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Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) PodcastRepugnant transactions and taboo trades: The Baron de Lancey Lecture 2025Professor Kimberly D. Krawiec from the University of Virginia School of Law explores "repugnant transactions and taboo trades" — markets that are morally contested and sometimes even prohibited, such as sex work, commercial surrogacy, and the sale of organs, eggs, and sperm. She asks how we, as a society, decide what is up for sale and what is off-limits. The controversies here are not about the dangers of markets themselves, but rather the dangers of buying/selling certain goods or services. Advocates of market restrictions seek to define the ethical boundaries of the marketplace – to identify the specific good...2025-03-2142 min
Taboo TradesSeason 5 Sign Off!In this sign off episode, I say good bye to this year's student cohosts from UVA Law: Anthony Freyre, Kimberly Garcia, Laura Habib, Olivia King, Alyssa Lawrence, Alyssa Marshall, Alexa Rothborth, Nia Saunders, Tanner Stewart, Cyrus Tafti, John Henry Vansant, Lauren WhiteBut never fear, loyal listeners. I'll be back in 2025 with bonus episodes featuring interesting authors discussing their scholarship.2024-12-1702 minTaboo TradesRisk & Resistance with Aziza AhmedMy guest today is Aziza Ahmed, a Professor of Law and N. Neal Pike Scholar at the Boston University School of Law. She is also a Co-Director of BU Law’s Program on Reproductive Justice. She joins me and UVA Law 3L, Nia Saunders, to discuss her new book Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2025. Prior to teaching, Professor Ahmed was a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health Program on International Health and Human Rights. She came to that position afte...2024-12-141h 02Taboo TradesPaintings & Prostitutes with Stephen ClowneyMy guest today is the always interesting and funny Steve Clowney, a professor of law at the University of Arkansas. He has also worked as a legal consultant in Hawaii, a college admissions officer, and a gravedigger. His main areas of research include zoning regulations, monuments, the history of cities, handwritten wills, and the presence of violence in informal property systems. He joins us today to discuss a paper that I’ve long admired, Does Commodification Corrupt: Lessons From Paintings And Prostitutes, published in the Seton Hall Law Review. Reading list:Cl...2024-12-071h 01Taboo TradesSexual Agreements with Albertina Antognini & Susan Frelich AppletonI’m thrilled today to welcome new friend, Albertina Antognini and old (by which I mean long-time) friend, Susan Appleton. Albertina Antognini is the James E. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Arizona where she teaches Family Law, Property, Trusts & Estates, and a seminar surveying different legal regimes that shape the contemporary American family. Professor Antognini’s work examines the ways that legal rules actively regulate, and in the process define, families. Her research is centrally preoccupied with considering how categories that may appear “natural” are in fact products of law, with the aim of opening them up to a mor...2024-11-261h 09Taboo TradesBusted: Policing Women On Top with Courtney CahillMy guest today is Courtney Cahill, a Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law. Professor Cahill is a scholar of constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, sex equality, and LGBTQ equality. Her work examines the role of disgust in lawmaking and the synergies between sex equality and LGBTQ equality. She joins us today to discuss her latest project, Busted: Policing Women on Top, forthcoming in 2026 from Oxford University Press. Cahill attended Yale Law School after graduating from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. UVA Law 3Ls Anthony Freyre and Kimberly Garcia c...2024-11-081h 04Taboo TradesValuing Reproductive Loss with Jill Wieber LensMy guest today is Jill Lens, who serves as the Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence at the University of Iowa school of law. Professor Lens is a leading legal expert in reproductive justice and rights, with a particular focus on the legal treatment of stillbirth and pregnancy more generally. Her research is inspired by her son Caleb’s stillbirth in 2017, when she was 37 weeks pregnant. She joins us today to discuss her recent paper, “Valuing Reproductive Loss," published in 2023 by the Georgetown Law Journal and coauthored with Dov Fox. That paper explores the tension betwe...2024-11-021h 01Taboo TradesPaying To Pollute with Hajin KimI’m thrilled today to welcome the brilliant and creative Hajin Kim, an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. Hajin uses principles from social psychology and economics to study how moral and social influence can shape environmental regulation and firm behavior. She joins us today to discuss her new working paper, Does Paying to Pollute Make Pollution Seem Less Bad? UVA Law 