Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast

About Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast

Yale Law School professors Samuel Moyn and David Schleicher interview legal scholars and dig into the debates heard inside law school halls.

Publisher

Digging a Hole Podcast

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Sept 2020

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 81 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Joshua Specht

   Host Sam Moyn and Host David Schleicher interview Joshua Specht, associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, about the historical evolution of American land and homeownership ideals.

2. 

   8 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Sarath Sanga

   Host David discusses with Sarath Sanga, Professor of Law at Yale Law School, why institutions like Yale are losing public trust and how they can regain it.

3. 

   5 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Lawrence Douglas

   Host Sam interviews Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, about the shift from aggression to atrocity paradigms in international criminal law and their limitations.

Inside a recent episode

Joshua Specht

Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Well, okay. That's interesting. I mean, the way Prop 13 also fits it, though, is that the point of my book, too, is to basically posit that the way we finance homes or the way we allocate housing through the market is clever but flawed. And part of the reason – what Proper Team is also doing in the book is illustrating that there are frictions created by a market for housing, namely like the value can fluctuate and that we tax based on that value, and so people can face this kind of pressure as homeowners. So that's kind of what it's doing there. But I would say that – to bring it out today, that's super interesting. […]

Who has been a guest on Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Joshua Specht
• Sarath Sanga
• Lawrence Douglas
• Anton Jäger
• Richard Primus

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

68 ratings

Spotify

4.4 / 5

34 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

28

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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