Dialectic
By UCLA Law Review
DialecticMar 31, 2016
Episode 9.1: Race, Professionalism, and White Supremacy with Leah Goodridge
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Dialectic volume 72! In this episode, host Kyler McVoy and guest Leah Goodridge discuss the racial dynamics of professionalism and its origins in settler-colonial and white supremacist ideologies, expanding on Leah's recently published essay: Professionalism as a Racial Construct.
Professionalism as a Racial Construct: https://www.uclalawreview.org/professionalism-as-a-racial-construct/
More from Leah Goodrige:
X: @leahfrombklyn
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-goodridge/
SXSW Panel:
Forecasting Workplace: The Changing Landscape of DEI
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP146069
Episode 8.2: Professor Sanford Williams: Friends, Family, and the FCC
Go behind the scenes with UCLA Law lecturer and telecoms expert Sanford S. Williams, who has worked at the FCC since 1999 and is currently Special Adviser to the FCC Chairwoman and a Deputy Managing Director of the FCC.
Episode transcripts are available on our website.
Episode 8.1: Desert Flower: Bibi Barba, Aboriginal Art Theft, and the IGC
In 2012, Australian Aboriginal artist Bibi Barba Googled herself. She found an entire boutique hotel designed in her image.
Episode transcripts are available on our website.
Music by Podington Bear and the Free Music Archive.
Episode 7.5: Tribal Sovereignty, Decolonization, and Abolition with Grace Carson
In this episode, Grace Carson discusses the intersections of abolition theory and decolonization theory, and how Tribes should reconsider systems of punishment and instead create systems of care and liberation as outlined in her article, Tribal Sovereignty, Decolonization, and Abolition: Why Tribes Should Reconsider Punishment, which will be punished in December 2022.
Episode 7.4: Beyond the Schoolhouse Doors: Anti-Black Racism and the Exclusion of Black Caregivers with Paige Joki and Thalia Gonzalez
This work, calls upon the civil rights and education justice communities to expand their vision of school discipline law and policy reform to include the often ignored, yet deeply impacted lives of parents, caregivers, and families. Deploying what critical race theorists define as storytelling or counter-narratives, the authors share Nyla’s story to bring forward an all too common deployment of education laws—flown under a banner of safety, order, maintenance, and well- being of school communities—that reinforce anti-Black racism.
Episode 7.3: Exploring Music Law with Professor Susan Genco
In this episode, we sit down with UCLA Law Professor Susan Genco to learn more about her illustrious career in the music industry and discuss contemporary issues in music law.
Episode 7.2: Academic Success in Law School
Academic Success with Professor Pavel Wonsowicz and Professor Patrick Goodman. On this episode, Professor Wonsowicz and Professor Goodman joins hosts Alyssa Sanderson and Nicole Powell to discuss best strategies to succeed in law school.
Episode 7.1: CRT Forward
UCLA School of Law is home to the Critical Race Studies specialization which provides students with legal frameworks to understand how racism permeates through United States institutions, and provides a lens through which to understand current social disparities. In 2021, UCLA Law launched CRT Forward, an initiative created to track legislation aimed at forbidding the teaching of Critical Race Theory at the local, state, and federal levels. This episode of Dialectic highlights the work of the CRT Forward initiative and its goals, in conversation between CRT Forward Director, and CRS Alum Taifha Alexander, and Critical Race Studies student Nicole Powell.
Episode 6.4: Exploring Critical Race IP with Dean Deidre Keller and Kimberly Tignor
In this episode we explore the intersections of race and intellectual property with Dean Deidre Keller and Kimberly Tignor, uncovering how such a lens can empower creators of color and reorganize distributions of wealth.
Episode 6.3: Exposing Deputy Gangs with Cerise Castle
We spoke with journalist Cerise Castle about telling stories that law enforcement doesn't want to be told.
Episode 6.2: Crimmigration and Banishment with Professor Jennifer Chacón
Dialectic UCLA Law Review · Season 6, Episode 2: Crimmigration and Banishment with Professor Jennifer Chacón On this episode, Professor Jennifer Chacón joins us to discuss social movements as they intersect with her work in the realm of criminal law and immigration (crimmigration).