3L, Cyrus Tafti, joins me as co-host on this episode.Hajin received her BA in economics, summa cum laude, from Harvard, her JD from Stanford Law School, and her PhD from Stanford's Emm...2024-10-2053 minTaboo TradesFamilies By Agreement with Brian BixMy guest today is Brian Bix, the Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law And Philosophy at the University of Minnesota School of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of family law, contract law, and jurisprudence. He joins us today to discuss his 2023 book, Families by Agreement: Navigating Choice, Tradition, and Law, published by Cambridge University Press. I really enjoyed this episode – it was both educational and entertaining. Brian is not only a productive scholar, but a generous one – note his discussion of other important scholars in the field during this episode, including Martha Fineman, June Carbon...2024-10-0650 minTaboo TradesThe College Employee-Athlete with Marc EdelmanI’m super excited to welcome today’s guest, Marc Edelman – a passionate and influential voice in debates over the rights of college athletes. Marc is a Professor of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York, where he writes and teaches on sports law, antitrust law, intellectual property law, and gaming / fantasy sports law. He also serves as the Faculty Athletics Representative for Baruch College. In addition to his full-time role as a law professor, Professor Edelman is the founder of Edelman Law, where he provides legal consulting and exp...2024-09-2756 minTaboo TradesWelcome to Season 5!Welcome to season 5 everyone! I’m Kim Krawiec at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the host of the Taboo Trades podcast. In this episode, I welcome this year's student co-hosts: Anthony Freyre, Kimberly Garcia, Laura Habib, Olivia King, Alyssa Lawrence, Alyssa Marshall, Alexa Rothborth, Nia Saunders, Tanner Stewart, Cyrus Tafti, John Henry Vansant, and Lauren White2024-09-2103 minTaboo TradesSeason 4 Sign Off!It’s the saddest time of year again, when I have to say goodbye to yet another fabulous group of UVA Law students who have put their trust in me (and in you, the audience) for a semester of the Taboo Trades podcast. I know I say this every year, but I mean it every year – it’s been a pleasure and an honor to work with this group. Thanks to all of you and to all of our guests this season. Never fear listeners, although Season 4 is officially ending, I’ll be back in January with some great bonus ep...2023-12-3002 minTaboo TradesRace, Family Policing, & Medicine with Dorothy RobertsOn today’s episode, Dorothy Roberts joins me and UVA Law 3Ls Darius Adel and Julia D'Rozario to discuss her work on race-based medicine and the child welfare system. Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Professor Roberts’ work focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, science, medicine, and bioethics. Her major books include Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safe...2023-12-171h 23Taboo TradesMenstruation Matters with Bridget Crawford & Emily WaldmanOn today’s episode, Bridget Crawford and Emily Waldman of Pace University School of Law join me and UVA Law 3Ls Kate Granruth and Jenna Smith. Bridget Crawford’s scholarship focuses on taxation and gender and the law. She teaches courses on Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates. Emily Waldman teaches courses on Constitutional Law, Law & Education, Employment Law, and Civil Procedure. Today we’re discussing their book, Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law’s Silence on Periods, published by NYU Press in 2022 and their 2022 article, Contextualizing Menopause in the Law, co-authored with my UVA coll...2023-11-201h 16Taboo TradesKidneys, Stakes, & Plasma with James Stacey TaylorOn today’s episode, the amazing James Stacey Taylor, a Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey, joins me and UVA Law 3L Liam Bourque. Taylor has written over 100 academic articles and five books. He’s with us today to discuss excerpts from two of those books: Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Donor Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors, and Stakes & Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts Are Morally Imperative Show NotesTaylor, James Stacey. Stakes and kidneys: why markets in human body parts are morally imperative. Taylor & Francis, 2017....2023-11-071h 26Taboo TradesThe Fight For Privacy with Danielle CitronIn this episode, my great friend and colleague, Danielle Citron, joins me and UVA Law students Gabriele Josephs and Aamina Mariam to discuss her latest book, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (W.W. Norton, Penguin Vintage UK, 2022). Danielle Citron is the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law and Caddell and Chapman Professor of Law at UVA, where she writes and teaches about privacy, free expression and civil rights. Her scholarship and advocacy have been recognized nationally and