. Should squatting become a criminal offence?
33 min, no transcript, streaming or downloadable .mp3CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-28018128574074401792011-10-07T15:51:00.000+02:002011-10-07T15:51:31.362+02:00The International Criminal Court
Newshour of Oct. 6, 2011 introduces a documentary entitled "Prosecutor" which will be aired Oct. 9. It spotlights Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in the trial of Thomas Lubanga. There are subtitles when he speaks because his strong accent makes his English hard to understand.
9:35 min, streaming video or downloadable .mp3CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-15494994891478631882011-10-05T17:05:00.000+02:002011-10-05T17:05:11.592+02:00A Public Discussion with Justice John Paul Stevens
Justice John Paul Stevens, recently retired from the U.S. Supreme Court at age 90, spoke at the University of Chicago the day his new book Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir was published.
video, streaming or downloadable, 61 min., no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-37229625588930781542011-10-03T08:46:00.000+02:002011-10-03T08:46:42.847+02:00U.S. Supreme Court OT 2011 begins today
The previous post (Sept. 30) mentioned the importance of the first Monday in October to the American legal system and gave a link to one recording of a discussion about the coming Supreme Court term (which will be known as OT 2011 or the October term of 2011). In an article in The Atlantic magazine last Friday, the journalist and legal analyst Andrew CohenCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-1760564353862225792011-09-30T07:30:00.000+02:002011-09-30T07:30:35.738+02:00Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, has written a book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View, which has just come out in paperback. The Court year is about to begin (traditionally on the first Monday in October), and so, before things get too busy at his day job, he's been promoting his book and the ideas it contains. You can hear him interviewed CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-8056266776498010352011-09-28T15:11:00.000+02:002011-09-28T15:11:06.537+02:00News Corp.'s legal worries in the U.S.
NPR's Morning Edition of September 27, 2011 talks about the fact that News Corp., under attack in the U.K. for phone hacking and bribing police officers, may also face legal problems in the United States. News Corp. is a U.S. company and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a 1977 law banning American firms from paying bribes to government officials abroad, CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-8244385245105679682011-09-26T07:40:00.000+02:002011-09-26T07:40:26.662+02:00Oyez Today
The Oyez Project, now hosted at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, is well-known for making available the recordings of oral arguments and other valuable information about cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. It has now begun something called Oyez Today with links to stories in other media about the Court and occasionally a video. The videos are posted on YouTube. The latest one is anCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-71900697338315122232011-09-23T10:52:00.001+02:002011-09-23T10:53:39.204+02:00Lady Hale on the European Convention of Human Rights
Lady Brenda Hale, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, gave a lecture on 16 June 2011 entitled "Beanstalk or living instrument? How tall can the European Convention on Human Rights grow?" This Gresham College page includes video and audio versions of the lecture as well as a transcript. The video has also been posted on CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-78019867587688512852011-09-21T19:47:00.000+02:002011-09-21T19:47:12.837+02:00What Makes a Contract Valid?
Legal Lad's Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Lawful Life's episode 90 of August 12 answers the question - What Makes a Contract Valid?
5:48 min, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-23240614034110050422011-09-11T14:50:00.000+02:002011-09-11T14:50:17.815+02:00
U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
The Ninth Circuit is very media savvy. It makes available audio and audio and video recordings of arguments before the court and offer a tour of its courthouse in San Francisco. The court has just posted the videotapes of the educational program offered at their 2011 Judicial Conference held August 15-18, 2011, in Carlsbad, California. The CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-29295580762217085592011-08-22T07:26:00.000+02:002011-08-22T07:26:20.362+02:00Short films by Yale law students
Yale Visual Law Project is a student-created project at Yale Law School that explores the intersection between law and film. This year it produced two documentaries:
Alienation, on the effect of an immigration raid (a lot of Spanish with subtitles) 17:34 min
Stigma, about racial profiling by the police 13:38 min.
