October 2008

Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy, reads his West Virginia Record piece, "West Virginia too heavenly for Trial Lawyers".

September 2008

Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviews Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and visiting scholar at the Manhattan Institute, about his most recent book, Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property

Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy, reads his Washington Post article, "Leave it to the FDA".

Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy, reads his Washington Examiner article, "Asbestos Litigation Far From Over".

Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy, reads his New York Sun article, "Smoke Test for Supremes".

Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviews Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and visiting scholar at the Manhattan Institute, about his most recent book, Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property.

May 2008

Jim Copland, senior fellow and director of the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute, and Lester Brickman, professor at the Cordozo School of Law and renowned expert on asbestos litigation, discuss the evolution of asbestos litigation and the measures that should be taken to prevent the continuation of abuses by the trial bar. Click here to read Trial Lawyers Inc.: Asbestos, a report on the asbestos litigation industry released in May 2008 by the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute.

December 2007

Professor Epstein's third lecture was titled "The New Antitrust: Reexamining Microsoft and Other Consent Decrees." Click here to listen to a podcast interview, in which Epstein gives James Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, an overview of important cases involving consent decrees.

November 2007

Richard Epstein, Manhattan Institute visiting fellow, with James Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, discusses his lecture entitled "Neither Liberal Nor Conservative: A Maverick's View of the Supreme Court." This is the second podcast in our Fall 2007 lecture series with Professor Epstein, called "Law, Litigation, and State Power."

October 2007

Richard Epstein, Manhattan Institute visiting fellow, and James Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, discuss the event "Aiding and Abetting Securities Liability: Reflections on Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific-Atlanta." Professor Epstein examined the United States Supreme Court's pending case of Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific-Atlanta, in which the Court considered whether to expand the scope of private shareholder liability suits to third-party defendants.

June 2007

James Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, reads his article "A Judge Cries 'Sue'!" This article originally appeared in the New York Post on 6-13-07 and is posted on PointOfLaw.com.