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Mar 2023
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Stanford Law: The Illusion of Inclusion?

Robert Scavone Jr.
About this episode

David Lat joins Robert to discuss the student protest at Stanford Law School over a recent visit by Fed Soc invitee U.S. Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan. 

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Check out David's substack, Original Jurisdiction, and his podcast by the same name. Follow David on Twitter and LinkedIn.

David Lat is a lawyer turned writer. Prior to launching Original Jurisdiction, David founded Above the Law, one of the nation's most widely read legal news websites, and Underneath Their Robes, a popular blog about federal judges that he wrote under a pseudonym. He is also the author of a novel set in the world of the federal courts, Supreme Ambitions

Before entering the media world, David had a prolific legal career as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell in New York; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. David graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

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