The page for each short film has links to "CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-66801932391876881152011-08-20T17:56:00.001+02:002011-08-22T07:27:00.626+02:00Justice
Michael Sandel, the Harvard professor who teaches the very popular undergraduate course entitled Justice, has a website we have already mentioned. It includes "News and Events" which has links to short videos, notably bits that were part of the BBC documentary “Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century” this year which are unavailable for those outside Britain. "Torture and human CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-84966888025420852692011-08-19T10:37:00.001+02:002011-08-21T07:58:40.422+02:00China and International Law
The China and International Law Symposium, sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the University of Chicago Law School, was held on April 6, 2011. Audio recordings are now available, flashplayer or downloadable .mp3. Elements include:
"China, International Law and Regional/Global Security" Panelists: Jacques deLisle, University of Pennsylvania; James Li, Tsinghua CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-67064462022259938902011-08-18T06:45:00.000+02:002011-08-18T06:45:13.531+02:00Capital Punishment in the U.S.
NPR's All Things Considered of August 16, 2011 presents news of the application of the death penalty in the U.S.
4 min 11 sec, transcript available
CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-41171533096140233182011-07-22T14:04:00.001+02:002011-08-22T07:27:50.147+02:00How legislation in the U.S. is often written
NPR's Fresh Air of July 21 has a long interview with John Nichols, a political reporter for The Nation, on the relationship that state-based legislators have with a group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a group that brings together state legislators and representatives of corporations to draft model bills that can thenCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-20171578795104335432011-07-12T17:51:00.000+02:002011-07-12T17:51:57.332+02:00Bigamy
NPR's Morning Edition of July 12, 2011 has a story about the Brown family - a husband, four wives, and 16 children who star in a reality TV show. They plan to file a lawsuit in federal court in Utah claiming that Utah's law forbidding bigamy is unconstitutional.
4 min 29 sec, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-43884690446297233802011-07-12T07:10:00.000+02:002011-07-12T07:10:39.596+02:00Perp walks
NPR's All Things Considered of July 7, 2011 has a news item entitled "Perp Walk: The History Of Parading Criminal Suspects". The most famous recent one was Dominique Strauss-Kahn's perp walk, but the tradition is much older. Perp is American slang for perpetrator.
4 min 11 sec, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-27146322668878494422011-07-03T14:51:00.001+02:002011-07-03T14:52:25.910+02:00Judging in the United States
Judge Richard Posner delivered a lecture entitled "The Rise and Fall of Judicial Self-Restraint" at the University of Chicago law school where he is a senior lecturer. Judge Posner's remarks, followed by comments by Lee Epstein and Aziz Huq, can be found here. More information about the lecture can be found here. Recently added to the U of C website, the event was CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-70735480562081822402011-07-02T16:32:00.000+02:002011-07-02T16:32:31.484+02:00Dominique Strauss-Kahn
For those following the Strauss-Kahn case, the latest news is discussed on PBS's Newshour with a law professor and former prosecutor, Laurie Levenson, and a journalist.
8 min, video or .mp3, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-78962966063567158022011-06-30T11:34:00.000+02:002011-06-30T11:34:47.283+02:00U.S. Supreme Court
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has handed down the last of its decisions for the 2010 term, PBS's Newshour has a summary of the Supreme Court's year with Marcia Coyle, a legal journalist, and Tom Goldstein, a lawyer who often argues cases before the Court.
9:21 min, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-12645892282468767172011-06-24T07:13:00.000+02:002011-06-24T07:13:34.405+02:00European Court of Human Rights
The BBC Radio 4's Decision Time has a programme examining the European Court of Human Rights - available for only two more days. Also available (for six more days), the programme from 22/06 on changing strike laws.
45 min., no transcript.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-33879167263167191042011-06-23T18:41:00.001+02:002011-06-23T18:41:42.243+02:00Solicitors
The internet site of the English publication The Lawyer has three short videos presenting firms of solicitors : Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners, specialised in Russian matters, Harneys, an offshore legal practice, and Hickman & Rose, criminal justice and human rights specialists.
