- 218
- Episodes
- 89
- Transcribed
- 77
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Stanford Legal
Law touches most aspects of life. Here to help make sense of it is the Stanford Legal podcast, where we look at the cases, questions, conflicts, and legal stories that affect us all every day. Pam Karlan studies and teaches a range of constitutional law-related courses with a special focus on what is known as the “law of democracy,”—the law that regulates voting, elections, and the political process. She served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission, an assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and (twice) as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She also co-directs the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, which represents real clients before the highest court in the country, working on important cases including representing Edith Windsor in the landmark case striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act and Donald Zarda in a case where the Supreme Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBT individuals against discrimination in employment. She has argued before the Court ten times. And Rich Ford’s teaching and writing look at the relationship between law and equality, cities and urban development, popular culture and everyday life. He teaches local government law, employment discrimination, and the often-misunderstood critical race theory. He studied with and advised governments around the world on questions of equality law, lectured at places like the Sorbonne in Paris on the relationship of law and popular culture, served as a commissioner for the San Francisco Housing Commission, and worked with cities on how to manage neighborhood change and volatile real estate markets. He writes about law and popular culture for lawyers, academics, and popular audiences. His latest book is Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History, a legal history of the rules and laws that influence what we wear. Law matters. We hope you’ll listen to new episodes that will drop on Thursdays every two weeks. To learn more, go to https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-legal-podcast/.
- Publisher
- Stanford Law School
- Category
- government · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Dec 2017
- Latest episode
- 5 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
89 of 218 episodes have a transcript.
5 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Best of Stanford Legal: Should the Public Own a Piece of AI?
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Best of Stanford Legal: What Stands Between Voters and the Ballot?
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Best of Stanford Legal: Should the Public Own a Piece of AI?
Published 5 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What exactly do you propose we do about the problems of AI? So it's really rather straightforward. And our pitch is that these systemically important AI firms should pay a tax with stock. This would be in addition to whatever other taxes are still happening, payroll taxes, corporate income taxes, etc. […]
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- Sarah Polcz
- David Sklansky
- Sophia Lin Lakin
- Deborah Sivas
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- YouTube views
- 2,179,159
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 49 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 28 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100
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- Quality
- 66
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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