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Podcast with Yeji Kim: Virtual Reality Data and its Privacy Regulatory Challenges
In “Virtual Reality Data and Its Privacy Regulatory Challenges: A Call to Move Beyond Text-Based Informed Consent,” Yeji Kim explains how virtual reality collects data from users and argues for more meaningful and customizable methods of gaining informed consent from users than traditional text-based methods.
Podcast with Isabel Tahir: Addressing the Climate Crisis
In the United States, climate change discourse often focuses on international communities, island nations, and poor global citizens. While the focus on international communities is important, it places the impact of climate change in remote and distant locations.
Podcast with Khiara Bridges: “The Dysgenic State: Environmental Injustice and Disability-Selective Abortion Bans”
In Louisiana, low-income communities and communities of color disproportionately bear the harmful health effects that result from living near the state's countless oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and natural gas facilities. At the same time, the Louisiana legislature recently passed a disability selective abortion ban, which would prohibit abortions th
Podcast with Norrinda Brown Hayat: Housing the Decarcerated: Covid-19, Abolition, and the Right to Housing
In the United States, many recently incarcerated individuals struggle to find housing. The Coronavirus pandemic forced a national conversation about this issue, and highlighted how essential the right to housing is to prison abolition efforts.
Podcast with Elizabeth Ford: Wage Recovery Funds
When employers commit wage violations against their low wage employees, recovery of those funds through a lawsuit or the administrative process is difficult and time consuming, no matter the outcome of the litigation, the result is a transfer of wealth from the victims of wage theft to the perpetrators. But what if there was a way to ensure employees are pai
Podcast with Elizabeth Heckmann: A Modern Poll Tax
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution has received little attention from federal courts since its ratification. The Amendment’s language is broad and far-ranging, prohibiting conditioning the right to vote on payment of poll taxes or “any other” tax.
Podcast with Michaela Park: Pathways to Financial Security
Consumer Law practitioners and scholars have long argued that credit scores perpetuate historical social discrimination along lines of race, class and gender. But what happens when abusers weaponize this financial tool and the structural inequities baked into it and coerce debt from their partners? And what does the new California statute created to rectify
Podcast with Andrew Hammond: On Fires, Floods, and Federalism
Americans have long persevered in the face of the national welfare system's inadequacies. But when a new challenge like climate change emerges, how can the United States adapt its welfare programs to assist its people?
Podcast with Tarek Ismail: Family Policing and the Fourth Amendment
Each year, Child Protective Services investigates over one million families. Every investigation includes a room-by-room search of the family home, as well as the threat of the state’s coercive authority to remove children from their families. CUNY School of Law Professor Tarek Z. Ismail discusses how these investigations have evaded traditional Fourth Amend
Podcast with Lauren van Schilfgaarde: Restorative Justice as Regenerative Tribal Jurisdiction
For more than a century, the United States has restricted Tribal governments’ powers over criminal law. It has diminished Tribal jurisdiction and imposed adversarial approaches on Tribal courts. But recently, some Tribal courts have begun to embrace Indigenous-based restorative justice models. UCLA School of Law Assistant Professor Lauren van Schilfgaarde di
Podcast with Yvette Butler: Survival Labor
The U.S. carceral system disproportionately harms racial minorities and people living in poverty. Penal abolitionist frameworks have helpfully reframed the conversation to foreground those harmful social consequences. But how do those consequences affect our understanding of work, and particularly work that is both criminalized and undertaken in order to sur
Podcast with Sarah Vendzules: Guilty After Proven Innocent
Immigration adjudications regularly use information from the criminal legal system to justify a discretionary denial of relief or benefits, even when charges have been dismissed. This practice faces little scrutiny due to the assumption that adjudicators are merely importing facts already found by the criminal system. But what if this practice actually const
Podcast with Justin Weinstein-Tull: Traffic Courts
Traffic courts resolve over half of the cases in the U.S. legal system. These cases are easy for some defendants to handle by paying a fine, but they can have devastating effects for those with fewer means. And despite the key role these courts play in funding state judicial branches and other state and local programs, they have not been comprehensively stud
Podcast with Shayak Sarkar: Internal Revenue's External Borders
People usually think that all tax agencies do is ensure tax laws are followed. But for decades, the IRS has regularly facilitated immigration raids. These raids target employees even as the IRS investigates their employers’ potential tax violations. What can this state of affairs teach us about agency overreach? And what alternate paths could better align th
Source Collect: Violence in the Administrative State
The amorphous administrative state is often oversimplified and misunderstood. Now, with the Trump Administration pushing for mass deportation and the DOGE dissecting and even disemboweling federal agencies, it is increasingly important to understand the different types of agencies, how they are run, and how agencies like the CBP, ICE, and the Bureau of Priso
Source Collect: The Complexities of Consent to Personal Jurisdiction
In 2023, the Supreme Court decided Mallory v. Norfolk, Southern Railway Company, which held that consent remains a method of establishing personal jurisdiction independent of the minimum contacts test, first introduced by International Shoe Company. Washington. On the surface, this decision resolved ambiguities in personal jurisdiction doctrine. But, to expl
Source Collect: The Algorithmic Racial Proxy
Algorithms shape our modern world, determining everything from which ads we might see on Instagram to who is afforded access to credit. Yet if you're not a machine learning engineer, it's hard to discern what decisions go into the development of these algorithms. That question -- what input decisions go into the creation of machine learning algorithms -- mot