Episode 6.1: Undocuqueerness with Julio Salgado and Atziri Peña
In this episode, we talk with Julio Salgado and Atziri Peña about being undocuqueer and the intersections with social advocacy, immigrant narratives and the law.
Episode 6.0: Introduction to Season 6
Welcome to Dialectic Season 6: Law, Media, and Social Advocacy.
Episode 5.4: The Information Imbalance: How Privacy Laws are Tipping the Scales of Justice Against Defendants
In this episode, we sit down with Professor Rebecca Wexler to discuss the intersection of privacy laws and the criminal justice system. States around the country are adopting new, stricter privacy laws, in response to a growing awareness of just how much personal and important data companies are keeping about consumers, and how vulnerable that data is. But those privacy laws have flaws that are significantly impacting our criminal justice system, and our ability to provide fair trials.
Episode 5.3: They Walked the Line: Teacher Strikes and the Fight for Public Education
Episode 5.2: Criminalizing Survival: Homelessness and the Law - Part II
This episode is the second of a two-part series examining the complexity of addressing homelessness. In this episode, we speak to Shayla Myers of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles to discuss her work litigating on behalf of the unhoused, as well as the legal and policy issues at play.
Episode 5.1: Criminalizing Survival: Homelessness and the Law - Part I
This episode is the first of a two part series examining the complexity of addressing homelessness. In Los Angeles in particular, as the voters were passing measures for significantly increasing the amount of money available to address homelessness and help people find housing, the city continued to enforce ordinances that violated the civil rights of people who did not have a home. In this episode, we speak to former UCLA Professor Will Watts, who headed up our Veteran's Legal Clinic, to discuss how both actions existed side by side, the perspectives people bring to addressing homelessness, and how to understand the problem holistically. In August 2019, Will Watts left UCLA and now works at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. In the next episode we continue speaking with Professor Watts, as well as hear from Shayla Meyers, who was on the legal team seeking the protection of the civil rights of people who were unhoused.
Episode 4.4: California's Climate Future - Part II
This episode is the second in a two-part series exploring California's past, present, and future in addressing the existential threat of climate change. In this episode, we explore California's entrée as a global leader on climate change with UCLA Law Professor Cara Horowitz, especially following the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit, an international climate conference spearheaded by former California Governor Jerry Brown. We also discuss some of the critiques of the Summit and of Governor Brown's environmental policies, particularly from environmental justice groups in California. Finally, we talk with Jessie Cammack, a 3L student at UCLA Law, about her research on the potential vulnerability of California's international climate actions to the dormant foreign affairs preemption doctrine.
Episode 4.3: California's Climate Future - Part I
This episode is the first in a two-part series exploring California's past, present, and future in addressing the existential threat of climate change. In this episode, we talk with UCLA Professor Cara Horowitz about what's at stake as greenhouse gases rise, both globally and in California, particularly in light of a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describing the crisis. We also talk with UCLA Professor William Boyd about SB 100, a bill passed last year by the California legislature that commits California to 100% renewable energy by 2045. The bill modifies California's Renewable Portfolio Standard, a regulatory tool that encourages states to procure more renewable resources. Through our conversations in this first part of the series, we get a sense of both the gravity of the climate crisis, as well as one of California's proposed regulatory solutions.
Episode 4.2: Reforming Open Records Laws to End Political Harassment of Public University Researchers
In this episode, we talk with Professor Claudia Polsky from UC Berkeley Law School about her recently published article, Open Records, Shuttered Labs: Ending Political Harassment of Public University Researchers.
Episode 4.1: Reclaiming Land Use Law: Using People Power to Guide Development
Dialectic hosts Sunjana Supekar and Jason Lawler talk with Doug Smith, Ysabel Jurado, and Joe Donlin about the role of community planning in combating gentrification in Los Angeles.
Episode 3.6: Threats to the Constitutional Order
In this episode, we sit down with Professors Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg and Lawrence Sager to discuss threats to constitutional democracy and how well America’s constitutional democracy might fare in the face of those threats.
Episode 3.5: Excessive Fines and Fees and the Right to Counsel with Professor Beth Colgan
In this episode, we sit down with Professor Colgan to discuss how the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against excessive fines and fees and the Sixth Amendment's Right to Counsel fail to protect vulnerable segments of the population.
