Inside Yale Law School Podcast

Professor Michael Wishnie discusses the Veterans Legal Services Clinic’s litigation challenging long-standing racial disparities in the VA’s administration of veterans’ benefits. He also describes the clinic’s suit seeking disclosure of records documenting toxic conditions at the K2 Air Base in Uzbekistan. 

Professor Monica Bell discusses her work at the intersection of law and sociology including her work on legal estrangement, which seeks to understand why people and groups feel excluded in relationships to governmental institutions, including the police. 

Professor James Forman Jr. discusses his criminal justice work, including his Pulitzer-Prize winning book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. He also describes the Law School Access Program, an innovative pipeline program for people from the New Haven area who are underrepresented in the law.

Professor Amy Kapczynski discusses her work on global health and justice issues and explains how intellectual property law can improve access to lifesaving AIDS drugs. She also shares lessons learned from the Covid pandemic and her love of teaching.

For Yale Law School’s bicentennial in 2024, Sterling Professor of Law Guido Calabresi reflects on his tenure as Dean from 1985 to 1994. He discusses his work to restore the law school building to its former glory and start the law school’s first loan forgiveness program.

For Yale Law School’s bicentennial in 2024, Sterling Professor of Law Robert Post reflects on his tenure as Dean from 2009 to 2017. He also discusses his 35-year quest to write the definitive history of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Howard Taft. 

Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh’s family history is deeply intertwined with Yale Law School. For our bicentennial in 2024, Koh shares his family’s story and reflects on his tenure as Dean from 2004 to 2009, including his work to make Yale a global law school.

Clinical Professor Muneer Ahmad explains why students are indispensable to the work of the Law School’s clinics. He discusses the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and the extraordinary 24-hour period in which the clinic won a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban. 

Professor Stephen Carter discusses the delight he still finds in teaching after 40 years. A prolific writer, Carter also shares his approach to writing fiction and nonfiction and reflects on lessons learned while clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

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