Miami Law Explainer

Director of the transaction skills program Marcia Narine Weldon looks at the issues driving Elon Musk and Sam Altman's fight for control of OpenAI. Recorded March 25, 2025

Vice dean and bankruptcy expert Drew Dawson explains the dips and dives that brought Spirit Airlines bankruptcy in four short months. Recorded March 27, 2025.

The United States Supreme Court recently ordered a new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has been scheduled for death nine times. The School of Law's Innocence Clinic director, Craig Trocino, explains the arguments. Recorded March 27, 2025.

Former White House staff economist Gabe Scheffler parses the ACA. Recorded on March 11, 2025.

Law and technology scholar Or Cohen-Sasson dives into the good and bad of tech. Recorded on February 27, 2025.

Financial law and fintech scholar Nikita Aggarwal discusses the independent agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Recorded February 28, 2024.

Criminal law expert Scott Sundby looks at the 4th Amendment's inability to keep up with tech. Recorded February 21, 2025.

Antitrust expert John Newman digs into the ticketing giant's trouble. Recorded on February 13, 2025.

Professor Tamara Lave unpacks changes to the civil rights law. Recorded February 6, 2025.

Forensic science expert Chris Fabricant joins Miami Law Innocence Clinic director Craig Trocino discussing an unjust legal system. Recorded January 8, 2025.

Consumer finance expert Nikita Aggarwal explores the popular industry. Recorded October 31, 2024.

Floridians are challenging the state's six-week access to abortion law in the upcoming election. Constitutional scholar Caroline Mala Corbin looks at the national landscape. Recorded on October 21, 2024.

Criminal law expert Scott Sundby digs into questionable executions. Recorded October 17, 2024.

Trademark and cultural heritage expert Jan Osei-Tutu tackles corporate bullying. Recorded on October 2, 2024.

Associate director of Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic Robert Latham explains new foster care rules. Recorded October 3, 2024.

Constitutional scholar Charlton Copeland laments the end of another settled law. Recorded on September 25, 2024.

Criminal law expert Tamara Lave susses out the case against Sean Combs. Recorded on September 19, 2024.

Compliance expert Marcia Narine Weldon chimes in on employee contract rules and moves by the Federal Trade Commission. Recorded on September 12, 2024.

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows cities to clear homeless encampments while a new Florida law bans camping in public places. Homeless law expert Stephen Schnably parses the impacts of the new laws. Recorded on August 27, 2024.

If Kamala Harris ascends to the country's highest office, she will hit a lot of firsts: first woman president, first of Indian heritage, first former prosecutor. On the episode, Innocence Clinic director Craig Trocino, who has spent decades arguing in state and federal court, takes a look at what a former prosecutor as president might look like. Recorded on August 28, 2024.

In a stunning turn, a federal judge recently ruled that the tech giant violated antitrust laws. Professor John Newman, former attorney with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division, dives into the future of big tech. Recorded August 22, 2024.

It's been a once-in-a-lifetime summer in politics with suits and challenges to election law that threaten to continue up to election day and beyond. Election law expert Frances Hill joins the podcast to discuss what we know and what we don't. Recorded August 15, 2024.

Innocence clinic director Craig Trocino looks at flat fees for capital crime representation. Recorded April 11, 2024.

Criminal law expert Tamara Lave opines of the killing on the movie set. Recorded March 27, 2024.

Homeless law expert Stephen Schnably drills into a case going to the Supreme Court. Recorded March 27, 2024.

As the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere prepares for a transitional government, violence is spreading to wealthier enclaves, where bodies riddled with bullets lay in the streets. Haiti expert Irwin Stotzky, author of three books on Haiti, discusses the chaos.

