What are the nine unelected justices of the U.S. Supreme Court really good for? In a wide ranging interview with UC Hastings law professor David Faigman, Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer talks about the role that the High Court plays in determining the fate of the nation. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23486]

Long before Nancy Gertner became a federal judge she had made a name for herself defending a lesbian revolutionary who stood accused of killing a police officer. She then became known for her work on abortion and sex discrimination cases. Gertner talks about her unusual career with UC Hastings law professor Lisa Faigman. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23283]

Aharon Barak was chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court from 1995 to 2006, and in that role championed what he called a "constitutional revolution." In this wide ranging conversation with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden, he talks about torture, the death penalty, Arab-Israeli rights, and his own experiences as a Holocaust survivor. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23219]

In a wide ranging interview, Martha Nussbaum, one of the world's most prominent moral and legal philosophers talks about the relationship between law and emotion, abortion, animal rights, and social justice. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21302]

UC Hastings Professor Joan Williams welcomes U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a conversation that touches on a broad range of subjects, from opera to marriage to work/life balance, doctrinal questions, and cases from the 1970's to present, including the court's role in establishing individual rights and equal protection. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 22928]

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes David Dow, distinguished professor at the University of Houston Law Center. Dow has represented more than 100 death row inmates over the last 20 years. His memoir, The Autobiography of an Execution, was published in February 2010. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21659]

Michelle Alexander, a long time civil rights advocate and litigator as well as a law professor at Ohio State University, speaks with California Lawyer Magazine’s Martin Lasden about Alexander’s new book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21301]

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes UC Hastings Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat who contends that most Americans have a fundamental misunderstanding of how our constitutional rights are supposed to work. His book, “The Myth of Rights: The Purposes and Limits of Constitutional Rights,” was published in February 2010. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21660]

Marty Lasden of California Lawyer Magazine welcomes American constitutional law scholar and Yale professor Bruce Ackerman for a discussion of his new book "The Decline and Fall of the American Republic," in which he argues that the American presidency is becoming too powerful for our own good. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20909]

Writer and attorney Scott Turow is the author of nine best-selling novels. He reflects on his work as a fiction writer and a practicing attorney with UC Hastings Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Evan Lee. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 20874]

October 2010 marked the 24th anniversary of Justice Antonin Scalia's appointment to the US Supreme Court. Well known for his sharp wit as well as his originalist approach to the Constitution, Justice Scalia consistently asks more questions during oral arguments and makes more comments than any other Supreme Court justice. And, according to one study, he also gets the most laughs from those who come to watch these arguments. In September 2010, Justice Scalia spoke with UC Hastings law...

UC Hasting’s Evan Lee welcomes Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Chemerinsky’s areas of expertise are constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He is the author of seven books, most recently, “The Conservative Assault on the Constitution,” and nearly 200 articles in top law reviews. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21095]

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz who discusses the erosion of civil liberties, the future of the Arab-Israeli peace process, and his own troubled adolescence. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21096]

California Lawyer Magazine’s editor Martin Lasden welcomes Roger Wilkins, the highest-ranking African American in President Lyndon Johnson's Justice Department. Wilkins went on to serve on the editorial boards of the Washington Post, where he won a Pulitzer Prize, and the New York Times and taught history at George Mason University for over twenty years. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21097]

UC Hastings law professor Ashutosh Bhagwat welcomes Lawrence Lessig, known as the Elvis of cyberlaw. For much of his career, Lessig focused his work on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He argues copyright laws should be updated in our hybrid economy - one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. Lessig is now the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public...