internationally. She is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow and the Vice President of the...2023-10-251h 18Taboo TradesBanking On The Body With Kara SwansonIn this episode, UVA Law students Mary Beth Bloomer and Anu Goel join me to talk to Kara W. Swanson, a Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Northeastern University and a visiting scholar at Princeton University’s Institute For Advanced Studies. Professor Swanson is an accomplished scholar, legal practitioner and scientist whose chief interests are in intellectual property law, gender and sexuality, the history of science, medicine, and technology and legal history. In 2021, she was selected for the Law & Society Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize, which recognizes exceptional scholarship in the field of race, racism and...2023-10-121h 22Taboo TradesMy Body My Choice with Ilya SominOn this episode, George Mason Law's Ilya Somin joins me and UVA Law students Joseph Camano ('24) and Dennis Ting ('24) to discuss the full implications of "My Body, My Choice." Somin argues that the principle has implications that go far beyond abortion (including paying kidney donors, and abolishing the draft and mandatory jury service) and that both liberals and conservatives are inconsistent in their application. ILYA SOMIN is Professor of Law at George Mason University and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law...2023-09-161h 25Taboo TradesWelcome To Season 4!Welcome to season 4 with UVA Law students:Aamina MariamAnu GoelDarius AdelDennis TingGabriele JosephsJenna SmithJulia D'RozarioKate GranruthLiam BourqueMary Beth Bloomer2023-09-0903 minTaboo TradesWho Keeps The Engagement Ring with Naomi Cahn and Julia MahoneyMy guests this week are my UVA Law colleagues, Naomi Cahn and Julia Mahoney. We’re discussing their recent article in The Conversation, “Who Keeps The Wedding Ring After A Breakup?” We also discuss work by Margaret Brinig, Rebecca Tushnet, and Viviana Zelizer. Finally, we demonstrate that I utterly fail to understand engagement ring pricing. Naomi Cahn is the Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia and is an expert in family law, trusts and estates, feminist jurisprudence, reproductive technology, and aging and the law. She is the co-director of UVA L...2023-08-0359 minTaboo TradesNondisclosure Agreements with Mark Fenster and Dave HoffmanMy guests today are Mark Fenster of the University of Florida Levin College of Law and Dave Hoffman of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. We’re discussing Mark’s recent article, How Reputational Nondisclosure Agreements Fail (Or, In Praise of Breach), forthcoming in The Marquette Law Review. Mark Fenster is the Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar Chair in Electronic Communications and Administrative Law at the Levin College of Law. His legal research has focused on government transparency, legal intellectual history, and constitutional limits on government regulation. He is the author of the book The Transparency Fix...2023-07-171h 08Taboo TradesTruth Bounties with Mike Gilbert and Yonathan ArbelMy guests today are my UVA Law colleague, Mike Gilbert, and University of Alabama Professor, Yonathan Arbel. We’re discussing their paper, Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News, forthcoming in the University of North Carolina Law Review. Mike Gilbert is the vice dean and a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He teaches courses on election law, legislation, and law and economics, and his current research focuses on misinformation, corruption, and the role of “prosocial” preferences such as empathy in law. Yonathan Arbel is an Associa...2023-07-1052 minTaboo TradesThe Political Economy of Organ Transplantation with Hagai BoasToday’s guest is the Israeli sociologist, Hagai Boas, a four-time organ transplant recipient and the author of The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation, published by Routledge. Hagai is the second transplant recipient on the podcast (Sally Satel, an earlier guest, has received two kidney transplants), but I’ve never met anyone before who has been transplanted *four* times, or who has purchased an organ on the black market, as Hagai did with his third transplant. Boas is the director of the Science, Technology, and Society unit at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is also a senior lecturer in the...2023-02-271h 03Taboo TradesBonus Episode: NFTs for Biobanking with Marielle Gross & Brian FryeToday, I'm joined by two fabulous guests: Marielle Gross, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and renaissance man, Brian Frye, the Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky. Marielle provides clinical care at UPMC Altoona and her research focuses on the application of technology and elimination of bias as a means of promoting evidence-basis, equity and efficiency in women’s healthcare. Today, we’re discussing heny, Inc., a start up that Marielle founded that utilizes NFTs to allow breast cancer patients to remain connected to their biopsy...2023-01-311h 14Taboo TradesSeason 3 Sign Off And so concludes another season of the Taboo Trades podcast,courtesy of me, Kim Krawiec, and the fabulous students at the University of Virginia. But never fear, I have some wonderful bonus episodes lined up over the coming months, with interesting guests, and I’ve invited some very special colleagues to join me as guest co-hosts. 