Podcast appearances and mentions of charles barzun

The Virginia Law Review hosts UVA Law professors A. E. Dick Howard '61 and Charles Barzun '05 for a fireside chat detailing Howard's career. (University of Virginia School of Law, March 21, 2024)

Charles Barzun is a law professor at the University of Virginia. His areas of interest include constitutional law, torts, evidence and the history of legal thought. In this episode, we talk about the common law method, Ronald Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, and the internal/external divide in legal theory.

A panel of scholars discuss UVA Law professor G. Edward White’s final volume in his “Law in American History” series. The panel included professors Jack Landman Goldsmith, Harvard Law School; Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Victoria Nourse, Georgetown University Law Center. UVA Law professor Charles Barzun served as moderator, and Dean Risa Goluboff introduced the panel. (University of Virginia School of Law, Oct. 11, 2019)

Joe becomes the guest guest and Mike Madison the guest host, as we talk about Joe's new research into the web of law and what citations tell us about what law means. As one might expect for a show which is ostensibly about legal theory but actually, as all good argunauts know, an extended meditation on Being Joe, this is a very special episode of Oral Argument. This show’s links: Joe Miller's faculty profile (http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/joseph-s-miller) and writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=104702) Mike Madison’s website (http://madisonian.net/home/), writing (http://madisonian.net/home/?page_id=85), and blog (http://madisonian.net) Joseph Miller, Law's Semantic Self-Portrait: Discerning Doctrine with Co-Citation Networks and Keywords (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3212131) Joseph Miller, Charting Supreme Court Patent Law, Near and Far (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3125510); Joseph Miller, Which Supreme Court Cases Influenced Recent Supreme Court IP Decisions? A Citation Study (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3012262) Charles Barzun, Three Forms of Legal Pragmatism (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3178155) Andrew Green and Albert Yoon, Triaging the Law: Developing the Common Law on the Supreme Court of India (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jels.12161) Frank Pasquale, A Rule of Persons, Not Machines: The Limits of Legal Automation (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3135549) James Scott, Seeing Like a State (https://books.google.com/books?id=PqcPCgsr2u0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false) Special Guest: Mike Madison.

We talk with Charles Barzun about what it means to be a legal pragmatist. But first we start with the ending and then talk John Hodgman, the F words (Framers and Founders), the old 2x debate, and finally (at 13:31) about legal pragmatism and its many senses. We connect the topic to interpretation, ethics, the age of our legal asteroid, families, infidelity, rupture, continuity, Justice Souter, quietism agonistes, and more. This show’s links: Charles Barzun’s faculty profile (https://content.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/clb6x/1144315) and writing (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=546584) Charles Barzun, Three Forms of Legal Pragmatism (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3178155) About Shane Carruth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Carruth), director of Primer and Upstream Color Judge John Hodgman (https://www.johnhodgman.com/JJHO) and John Hodgman, Vacationland (https://www.amazon.com/Vacationland-True-Stories-Painful-Beaches/dp/B074F3CWXZ/) Brian Tamanaha, A Realistic Theory of Law (https://www.amazon.com/Social-Legal-Theory-Modern-Transformation/dp/1316638510) Charles Barzun, Inside/Out: Beyond the Internal/External Distinction in Legal Scholarship (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2507260) Guy Kahane, Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175808/) Charles Barzun, Justice Souter’s Common Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3035402) Oral Argument 146: Somehow in the Middle (http://oralargument.org/146) (with Charles discussing Justice Souter) Special Guest: Charles Barzun.

