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Stanford Legal
Law touches most aspects of life. Here to help make sense of it is the Stanford Legal podcast, where we look at the cases, questions, conflicts, and legal stories that affect us all every day. Pam Karlan studies and teaches a range of constitutional law-related courses with a special focus on wha...
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Who Fills In When Federal Jobs Are Vacant?
Stanford’s Anne Joseph O’Connell examines who can step in when a top federal position is vacant and what recent court decisions could mean for how tho...
Best of Stanford Legal: Inside the ACLU’s Docket with Anthony Romero
The ACLU’s Anthony Romero unpacks a sweeping docket—from a Supreme Court showdown over birthright citizenship to voting rights and free speech—as the...
America's Promissory Note
The Declaration as a “promissory note”—and what it demands now
In the final discussion of The Declaration at 250 series, Robert P. Georg...
The Growing Influence of State Solicitors General
Former state solicitors general Michael Mongan and Kevin Gallagher discuss the evolving role of state solicitors general and how states work together...
Countering Contemporary Criticism of America's Founding Principles
The real crisis isn’t the Declaration—it’s what we’ve stopped teaching.
Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Instit...
The Declaration In the Age of General Purpose AI
"The Declaration meets the machine age"
In this episode of The Declaration at 250, Michael McConnell frames a question the Founders never confro...
The Iran War and the Limits of Presidential Power
Stanford’s Allen Weiner examines how the U.S. war with Iran raises questions about the president’s power to wage war and negotiate peace.
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Is the Declaration Our Law?
“Two competing originalist instincts”
In this episode of The Declaration at 250, Michael McConnell introduces Randy Barnett, the Patrick Hotung...
State Constitutions and the Declaration of Independence
This episode highlights an often-missed story: the Declaration of Independence didn’t just shape the U.S. Constitution—it directly shaped state consti...
The Structural Declaration of Independence
This episode reframes the Declaration of Independence as more than soaring ideals about equality and natural rights. Former California Supreme Court J...
Birthright Citizenship and the Future of the Fourteenth Amendment
Stanford’s Fred Smith examines the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision, its historical roots in the Fourteenth Amendment, and the question...
Inside the Supreme Court’s Key 2026 Decisions
Jeff Fisher discusses a term marked by major rulings across executive power, voting, and civil rights, and what they signal about the Court’s trajecto...
The Declaration of Independence as Obligation
This episode of The Declaration at 250 discussion spotlights a striking—and often overlooked—line in the Declaration of Independence: when despotism b...
The Case for a Public Share in AI
Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz discuss their proposal to require leading AI firms to pay taxes in equity, reshaping how the gains from AI are di...
The Declaration of Independence and Conditions for Democratic Flourishing
In the opening episode of The Declaration at 250, Michael McConnell introduces former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and historian David Kennedy...
Declaration at 250 Trailer
00:00:00 — What new can be said about the Declaration at 250?
McConnell opens with the core question and frames 250 years of interpretat...
Inside the Trump Administration's Immigration Agenda
Lucas Guttentag discusses the Trump administration’s immigration policies and the legal battles reshaping the U.S. immigration system
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The Law Must Be King
Judge J. Michael Luttig on the Rule of Law in an Era of Executive Overreach
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In this special episode, recorded at the Neukom Center's R...
When Government Lawyers Draw the Line
Former Justice Department officials reflect on an institution at a crossroads
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Former Department of Justice pardon attorney Liz Oyer de...
Voting Rights at a Turning Point
Pamela Karlan and Nathaniel Persily on the Supreme Court’s latest decision on redistricting and minority representation.
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In the wake o...
Who Gets to Vote?
The ACLU’s Sophia Lin Lakin discusses voting access and the redistricting battles shaping political power
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Sophia Lin Lakin, JD ’11 (MS...
Native Nations, Federal Indian Law, and the Birthright Citizenship Case
Stanford’s Greg Ablavsky on the history behind the birthright case
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says: “all persons born are...
The Politics and Promise of a Billionaire Tax
Stanford Law Alum Darien Shanske on Wealth, Fairness, and California’s Proposed Billionaire Tax
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On this episode of Stanford Legal, hos...
Trump's Immigration Raids and State Pushback
Jennifer Chacón discusses how immigration crackdowns are reshaping policing and public life
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The Trump administration came in promising...
Stanford’s Alan Sykes on the Future of Trump’s Tariffs After the IEEPA Case
Supreme Court limits IEEPA tariff power in a 6–3 ruling as Al Sykes and Pam Karlan explain the impact on Congress, trade, and what’s next
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A Seismic Shift in Climate Law
Deborah Sivas on the EPA’s Rescission of the Endangerment Finding
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The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it was rescin...
Inside the ACLU’s Docket: Anthony Romero on the Front Lines of Civil Rights
The ACLU’s Anthony Romero unpacks a sweeping docket—from a Supreme Court showdown over birthright citizenship to voting rights and free speech—as the...
The Importance of Critical Thinking and Civil Discourse in Today's Polarized World
Stanford’s Robert MacCoun shows how scientific habits can sharpen judgment and strengthen civil discourse in a polarized society.
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In a...
How Democracies Collapse from Within
What happens when the legal tools meant to protect democracy are used to weaken it? Kim Scheppele explains.
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Professor Kim Scheppele ha...
Flexing U.S. Power in Venezuela
Stanford Law’s Allen Weiner explores developments in Venezuela and the role—and limits—of international law
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Can the United States arre...
Best of Stanford Legal: Trump's Pardons
Political Violence, Hate Groups, and the Rule of Law
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What are the legal implications of the unprecedented mass pardoning of the Januar...
Best of Stanford Legal: Suing DOGE
Urgent legal questions about privacy protections of the nation’s largest collection of personal data and unprecedented influence of Silicon Valley in...
Nationwide Injunctions After CASA
Mila Sohoni on the New Legal Landscape
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When a single federal judge can freeze a president’s policy nationwide, it raises big questions...
Crime, Justice, and Trump’s DOJ
What happens when long-standing norms begin to erode? Jonathan Wroblewski discusses his decades at the DOJ and the forces shaping federal justice
Navigating Uncertainty and Unprecedented Shifts in Federal Health Policy
Stanford Law’s Michelle Mello discusses how sweeping changes in federal health policy are reshaping public health--and leading states to fill the void...
National Guard or Political Weapon?
Legal historian and constitutional law scholar Professor Bernadette Meyler cautions that the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard t...
Political Enemies and the Weaponization of the DOJ
Pam Karlan and Bob Weisberg unpack the Comey and James indictments, and what they reveal about the rule of law in a politicized justice system
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President Trump’s Tariffs and the Separation of Powers at the Supreme Court
The biggest separation-of-powers controversy since the steel seizure case in 1952.
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In April, President Trump declared a national emerg...
Guns, Money, and Mass Shootings
Stanford Law Researchers Discuss How Lobbying Shapes the Political Battlefield
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Frequent mass shootings are a distinctly American probl...
U.S. Risking its Scientific Research Edge?
Stanford Law’s Lisa Ouellette discusses the rollback of federal support for vital academic research, the challenge of defending U.S. research from pol...