2023-01-2102 minTaboo TradesPayment, Exploitation, & Clinical Trials with Holly Fernandez LynchIn this episode, Holly Fernandez Lynch and I continue our discussion of clinical research ethics with co-hosts Rahima Ghafoori and Caroline Gozigian (UVA Law '23). In this Part 2 of our interview, we focus on questions of payment, exploitation, and trust. As a reminder, in Part I, Holly introduced the basic regulatory framework governing clinical trials, with a focus on laws and rules impacting payment. She also discussed the benefits of and concerns about human challenge studies, and shared some historical examples. Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE, is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medical E...2023-01-2155 minTaboo TradesClinical Research Ethics with Holly Fernandez LynchHolly Fernandez Lynch and I discuss clinical research ethics, including challenge trials, research subject payment, and diversity in medical research with co-hosts Rahima Ghafoori and Caroline Gozigian (UVA Law '23). In this episode, Holly introduces the basic regulatory framework governing clinical trials, with a focus on laws and rules impacting payment. She also discusses the benefits of and concerns about human challenge studies, and shares some historical examples. In the next episode, Part II of our interview, we explore issues of coercion, inducement, and exploitation more explicitly.Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE, is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethic...2022-12-301h 10Taboo TradesAre International Surrogates Exploited with Stephen WilkinsonIn today’s episode, UVA Law 3Ls, Makenna Cherry and Meghana Puchalapalli join me to continue our discussion with Lancaster University professor Stephen Wilkinson. Wilkinson is a Professor of Bioethics, Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee.Much of his work is about reproductive ethics and the regulation of reproductive technologies, especially the ethics of selective reproduction. A book on this topic (Choosing Tomorrow’s Children, Oxford University Press) was published in 2010. Since then, particular interests have included ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation, non...2022-12-151h 08Taboo TradesInternational Surrogacy with Stephen WilkinsonMy guest today is Lancaster University professor Stephen Wilkinson and I’m joined by two UVA Law 3L co-hosts, Makenna Cherry and Meghana Puchalapalli. Wilkinson is a Professor of Bioethics, Associate Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee.Much of his work is about reproductive ethics and the regulation of reproductive technologies, especially the ethics of selective reproduction. A book on this topic (Choosing Tomorrow’s Children, Oxford University Press) was published in 2010. Since then, particular interests have included ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation, non...2022-11-2940 minTaboo TradesMary Anne Case on A Post-Dobbs Right to F*$#In today’s episode, UVA Law 3Ls Reidar Composano and Bryan Blaylock join me to continue our discussion with University of Chicago Law professor, Mary Anne Case, about her forthcoming paper, Donorsexuality. The f-bomb is dropped (but for reasons relevant to the paper) and I emphasize (again) that all this Con Law talk is not welcome on my podcast. No one listens to me. Case litigated for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and was professor of law and Class of 1966 Research Professor at the University of Virginia before joining the Chicago Law School faculty. Her scho...2022-11-151h 10Taboo TradesDonorsexuality with Mary Anne CaseUniversity of Chicago Law professor, Mary Anne Case, joins me and UVA Law 3Ls Reidar Composano and Bryan Blaylock to discuss her forthcoming paper, Donorsexuality. The f-bomb is dropped (but for reasons relevant to the paper) and I emphasize (again) that all this Con Law talk is not welcome on my podcast. No one listens to me. Case litigated for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and was professor of law and Class of 1966 Research Professor at the University of Virginia before joining the Chicago Law School faculty. Her scholarship has concentrated on the regulation of s...2022-11-0853 minTaboo TradesPeterson on Prisons, Part IIJonathan Peterson and I continue our discussion of prisons, commodification, and privatization, together with UVA Law 3Ls Ryan Fitzgerald and Mary Talkington. Peterson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola New Orleans and the paper we’re discussing