In this interview, Thomas H. Bickel (our host) discusses religious liberty related legal topics with Professor Nelson Tebbe of Cornell Law School. Topics mentioned: his theory of social cohesion, public school prayer, Engel, Schempp, Fulton, Smith, clerkships, PHD's, Fulbright, private practice.

For more info on this alumnus, visit here: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/fac...

Click here for the book we reference at the beginning of the conversation: https://www.amazon.com/Religious-Free...

In particular, we encourage students to check out his recent commentary on the Free Exercise Clause: https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/11/...

In this interview, Thomas H. Bickel (our host) discusses the separation of church and state with one of the leading scholars in the field, Marci Hamilton. Professor Hamilton currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania where she is a professor of practice within the Fels Institute of Government. She is also founder, CEO, and Academic Director of CHILD USA.

Topics discussed: the separation of church and state, the perils of extreme religious liberty, religious exemptions, law and order, child abuse, racism, LGBTQ-rights, incorporation doctrine, RFRA, Supreme Court Clerkships

For her article defending the Smith holding/doctrine, please see: https://verdict.justia.com/2016/02/18...

For her most recent book on religious liberty law, please see: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

In this interview, Thomas H. Bickel (our host) discusses civil rights anti-discrimination law as well as family law with Douglas NeJaime, who is a leader on national efforts to reform parentage laws to accommodate families that feature nonbiological parent-child relationships. Mr. NeJaime, who concentrated in American Civilization as an undergrad, went on to have a standout legal career within academia post-Brown. He currently teaches as a professor at Yale Law School, and we are very grateful for his mentorship.

Topics discussed: the original motivation behind the drafting of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the widely-held public understood meaning of the word "sex" in the year 1964, the evolution of the meaning/interpretation of this anti-discrimination legislation, the reasoning contained in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), and parentage law reform meant to accommodate the modern emergence of non-traditional family structures.

For more info on this guest, visit here: https://law.yale.edu/douglas-nejaime In particular, we encourage students to check out his recent writing on family law: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.... And lastly, Professor NeJaime is often willing to respond to undergraduates inquiring about his work. You may reach out to him at the following email address: douglas.nejaime@yale.edu

In this interview, Thomas H. Bickel (our host) discusses the Robinhood scandal (also known as the "GameStop short squeeze") with Professor James Tierney of Nebraska Law. In the second segment of the discussion, Professor Tierney offers some very specific advice for pre-law students. It goes without saying that we are grateful for his mentorship and for his support of our organization.

Topics discussed: The GameStop short squeeze, the public reputation of Robinhood, democratizing finance, trading stock options during excessive market volatility, the legality of freezing the ability to buy or sell under such volatile market conditions.

For more info on this guest, visit here: https://law.unl.edu/james-f-tierney/. You can follow him on Twitter @JamesFTierney

In this interview, Thomas H. Bickel (our host) discusses privacy law with Michael L. Levy, who has unparalleled experience as a federal prosecutor. Mr. Levy, who concentrated in mathematics as an undergrad, went on to have a standout legal career. He currently teaches as an adjunct professor at Penn Law, and we are very grateful for his mentorship.

Topics discussed: the original motivation behind the drafting of the 4th Amendment, the evolution of the meaning/interpretation of the 4th Amendment, whether the Patriot Act (2001) has truly reduced Americans' privacy in any meaningful way or not, public vs private encroachments on privacy, how Artificial Intelligence used by Google is currently treated in the context of privacy law (as recently ruled on by federal courts) and what the implications might be as technology continues to advance.

For more info on this guest, visit here: https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/mle...