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Ipse Dixit
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Ipse Dixit is a podcast on legal scholarship. Each episode of Ipse Dixit features a different guest discussing their scholarship. The podcast also features several special series.
- "From the Archives" consists historical recordings potentially of interest to legal scholars and lawyers.
- "The Homicide Squad" consists of investigations of the true stories behind different murder ballads, as well as examples of how different musicians have interpreted the song over time.
- "The Day Antitrust Died?" is co-hosted with Ramsi Woodcock, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, and consists of oral histories of the 1974 Airlie House Conference on antitrust law, a pivotal moment in the history of antitrust theory and policy.
The hosts of Ipse Dixit are:
- Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law
- Luce Nguyen, a student at Oberlin College and the co-founder of the Oberlin Policy Research Institute, an undergraduate public policy organization based at Oberlin College
- Maybell Romero, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law
- Antonia Eliason, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law
- Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M School of Law
- John Culhane, Professor of Law at Widener University Delaware Law School
- Benjamin Edwards, Associate Professor of Law at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
- Matthew Bruckner, Associate Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law
Comments and suggestions are always welcome at brianlfrye@gmail.com. You can follow the Ipse Dixit on Twitter at @IpseDixitPod.
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Saurabh Vishnubhakat on the Constitutionality of the Appointment of PTAB Judges
Jul 16, 202501:08:32Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Law Program at Cardozo School of Law, discusses his draft article "Constitutional Structure in the Patent Office." Vishnubhakat begins by explaining how the patent application or "prosecution" process works, how the Patent Office adjudication process is structures, and how Patent Office administrative law judges are appointed. He then explains why the appointment process creates a constitutional problem under the Appointment Clause, based on recent Supreme Court opinions. Finally, he explains how the problem could be solved, and why the solution might improve patent policy and the patent adjudication process. Vishnubhakat is on Twitter and Bluesky.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Richard Albert & Kevin Frazier on Using AI to Draft Constitutions
Jul 15, 202500:45:40Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Richard Albert, Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation & Law Fellow at The University of Texas School of Law, discuss their draft article, "Should AI Write Your Constitution?" They begin by explaining how much constitution writing and amending in taking place in the world right now, and reflecting on the values that should inform the creation and amendment of constitutions. They describe their survey of international constitution writers, and how it informed their assessment of how AI can and should - and shouldn't! - be used in drafting and amending constitutions. They also provide a set of best practices for using AI in relation to constitutions. Albert is on Twitter and Bluesky. Frazier is also on Twitter and Bluesky.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Laurie Gwen Shapiro on Amelia Earhart & Historical Research
Jul 15, 202500:51:48Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, a writer and filmmaker, discusses her new book, "The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon," which is published by Viking. Shapiro reflects on the process of researching and writing the book, and shares many fascinating stories and anecdotes about Amelia Earhart's life. She also describes her approach to historical research, and how she managed to uncover so much new information about an American icon. Shapiro is on Twitter and Bluesky.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Jacob Schriner-Briggs on First Amendment Traditionalism
Jul 14, 202500:38:53Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Jacob M. Schriner-Briggs, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses his article "Against First Amendment Traditionalism," which will be published in the Kentucky Law Journal. Schreiner-Briggs begins by observing that the Supreme Court has recently suggested that its "history and tradition" based interpretation of the Second Amendment is also appropriate for interpreting the First Amendment. He explains why such an approach would affect the First Amendment differently from the Second Amendment, potentially increasing the government's ability to regulate politically disfavored favored speech. And he argues that this would be a normatively undesirable outcome, in relationship to pluralist democratic values. Schriner-Briggs is on Bluesky.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Jade Craig on Rate Covenants in Municipal Bonds
