Constitutional Conventions

Marc DeGirolami on Religious Establishment and the American Founding

Prof. Marc DeGirolami is the Cary Fields Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, where he is also the co-director of the Center for Law and Religion. His

Presidents' Day with John Yoo: Executive Authority and Presidential Power

Prof. John Yoo is the Emanuel Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institu

Vincent Phillip Muñoz on the Religion Clauses and the Founders' Natural Rights Philosophy

Prof. Vincent Phillip Muñoz is the Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. He is t

David Blight on the Historian's Craft and the Legal Profession

Prof. David Blight is Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University. Prof. Blight is one of the world's leading experts on the American Civil War and Frederic

Roger Pilon on Natural Rights, Unenumerated Rights, and the 14th Amendment

Roger Pilon holds the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato in 1988, Pilon held senior posts in the Reagan administr

Presidential Hiring and Federal Civil Service Reform with Andrew Kloster

Andrew Kloster is General Counsel at Personnel Policy Operations. He was previously the Associate Director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel and Deputy

Sherif Girgis on Dobbs and the Future of the Pro-Life Movement

Sherif Girgis is an Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where his research sits at the intersection of law and philosophy. His first book, What Is Marria

Carson v. Makin, School Choice, and Free Exercise with Kirby West

Kirby West is an attorney at the Institute for Justice. Earlier this year, she worked on the IJ team that successfully litigated Carson v. Makin at the Supreme Court of t

Elbridge Colby on American Grand Strategy and Great Power Conflict

Elbridge Colby is the co-founder and a principal of The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative designed to prepare the United States for an era of great power competiti

Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld on Scholary Rigor and Intellectual Orthodoxies

Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld is a Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. His research focuses on the distinctive social function and sense of justice at work

Going for Broke with Dr. Joseph Simmons: Originalism and the Bankruptcy Power

Dr. Joseph Simmons is the Vice President of Academic Affairs for the Yale Federalist Society and a 3L at Yale Law School. Joseph joins Jon and Zack to talk about his rece

Judge Justin Walker on Judicial Philosophy, Civil Discourse, and Legal Education

Judge Justin Walker serves on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Before his elevation in 2020, he served as a judge on the US District Court for the District of

Amb. John Bolton on International Law, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, and Free Speech on Campus

In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many are pursuing legal challenges in international courts against Putin’s regime. Former National Security Advisor John Bolt

Pilot

On this pilot episode, co-hosts Jonathan Feld and Zack Austin discuss what it means to be a conservative law student at Yale Law School, their involvement with the Federa