Episode 3.4: Hackers & Cybersecurity Law: How Hackers, Governments and Corporations Make Surprising Bedfellows with Professor Kristen Eichensehr
In this episode, we sit down with Professor Eichensehr to discuss the ways in which governments, corporations and hackers navigate cybersecurity law and the surprising ways in which they collaborate to their mutual benefit.
Episode 3.0: Fall 2017 Preview
Muneeba, David, and Chris, the Volume 65 hosts of Dialectic, give a quick preview of what to expect this fall.
Episode 2.4: Discussing Judge Neil Gorsuch with Professor Adam Winkler
In this episode, we discuss Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Tune in to hear our guest, UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler, describe Judge Gorsuch's judicial philosophy and record. You'll also hear Professor Winkler explain what to expect during Judge Gorsuch's upcoming nomination process.
The study we discuss in this interview is Estimating the Policy Preferences of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch by political scientists Ryan C. Black and Ryan J. Owens, covered by the Washington Post article.
Episode 2.3: Taking Back Juvenile Confessions with Professor Kevin Lapp
In this episode, we interview Loyola Law professor Kevin Lapp, whose article Taking Back Juvenile Confessions was recently featured in the UCLA Law Review's Fall Scholar Forum and is published in issue 64.4 of the UCLA Law Review. Tune in to hear Professor Lapp describe the unique cognitive and developmental needs of juvenile criminal defendants and discuss one way the criminal law might better accommodate those needs.
Episode 2.2: Tips on Persuasive Writing with Professor Eugene Volokh
In this special episode, Professor Eugene Volokh shares his thoughts on writing and editing—skills that are part and parcel of the lawyer’s craft. Tune in to hear Professor Volokh’s tips on how to make your written work more effective and persuasive.
Episode 2.1: The Freedom of Speech and Bad Purposes with Professor Eugene Volokh
In this episode, we interview UCLA Law professor Eugene Volokh, whose article The Freedom of Speech and Bad Purposes is published in issue 63.5 of the UCLA Law Review. We discuss the merits and weaknesses of First Amendment purpose tests--legal tests that strip protection if a person speaks with bad motives or intentions--and we consider whether First Amendment protections should ever be contingent on the speaker's underlying purpose.
Episode 2.0: Introduction to Season Two
Dialectic is back! In this episode we discuss what we have in store for Dialectic's second season.
Episode 1.5: Equitable Remedies with Samuel L. Bray
In this episode, we interview UCLA Law professor Samuel L. Bray, whose article The System of Equitable Remedies is published in issue 63.3 of the UCLA Law Review. We discuss the distinction between legal and equitable remedies, and we describe the key characteristics and features of each. We also consider whether it makes sense to distinguish between legal and equitable remedies, and we explain why, according to Professor Bray, this distinction ought to be preserved.
Episode 1.4: Richard M. Re on the Legacy of Justice Scalia
In this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia with Richard M. Re, Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Law. Tune in to hear Professor Re describe Justice Scalia's unique jurisprudence and most important legal contributions. You'll also hear Professor Re discuss how Scalia's absence might affect the future of the United States Supreme Court.
Episode 1.3: Discussing Treaties with Professor Melissa Durkee
In this episode, we interview Melissa Durkee, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law, about her article The Business of Treaties published in issue 63.2 of the UCLA Law Review. We discuss the various roles that businesses take in enacting and forming international treaties such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We also delve into the implications of this private...
Episode 1.2: Campaign Finance Law with Professor Daniel Lowenstein
In this episode, we continue our discussion of campaign finance reform by interviewing Daniel Lowenstein, an emeritus Professor at the UCLA School of Law and a leading scholar in the field of electoral law. Listen in to hear Professor Lowenstein explain why campaign finance is a problem and how it can be fixed.
Episode 1.1: Super PAC Insurance with Nick Warshaw
In this episode, we interview author Nick Warshaw, whose comment Forget Congress: Reforming Campaign Finance Through Mutually Assured Destruction is published in issue 63.1 of the UCLA Law Review. Tune in to hear us ask Nick about American elections, Super PACs, and the future of campaign finance.
Episode 1: Intro to Dialectic
In this episode, we introduce ourselves and explain what we hope to accomplish through Dialectic.