5 to 7 min., no transcript.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-20960399347934797262011-06-08T09:19:00.000+02:002011-06-08T09:19:28.296+02:00John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar
The blog Philosophy Bites (podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics...) has just posted (June 4) an interview with Georgetown law professor John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar. One of the questions treated was "Do children have an innate pre-disposition to make certain sorts of moral judgement?" Mikhail's new book, Elements of CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-84202816255240455062011-06-07T20:16:00.000+02:002011-06-07T20:16:13.227+02:00Shakespeare and the Law/the Law and Shakespeare
Several of Shakespeare's plays have inspired mock trials or legal arguments in the U.S. Last year a court composed of several real Supreme Court justices and other federal judges decided whether Henry V was justified in his slaughter of French prisoners of war. C-Span's recording of the event, Judgment at Agincourt, is here. An article about the CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-90695366737347448972011-06-07T20:00:00.001+02:002011-06-07T20:01:56.098+02:00Superinjunctions
Law in Action on BBC's Radio 4 is back with a program about superinjunctions.
30 min. no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-27765659431891249392011-05-24T06:21:00.000+02:002011-05-24T06:21:24.878+02:00California prison conditions
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that the living conditions in overcrowded California prisons threatened inmates' health and violated constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.
PBS Newshour's Marcia Coyle explains the ruling here. 7:34 min, transcript, .mp3
On NPR's All Things Considered, Nina Totenberg reports here. 4:59 min, transcript, .mp3
The CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-10095026455104849202011-05-20T20:32:00.000+02:002011-05-20T20:32:18.948+02:00French tax news
Speaking May 8th on Riviera Radio, Bill Blevins of Blevins Francks (tax and wealth management specialists) brings news about French tax reforms. You can find the recording on this Blevins Francks website page.
12 min. no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-16852225711158932772011-05-20T19:24:00.000+02:002011-05-20T19:24:22.748+02:00Bob Dylan and Legal Writing
University of Tennessee law professor Alex Long wrote a law review article in 2007 about the uses and misuses of popular music lyrics in legal writing (64 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 531) which has just received the attention of a journalist from the Los Angeles Times. Long was then interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. His findings: the musician who is the favorite of CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-87563258435622704042011-05-20T19:23:00.000+02:002011-05-20T19:23:30.462+02:00UK Supreme Court
You can now watch the UK Supreme Court live on SkyNews when it is sitting.
The schedule for next week is here. You can find information about current cases on the Court website. For instance, information about the case that will be heard on Monday 23 May at 10:30, Gale and another (Appellants) v Serious Organised Crime Agency (Respondent), is here. Will this inspire the U.S. CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-37445099422799440622011-04-23T08:01:00.000+02:002011-04-23T08:01:20.854+02:00European Court of Human Rights
To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights has produced a 3-minute video-clip presenting the 15 main rights and freedoms in the Convention and its Protocols. 3 min. Audio is just music, the rights are presented in writing with images - very youth-oriented.
The ECHR site also has webcasts of its CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-74799037904314390002011-04-16T11:25:00.000+02:002011-04-16T11:25:12.946+02:00Legal Issues in the News - recent programs
Legal Issues in the News, from Illinois Public Media, has discussed some interesting topics lately. The two most recent are the death penalty in Illinois (and elsewhere) on April 4, and nuclear power - insurance and safety regulations on April 11. These programs are around 4 min. long, no transcript, downloadable .mp3.
CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-72092050464010366542011-03-25T17:19:00.001+01:002011-03-25T17:20:52.146+01:00Economics
Those studying law are also usually interested in economics. The University of Amsterdam's podcast series Law, Economics and Philosophy, part of the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law, has posted an interview with Laurence Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University, about his new book Jimmy Sewart is Dead.
BBC Radio 4 is airing a three part series, the Story of CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-16216296857153102662011-03-24T11:36:00.000+01:002011-03-24T11:36:28.304+01:00Becoming a Barrister
The Bar Council in England has started a site, "Why become a Barrister?" with two short (7-8 min) films for which gives information about the attraction of a career as a barrister and a very good short FAQ page. Very well done.
