ASU Law Student Radio

ASU Law Student Radio
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ASU Law Student Radio is a student organization based at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. We conduct, record, and distribute podcast interviews with professors, students, and attorneys for the ASU Law community and other law students across the country. If you have any comments or questions, or are interested in joining the team, feel free to email us at asulawradio@gmail.com

  1. 23h ago

    From the Colorado to the Stars: Allocating our Most Valuable Resource - a Conversation with Rhett Larson

    Caption Every Arizonan has heard about the Colorado River crisis. But do you know where it originated? What the consequences will be if the negotiations fail? Professor Rhett Larson is an expert in water law, with a particular interest in water technology, transboundary waters, and sustainability. Ethan sat down with him to discuss the importance of water law, the Colorado River struggle, and water law issues beyond our borders (and our planet). You'll hear: — The historical origins of the Colorado River crisis (hint: don’t allocate water during a flood year). — How water law tends to stifle innovation, and how that can change. — Whether emerging technologies like desalination and cloud seeding are the future of water law. — How the foundations of a fight over water in space, straight out of science fiction, are being laid today. — Will water bring down the Iranian regime before American ordinance does? Mentioned in this episode: Just Add Water: Solving the World's Problems Using its Most Precious Resource (Rhett Larson, 2020 Oxford University Press); Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Marc Reisner, 1993 Penguin Random House); Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City (Andrew Ross, 2011 Oxford University Press); A Story that Stands Like a Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (Russell Martin, 2017 University of Utah Press); Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest (William D. Rowley, 2000 Duke University Press)  Guest: Rhett Larson, Richard Morrison Professor of Water Law and senior research fellow with the Kyl Center for Water Policy at ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy. [tag Prof. Larson + ASU Law] Want the mic this semester? Reach out to us: asulawradio@gmail.com

    From the Colorado to the Stars: Allocating our Most Valuable Resource - a Conversation with Rhett Larson

  2. Sep 17

    Learning from Giants: A Week with Justice Sotomayor in Barcelona — with Prof. Gerard Magliocca

    Caption What do you take away from a week in a seminar room with a sitting Supreme Court Justice? This past July, Abdi Lopez and Karen Meza Villegas studied Gideon, Barnette, Windsor, and Brown in Barcelona with Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Professor Gerard Magliocca — taught backwards. Trial record first, opinion last. A petition written in pencil from a Florida prison cell. A family prosecuted over a flag salute. A widow with a $363,000 tax bill. You know how these cases end. Do you know how they began? You'll hear: — What Justice Sotomayor says every advocate must begin with, and what she says you should know about every judge before you file. — The three kinds of arguments, according to the man who wrote Barnette. The third one is the one that haunts lawyers. — A student's question about a brief filed in Gideon more than sixty years ago, and the answer that came back the same day from the 91-year-old lawyer who wrote it. — Why the best opinion in a landmark case is sometimes not the Supreme Court's. — A message for law students, handwritten by one of the seven "fathers" of Spain's 1978 Constitution. — And advice for 1Ls that has nothing to do with doctrine. Mentioned in this episode: Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (Thomson/West 2012). Guest: Gerard N. Magliocca, Distinguished Professor and Lawrence A. Jegen III Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law; 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. [tag Prof. Magliocca + ASU Law] Want the mic this semester? asulawradio@gmail.com

    Learning from Giants: A Week with Justice Sotomayor in Barcelona — with Prof. Gerard Magliocca

  3. Sep 7

    Marriage: History, Rights, and Alternative Models with Prof. Kaiponanea Matsumura

    - Originally Published Feb 9, 2022. Today I spoke with Professor Kaiponanea Matsumura, an ASU Law professor and expert on family law and the intimate relationships it governs. We discussed the history of marriage, the rights that flow from it, and the rise of non-marital relationships. Take a listen. Hosted by Sam Lederman Contact us at asulawradio@gmail.com with any comments or questions!

    Marriage: History, Rights, and Alternative Models with Prof. Kaiponanea Matsumura

  4. Aug 31

    Prosecuting Gang Murder with the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office

    - Originally Published Aug 3, 2022. In this episode, I spoke with Assistant Head Deputy District Attorney Michael Enomoto about how criminal street gangs work, why they kill, and how they can be deterred. This episode is a great primer for 2L's about to take Criminal Procedure and 1L's trying to find externship opportunities for next summer. Take a listen. Hosted by Sam Lederman Contact us at asulawradio@gmail.com with any comments or questions!

    Prosecuting Gang Murder with the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office

  5. May 9

    Antitrust Law and the Algorithms that Set Your Rent: A Conversation with Professor Bilal Sayyed

    Antitrust law touches almost every aspect of everyday life, from Big Tech mergers all the way down to the price of groceries. But it’s a niche area of law that few law students, at least initially, decide to pursue. We sat down with ASU Law Professor Bilal Sayyed to talk about the goals of antitrust law and why it’s a great option for law students to pursue.  We ground our conversation in the ongoing suit filed by the Arizona Attorney General against RealPage, which uses data-driven algorithms to advise institutional real estate investors on rent prices. Arizona, along with several other states, thinks that this algorithmic “price-fixing” is bad for consumers - but is that the case? Could algorithmic price fixing even be a form of protected speech under the First Amendment? Professor Sayyed walks us through all this and more. In this episode: • Antitrust law, from the Sherman and Clayton Acts to the modern age  • How antitrust law balances consumer interests in competition and innovation • How RealPage operates, and how it represents a new frontier in anticompetitive practices • BigTech, AI, and emerging battlegrounds in antitrust law • Why students should get involved in antitrust. Bilal Sayyed is an adjunct professor at ASU Law and Counsel at Cadwalader. He also serves as Senior Competition Counsel at TechFreedom, and was the Director of the FTC Office of Policy Planning from 2018-2021. Professor Sayyed is an expert in antitrust law, competition, consumer protection, and privacy. Hosted by Abdi Lopez and Ethan Watson 📧 asulawradio@gmail.com #ASULaw #Antitrust #RealPage #PriceFixing #Competition #BigTech #FreeSpeech