With Charles Barzun, we discuss Justice Souter and the nature of legal justification. But we take the long way around to get there, starting with some of Souter’s opinions, moving on to philosophy – the nature of moral reasoning and its relation to fact and intuition – and then back to legal theory and Charles’s insight concerning Justice Souter’s jurisprudence. This show’s links: Charles Barzun’s faculty profile (https://content.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/clb6x/1144315) and writing (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=546584) Charles Barzun, Justice Souter’s Common Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3035402) Justice Souter’s discussion of Plessy and the role of history in judging (http://www.c-span.org/video/?284498-2/america-courts) (watch from minute one until about minute fourteen) and his Harvard Commencement speech (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/05/text-of-justice-david-souters-speech/) on Plessy Some Souter opinions Joe loves: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16686162998040575773), Markman v. Westview Instruments (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5582995013670943601), and California Dental Assoc. v. Federal Trade Commission (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8595505836313744277) Old Chief v. United States (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2711105174348004240); Oyez’s Old Chief page, including links to the oral argument and hand-down (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1996/95-6556) Planned Parenthood v. Casey (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6298856056242550994); Oyez’s Casey page, including links to the oral argument and hand-down (https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-744) John Burnett, Border Patrol Arrests Parents While Infant Awaits Serious Operation (http://www.npr.org/2017/09/20/552339976/border-patrol-arrests-parents-while-infant-awaits-serious-operation) Noah Feldman’s Constitution Day interview of Justice Souter (https://www.c-span.org/video/?288993-2/former-justice-souter-constitution) Special Guest: Charles Barzun.

A panel of scholars discusses Professor G. Edward White's "Law in American History, Vol. II," published by Oxford University Press. The panelists are Logan Sawyer (University of Georgia), Chuck McCurdy (UVA) and Barbara Welke (University of Minnesota), in addition to White. Dean Risa Goluboff introduces the panel and Charles Barzun moderates the question-and-answer session at the end. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 10, 2016)

The election. And then viewer mail on media for scholarship and ideas, suspense and emotional salience in judicial opinions, and a little more. This show’s links: Oral Argument 106: Legal Asteroid (http://oralargument.org/106) Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons) David Souter on the Danger of America’s “pervasive civic ignorance” (video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWcVtWennr0) Oral Argument 105: Bismarck’s Raw Material (guest Tim Meyer) (http://oralargument.org/105) Oral Argument 112: Quasi-Narrative (guest Simon Stern) (http://oralargument.org/112) Popov v. Hayashi (http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/bonds/popovhayashi121802dec.pdf) Oyez page for NFIB v. Sebelius (https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/11-393) (select Opinion Announcement, part 1, for the relevant portion of the hand-down) Oral Argument 113: The Entrails of Fowl (guest Charles Barzun) (http://oralargument.org/113) Paul Horwitz, On “The Troublesome Use of Photographs . . . and Other Images” in Federal Court Opinions (http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2016/10/on-the-troublesome-use-of-photographs-and-other-images-in-federal-court-opinions.html) Blackmun’s dissent in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/489/189#writing-USSC_CR_0489_0189_ZD1) Jamal Greene, Pathetic Arguments in Constitutional Law (http://columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Greene-J..pdf) The Oral Argument Index (http://www.hydratext.com/oralargumentindex/) David Ziff, The Worst System of Citation Except for All the Others (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2862090)

Is originalism required by our law? We chat with Charles Barzun about his critique of the inclusive originalists, the new movement to claim that an originalist interpretive method is not only a good choice among possible methods but is the method which is mandated by a positivist approach to our law. This show’s links: Charles Barzun’s faculty profile and writing Charles Barzun, The Positive U-Turn William Baude and Stephen Sachs, The Law of Interpretation William Baude, Is Originalism Our Law? Oral Argument 98: T3 Jedi (guests Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen) Scott Shapiro, Legality (Amazon and Google Books) Brown v. Board of Education; Jack Balkin and Bruce Ackerman (eds.), What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said Charles Barzun, Inside/Out: Beyond the Internal/External Distinction in Legal Scholarship Oral Argument 77: Jackasses Are People Too (guest Adam Kolber) Special Guest: Charles Barzun.

Professors Leslie Kendrick, Charles Barzun, Toby Heytens, George Cohen, George Geis and Caleb Nelson offer tips about preparing for and taking law school exams. (University of Virginia School of Law, Nov. 16, 2015)