The titles of the clips are "Why become a barrister?" and "The bar is open to all".
no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-71277281081887630012011-03-15T07:56:00.001+01:002011-03-15T07:57:35.112+01:00The Bill of Rights - The New American National Anthem
Gene Weingarten, a staff writer for The Washington Post, has written a new national anthem for the United States - the Star-Spangled Paper. The old one, the Star-Spangled Banner, is too difficult to sing, among other things. His version is set to the music of the William Tell Overture, the words are a list of constitutional guarantees found CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-66714654322883045242011-03-10T20:03:00.000+01:002011-03-10T20:03:38.298+01:00Death Penalty
The State of Illinois has abolished the death penalty. The General Assembly had passed the bill in January, but it needed the Governor's signature to become law. According to Gov. Quinn, interviewed on the local NPR station, one of the most powerful arguments for his decision was the fact that it's not possible to create a perfect, mistake-free death penalty system.
12min 30 sec, CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-48814857366801111622011-03-08T07:15:00.000+01:002011-03-08T07:15:50.052+01:00Guantanamo
President Barack Obama issued an executive order Monday, reversing a two-year ban on military trials for suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. PBS's Newshour has this report.
5 min 39 sec. video or .mp3, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-35886613201414713002011-03-06T18:31:00.000+01:002011-03-06T18:31:42.095+01:00Freedom of Speech
The U.S. Supreme Court last week handed down a 8-1 decision in favor of protesters at a military funeral who had been sued for intentional infliction of emotional harm by the dead soldier's father. According to the Court, the protesters are protected by the First Amendment right of free expression which protects even hateful speech. NPR has the story on All Things Considered (5CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-25745809405192758572011-03-04T07:09:00.000+01:002011-03-04T07:09:36.359+01:00Pierre Legrand
The second in the Amsterdam Law School LEaP podcasts, is an interview with Pierre Legrand, law professor at Paris I University, and author of several books on comparative law. He gives his views on the methodology of comparative legal studies and expresses his opposition to the European Union's attempts to harmonize areas of private law.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-47833137863015698702011-02-28T18:05:00.001+01:002011-03-14T09:13:12.684+01:00More Michael Sandel on Justice
The website Philosophy Bites interviewed Michael Sandel on the subject of justice on January 14th.
20 min., no transcript
Another interesting interview on this site is with Cécile Fabre concerning how moral cosmopolitans (those who foreground individual rights), can approach questions of just wars.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-74355810419990933132011-02-27T15:48:00.002+01:002011-02-27T15:51:24.033+01:00Indefinite detention in the U.K./Prenups
The Guardian Focus podcast of 25 February examined the case of hundreds of foreign prisoners who are being held indefinitely after they have served their criminal sentences.
A podcast earlier this month (9 February) spoke of prenuptial agreements and more generally divorce and the role of lawyers in this area.
± 30 min. no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-55548405496883582522011-02-24T08:54:00.000+01:002011-02-24T08:54:18.906+01:00Big Law
For those curious about the transformation and growth of law firms (DLA Piper will soon have some 4000 lawyers), New York University law school hosted a forum on February 16th entitled “Big Law 2021 – And What it Will Mean for You”. Speaking were partners from two traditional "big law" firms - DLA Piper and Skadden, Arps, in addition to the founder of a new form of "firm" - Axiom Law. ± CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-85037394776333509952011-02-21T07:47:00.000+01:002011-02-21T07:47:17.684+01:00The Constitution Today series - Women's Rights
Diane Rehm's NPR series "The Constitution Today" continues with the newest program - February 17th- which covers women's rights. Guests include Michael Quinn, president and executive director of James Madison's Montpelier, Marcia Greenberger, founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center and Barbara Perry, senior fellow and associateCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-91601477146986204062011-02-15T14:28:00.000+01:002011-02-15T14:28:11.198+01:00Law in Action
Law in Action will be back on Feb. 22nd. Joshua Rozenberg will be looking at the legal issues behind the Wikileaks story.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-61389563629233956382011-01-30T14:44:00.001+01:002011-01-30T14:45:26.273+01:00Comparison between U.S. and U.K. governments
C-Span's weekly program Q & A has aired several programs comparing the way the U.S. and the U.K. are governed. The most recent (December 26, 2010) is "The U.S. and the U.K.: Contrasts and Comparisons" and includes ports of interviews with Lord John Wakeham, British House of Lords, Diane Abbott, Shadow Minister for Public Health, House of Commons, CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-26961135568282160382011-01-23T20:21:00.001+01:002011-01-23T20:22:16.402+01:00The Constitution Today series
Diane Rehm of NPR has begun a series called "The Constitution Today" which has already examined questions of separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, voting, federalism and the 14th amendment. Each program brings together three or four experts. The series is scheduled to continue.
