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Environment

  • Feature Episode 92

Live Law Phoenix – Borders

by Nancy Mullane

  • September 20, 2016

Each summer, people from all around the country gather for the Soros Justice Fellowship Conference — three days of meetings, conversations, and workshops by scholars, journalists, attorneys, and advocates working on projects that explore the…

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/PP6130959201.mp3

Death on a Dairy – Transcript

by Nancy Mullane

  • September 9, 2016

HOST INTRODUCTION: What do you eat for breakfast? I like a bit of steel cut oatmeal with warm milk and yogurt with fresh fruit and when I sit down to eat I rarely think about…

Rig the System – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • April 19, 2016

The law isn’t always black and white. Let’s say your neighbor wants to drill for oil in their backyard. It could be loud and it might even pollute the groundwater. You’re worried. Your neighbor feels…

  • Feature Episode 81

Rig the System – Part 2: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • April 19, 2016

“I never felt more like a hooker at a bus station than when I ran for the Ohio State Supreme Court.”    — Paul Pfeifer, Associate Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court For many people living…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP4107553572.mp3
  • Feature Episode 71

Space Law 2.0

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

  • November 24, 2015

Imagine it’s 1957. It’s the middle of the Cold War and fear is everywhere. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s just spent years accusing people of being communists and spies. The Soviet Missile crisis is on the horizon….

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP1099267298.mp3
  • Feature Episode 63

Water Rights

by Jason Albert

  • August 11, 2015

[Encore presentation of Episode 21 from November 19, 2013] In the Western United States, water law is based on what seems like a simple principle: “first in use is first in right.” In other words, first…

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP8846774209.mp3
  • Feature Episode 45

Fair Share

by Julie Sabatier

  • November 18, 2014

Podcasts Life of the Law & Destination DIY team up to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy. How are cities grappling with these increasingly popular, disruptive, peer-to-peer business models?

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP7975090551.mp3
  • Feature Episode 4

Law in Translation

by Zoe Sullivan

  • October 16, 2012

Vietnamese fishing communities are still finding themselves grounded by the BP oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters of the century. These fishermen and women are without adequate interpretation services and legal representation and are having a hard time keeping afloat.

http://cdn.panoply.fm/PP9291539713.mp3
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