[F]law School is a podcast created, produced, and hosted by high school, college, and law students as well as lawyers and law professors who all share an interest in exploring the flaw . . . in the law. [F]law School is an initiative of The [F]law magazine (flaw.org) and the Systemic Justice Project (systemicjustice.org). Its episodes focus especially on the role of corporate power in capturing law and legal institutions and in causing social problems.
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Giovana de Oliveira and Thy Luong speak with third-year law student Talish Babaian about how, in 2023, Citibank quietly denied credit and closed accounts for Armenian Americans in Glendale, California—and how that pattern fits into a long history of discrimination, corporate power, and legal systems that protect institutions over people. Editors: Special thanks to Nandini Kalani for audio editing assistance, Giovana de Oliveira and ...
17 Mar 2025
The Migrant Trap
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Molly Enloe and Gauri Sood dig into the hidden realities of the H-2A visa program with guest Izza Drury. They explore how this legal framework—marketed as a pathway for temporary agricultural work—is, in practice, a system that traps migrant farmworkers in cycles of abuse, wage theft, and corporate exploitation, with little to no legal recourse. Editors: Special thanks to Shyun Moon for audio editing assistance, Giovana de Oliveira ...
2 Mar 2025
The Body (S)camera
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Shyun Moon and Sam Perri take a hard look at the rise of police body cameras with third-year law student Priya Pookkulam—and what they uncover is anything but accountability. Priya traces the origins of body cameras as a so-called reform, revealing how companies like Axon have profited off public outrage while deepening police power. She explains how departments manipulate footage—blurring, muting, and editing key moments—to justify viole...
17 Feb 2025
The Midnight Shift: Today's Child Labor Crisis
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, guest Luke Hinrichs joins hosts Nolan Mascarenhas and Troy Brown to discuss his [F]law article, Economy of Exploitation, which sheds light on the issue of child labor. Hinrichs describes how child labor — an issue labeled a problem of the past — is highly relevant today, with legislation failing to protect exploited youth workers. As the episode notes, the issue goes beyond the continued exploitation of children; it's a window into the fallacie...
19 Jan 2025
Mass Incarceration, Inc.
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Gauri Sood and Haley Florsheim explore the chilling reality of publicly traded private prisons with third-year law student Jheri’ Richards. Together, they reveal how corporations like GeoGroup profit from mass incarceration, relying on government contracts and the stock market to drive their growth. Drawing haunting parallels between private prisons and historical slave auctions, Jheri’ exposes how GeoGroup commodifies human lives. From sh...
4 Jan 2025
Profits Over Patients
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Molly Enloe and Gauri Sood sit down with third-year law student Charlotte Laurence to expose how private equity is infiltrating our healthcare system and, more specifically, how profit-driven investors are playing shell games with nursing homes—trading care for cash flow, and leaving some of the most vulnerable residents in the wreckage. Charlotte unpacks the legal loopholes and financial sleight-of-hand that make it all possible, sh...
8 Dec 2024
Selling Harvard Law Students
Harvard Law student recruiter Samara Trilling exposes the commodification of law students by Big Law firms, revealing the pressure to conform to lucrative yet unfulfilling career paths.
24 Nov 2024
Profit Over People: The Housing Crisis
Haley Florsheim and Mirei Saneyoshi discuss the systemic roots of the affordable housing crisis with guests Sofi Scotti, David Hernandez, and Steven Rome, revealing how corporate landlords drive housing inequality and price out vulnerable communities.
10 Nov 2024
Corporatization of Drag - Part 1
In this two-part episode on the corporatization of drag, hosts, Sam Perri and Pragnya Vella, interview Grayce Burns, a Harvard Law student, to discuss the rising popularity of drag as both a hobby and profession -- and as a form of both personal and political expression. In Part 1 Grayce explains how corporate control over drag queens is reshaping drag, undermining unique local drag cultures and harming queens who go on popular shows like Drag Race through restric...
10 Nov 2024
Corporatization of Drag - Part 2
In this two-part episode on the corporatization of drag, hosts, Sam Perri and Pragnya Vella, interview Grayce Burns, a Harvard Law student, to discuss the rising popularity of drag as both a hobby and profession -- and as a form of both personal and political expression. In Part 1 Grayce explained how corporate control over drag queens is reshaping drag, undermining unique local drag cultures and harming queens who go on popular shows like Drag Race through restri...
27 Oct 2024
The Business of Boredom
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Jessenia Class and Thy Luong explore the corporate construction and manipulation of boredom with special guest Nelson Reed. They explore how companies have turned boredom into a profit center by pushing myths about why feeling bored is our fault and readily cured by purchasing their products. Get ready for a fascinating discussion about the business of boredom.Guest Bio:Nelson Reed is a student at Harvard Law School in the Class of 2025. H...
13 Oct 2024
Harvard Law School’s Public Interest Propaganda
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Sam Perri and Reya Singh chat with author Frank Obermeyer about his recent article, Harvard Law School’s Graduation Propaganda. Their conversation uncovers the numbers behind Harvard Law’s public interest rhetoric, explores some of the institutional and structural sources of students’ career drift toward BigLaw, and offers a candid assessment of the chasm between Harvard Law School’s messaging and the reality of its students’ g...
29 Sept 2024
Not Just a Game
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Jessenia Class and Reya Singh speak with Harvard Law student Pantho Sayed about his article, titled “Not Just a Game,” on the challenges within the video game industry. Sayed focuses on the intense pressure developers face due to the corporatization of game production. An avid gamer and writer, Sayed explains how “crunch,” or extended periods of overwork, has become a systemic issue, as large publishers prioritize profits and deadlines ove...
15 Sept 2024
Representation = Taxation
Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Troy Brown and Thy Luong speak with Harvard Law student Brandon Martinez about his article, titled “Representation = Taxation,” on U.S. tax policy. In their conversation, Martinez explains how, since the post-World War II era, conservative movements have worked to dismantle progressive tax structures, benefiting the wealthy and making tax avoidance common among the ultra-wealthy. He also highlights how racism has shaped tax policy an...
1 Sept 2024
Suppression by Surveillance
Summary: As campus protests swept the nation last spring, invasive surveillance technology put protestors and student organizers in precarious positions. Through targeted fear-mongering, tech surveillance companies changed cities’ and university’s perceptions of activism. From racially-biased facial recognition to predatory cell towers, corporations stripped protestors of constitutionally protected speech and manifestations of democracy for profit. In this episode, Jessenia Class joins S...
25 Jul 2024
Trailer: Welcome to [F]law School!
Welcome to [F]law School, a podcast created by high school, college, and law school students, as well as young lawyers interested in exploring the flaws in the law. The podcast will focus especially on how many of our most urgent social problems are the product of those flaws and how those flaws are the product of corporate power and influence over of the legal system — including legal education, the legal profession, and the judiciary. Each episode features interviews with authors from...
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