± 50 min. transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-47528200845537907182011-01-20T07:51:00.001+01:002011-01-20T07:57:10.017+01:00Uses of Foreign Law by Courts - the Australian view
The Hon. Michael Kirby, who retired in 2009 as judge of Australia's highest court, spoke at Pace University Law School October 4, 2010. He delivered the annual Sloan lecture on the subject of “The Use of Foreign Judicial Authority…Why Justice Scalia is Wrong.” More information about judge Kirby is here. Video, ± 1 hour, no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-65263371970230002212011-01-19T10:26:00.000+01:002011-01-19T10:26:05.081+01:00Foreign Law and Legal Development
Duke Law School's 9th annual Bernstein lecture (2010) was given by Professor John Bell of the University of Cambridge Law School. His subject was "The Relevance of Foreign Examples to Legal Development." The lecture addressed three claims: governance through law is a universal and global activity and therefore its application cannot be confined to a specific CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-42988723809781951392011-01-18T16:34:00.003+01:002011-02-21T08:14:14.722+01:00Law and Economics
The first in the series of Law, Economics and Philosophy podcasts of the University of Amsterdam, with Eric Posner of the University of Chicago, can be found here. Posner discusses the economic analysis of contract law and questions of climate change justice.
30 min. no transcript
You can download the .mp3 audio or subscribe to the series on iTunes.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-91789228987045943552010-12-30T14:26:00.005+01:002011-03-21T15:11:52.259+01:00Justice
Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, spoke at the Harvard Book Store January 2, 2010, presenting the ideas he develops in his book Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
The presentation involves lots of interaction with the audience. You will feel pulled in too.
video, 55 min. no transcript
The Amazon page presenting the book has a short (3min52) video on it CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-62127753165671948192010-12-29T20:04:00.003+01:002010-12-29T20:14:07.220+01:00Judicial Power
The BBC World Service programme The Monday Documentary recently took a look at judges worldwide - Power and the Judges — part 1 was first aired on 18 December and part 2 on the 25th.
25 min. no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-33976618815854873732010-12-13T08:44:00.003+01:002011-02-21T08:14:44.742+01:00Constitutuional Interpretation
On September 15, 2010, to mark U.S. Constitution Week and celebrate Oxford University Press's republication of Keeping Faith with the Constitution by Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, and Christopher H. Schroeder, the American Constitution Society organised a debate between Karlan and Nicholas Rosenkranz on questions of constitutional interpretation. The moderator CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-24793245123611155032010-12-09T18:16:00.000+01:002010-12-09T18:16:33.546+01:00WikiLeaks
PBS's Newshour of Dec. 7 interviewed two lawyers about questions of criminal law (and possible First Amendment protection) concerning the disclosures made on the WikiLeak site (not about the criminal charges in Sweden). video or .mp3 8:52 min. transcript available.
NPR's All Things Considered of Dec. 8 had a story that touches on the question of extradition on charges of sexual CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-23356277301324410292010-12-07T08:47:00.000+01:002010-12-07T08:47:28.354+01:00Same-sex marriage in California
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard oral arguments Monday in a case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, involving California’s ban against same-sex marriage. In the November 2008 elections, California voters approved Proposition 8, an amendment to California’s Constitution that limits marriage to a man and a woman. The Circuit CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-25618271706327093472010-12-01T06:28:00.001+01:002011-02-21T08:28:49.776+01:00Judges (and other legal professionals) in England and Wales
The official site of the judiciary of England and Wales has some very interesting activities, including "you be the judge" as well as interviews with district judges (what qualities are needed to be a judge, what are the most difficult decisions...)
