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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

🗓️ 17 August 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Once a year we throw open the doors of the faculty lounge and let the Law Talk audience ask questions of Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo. This year’s result: a conversation that touches on everything from acquiring Greenland to whether John Adams was a constitutional scofflaw, from whether federal courts have gotten too trigger happy with injunctions to which foods make the professors wretch. Most importantly: which class did Richard struggle with in law school? The answer will ... not surprise you at all.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 123 of Rookishay's Law Talk podcast.
0:16.3	We are coming to you, as always, from the faculty lounge of the Rikishay University School of Law, where the plans for a Greenland satellite campus are already underway.
0:25.4	And this episode is the start of a new era for the show.
0:28.9	We are now a production of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where we all have ties.
0:34.7	Richards' senior fellow there.
0:36.1	John's a visiting fellow now.
0:37.9	I've been the Palo Alto podcast monkey for a while.
0:41.4	So we want to thank Hoover and also let you know that as a listener, the only thing that's
0:46.4	going to change for you is no more commercials, which is great because now we can finally
0:50.1	put some distance between us and the rumors that were in the pocket of Big Mattress.
0:54.7	I'm your host, Troy Sennick former White House speechwriter and nine-time daytime Emmy viewer.
1:00.6	And I am joined, as always, by the alien and predator of the conservative legal movement.
1:04.5	They are Richard Epstein, Lawrence A. Tish Professor of Law at NYU, senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and John Yu, the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Bush administration.
1:25.2	All right, fellas. Well, it is an August tradition in the faculty lounge that we take questions from our listeners on this episode.
1:34.1	Though I also feel empowered to ask you things with absolutely news hooked.
1:37.8	I've got some of those coming later.
1:39.0	But the first thing that I'm going to put to you is whether we should buy Greenland.
1:43.8	The Wall Street Journal ran a story yesterday reporting that this is something that President
1:48.5	Trump has brought up to his staff multiple times.
1:52.4	And I specifically want to know on this show what would be the legal constraints here.
1:57.7	I mean, Thomas Jefferson famously twisted himself in knots about whether the
2:02.1	Louisiana purchase was constitutional. So, John, this is tailor-made for you. Walk me through this
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