Podcast appearances and mentions of robert cover

This week, Zohar is joined by Law Professor and public intellectual Jamal Greene, to talk about his new book, How Rights Went Wrong, the importance of compromise, Robert Cover, Hegel, parenting, Moses and Aaron, and the pitfalls of juristocracy. Meditations with Zohar is supported by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, bridging the gap between big ideas and real world problems. Read more from Zohar at his Torah newsletter Etz Hasadeh or his philosophy newsletter What is Called Thinking. Meditations with Zohar is a production of SoulShop and Lyceum Studios.

This week, Zohar is joined by Law Professor and public intellectual Jamal Greene, to talk about his new book, How Rights Went Wrong, the importance of compromise, Robert Cover, Hegel, parenting, Moses and Aaron, and the pitfalls of juristocracy. Meditations with Zohar is supported by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, bridging the gap between big ideas and real world problems. Read more from Zohar at his Torah newsletter Etz Hasadeh or his philosophy newsletter What is Called Thinking. Meditations with Zohar is a production of SoulShop and Lyceum Studios.

Prof. Harlan G. Cohen (University of Georgia) joins us to talk about sources of international law, precedent, opinio juris, fragmentation, pluralism and behavioural approaches to international law. Publications referred to in the episode: Harlan G. Cohen, “The Primitive Lawyer Speaks!: Thoughts on the Concepts of International and Rabbinic Laws”, Villanova Law Review 64, no. 5 (2020): 665–678. Emanuel Adler, Communitarian International Relations: The epistemic foundations of International Relations (London: Routledge, 2005). Harlan G. Cohen, “Finding International Law: Rethinking the Doctrine of Sources”, Iowa Law Review 93, no. 1 (2007): 65–129. Harlan G. Cohen, “Finding International Law, Part II: Our Fragmenting Legal Community”, New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 44 (2012): 1050–1107. Harlan G. Cohen and Timothy Meyer (eds), International Law as Behaviour (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Chaim N. Saiman, Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). Robert Cover, Justice Accused: Antislavery and the Judicial Process (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975). Robert Cover, “Violence and the Word”, Yale Law Journal 95 (1986): 1601–1629. Robert Cover, “The Supreme Court, 1982 Term—Foreword: Nomos and Narrative”, Harvard Law Review 97 (1983): 4-68.

Late at night, mics dragged up by the fire, talking mailbag items on conversation, Banach spaces, mental models, the Facebook dumpster fire, and Christian's weird old tricks for managing your online world. Finally, Mr. Rogers and being better. This show’s links: Larry Alexander, Constrained by Precedent (http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/scal63&div=10&id=&page=) Scott Hershovitz, Integrity and Stare Decisis (https://books.google.com/books?id=O3FCAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Exploring%20Law%27s%20EmpireThe%20Jurisprudence%20of%20Ronald%20Dworkin%24%20Exploring%20Law%27s%20Empire%3A%20The%20Jurisprudence%20of%20Ronald%20Dworkin&pg=PR16#v=onepage&q&f=false) Aaron Glantz and Emmanuel Martinez, For People of Color, Banks Are Shutting the Door to Homeownership (https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/) Zhigang Wei, Hugh McDonald, and Christine Coumarelos, Fines: Are Disadvantaged People at a Disadvantage? (http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/ljf/app/&id=D5D375991CE8E1B68525823A000641F4) Banach spaces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach_space) Christian Turner, Models of Law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2835112) Lawerence Solum, On the Indeterminacy Crisis: Critiquing Critical Dogma (https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1957/) Robert Cover, Violence and the Word (http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2708/) Ben Thompson, The Facebook Brand (https://stratechery.com/2018/the-facebook-brand/) Will Oremus, The Real Scandal Isn’t What Cambridge Analytica Did (https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/the-real-scandal-isnt-cambridge-analytica-its-facebooks-whole-business-model.html) Oral Argument 72: The Guinea Pig Problem (http://oralargument.org/72) (guest Michelle Meyer) Matthew Yglesias, The Case Against Facebook (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/21/17144748/case-against-facebook) Nicholas Carlson, Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems (http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims-wont-help-facebooks-privacy-problems-2010-5) Oral Argument 58: Obscurity Settings (http://oralargument.org/58) (guest Woody Hartzog) The trailer for Won't You Be My Neighbor? (https://kottke.org/18/03/the-trailer-for-wont-you-be-my-neighbor)

