Big Men on Campus

Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We may be nearing spring break, but Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo are still focused on the campus. First, there’s the matter of President Biden’s student loan plan: will a Supreme Court challenge to the policy falter on standing grounds? And is the Court’s newfound skepticism towards executive power as cynical as the media suggests? Then, there’s the issue of reforming higher ed. What’s to be done with disruptive students like the ones who shut down a recent Federalist Society event at Stanford? And is it time to rethink tenure for professors? Several states think so. All that, plus the professors dive into the controversy over Silicon Valley Bank and weigh in (some with more enthusiasm than others) on America’s finest regional cuisine.

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0:00.0	Who in America needs to eat that Swiss crap?
0:08.8	Welcome back to the Law Talk podcast from the Hoover Institution coming to you, as we always do, from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and You School of Law, the one law school in America where there probably aren't enough speakers being shouted at down. I'm your host, Troy Sinek, former White House speechwriter, co-founder of
0:25.4	kite and key media, and this month's guest editor of Cat Fancy. And I am joined, as always,
0:31.2	by the Cheech and Chong of the conservative legal movement. They are Richard Epstein, the Peter
0:36.1	and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover
0:38.2	Institution, the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU and Senior Lecturer at the University
0:43.8	of Chicago and John Yoo, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller
0:49.5	Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant attorney general
0:54.9	in the Bush administration.
0:56.9	Fellas, good to be back with you.
1:00.1	Here's where I have to start.
1:03.0	John in particular, I think, will come loaded for bear on this.
1:07.5	I am on the road these days, more than I used to be.
1:11.5	And since our last show, one of the places I was in was Milwaukee, which I think is in general, kind of a slightly underrated city.
1:20.4	I like it there.
1:21.1	I like Wisconsin.
1:22.6	And the first night that I was there, I absolutely gorged myself on local fair. There was a brought
1:30.3	sampler. There were fried cheese curds. There was a soft pretzel, the size of a car engine.
1:36.0	So you guys both travel a lot, going around, giving a lot of speeches. My opening question for you,
1:41.9	best regional cuisine in America,
1:45.5	place you're most excited to go because of the food.
1:50.6	I can't say Philadelphia, right?
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