is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on Commodification, edited by Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch. (As mentioned in the last episode, I have a chapter in the Handbook as well) Jonathan’s research specializations are in philosophy of law and political philosophy. His current research focuses on political authority, social justice, criminal law, and punishment. Jonat...2022-10-2837 minTaboo TradesPrisons, Commodification, & Privatization with Jonathan PetersonIn this episode, I – together with UVA Law 3Ls Ryan Fitzgerald and Mary Talkington -- interview Jonathan Peterson, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola New Orleans, about commodification and privatization in prisons. The paper we’re discussing is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on Commodification, edited by Elodie Bertrand and Vida Panitch. Jonathan’s research specializations are in philosophy of law and political philosophy. His current research focuses on political authority, social justice, criminal law, and punishment. Jonathan Peterson's webpage at Loyola New Orleans: http://cas.loyno.edu/philosophy/bios/jonathan-peterson 2022-10-221h 09Taboo TradesBreach By Violence: Sharecropper Litigation with Brittany Farr, Part IIIn this episode, UVA Law 3L Marley Peters and I continue our discussion with Brittany Farr, Assistant Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. We’re discussing her article, Breach By Violence, which is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review. It analyzes the use of private law by sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the Jim Crow South to address violent breaches of contract by landlords. To hear the full interview, make sure to also listen to the prior episode, Episode 3. Farr is a scholar of private law and race. With more than a decade of i...2022-10-1254 minTaboo TradesBreach By Violence: Sharecropper Litigation with Brittany FarrIn this episode, UVA Law 3L Marley Peters and I interview Brittany Farr, Assistant Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. Farr is a scholar of private law and race. With more than a decade of interdisciplinary training, her research draws on history, legal theory, and cultural studies to theorize how marginalized populations have availed themselves of otherwise inhospitable legal regimes. In particular, her research focuses on enslaved and free African Americans’ use of contract law during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and interrogates the ways in which contract law mediated African Americans’ relationship to bodily autonomy, econ...2022-10-0343 minTaboo TradesIndentured Servitude, Specific Performance, and the Thirteenth Amendment with Nate OmanIn this episode, we continue our discussion with Nathan B. Oman, the W. Taylor Reveley III Research Professor and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Markets at William & Mary School of Law. Nate specializes in Contract Law, the Economic Analysis of Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Religion, and Legal History. Today, we’re discussing his 2009 article, Specific Performance and the Thirteenth Amendment, published in the Minnesota Law Review. As I mentioned in episode 1, the article first came to my attention this summer, when the internet erupted with suggestions that the specific performance clause in the...2022-09-261h 19Taboo TradesSpecific Performance, Twitter, and Elon Musk with Nate OmanIn this episode, UVA Law 3Ls Bridget Boyd and Jenn Scoler join me to interview Nathan B. Oman, the W. Taylor Reveley III Research Professor and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Markets at William & Mary School of Law. Nate specializes in Contract Law, the Economic Analysis of Law, Jurisprudence, Law and Religion, and Legal History. Today, we’re discussing his 2009 article, Specific Performance and the Thirteenth Amendment, published in the Minnesota Law Review. The article first came to my attention this summer, when the internet erupted with suggestions that the specific performance cla...2022-09-1822 minTaboo TradesWelcome to Season 3!Welcome to Season 3! Hear more about this year's topics and guests and listen to UVA Law students introduce themselves and talk about why they're taking time out of their busy law school schedules to produce this podcast with me. This year's co-hosts are: Bryan Blaylock, Bridget Boyd, Makenna Cherry, Reider Compasano, Ryan Fitzgerald, Rahima Ghafoori, Caroline Gozigian, Marley Peters, Meghana Puchalapalli, Jennifer Scoler, and Mary Talkington2022-09-1703 min