We start with, among other things, some decidedly negative feedback. But then we’re joined by the endlessly fascinating Al Brophy to discuss the history of slavery, Nat Turner’s rebellion and its aftermath, Thomas Cobb and pro- and anti-slavery intellectuals and judges, whether we should revere our Constitution, and what to do with symbols and monuments to the cause of slavery. This show’s links: Al Brophy’s faculty profile and writing Jack Ewing, Volkswagen Says 11 Million Cars Worldwide Are Affected in Diesel Deception Oral Argument 41: Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo) The 30th Annual Technology Law Institute, at which we will be recording an episode as part of the program Marco Arment, Just Doesn’t Feel Good, about pulling his top-ranked ad-blocking app from the App Store Oral Argument 74: Minimum Curiosity (guest Amanda Frost) Rick Hasen’s ELB Podcast and UCI Law Talks, a show featuring UC Irvine law professors Robert Cover, Justice Accused State v. Mann Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Alfred Brophy, Thomas Ruffin: Of Moral Philosophy and Monuments Shawn Regan, DeChristopher Case Begs Question [sic]: What If Enviros Were Allowed to Bid on Oil Leases? About Thomas R.R. Cobb Thomas Cobb, An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America Alfred Brophy, The Nat Turner Trials Blackhead Signpost Road (Google Maps); see also Al’s post with his own pictures and those of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Sean Wilentz, Constitutionally, Slavery Is No National Institution; see also David Waldstreicher, How the Constitution Was Indeed Pro-Slavery NFIB v. Sibelius (the Obamacare I case) Alfred Brophy, Is the Confederate Flag Unconstitutional? Tyler Hill, University to Retire “Racist” Portrait Special Guest: Al Brophy.

We open the burgeoning mailbag. And oh what a bounty! Side A: 1. Georgia’s assertion of copyright over its annotated statutes. 2. Law school application, rankings, and preparation. 3. The utility for law of having a Ph.D. 4. Substantive due process and Lochner. 5. Would law school be better without the study of the Supreme Court or constitutional law? Side B: 6. Voting rights and proportional representation. 7. Whether we’ve had a fair discussion of the death penalty. 8. What makes legal writing good or bad? 9. Other podcasts. 10. Race and the law. 11. The utilitarian case for manual override of driverless cars. 12. Facebook’s ability to create “bad” desires and preferences. Drugs and entertainment. 13. The rogue Kentucky clerk and the difference between civil disobedience and sabotage or revolution. This show’s links: Oral Argument on Twitter and on Facebook About Carl Malamud Georgia Accuses Public Records Activist of Information “Terrorism” Episode 68: Listen to My Full Point and Episode 12: Heart of Darkness Episode 62: Viewer Mail Episode 30: A Filled Milk Caste Episode 66: You’re Never Going to Get It All Done (guest Kareem Creighton) and Kareem Creighton’s tweet to us about this question Chris Elmendorf, Making Sense of Section 2: Of Biased Votes, Unconstitutional Elections, and Common Law Statutes Episode 56: Cracking and Packing (guest Lori Ringhand) Episode 67: Monstrous Acts (guest Josh Lee) Callins v. Collins (Scalia’s concurrence citing the brutality of a murder in a case in which the defendant was later proved innocent) Danielle Allen, Our Declaration; Robert Cover, Violence and the Word ; Jedediah Purdy, After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Undisclosed: The State v. Adnan Syed, a podcast recommended to us Episode 69: Contaminated Evidence (guest Brandon Garrett); see also Episode 45: Sacrifice, Episode 64: Protect and Serve (guest Seth Stoughton) The Our National Conversation about Conversations about Race podcast Episode 70: No Drones in the Park (guest Frank Pasquale) Episode 72: The Guinea Pig Problem (guest Michelle Meyer) A youtube of David Foster Wallace talking about drugs and entertainment in Infinite Jest (2m23s) Anthony Kreis’s tweet about civil disobedience

This is the third class in the series ON HALAKHAH. The class was given on Feb. 6, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. This week we began our discussion of halakhic interpretation by examining contemporary philosophy of law, including legal positivism, natural law, legal realism, Critical Legal Studies, and Robert Cover.

This is the third class in the series ON HALAKHAH. The class was given on Feb. 6, 2013 at Penn by David Zvi Kalman. This week we began our discussion of halakhic interpretation by examining contemporary philosophy of law, including legal positivism, natural law, legal realism, Critical Legal Studies, and Robert Cover.