Adobe flash required, subtitles (closed captioning or CC as it is known) and transcriptsCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-50233237598662777612010-11-28T13:29:00.002+01:002010-11-28T13:49:06.959+01:00Justice Brennan - U.S. Supreme Court
Nina Totenberg, on NPR's All Things Considered of Nov. 24, reports about the publication of a biography, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, which offers much detailed inside information about the operation of the Court in the years 1956-1990.
9 min, transcript availableCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-22485699522794354802010-11-24T05:28:00.001+01:002010-11-28T13:31:03.980+01:00Judges and Judging in the U.S.
The Goldfarb Center at Colby College in conjunction with the State-Federal Judicial Council for Maine and the Maine Council on Social Studies has produced a video which contains interviews with many state and federal judges and a detailed (29 page) study guide. The judges talk about how they became interested in the law ("all judges had lives before they became CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-80800132127502365682010-11-08T06:43:00.001+01:002010-11-28T13:49:54.118+01:00John Bell on foreign examples used in comparative law
Professor John Bell of the University of Cambridge Law School gave the 9th annual Bernstein lecture at Duke University Law School on Feb. 23, 2010. The subject was "The Relevance of Foreign Examples to Legal Development." Bell makes three claims: governance through law is a universal and global activity and therefore its application cannot beCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-81322593697792887892010-11-04T14:11:00.000+01:002010-11-04T14:11:45.515+01:00The E.U. and the U.S.
Sergio Fabbrini, Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at the University of Trento, Italy, spoke on September 27th at Duke University Law School about on his most recent book, "Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe are Becoming Similar."
58 min, RealAudio, no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-22508383358862474602010-11-02T07:00:00.000+01:002010-11-02T07:00:22.368+01:00How Some U.S. State Laws Are Written
NPR's Morning Edition has a two-part series showing how private prison companies worked to draft, then enact the harsh Arizona immigration law so they could build and fill new prisons.
October 28, 2010 - Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
7 min 47 sec - transcript available
October 29, 2010 - Shaping State Laws With Little Scrutiny
7 min 46 secCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-41402560779512811562010-10-25T19:08:00.001+02:002011-02-21T08:19:05.411+01:00Fordham Law School videos
Fordham Law School in New York has a series of short videos to show prospective students why it's a great place to go to school. For instance, you can follow the story of a young man who got into debt and felt that he wasn't treated fairly who got help from students participating in the Tax & Consumer Litigation clinic. 7:20 min., no transcript
Another short video takesCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-8860856919230051052010-10-21T14:34:00.000+02:002010-10-21T14:34:14.064+02:00Law in Action
Law in Action is back this week with a new series of programmes. The first one is about questions of family law. Next week Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP, the new Justice Secretary, is interviewed in front of an audience at Gray's Inn.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-71673107434112808132010-10-17T06:06:00.000+02:002010-10-17T06:06:08.031+02:00U.K. Parliamentary Sovereignty
Charon QC, aka Mike Semple Piggot, recently interviewed Carl Gardner on the subject of parliamentary sovereignty, following Gardner's article in The Guardian of 7 October 2010. 25 min, no transcript.You can find all of Charon, QC's podcasts here.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-8503455262999330912010-10-15T06:40:00.000+02:002010-10-15T06:40:59.556+02:00What U.S. Supreme Court Justices do when they retire
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was interviewed on PBS's program Newshour on Oct. 13 concerning her views about electing judges. The interview starts out, however, with a description of a project the Justice is behind - a new web site with games to teach middle school children the basics of civics, a subject no longer part of CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-42989843697338003212010-10-12T14:19:00.000+02:002010-10-12T14:19:16.059+02:00Free Speech at Funerals in the U.S.
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Albert Snyder vs. Westboro Baptist Church which involves the question of what limits can be put on the right of free speech. The father of a dead marine sued Westboro Baptist Church for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional harm. The church, basically consisting of the Phelps family, CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-45329475275293006292010-10-10T18:32:00.000+02:002010-10-10T18:32:41.575+02:00UChannel — a collection of audio and video public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world, hosted by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, will disappear on November 3. Files can be downloaded until then. Their use is subject only to “Terms of Use” set forth here.
