October 2022

Taboo Trades Podcast: Peterson on Prisons, Part II

Jonathan Peterson and I continue our discussion of prisons, commodification, and privatization, together with UVA Law 3Ls Ryan Fitzgerald and Mary Talkington.  Peterson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola New Orleans and the paper we’re discussing is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on Commodification, edited by Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch. (As mentioned […]

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Prisons, Commodification, & Privatization with Jonathan Peterson

In this episode, I’m joined by UVA Law 3Ls Ryan Fitzgerald and Mary Talkington to interview Jonathan Peterson, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola New Orleans, about commodification and privatization in prisons. The paper we’re discussing is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on Commodification, edited by Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch. Jonathan’s research specializations

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Common Law Season 5 Launches with Taboo Trades

My dean, Risa Goluboff, and colleague, Cathy Hwang, launch the fifth season of the podcast “Common Law” by interviewing me about my courses (including a new course, Blood Feud, taught with Peter Jaworski), my podcast (the Taboo Trades podcast), and my recent paper, “Markets, Repugnance and Externalities,” published in the Journal of Institutional Economics this

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Breach by Violence with Brittany Farr, Part II

In this episode, UVA Law 3L Marley Peters and I continue our discussion with Brittany Farr, Assistant Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. We’re discussing her article, Breach By Violence, which is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review. It analyzes the use of private law by sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the Jim

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Breach By Violence—Sharecropper Litigation with Brittany Farr

In this episode, UVA Law 3L Marley Peters and I interview Brittany Farr, Assistant Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. Farr is a scholar of private law and race. With more than a decade of interdisciplinary training, her research draws on history, legal theory, and cultural studies to theorize how marginalized populations have

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