UC Hastings (Video) Podcast
1) A Conversation with Joan Williams - Legally Speaking
Hastings professor Joan C. Williams has been called a “rock star” in the field of gender studies. For more than a quarter of a century, her work in the areas of pregnancy discrimination and work-famil...Show More
2) A Conversation with Eva Paterson - Legally Speaking
In 1970, as a 20-year-old college student, Eva Paterson famously debated Vice President Spiro Agnew on The David Frost Show. She went on to become a fierce advocate for civil rights, eventually workin...Show More
3) Defending Serial Killers - Legally Speaking
John Henry Browne is a criminal defense attorney in Seattle who is best known for his work on behalf of the notorious. One of his first clients was Ted Bundy—a vicious, serial killer who murdered scor...Show More
4) The CIA's Lawyer - Legally Speaking
Over the 67-year history of the CIA, no agency staff attorney has ever wielded more influence or power than John Rizzo. A self-described “company man,” Rizzo joined the Central Intelligence Agency bac...Show More
5) In Defense of the Innocent with Barry Scheck - Legally Speaking
Over the last two decades no criminal defense lawyer in America has had a more profound impact on advancing the rights of the convicted than has Barry Scheck. In 1992, when DNA testing was still in it...Show More
6) Playing Solomon: How Much is a Life Really Worth?
Kenneth Feinberg is best known for the work that he did as the Special Master of the Victim Compensation Fund that was established by Congress to distribute billions of taxpayer dollars to those who w...Show More
7) Making Peace in the Middle East -- Legally Speaking
As both a diplomat and a scholar, Dennis Ross has had a truly extraordinary career. Under President George H.W. Bush, he led the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. He also served as a Spec...Show More
8) The Lawyer Who Saved Obamacare -- Legally Speaking
As the 46th Solicitor General of the United States, Donald B. Verrilli Jr. is best known for the case he made before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012 in which he successfully defended the constitutional...Show More
9) The Trial of Edward Snowman--Legally Speaking (Special Edition)
In late 2012, an NSA contractor named Edward Snowden leaked to the press almost 200,000 classified documents exposing secrets about the scope and methods of American intelligence gathering. To some th...Show More
10) The Politics of International Justice - Legally Speaking
During the waning days of South Africa's apartheid era, Judge Richard Goldstone led a series of investigations that exposed the human rights abuses committed by his own country's security forces--an e...Show More