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Welcome to The Slippery Slope
Welcome to The Slippery Slope: A Legal Variety Podcast. What is a "legal variety podcast"? It is an opportunity to talk to interesting people about interesting things related to the law.This blog will feature general interest podcasts of discussions with a diverse range of guests - lawyers, academics, law students, politicians and litigants. For example, upcoming podcasts will feature conversations with Carolyn Elefant of, among other endeavors, MyShingle.com; Sean Basinski of the Street Vendor Project; and Tracy McGaugh of the Touro Law Center. They'll cover topics ranging from Assessing solo practice to Zealous street vendor advocacy. We might have called the show All Law Things Considered, but that was pretty much already taken.
The podcasts will not focus on any particular legal argument, substantive area of law or legal philosophy -- rather, the podcasts will study the culture of law (broadly defined), the gray areas of the law, and the every day places where the law intersects with our lives. The goal is to be entertaining, to encourage conversation and to discuss intellectual topics that appeal to a diverse audience (i.e., not just legal academics).
Why "The Slippery Slope"? Simple. There is a guiding question that has been no use in defining the parameters of this project: where to draw the line? So, enjoy the podcasts. Don't be shy about submitting your feedback or ideas for the show. And: thanks for joining us!
An interesting podcast would be to address feminist legal theory and its responsiveness to issues of interest by Third-Wave feminist law students. Professor Bridget Crawford would be an excellent guest to discuss the perceived divisions between Second-Wave law professors and feminist law students. A group of law students presented interesting papers at the Baltimore Conference on Third-Wave feminism in law school. Perhaps a profesor-student discussion at The Slippery Slope could begin a very important discussion.
A second podcast idea would be to have Professor Deborah Post and Professor Carol Sanger together discuss their Contract casebooks. Both are well-respected feminist theorists; yet their case selections for the canon differ widely. It would be interesting to learn from a feminist point of view why particular cases are chosen to represent contract law.
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