Jun 12, 202501:00:06Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Jade Craig, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, discusses his article, "Rate Covenants in Municipal Bonds: Selling Away Civil Rights and Fair Housing Goals." Professor Craig discusses revenue bonds that state and local governments issue to fund projects ranging from improvements to public utilities and toll roads to convention centers and retirement communities. Local governments repay revenue bond investors with money generated by fees associated with the funded project which are charged to members of the public who use the service. In charging these fees, governments are often bound by rate covenant provisions that require the government to charge fees sufficient to cover the debt—with little in the way of restrictions on how high those rates may go. Absent restrictions, and in the interest of repaying investors (and generating a profit for these investors), state and local governments often charge high fees for users, resulting in regressive rates that disproportionately harm low-income people and people of color. Professor Craig urges greater attention to the harms rate covenants pose to these communities and provides suggestions for how governments may better accommodate their constituents' civil rights while continuing to fund infrastructure and other projects through revenue bonds.Professor Craig's article was published in Volume 102 of the Denver Law Review and is available here. Professor Craig is on Twitter at @ProfJadeCraig. This episode was guest-hosted by Michael Smith, who will be joining the University of Oklahoma as an associate professor of law beginning in August 2025. Professor Smith is on Bluesky at @msmith750.bsky.social. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Franklin Graves on the New Creator Economy
May 27, 202500:47:08Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Franklin Graves, Senior Counsel at LinkedIn, discusses his article "Upload Complete: An Introduction to Creator Economy Law," which will be published in the Belmont Law Journal. Graves begins by explaining what he means by a creator and the creator economy. He reflects on what made the creator economy possible and the kinds of opportunities it provides to creators, platforms, and advertisers alike. He discusses how different bodies of law affect the creator economy, including privacy law, competition law, and copyright. And he offers his predictions for the future of the creator economy. Graves is on Twitter, Bluesky, and of course, LinkedIn.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Michael Smith on Generative AI & the Purpose of Legal Scholarship
May 26, 202500:41:20Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Michael L. Smith, soon to be an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, discusses his article "Generative AI and the Purpose of Legal Scholarship," which will be published in the University of Massachusetts Law Review. Smith begins by describing recent law review articles claiming that the use of generative AI will transform legal scholarship. He asks whether that is true or desirable, observing that the use of generative AI may not be conducive to the production of high-quality legal scholarship. He reflects on the incentives of legal scholars and how the use of generative AI interacts with those incentives. And he offers some suggestions about how the legal academy should think about the use of generative AI to produce legal scholarship. Smith is on Bluesky.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Mike Kasdan on Web3 Lawyering
Jan 25, 2023Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Michael J. Kasdan, a partner at Wiggin and Dana LLP, discusses his work as a lawyer in the Web3 space. Among other things, Kasdan discusses how intellectual property affects Web3 markets, including how Web3 companies are using their intellectual property rights in new and unexpected ways.This episode was hosted by Sidhant Raghuvanshi, an LLM student at UC Berkeley School of Law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Robert Anderson on Analytics for Law Review Submissions and Publishing
Feb 17, 2021Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Robert Anderson, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, introduces ScholarSift, a new analytics platform for law reviews he created with co-founder Trent Wenzel. He discusses initially identifying the need for a platform like ScholarSift and distinguishes it from other search functions with which listeners may already be familiar, while relating the basic mechanics of use. He describes how ScholarSift's algorithm is different than those used by other services and how it can lead to greater citation counts for women, people of color, and other scholars from marginalized communities. He then predicts how ScholarSift could lead to curtailing the volume of submissions made to law reviews by legal scholars, lightening the burden on both authors and law reviews. He also explains how it could be a useful tool for law students even outside the law review context. Anderson is on Twitter at @ProfRobAnderson.This episode was hosted by Maybell Romero, Associate Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Romero is on Twitter at @MaybellRomero. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Hafsa Mansoor on Bail Reform
Apr 17, 2020Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Hafsa Mansoor, Seton Hall Law 3L, Center for Social Justice scholar, and student attorney at Seton Hall Immigrants' Rights and International Human Rights Clinic, discusses her paper, "Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Effective Bail Reform As A Human Rights Imperative," forthcoming in the Elon Law Journal in 2021. Ms. Mansoor discusses tragic stories that have arisen due to the use and preponderance of cash bail. She addresses the massive inequities connected to the use of risk based assessments, and discusses how cash bail systems disproportionately hurt minorities and the poor. Ms. Mansoor discusses recent, well-intended efforts at bail reform in New Jersey and the ways that it has failed. She then discusses how using a human rights lens to view access to justice as a human right could be used to reevaluated and reform bail throughout the country.This episode was hosted by Maybell Romero, assistant professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Romero is on Twitter at @MaybellRomero. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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