
Original Jurisdiction
Hosted by David Lat · David Lat
4.7from 63 ratings
- 108
- Episodes
- 73
- Transcribed
- 63
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Original Jurisdiction
Original Jurisdiction, a podcast about law and the legal profession, features host David Lat interviewing some of the most interesting, influential, and important people in the world of law. It's the companion podcast to Lat's Substack newsletter of the same name. You can follow David on Twitter (@DavidLat) or email him at davidlat@substack.com, and you can subscribe to his newsletter at davidlat.substack.com. davidlat.substack.com (https://davidlat.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- David Lat
- Category
- business · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Sept 2022
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
73 of 108 episodes have a transcript.

15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Disappointed Originalist: Sherif Girgis

30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
‘There’s Always A Way’: Jaime Santos

17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Making Of A Celebrity Litigator: Mathew Rosengart
Inside a recent episode

The Disappointed Originalist: Sherif Girgis
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You have a casebook on it coming out next year. This is admittedly a very broad question, so answer it however you like. But How do you feel about the current state of the First Amendment and free speech more generally? Because some of us who care very deeply about it, self-included, are concerned. I think it faces threats from both the right and the left, both the Trump administration and some of the people who are most passionately opposed to the Trump administration. So what are your thoughts? Yeah, I think the main divide here is age. My sense is that the sort of boomers and Gen Hex maybe – which is obviously the better part of the federal bench, for example, and the Supreme Court, are quite hardcore about protecting a very robust free speech regime. […]
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- Sherif Girgis
- Jaime Santos
- Mathew Rosengart
- Halimah DeLaine Prado
- Molly Abraham
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- 4.7 / 5
- 40 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 23 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100
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- Quality
- 85
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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