U.S. laws criminalize survivors of gender-based violence. Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, who led the Obama and Biden administrations efforts to address, dives into where we are and were we are going, Recorded February 29, 2024.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the former president's claim of immunity from charges that he sought to overturn the 2020 election results, throwing the 2024 elections into chaos. Recorded February 29, 2024.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russia since the invasion in February 2022. Bernard Perlmutter, founder of Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic, weighs in on the efforts to have the children returned. Recorded on February 20, 2024.

Several Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases have hinged over the use of words and punctuation. Jill Barton, director of Miami Law's Legal Communications and Research Skill, writes about writing. Recorded February 13, 2024.

As today's guest, antitrust expert John Newman recently wrote, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice "have been on a tear. Recorded on February 6, 2024.

Michigan parents Jennifer and Jason Crumbly are being tried for a school shooting committed by their son. Criminal law expert Scott Sundby looks at the crime and the impact. Recorded February 1, 2024.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended two popular and elected progressive state attorneys, who promptly filed suit. Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino tracks the two cases. Recorded January 23, 2024.

Major changes are coming to legal education, with JD-Next offered as an alternative to the LSAT and the NextGen bar exam, a shorter test focusing on eight foundational concepts and principles. Miami Law Dean David Yellen weighs the pros and cons. Recorded on January 17, 2024.

Climate expert Jessica Owley unpacks the upcoming 2023 United National Climate Change Conference in Dubai. Recorded on November 8, 2023.

Fresh off a stint at the Federal Trade Commission, John Newman gets into antitrust in the news. Recorded November 1, 2023.

Miami Law's comparative law expert Pablo Rueda Saiz slogs through the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the Darien Gap, a treacherous sliver of jungle connecting Colombia and Panama, through which hundreds of thousands of migrants pass in the march to the United States. Recorded October 18, 2023.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is on trial for fraud following his company's high-profile collapse in 2022. Miami Law's Investor Rights Clinic Director Scott Eichhorn handicaps SBF's legal peril. Recorded October 19, 2023.

Mindfulness expert Scott Rogers explores finding happiness in a legal mind. Recorded October 4, 2023.

Civil rights expert Donald Jones opines on SCOTUS ruling in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard. Recorded October 3, 2023.

Election expert Frances Hill dispels election myths and misinformation and unpacks automatic voter registration and gerrymandering. Recorded on September 26, 2023.

Director of Miami Law's Innocence Clinic Craig Trocino unpacks the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act. Recorded September 221, 2023.

A force behind the landmark homelessness case Pottinger v. City of Miami, Stephen Schnably opines on a case that may go before the U.S. Supreme Court. Recorded September 11, 2023.

Professor Kunal Parker previews his forthcoming book, The Turn to Process. Recorded September 8, 2023.

Miami Law's Tamara Rice Lave unpacks the knowns and unknowns of former President Donald Trump's handfuls of legal woes. Recorded on August 29, 2023.

Miami Law's Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic Doug Ruley handicaps the planet's chance of surviving the climate crisis. Recorded August 22, 2023.

With limits to abortion measures passing in many states and the battle for medical abortion medications reaching the U.S. Supreme Court docket, on today's show, constitutional law expert CAROLINE MALA CORBIN wades into the assaults on women's rights. Recorded on April 27, 2023.

The path to group and individual minority rights among immigrants is limited, says DAVID ABRAHAM. Recorded April 20, 2023.

Juries are being doxxed. SCOTT SUNDBY looks at political meddling. Recorded April 12, 2023.

The push for automated vehicles has been lauded as likely leading us to a safer driving future. But the question before us is whether the costs we pay to reach that destination are fairly distributed across economic groups. Professor William Widen says they are not. The failure to take this into account exemplifies troubling issues with the regulatory state, involving issues like industry capture of regulators and the absence of political will to protect the most vulnerable among us when innovative products hail a brighter future for all. Further, Widen addresses efforts at the state level that have inhibited local governments from addressing these issues on their own. Recorded March 10, 2023.

On today's episode, intellectual property expert ANDRES SAWICKI takes on artificial intelligence. Recorded March 14, 2023.