Creative Common SenseMarkets, Repugnance, and Externalities by Kimberly D. KrawiecThis Article considers one aspect of the ongoing debate about the moral limits of markets – namely, the purported harmful effects of market transactions on particular relations, goods, services, or society at large, due to an inappropriate valuation.This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Krawiec, K. (2022). Markets, repugnance, and externalities. Journal of Institutional Economics, 1-12. doi:10.1017/S17441374220001572022-08-2239 minTaboo TradesBonus Episode: Ending the Kidney Shortage with Frank McCormickFrank McCormick is an economist and the author of numerous articles focused on the shortage of kidneys for transplantation. He is retired from the Bank of America where he was Vice-president and Director of U.S. Economic and Financial Research. Today, we’re discussing his recent article, Projecting the Economic Impact of Compensating Living Kidney Donors in the United States: Cost-Benefit Analysis Demonstrates Substantial Patient and Societal Gains, co-authored with Philip J. Held, Glenn Chertow, Thomas G. Peters, and John P. Roberts. It is published in the journal, Value in Health and is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/sc...2022-08-0644 minTaboo TradesBonus Episode: The Plagiarism Taboo with Brian FryeBrian Frye and I engage in academic navel gazing, discuss scholarly shit posting, and argue about the virtues of plagiarism. A fun time was had!My guest today is one of the most unusual and creative voices in the legal academy, Brian Frye, the Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky. He teaches classes in civil procedure, intellectual property, copyright, and nonprofit organizations, as well as a seminar on law and popular culture. Today we’re engaging in academic navel gazing and opining on plagiarism, law review publishing, and plagiarism.Brian is also a...2022-07-291h 06Taboo TradesSeason Two SignoffI say goodbye to my amazing students and they say goodbye to all of you. Join us for our final sign-off2022-07-1801 minTaboo TradesBonus Episode: Taboo Children with Sean WilliamsMy UVA colleague, Gregg Strauss, and I interview Sean Williams, of the University of Texas School of Law about his new paper "Sacred Children and Taboo Trade Offs"Welcome to the first bonus episode of the Taboo Trades podcast! As regular listeners know, I’ve sadly had to say goodbye to the amazing group of students who were my co-hosts for Season 2. But I decided to do a couple of bonus episodes this summer, and this is the first, featuring Sean Williams of the University of Texas School of Law. I also have a very special co-host, on...2022-07-181h 15Taboo TradesGetting Away with Taboo Trades with Gabriel Rossman, Pt. 2Welcome to part 2 of my interview with Gabriel Rossman, Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and co-host, UVA Law 3L Autumn Adams-Jack. We continue our discussion of sex, drugs, and Islamic finance, among other taboo trades. It’s also our final episode of season 2. Please listen to the end of the episode for a special goodbye from America’s favorite law students. Thank you to Gabriel for helping us wrap up this season with a great episode. And thanks to all of you for listening. 2022-04-2854 minTaboo TradesGetting Away with Taboo Trades with Gabriel Rossman, Pt. 1Want to buy sex, bribe a politician, or get your dumb kid into an Ivy League school? I discuss how to get away with taboo trades with Gabriel Rossman, an Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and my co-host, UVA Law 3L Autumn Adams-Jack. Rossman studies cultural industries (such as radio and film) and economic sociology (including diffusion and disreputable exchange). He is interested in how people structure immoral exchanges like bribery to make them more subtle and therefore less obviously immoral. I’ve been an admirer of Rossman’s work for a number of years...2022-04-2555 minTaboo TradesKidneys with Sally SatelI discuss what it's like to need (and receive) a life-saving kidney transplant with AEI's Sally Satel (a two-time kidney transplant patient) and UVA 3L, Caitlyn Stollings, who co-hosts this episode. Dr. Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the staff psychiatrist at a local methadone clinic in Washington D.C. She was also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University from 1988 to 1993 and remains a lecturer at Yale. Importantly for our purposes, she is a two-time kidney transplant patient and has written widely about that experience. Dr. Satel is...2022-04-171h 23Taboo TradesMarijuana Legalization with Douglas BermanI discuss marijuana legalization and why Congress is so incompetent, with Ohio State's Douglas Berman and UVA Law 3L, Cortney Inman, my co-host for this episode. Douglas Berman is the Newton D. Baker-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law, and the Executive Director of the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. His principal teaching and research focus is criminal law and sentencing, and marijuana law and policy. Professor Berman is the co-author of two casebooks. Sentencing Law and Policy and Marijuana Law and Policy. He has served as an ed...2022-04-071h 42Taboo TradesCollege Sports with Paul HaagenWith the Final Four nearly upon us, I discuss college sports with Paul Haagen of Duke University and UVA Law 3L, Jackson Bailey.Paul is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Sports