The Institute for Justice regularly records podcasts featuring interviews with IJ clients and attorneys. We discuss the principles we fight for, as we advance a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society. IJ also publishes an email roundup of the week’s doings in the U.S. Courts of Appeal called Short Circuit. Subscribe today.
Bound By Oath
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution requires every judge to be “bound by Oath” to uphold “this Constitution.” But to understand if judges are following that oath, it’s important to ask, “What is in ‘this Constitution’?” Your host John Ross takes a deep dive into the Constitution’s text, history, and characters, and interviews historians, legal scholars, and the real people involved in historic and contemporary cases.
Short Circuit
The Supreme Court decides a few dozen cases every year; federal appellate courts decide thousands. So if you love constitutional law, the circuit courts are where it’s at. Join us as we break down some of the week’s most intriguing appellate decisions with a unique brand of insight, wit, and passion for judicial engagement and the rule of law.
Beyond the Brief
Hear about the cases, issues, and tactics advancing IJ’s fight for freedom—directly from the people on the front lines. Beyond the Brief explores the legal theories, strategies, and methods IJ uses to bring about real world change, expanding individual liberty and ending abuses of government power. Each episode gives listeners an in-depth, inside look at how—and why—we do what we do.
Unpublished Opinions
What do Institute for Justice attorneys think about the law? Listen into their roundtable conversations where they give their unrehearsed and “unpublished” opinions on matters beyond the federal courts of appeals. From the latest Supreme Court cases to legal history to trial tactics, IJ attorneys have much to share and (politely, but spiritedly) disagree with each other about.
Law Office History
Law Office History digs into the latest in legal history scholarship as it relates to the defense of the classical liberal legal order. Institute for Justice attorneys interview legal history scholars on their latest work exploring the law of the past and how it relates to our future. From the crafting of the Constitution to the mysteries of the common law to the convulsions of the twentieth century, Law Office History brings law and history together. Attempting to bridge divides in the legal history world, we support scholarship that avoids cherry picking sources while also understanding that the past belongs to all of us: lawyers, historians, law professors, judges, and the public.
Short Circuit
Short Circuit 453 | 100 Years of Zoning
With a live audience in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we mark (not celebrate) the 100th anniversary of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty, where the Supreme Court […]
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Can Common Error Make Law? Christian Burset
Christian Burset of the University of Pennsylvania joins us for a journey into the strange past of jolly old England when Parliament made law but […]
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License Plate Camera Abuse: DOCUMENTED
Automated license plate cameras were sold to towns across America as a way to catch car thieves and find missing kids. What those towns bought […]
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Unpublished Opinions 27 | The Law of the Spirits
John Wrench is joined by Diana Simpson and Patrick Jaicomo to discuss the truly frightful! Like, what to make of the Supreme Court’s latest refusal […]
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Younger abstention | Season 4, Ep. 4
In 1966, Los Angeles officials tried to put a man in prison for handing out leaflets in protest of a fatal police shooting. Today, we […]
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