This site began in 2005, but according to their web page “...the introduction of CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-78399794979292876822010-10-08T07:20:00.004+02:002010-10-09T06:18:16.327+02:00More SCOTUS
The Supreme Court of the United States (aka SCOTUS) began its new term on Monday with the arrival of a new justice, Elena Kagan, and the absence of another, John Paul Stevens, whom Kagan replaced upon his retirement at age 90.
Justice Stevens was interviewed by Nina Totenberg, NPR's legal correspondent, and this interview was broadcast in two parts on October 4th.
The first part, CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-54057993224523367372010-10-05T08:03:00.000+02:002010-10-05T08:03:05.612+02:00Comparative Constitutional Law
University of Chicago Law School Professor Tom Ginsburg presents, with four short videos, some findings from his comparative constitutions project.
part one The Influence of the U.S. Constitution on Other Countries
part two When a Constitution Makes a Difference
part three The Importance of Detail for Constitutional Endurance
part four When a Constitution MakesCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-9598456304782912992010-10-04T15:41:00.000+02:002010-10-04T15:41:15.847+02:00U.S. Birthright Citizenship
On Sept. 22, Akhil Amar and Peter Schuck, both members of the faculty of Yale Law School, debated whether the citizenship of children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants can be limited by Congress. 49 min. no transcript
In August, Akhil Amar appeared on the comedy television program, The Colbert Report, talking about this subject. 08:48 no transcriptCKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-49255042848045497152010-10-03T09:31:00.000+02:002010-10-03T09:31:00.654+02:00U.S. Supreme Court cases "lite"or "up close and personal"
Duke University Law School has recently put online Voices of American Law - "materials to assist in studying the Supreme Court and its role in American society". It is a project of Thomas Metzloff, a law professor there who teaches a course entitled Distinctive Aspects of U.S. Law for international students
The website includes a CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-48776817994120365962010-10-02T07:55:00.000+02:002010-10-02T07:55:40.347+02:00
Law Report - recent programmes
Australian public radio's Law Report keeps its audio on the internet only for a month or so, and there are a few programmes you might want to download before they disappear (the transcripts remain). On 14 September 2010 Albie Sachs, former judge on the South African Constitutional Court, talked about judging, including how he wrote his judgments. 21 September 2010CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-27901869412312557112010-09-20T13:50:00.000+02:002010-09-20T13:50:07.567+02:00Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4
Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 this week examines questions related to privacy — eavesdropping and CCTV in schools. Last week's programme talked about some of the latest ideas on crime presented at the recent British Society of Criminology Conference at Leicester University.
A series of three programmes last November on Thinking Allowed was devoted to white CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-25074849111583745302010-09-15T07:43:00.001+02:002011-06-26T10:12:23.072+02:00Interviews with Justice Breyer (U.S. Supreme Court)
Justice Stephen Breyer has just published another book, Making Our Democracy Work, a Judge's View, and has been interviewed twice so far on National Public Radio about it and about his judicial philosophy, the role of politics in decision making, and the workings of the Court. The first, shorter, interview was on Morning Edition (Sept. 13 - 7 CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-42126019072842162142010-09-13T08:01:00.000+02:002010-09-13T08:01:42.322+02:00Why my law school is the best
New York University Law School's web site has added a feature it calls "student voices" to explain what it's like to study at NYU. In short videos (1 to 3 min.), students give explanations of why they find a given class wonderful. The videos are classified either by student (Maggie, Patrick...) or by topic (business, criminal, international, tax...). On the topics CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-12284896514092870992010-09-09T08:57:00.001+02:002010-09-09T15:25:51.991+02:00Foreign law in U.S. courts
NPR's All Things Considered of September 8, 2010 has a story about the effort by a legislator in Oklahoma to adopt a constitutional amendment in his state which would bar judges from considering Shariah or any foreign law.
4 min 34 sec, something like a transcript, with a few errors.CKLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5116492.post-21915578838643689022010-09-07T13:55:00.000+02:002010-09-07T13:55:24.844+02:00The Laws of War
Le Monde Diplomatique has a monthly podcast. August's edition is an interview with Chase Madar, a civil rights lawyer in New York, about the laws of war and the different ways in which they are violated.
8:44 min., no transcript.CKLnoreply@blogger.com