Law and Policy at Duke University. His principal academic interests are contracts, the social history of law, and law and sports.Recommended Reading:Sports in the Courts: The NCAA and the Future of Intercollegiate Revenue Sports, 103 Judicature 54-61 (2019)2022-04-011h 34Taboo TradesDecommodification As Exploitation with Vida PanitchVida Panitch and I discuss (de)commodification, corruption, exploitation, and coercion with my co-host, UVA Law 3L, Nevah Jones. We're specifically interested in women's intimate and reproductive labor, including sex work, surrogacy, and egg donation. Vida Panitch is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics and Public Affairs at Carleton University. Her primary research project addresses the moral boundaries of markets – specifically markets in public goods, including health care and education, and physical goods, including body parts and intimate services – and the extent to which theories of exploitation, commodification, and inequality can help us determine their permissible regula...2022-03-271h 33Taboo TradesPandemics with Govind PersadCo-hosts Samantha Spindler (UVA Law 2L), Madison White (UVA Law 3L), and I discuss pandemic responses with Govind Persad. Our focus is how to preserve personal choice in crisis response. Persad is an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Sturm college of law. Persad’s research interests center on the legal and ethical dimensions of health insurance, health care financing, and markets in health care services, as well as professional ethics and the regulation of medical research.2022-03-201h 12
19 Nocturne Boulevard19 Nocturne Boulevard - The Leech - ReissueAdapted by Julie Hoverson from a story by Phillips Barbee (pseudonym of Robert Sheckley) Published in Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1952 Classic era science fiction about a very odd visitor from outer space. Cast List Professor Michaels - Grant Baciocco (Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd) Frank Connors - Bryan Hendrickson Mrs. Jones - Kimberly Poole (Warp'd Space) Sheriff Flynn - Glen Hallstrom General O'Donnell - Chuck Burke Allenson, scientist - Cary Ayers Moriarty, physicist - Eleiece Krawiec Brigadier-General - H. Keith Lyons Driver - Cary Ayers Soldier1 - John Carroll Soldier2 - Lothar Tuppan Pilot - Ma...2022-03-1045 minTaboo TradesBodies of Former Slaves with Fred SmithFred and I discuss what society owes to the bodies and memories of former slaves with our co-host, UVA Law 3L Tom DelRegnoFred Smith Jr., a Professor of Law at Emory University. He is a scholar of the federal judiciary, constitutional law, and local government. In 2019, he was named the law school’s Outstanding Professor of the Year.Additional Reading:Smith Jr, Fred O. "On time,(in) equality, and death." Mich. L. Rev. 120 (2021): 195.Smith, Fred O. "The Constitution After Death." Columbia Law Review 120.6 (2020): 1471-1548.2022-03-031h 14Taboo TradesReproductive Markets with Kimberly MutchersonKim and I, together with co-host (UVA 3L) Thalia Stanberry, discuss surrogacy, the right (or not) to procreate, and CRISPRKimberly Mutcherson is the Co-Dean and a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. Her scholarship focuses on reproductive justice, bioethics, and family and health law.Further reading:(1) Kimberly Mutcherson, Reproductive Rights without Resources or Recourse (Hastings Center Report, fall 2018).(2) Kimberly Mutcherson, Building Queer Families and the Ethics of Gestational Surrogacy (University of Richmond Law Rev, 2019).(3) Sandy Sufian and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, The Dark Side of CRISPR, Scientific American, Feb. 16, 20212022-02-261h 30Taboo TradesKidney to Share with Martha Gershun and John LantosMartha, John, and I discuss Martha's journey as a stranger donor with co-hosts Kaitlyn O'Malley and Caitlyn Stollings (UVA Law '22). Appearances are also made by Nevah Jones, Alex Leseney, Thalia Stanberry, Samantha Spindler, and Tom DelRegno.Martha Gershun and John Lantos are authors of Kidney To Share, a new book published by Cornell University Press. Martha Gershun is the former Executive Director of Jackson County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). She is author of Care & Custody, and her work has appeared in The Kansas City Star, The New York Times Magazine, and The Radcliffe Q...2022-02-081h 40Taboo TradesRepugnance with Al RothAl Roth and I discuss hitmen, drugs, kidneys, paid sex, and other repugnances. We’re joined by co-hosts Madison White and Alex Leseney (both UVA 3Ls), with appearances from UVA 3Ls Thalia Stanberry, Caitlyn Stollings, Jackson Bailey, and Autumn Adams-jack. A good time was had by all!Alvin E. Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He works in the areas of game theory, experimental economics, and market design, and shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.Readings referenced in this episode:Roth, Alvin E. Who gets what--and wh...2022-02-011h 28