Category: Taboo Trades
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Taboo Trades Podcast: Specific Performance, Twitter, and Elon Musk with Nate Oman
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
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
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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The Plagiarism Taboo
A new episode of the Taboo Trades podcast is up and it is a fun one! My guest is one of the most unusual and creative voices in the legal academy, Brian Frye, the Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky. He teaches classes in civil procedure, intellectual property, copyright, and nonprofit organizations,…
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Bonus Episode: Taboo Trades with Sean Williams
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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Kidneys For Sale in Iran: Market Design Blog
Via Al Roth’s Market Design Blog: Just published in Transplant International (which is the journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), is a paper describing the Iranian market for kidneys in the city of Mashad, and three commentaries on it. Here’s the original paper: Kidneys for Sale: Empirical Evidence From Iran by Tannaz Moeindarbari and Mehdi…
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Getting Away with Taboo Trades with Gabriel Rossman, Pt. 2
Welcome to part 2 of my interview with Gabriel Rossman, Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and co-host, UVA Law 3L Autumn Adams-Jack. We continue our discussion of sex, drugs, and Islamic finance, among other taboo trades. It’s also our final episode of season 2. Please listen to the end of the episode for a…
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Getting Away With Taboo Trades With Gabriel Rossman, Pt. 1
Want to buy sex, bribe a politician, or get your dumb kid into an Ivy League school? I discuss how to get away with taboo trades with Gabriel Rossman, an Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and my co-host, UVA Law 3L Autumn Adams-Jack. Rossman studies cultural industries (such as radio and film) and economic…
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Kidneys with Sally Satel
I discuss what it’s like to need (and receive) a life-saving kidney transplant with AEI’s Sally Satel (a two-time kidney transplant patient) and UVA 3L, Caitlyn Stollings, who co-hosts this episode. Dr. Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the staff psychiatrist at a local methadone clinic in Washington D.C. She…
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Marijuana Legalization with Douglas Berman
I discuss marijuana legalization and why Congress is so incompetent, with Ohio State’s Douglas Berman and UVA Law 3L, Cortney Inman, my co-host for this episode. Douglas Berman is the Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law, and the Executive Director of the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at Ohio State University’s Moritz College…