    Antitrust Law and the Algorithms that Set Your Rent: A Conversation with Professor Bilal Sayyed

  6. Mar 5

    From the Arizona Republic to the Supreme Court: Chief Deputy AG Daniel Barr on Tariffs, Teamwork, and Thinking Like a Lawyer

    What happens when an Attorney General's office with zero tariff experience files a lawsuit — and ends up arguing before the Supreme Court seven months later? Chief Deputy Attorney General Daniel Barr takes us inside the remarkable story of Arizona's role in the landmark IEEPA tariffs case, from a casual conversation at a town hall in Oregon to the opinion that struck down presidential tariff power. But that's only part of the story. With 411 lawyers, 67 badge-carrying officers, and 27 million seized fentanyl pills, Arizona's AG office is far bigger — and far more bipartisan — than most people realize. Dan shares what he learned having dinner with Republican chief deputies in Denver, why he left a 38-year partnership at Perkins Coie for public service, and the one quality he values most in a young lawyer. In this episode: • How 14 states coordinated to challenge the Liberation Day tariffs — and won • The five divisions of the AG's office most people never hear about • Why Dan says law students should pick professors, not subjects • His secret to persuasive legal writing, learned as a newspaper reporter • How a poetry class at Hamilton College changed his life Dan Barr is Chief Deputy Attorney General at the Arizona Attorney General's Office. He previously spent 38 years as a partner at Perkins Coie LLP and began his career as a reporter at The Arizona Republic. Hosted by Abdi Lopez and Ethan Watson 📧 asulawradio@gmail.com #ASULaw #AttorneyGeneral #IEEPA #Tariffs #SeparationOfPowers #PublicService #LegalCareers #FirstAmendment

    From the Arizona Republic to the Supreme Court: Chief Deputy AG Daniel Barr on Tariffs, Teamwork, and Thinking Like a Lawyer

  7. Feb 17

    HOW THE WORLD DOES IP: Inside WIPO, Lessons from Taiwan & Dominican Republic, and the Misconceptions We Need to Unlearn

    Host: Abdi Lopez, 2L, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Co-Host: Professor Jon Kappes, Teaching Professor, ASU Law Featured Guest: James “Jim” Pooley, Former Deputy Director General, WIPO What happens when 200,000 of the world's most cutting-edge inventions flow through a single office in Geneva — and you're responsible for keeping them secret? In this episode, Abdi Lopez speaks with Jim Pooley — IP Hall of Famer, 50-year Silicon Valley trial lawyer, and former Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization — alongside ASU Law Professor Jon Kappes, patent practitioner and nationally recognized IP educator. Together, they pull back the curtain on how intellectual property actually works at the global level: the North-South divide that turned "harmonization" into a dirty word, why TRIPS left developing nations feeling betrayed, and what a 12-person patent office in the Dominican Republic can teach Big Law about mission-driven practice. They also go deep on the strategic realities practitioners face every day — from talking clients out of filing in 200 countries, to why most granted patents are worth less than $5,000, to how Taiwan's TSMC built the world's most sophisticated trade secret program from the ground up. Whether you practice IP or not, this conversation will reshape how you think about innovation, sovereignty, and what the patent system is really for. Key topics: the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) explained, trade secrets as the dominant IP asset, global patent enforcement gaps, TSMC's Golden Trade Secret Award, the economics of patent value, and why Jim Pooley thinks law schools should teach improv.

    HOW THE WORLD DOES IP: Inside WIPO, Lessons from Taiwan & Dominican Republic, and the Misconceptions We Need to Unlearn

  8. 12/26/2025

    Architects of Change: Building the Law Firm of 2030

    AI Won't Replace Lawyers—But Lawyers Using AI Will | Prof. Whitney Stefko From litigator to tech entrepreneur to Ford's legal innovation leader, Professor Whitney Stefko shares how AI is transforming legal practice—and why someone recently mistook her for an AI avatar. In this episode: • Why the biggest legal tech revolution is happening in everyday tools like Microsoft Copilot, not custom solutions • How AI can predict case outcomes (but still needs human judgment)• The surprising ways AI is expanding access to justice • What law students should do NOW to prepare for an AI-driven legal market • Why Professor Stefko taught herself to code—and what it taught her about legal innovation Professor Stefko is Director of Policy & Legal Operations at Ford Motor Company and teaches "AI in Legal Operations and Innovation" at ASU Law. 📚 Resources mentioned: "Co-Intelligence" by Ethan Mollick "Mindset" by Carol Dweck 🎓 ASU Law Student Radio 📧 asulawradio@gmail.com #LegalTech #AIandLaw #LegalInnovation #LawSchool #ASULaw #FutureOfLaw #LegalEducation #LawStudents

    Architects of Change: Building the Law Firm of 2030
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ASU Law Student Radio is a student organization based at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. We conduct, record, and distribute podcast interviews with professors, students, and attorneys for the ASU Law community and other law students across the country. If you have any comments or questions, or are interested in joining the team, feel free to email us at asulawradio@gmail.com

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    ASU Law Student Radio
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    19
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