Category: Inside Yale Law School with Dean Heather K. Gerken

Hosted by Dean Heather K. Gerken, Inside Yale Law School offers a window into the rich academic life of Yale Law School. Each episode features a conversation with a different Yale Law School faculty member, highlighting the deep and varied perspectives, experience, and expertise housed within these walls. The podcast seeks to shed new light on the core problems facing the world today and on the extraordinary scholars and teachers working to understand and tackle them.

Season Two, Episode Six: Robert Post

Season Two, Episode Six: Robert Post

For Yale Law School’s bicentennial in 2024, Sterling Professor of Law Robert Post ’77 reflects on his tenure as Dean from 2009 to 2017. He also discusses his 35-year quest to write the definitive history of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

Season Two, Episode Five: Guido Calabresi

Season Two, Episode Five: Guido Calabresi

For Yale Law School’s bicentennial in 2024, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Guido Calabresi ’58 reflects on his tenure as Dean from 1985 to 1994. He discusses his work to restore the law school building to its former glory and start the law school’s first loan forgiveness program.

Season Two, Episode Four: Amy Kapczynski

Season Two, Episode Four: Amy Kapczynski

Professor Amy Kapczynski discusses her work on global health and justice issues and explains how intellectual property law can improve access to lifesaving AIDS drugs. She also shares lessons learned from the COVID pandemic and her love of teaching.

Season Two, Episode Three: James Forman Jr.

Season Two, Episode Three: James Forman Jr.

Professor James Forman Jr. discusses his criminal justice work and his Pulitzer-Prize winning book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. He also describes the Law School Access Program, an innovative pipeline program for people from the New Haven area who are underrepresented in the law.

Season Two, Episode Two: Monica Bell

Season Two, Episode Two: Monica Bell

Professor Monica Bell discusses her research at the intersection of law and sociology including her work on legal estrangement, which seeks to understand why people and groups feel excluded in relationships to governmental institutions, including the police.

Season Two, Episode One: Mike Wishnie

Season Two, Episode One: Mike Wishnie

Professor Mike Wishnie discusses the Veterans Legal Services Clinic’s litigation challenging long-standing racial disparities in the VA’s administration of veterans’ benefits. He also describes the clinic’s suit seeking disclosure of records documenting toxic conditions at the K2 Air Base in Uzbekistan.