Category: Taboo Trades
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Taboo Trades Podcast: The Fight For Privacy With Danielle Citron
In this episode, my great friend and colleague, Danielle Citron, joins me and UVA Law students Gabriele Josephs and Aamina Mariam to discuss her latest book, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (W.W. Norton, Penguin Vintage UK, 2022). Danielle Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in…
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Taboo Trades Podcast: Banking On The Body With Kara Swanson
In this episode, UVA Law students Mary Beth Bloomer and Anu Goel join me to talk to Kara W. Swanson, a Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Northeastern University and a visiting scholar at Princeton University’s Institute For Advanced Studies. Professor Swanson is an accomplished scholar, legal practitioner and scientist whose chief…
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Taboo Trades Podcast: My Body, My Choice With Ilya Somin
On this episode, George Mason Law’s Ilya Somin joins me and UVA Law students Joseph Camano (’24) and Dennis Ting (’24) to discuss the full implications of “My Body, My Choice.” Somin argues that the principle has implications that go far beyond abortion (including paying kidney donors, and abolishing the draft and mandatory jury service)…
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Taboo Trades Podcast: Who Keeps The Engagement Ring with Naomi Cahn and Julia Mahoney
My guests this week are my UVA Law colleagues, Naomi Cahn and Julia Mahoney. We’re discussing their recent article in The Conversation, “Who Keeps The Wedding Ring After A Breakup?.” We also discuss work by Margaret Brinig, Rebecca Tushnet, and Viviana Zelizer. Finally, we demonstrate that I utterly fail to understand engagement ring pricing. Naomi…
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Taboo Trades Podcast: NDAs and Sexual Harassment
My guests today are Mark Fenster of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Dave Hoffman of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. We’re discussing Mark’s recent article, How Reputational Nondisclosure Agreements Fail (Or, In Praise of Breach), forthcoming in The Marquette Law Review. Mark Fenster is the Marshall M. Criser Eminent…
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Underground And Taboo: With Good Reason
I was recently a guest on the public radio program With Good Reason. From the show’s website: With Good Reason brings together higher education institutions and Virginia Humanities to make scholarly research accessible to all. Each week, we share exciting discoveries, rigorous debates, and new knowledge, with ever-curious host Sarah McConnell guiding the conversation. Our…
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Taboo Trades Podcast: Truth Bounties with Mike Gilbert and Yonathan Arbel
My guests today are my UVA Law colleague, Mike Gilbert, and University of Alabama Professor, Yonathan Arbel. We’re discussing their paper, Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News, forthcoming in the University of North Carolina Law Review. Mike Gilbert is the vice dean and a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School…
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Taboo Trades Podcast: The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation with Hagai Boas
Today’s guest is the Israeli sociologist, Hagai Boas, a four-time organ transplant recipient and the author of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation. Hagai is the second transplant recipient on the podcast (Sally Satel has received two kidney transplants), but I’ve never met anyone before who has been transplanted *four* times, or who has purchased an…
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Taboo Trades Podcast: Payment, Exploitation, & Clinical Trials with Holly Fernandez Lynch
In this episode, Holly Fernandez Lynch and I continue our discussion of clinical research ethics with co-hosts Rahima Ghafoori and Caroline Gozigian (UVA Law ’23). In this Part 2 of our interview, we focus on questions of payment, exploitation, and trust. As a reminder, in Part I, Holly introduced the basic regulatory framework governing clinical…
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Taboo Trades Podcast: Clinical Research Ethics with Holly Fernandez Lynch
Holly Fernandez Lynch and I discuss clinical research ethics, including challenge trials, research subject payment, and diversity in medical research with co-hosts Rahima Ghafoori and Caroline Gozigian (UVA Law ’23). In this episode, Holly introduces the basic regulatory framework governing clinical trials, with a focus on laws and rules impacting payment.…