About the Podcast

Hosted by Dean Heather K. Gerken, Inside Yale Law School offers a window into the rich academic life of Yale Law School. Each episode features a conversation with a different Yale Law School faculty member, highlighting the deep and varied perspectives, experience, and expertise housed within these walls. The podcast seeks to shed new light on the core problems facing the world today and on the extraordinary scholars and teachers working to understand and tackle them.

Transcripts from each episode are available for download as PDFs.

 

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Season 1 Episodes

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Dean Heather K. Gerken hosts the new Inside Yale Law School podcast, an in-depth look at the vibrant work of Yale Law School and its trailblazing faculty.

Episode 1: Tracey L. Meares

Professor Tracey Meares on police reform, why she chose law, and putting theory into practice at Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory, President Obama’s Policing Task Force, and more.

Episode 2: Bill Eskridge

Professor Bill Eskridge on his role in the fight for marriage equality and how that battle shaped the country, the field of statutory interpretation, and his own life.

Episode 3: Miriam Gohara

Clinical Professor of Law Miriam Gohara discusses the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic’s innovative approach to sentencing advocacy, and how one clinic can change a whole system.

Episode 4: Daniel Markovits

Professor Daniel Markovits reflects on his work on meritocracy in higher education and previews his next book project.

Episode 5: Anne Alstott

Professor Anne Alstott discusses her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work with the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Child Study Center and makes the case for why anyone who cares about fighting inequality should care about tax law.

Episode 6: Justin Driver

Professor Justin Driver on his path to education law, how teaching influences his scholarship, and what’s at stake in studying constitutional law across different domains.

Episode 7: John Fabian Witt

Professor John Witt on reanimating the modern Torts curriculum, collaborating with students, and writing legal history from the baseball field.

Episode 8: Doug NeJaime

Professor Doug NeJaime discusses the landscape of parentage laws across the country, his work with YLS students to pass the Connecticut Parentage Act, and what it takes to pass laws that better reflect what makes a family.

Episode 9: Oona Hathaway


Professor Oona Hathaway discusses her work on Ukraine, what’s at stake in efforts to make international law more transparent, and the joy of co-authoring articles with students.

Episode Transcripts

Transcripts from each episode of Inside Yale Law School are available for download.