After 50 years as a professor at Yale Law School, Owen Fiss says his students are still idealistic and passionate about the rights won in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. As a young lawyer in the late 1960s, Fiss worked with the Department of Justice to implement those laws. A classroom discussion in the spring of 2020 prompted him ... Show More
Nov 5
Yale Law’s Owen Fiss talks about threats to democracy and ‘Why We Vote’ | Rebroadcast
It’s election week in the U.S., and while many eyes are on the polls, we’re revisiting a conversation that reminds us why voting matters in the first place. In this rebroadcast, Yale Law professor Owen Fiss reflects on his work enforcing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, t ... Show More
40m 59s
Oct 15
Users keepers: Pirates, zombies and adverse possession | Rebroadcast
As Halloween swiftly approaches, we’ve conjured up a classic from the Modern Law Library crypt. What do zombies and pirates have to do with the law? Grab your candy and find out as host Lee Rawles is joined by Paul Golden, author of Litigating Adverse Possession Cases: Pirates v. ... Show More
33 m
Aug 2021
Lawfare Archive: Fighting Deep Fakes
<p>From August 4, 2018: Technologies that distort representations of reality, like audio, photo and video editing software, are nothing new, but what happens when these technologies are paired with artificial intelligence to produce hyper-realistic media of things that never happ ... Show More
45m 19s
Aug 2023
"Bahnbrechende Technologien sind oft nicht neu", sagt Klemens Skibicki
<p>"Nach 15 Jahren an der Hochschule hatte ich irgendwann genug", erzählt Klemens Skibicki. Seinen Job als Professor an der Cologne Business School in Köln hat er an den Nagel gehängt. Lehrende Berufe seien toll, aber die unternehmerischen Sachen "machen einfach so viel mehr Spaß ... Show More
42m 10s
Feb 2023
Gun-Detecting AI, Infrastructure, and Bureaucracy
Aaron Gordon, Senior Writer at Motherboard, Vice’s science and technology website, talks about his co-authored article, “‘The Least Safe Day’: Rollout of Gun-Detecting AI Scanners Has Been a ‘Cluster,’ Emails Show,” with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. They also discuss Gordon ... Show More
1h 25m
Jul 2019
199. Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?
Is technology really rotting our brains, destroying our society... or is that what everyone has always worried about with every technological advance, going back to tv, or telephones, or even writing letters? The new book, Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Tec ... Show More
39m 29s
Dec 2021
A tech giant does its best Big Brother impersonation in 'The Every'
Author Dave Eggars has written a new book, The Every, satirizing technology and it's ever-expanding hold on us. While publishing and distributing the book, which also happens to be about a tech giant overextending its reach, he tried to keep it out of the hands of one of today's ... Show More
8m 49s