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Advisory Opinions

A Conversation About Academic Freedom

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Politics, Government

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

David and Sarah return to discussions they had with their last guest, professor Akhil Amar, including living constitutionalism and the question of whether to let voters or jurists decide issues of justice. Then our hosts dive into the University of Pennsylvania controversy concerning the limits of academic freedom at the private Ivy League institution. Plus: the Biden administration’s bid to clarify abortion protections in the Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act.

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0:00.0

Ready.

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast on David French with Zerat Isker.

0:24.0

And we're going to hop around to a lot of topics today.

0:27.0

We're going to talk about our tremendous last podcast.

0:31.0

It's rare that we do a podcast that people like so much that the first thing that we want to do is talk about our previous podcast.

0:39.0

But that's how good our podcast with the Kila Mar was a Yale law professor.

0:44.0

Just really wonderful.

0:46.0

Exactly what listeners had asked for.

0:50.0

And so we're going to we're cut but we never had a chance to do our normal sort of post conversation conversation about our guests.

0:56.0

So we're going to start with that. We're also going to talk about the Johnny Depp juror controversy.

1:03.0

So I'm sure you've been waiting with baited breath for that conversation.

1:08.0

A pin law professor is in real trouble for extremely racially problematic conversations and comments.

1:20.0

And so we're going to talk about that in the context of academic freedom.

1:24.0

What are its limits? Where it what is it? What is it not?

1:28.0

Also Texas is sued the Biden administration about a Biden administration rule regarding emergency abortions.

1:35.0

So that's a lot to get to.

1:39.0

So let's start. Zerat.

1:42.0

That a Kila Mar conversation. If you've not listened to it listeners, please listen to it.

1:50.0

But I I'll tell you I've never seen more positive comments about one of our podcasts to be honest.

1:58.0

And for good reason, it was pretty incredible. What's what are some of your thoughts afterwards?

2:04.0

So first of all, we do know that the sound was not great.

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