Jeffrey Rosen | Constitutional Law In The 21st Century – Privacy, Personhood, and Freedom

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Business, Government

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 24 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jeffrey Rosen, the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator. Their conversation examines the landscape of constitutional law in the 21st century. How do we interpret a more than 200-year-old document in an age of empire, terror, and technological futurism? How do theories of mind apply to the laws of personhood? How will our criminal justice system evolve along with our notions of agency and free-will? How do we interpret the First Amendment in an age of synthetic news and artificial intelligence? Where do the Bill of Rights and the Constitution stand on the question of genetic engineering and designer babies? Can the Fourth and Fifth Amendments protect our right to privacy and freedom from self-incrimination in an age of mass surveillance? How does constitutional law inform the practices of corporations and publishers? Can this enduring document safeguard our liberty, autonomy, and freedom, in the digital age?

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:01.0	What's up everybody?
0:02.0	What's up,
0:05.0	what's up everybody?
0:10.0	What's up everybody?
0:11.0	Welcome to another episode of Hidden Forces with me
0:13.7	Dimitri Kofinus. Today I speak with Jeffrey Rosen the nation's most widely
0:19.3	read and influential legal commentator.
0:23.0	Mr. Rosen is the president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution
0:27.7	Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the United States Constitution
0:35.4	on a nonpartisan basis.
0:37.7	Rosen is also a professor at the George Washington University Law School, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution,
0:45.7	and a contributing editor for the Atlantic magazine.
0:49.2	In this episode, we step back from the partisanship and rancor of the marketplace of ideas and
0:55.2	appreciate the wisdom and forethought of that four-page document in which are
1:00.1	enumerated the guiding principles by which this republic has stood the test of time.
1:06.2	The American Constitution is a living, breathing document whose life force is expressed in the
1:11.3	innumerable opinions issued by the courts and debated on by the
1:15.6	citizenry of this republic.
1:18.2	How do we interpret a document written more than 200 years ago by a handful of white slave-owning revolutionaries in an age of
1:26.0	empire, terror, and technological futurism.
1:30.2	How do theories of mind apply to the laws of personhood? How do we interpret the first, fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments in an age of
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