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Law Talk With Epstein, Yoo & Senik

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

Government, History, News, Politics

4.9 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Every other faculty lounge in America may be closed, but Professors Epstein and Yoo are still showing up to work. On this episode: what are the legal ramifications of the coronavirus? Can Catholic charities be excluded from providing adoption services because of their refusal to place children with same-sex couples? Is there any hope for President Trump’s libel lawsuits against the New York Times and Washington Post? Is encouraging an illegal immigrant to stay in the country a crime? Is the Supreme Court about to make a game-changing decision on abortion? And is getting hit by a foul ball about to be grounds for a lawsuit? All that plus the professors struggle with virtual classes, dish on tell-all books, and continue their annual tradition of making the nation’s most unreliable World Series predictions.

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0:00.0	Who don't want to waste a crisis to make global changes?
0:03.5	Troy start.
0:04.8	I'm going to basically put myself on mute for a second.
0:07.5	It's more theoretical than anything.
0:15.8	Hello and welcome back.
0:17.2	It's episode 131, the Hoover Institution's Law Talk podcast, coming to you as we always do from the faculty lounge of the Epstein and U.S. School of Law still open, despite the risk to all our health. We only suspended class once. And that was for an outbreak of the French Pox. I'm your host, Troy Seneca, former White House speechwriter, and of course, Patient Zero in said French Pox outbreak.
0:40.1	And I am joined, as always, by the Andre 3000 and Big Boy of the conservative legal movement.
0:45.8	If either one of you gets that reference, then I'll happily succumb to the coronavirus because I'll have nothing left to live for.
0:51.2	They are Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
0:56.2	the Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago
1:01.1	and John Yu, the visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Emmanuel S. Heller Professor of
1:06.2	Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration.
1:13.2	All right, fellas, so quick epidemiological review, I live in a high rise and take mass transit
1:19.1	into a shared office space in Manhattan. So as an actuarial matter, I am already considered
1:24.1	dead right now. The two of you, are you both without classes to teach right now?
1:29.5	Well, I'm without classes for a very simple reason. I do not teach. You've been banned from the
1:34.5	building. No, no, I am banned from the building. But no, I don't teach in the period when I'm back
1:40.4	at NYU between mid-February and March and the March.
1:45.0	I do all my teaching in the fall.
1:47.0	So I have not had to make adjustments, but the NYU basically gave one day of grace, and then
1:52.0	they put everybody on Zoom, and the complications are pretty major.
1:57.0	As best I can tell, people took it all in stride.
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