Oak Parkers for Free Speech & IL Anti-BDS Law Repeal w/ Caren Van Slyke & Andrew Herrera
Caren Van Slyke, one of the leaders of Oak Parkers for Free Speech, and Andrew Herrera, a lobbyist, consultant and principal of Herrera Strategy, discuss efforts to put an advisory referendum on the Oak Park November Ballot about whether the state of Illinois should repeal laws that ban state investment in businesses that boycott the state of Israel and proposed Illinois legislation (HB 2723) introduced by Representative Abdelnasser Rashid that seeks to repeal Illinois' anti-boycott/anti-BDS laws.
15 Jul 2026
Sandra Crawford
From family law litigation to mediation and broader concepts of conflict resolution, collaborative problem solving, restorative justice, peacemaking, trauma and psychological factors, continuing education, the spirit of the practice of law and more
1 May 2026
Nick Schafer
Restorative justice, work/professional life as a mission, fundraising v sales, intersection of faith and policy and more
10 Feb 2026
Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez
Intresections of Immigration, Palestine and civil rights in the City of Chicago with 25th Ward Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez who is currently running for Congress in Illinois' 4th District. This discussion was recorded in November of 2025 for a diffrent platform but is being published here instead with permission from all parties.
2 Jan 2026
Sladjana Vuckovic
Sladjana Vuckovic discusses extra-curricular advocacy in lawyering, free speech issues, justice intersections, cognitive bias mitigation, and veganism principles.
15 Oct 2025
Amanda Garcia
Amanda Garcia discusses her calling to law and advocacy, focusing on immigration law practice amidst weaponized immigration policy, ICE, and community militarization in this interview.
2 May 2025
Jeff Tischauser, PhD
Jeff's work monitoring, documenting and exposing right wing ethnonationalist movements including in relation to the Trump administration and MAGA, broader discussion of nationalism and patriotism in the context of liberal pluralistic democracy, linguistics, semantics, word games, rhetorical branding and domestic democracy, civil rights and rule of law degradation against the backdrop and because of foreign conflict engagements and "forever wars."
5 Feb 2025
William Nissen
Naval and community service, criminal justice reform including death penalty abolition and elder parole, continuing education, international securites and futures regulation and litigation and more with retired big law partner William Nissen.
30 Jan 2025
Michelle Carey
Service and leadership through the Judicial Evaluations Committee of The Chicago Bar Association, motivations for becoming a lawyer and dedication to rule of law, the role of the judiciary in democracy, reflections on the current state of the judiciary and democracy, the importance of civics and an educated public and the value of local engagement and action.
11 Jan 2025
Bruce Fein
The legendary constitutional, international and human rights lawyer, fomer Justice Department Official, consultant, scholar, author and more on his recent lawsuit against the U.S. Secretary of State, Gaza v. Blinken, on behalf of Palestinians alleging violation of the U.S. Federal Leahy Law via weapons provision to Israel while Israel is engaged in gross human rights violations, the role of lawyers in society, the philosophical origins and dynamics of rule of law and democracy and beyond.
11 Dec 2024
John Heiderscheidt
Immigration and the intersections of economics, national security and criminal law, the threat of mass deportations, fear politics, the spirit/ideals of the U.S., practical and political challenges to consistent sound policy, potential solutions/reforms and much more with the multitalented and interdiscsiplinary attorney John Heiderscheidt.
23 Oct 2024
Chuck Wolf
Retired big law partner, University of Chicago law professor, recent Biden administration/Dept. of Labor appointee and renaissance man Chuck Wolf on the election, constitutional and structural design, foundations of democracy and more, for the inagural episode of Democracy Doctors.
26 Sept 2024
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