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PODCASTS
July 2009
Marie Gryphon, senior fellow at the Center for Legal Policy, interviews John Hasnas, an associate professor of business at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and author of Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is Against the Law, about how criminal law creates moral dilemmas for corporate officers.

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June 2009
Jim Copland,Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviews Judge Alex Kozinski and attorney Misha Tseytlin about their essay on overcriminalization entitled "You're (probably) A Federal Criminal".

Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviewed Ken Langone on his thoughts about the overcriminalization
of corporate conduct from the legal and business perspectives

Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviewed Dick Thornburgh on his thoughts about the overcriminalization of
corporate conduct from the legal and business perspectives

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May 2009
Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy, interviews Ilya Somin, assistant professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, on Sonia Sotomayor's judicial record regarding property rights.

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December 2008
Marie Gryphon, senior fellow at the Center for Legal Policy, discusses her
report, "Greater Justice, Lower Cost: How a "Loser Pays" Rule Would Improve the American
Legal System" with Jim Copland, director of the Center for Legal Policy.

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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".

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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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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