On the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer this week, we follow up on the Wall Street Journal investigation that found that several popular Facebook applications may be inappropriately using users’ personal information. We discuss the legal implications of this with two guests: Kimberley Isbell, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and…
Lawyer2Lawyer Looks at the Supreme Court Term
It’s the first Monday in October and you know what that means. This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we look ahead at the new Supreme Court term and the docket of cases the court will hear.
Our guests this week are Wilson R. Huhn, professor of law and constitutional law research fellow at…
A Legal Podcasting Milestone: Five Years and 250 Episodes
With today’s episode of the Lawyer2Lawyer podcast, we reach a milestone: our 250th episode and the end of our fifth year of weekly shows. This makes Lawyer2Lawyer the longest continually running legal podcast.
Our first show was on Aug. 31, 2005. Our guests for that first show were Michael S. Greco, then…
Podcast: F. Lee Bailey on the Clemens Indictment
Legendary criminal defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey and New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt join us to discuss the indictment of Roger Clemens on this week’s installment of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer.
You can listen to the program in your browser or download the MP3 file from the Legal Talk…
Podcast: Justice Denied in the Markoff Case?
Three great guests join us on this week’s Lawyer2Lawyer to discuss the prison suicide of accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff and what it means for the case, the victims’ families and the criminal justice system.
Our guests are:…
Lawyer2Lawyer podcast: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Elena Kagan
Well, maybe not everything. But on this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the newest member of the Supreme Court and the impact she might ultimately have there.
Joining us are two experts on the court:…
Lawyer2Lawyer Looks at the Prop 8 Ruling
In a landmark decision last week, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s controversial and highly debated Proposition 8. Approved by the state’s voters in November 2008, Prop 8 overturned a state supreme court ruling that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage.
This week on the legal-affairs podcast…
We Interview the Dean of the New UMass Law School
Robert V. Ward
On this week’s episode of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we interview Robert V. Ward Jr., dean of the new University of Massachusetts School of Law, the first public law school in the state. He talks about why the school is important, how it will be financed, and its…The Legal Issues of Blogs, Fair Use and Attribution
Bloggers rely heavily on maintstream news sources for topics. What obligation does a blogger have to give attribution to an original source? To what extent can a blogger use the content of a news story?
We explore these and related issues with New York Times sports reporter Alan Schwarz this week on the…
Law.gov: Putting Primary Law in the Public Domain
Over the past six months, a series of workshops and symposia have explored the so-called Law.gov campaign, an effort to put all U.S. primary legal materials in the public domain. Next week, the series wraps up with a June 15 workshop sponsored by the Center for American Progress (which will be streamed live…
Is ‘American Needle’ the Most Important Case in Sports?
This week on the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the Supreme Court’s May 24 opinion in American Needle v. NFL, which some are calling the most important legal ruling in sports. Joining us to flesh out the significance of this unanimous ruling are Marc Edelman, a sports lawyer and professor of sports…
Lawyer2Lawyer Looks at Ethics in the Cloud
The North Carolina State Bar recently published for comment a proposed legal ethics opinion approving lawyers’ use of cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service. In this week’s edition of the legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the ethics of cloud computing with two guests:…