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

October 24, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

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

October 21, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

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

October 12, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

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

October 3, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

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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Taboo Trades Podcast: Indentured Servitude, Specific Performance, and the Thirteenth Amendment with Nate Oman

September 26, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

In this episode, we continue our discussion with Nathan B. Oman, the W. Taylor Reveley III Research Professor and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Markets at William & Mary School of Law. Nate specializes in Contract Law, the Economic Analysis of Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Religion, and Legal History. Today, …

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Taboo Trades Podcast: Specific Performance, Twitter, and Elon Musk with Nate Oman

September 18, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

In this episode, UVA Law 3Ls Bridget Boyd and Jenn Scoler join me to interview Nathan B. Oman, the W. Taylor Reveley III Research Professor and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Markets at William & Mary School of Law. Nate specializes in Contract Law, the Economic Analysis of Law, Jurisprudence, …

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Taboo Trades Returns for Season 3

September 17, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

Welcome to Season 3 of the Taboo Trades podcast! Hear more about this year’s topics and guests and listen to UVA Law students introduce themselves and talk about why they’re taking time out of their busy law school schedules to produce this podcast with me. This year’s co-hosts are: Bryan Blaylock, Bridget Boyd, Makenna Cherry, …

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Taboo Trades Podcast Bonus Episode: Ending The Kidney Shortage with Frank McCormick

August 7, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

Frank McCormick is an economist and the author of numerous articles focused on the shortage of kidneys for transplantation. He is retired from the Bank of America where he was Vice-president and Director of U.S. Economic and Financial Research. Today, we’re discussing his recent article, Projecting the Economic Impact of Compensating Living Kidney Donors in …

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Bonus Episode: Taboo Trades with Sean Williams

July 18, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment

Hello everyone and welcome to the first bonus episode of the Taboo Trades podcast! As regular listeners know, I’ve sadly had to say goodbye to the amazing group of students who were my co-hosts for Season 2. But I decided to do a couple of bonus episodes this summer, and this is the first, featuring …

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