The Private Law Podcast

Paul Miller and Jeff Pojanowski are law professors at the University of Notre Dame. Paul Miller has written extensively in the areas of fiduciary law, private law theory, corporate law, equity, and legal theory. Jeff Pojanowski writes in the areas of administrative law, jurisprudence, legal interpretation, and torts. In this episode, we talk about their paper The Internal Point of View in Private Law, which will be published in the American Journal of Jurisprudence.

Hanoch Dagan is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and the Director of the Safra Center for Ethics at Tel-Aviv University. Professor Dagan has written multiple articles and books on restitution, legal realism, contract theory, and property theory. In this episode, we talk about his book “A Liberal Theory of Property.” 

In this episode, I talk to Larrisa Katz (University of Toronto) about her work on the idea of ownership as an office, equity, and other topics.

Arie Rosen is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland. In this episode, we discuss his work on democracy, private law, and statutory interpretation.

In this episode, I talk to Myriam Gilles, a law professor at Cardozo, about her work on arbitration, class actions, and access to justice.

I talk with Roseanna Sommers, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, about experimental jurisprudence.

I talk with Julian Arato, Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Julian’s work focuses on public international law, international economic law, and private law, and he has written multiple articles on the law of treaties, international investment law and dispute resolution, international trade, contracts, and private law theory.

In this episode, I talk to Liam Murphy, Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University. Liam works in legal, moral, and political philosophy, and has written about multiple topics, including moral duties in nonideal theory, the foundations of tax policy, private law theory, international responsibility, and the nature of law. He was also my doctoral supervisor. 

In this episode, I talk with my friend and colleague Dorothy Lund, Associate Professor of Law at USC. We discuss her paper "Shareholders as Regulators." 

In this episode, I talk with Seana Shiffrin, Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA. Professor Shiffrin is one of the most influential legal theorists of her generation, and has written extensively in moral, political, and legal philosophy, as well as contract law and free speech. In this episode, we talk on her work on promises, contracts, and democratic law.