[F]law School is a podcast created, produced, and hosted by high school, college, and law students as well as lawyers and law professors who all share an interest in exploring the flaw . . . in the law. [F]law School is an initiative of The [F]law magazine (flaw.org) and the Systemic Justice Project (systemicjustice.org). Its episodes focus especially on the role of corporate power in capturing law and legal institutions and in causing social problems.
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Migrants Law Project Podcasts
A new podcast series from the Migrants' Law Project. The first series opens with the story of young refugees trapped in informal camps in northern France and reveals how lawyers, activists, and others worked to open safe and legal routes to reunite them with their families in the UK. More info: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/it-can-be-done-stories-of-human-rights-law-in-action/ Cover image kindly provided by Juliet Kilpin, director of Peaceful Borders https://peacefulborders.org
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Giovana de Oliveira and Thy Luong speak with third-year law student Talish Babaian about how, in 2023, Citibank quietly denied credit and closed accounts for Armenian Americans in Glendale, California—and how that pattern fits into a long history of discrimination, corporate power, and legal systems …
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Molly Enloe and Gauri Sood dig into the hidden realities of the H-2A visa program with guest Izza Drury. They explore how this legal framework—marketed as a pathway for temporary agricultural work—is, in practice, a system that traps migrant farmworkers in cycles of abuse, wage theft, and corporate e…
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Shyun Moon and Sam Perri take a hard look at the rise of police body cameras with third-year law student Priya Pookkulam—and what they uncover is anything but accountability. Priya traces the origins of body cameras as a so-called reform, revealing how companies like Axon have profited off public out…
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The Midnight Shift: Today's Child Labor Crisis
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, guest Luke Hinrichs joins hosts Nolan Mascarenhas and Troy Brown to discuss his [F]law article, Economy of Exploitation, which sheds light on the issue of child labor. Hinrichs describes how child labor — an issue labeled a problem of the past — is highly relevant today, with legislation failing to protect…
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Gauri Sood and Haley Florsheim explore the chilling reality of publicly traded private prisons with third-year law student Jheri’ Richards. Together, they reveal how corporations like GeoGroup profit from mass incarceration, relying on government contracts and the stock market to drive their growth. …
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Molly Enloe and Gauri Sood sit down with third-year law student Charlotte Laurence to expose how private equity is infiltrating our healthcare system and, more specifically, how profit-driven investors are playing shell games with nursing homes—trading care for cash flow, and leaving some of the most…
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, guest Samara Trilling joins hosts Reya Singh and Sam Perri to pull back the curtain on big law recruitment at Harvard Law School. Samara describes the commodification of law students access to whom is sold by the law school and purchased by Big Law firms. Meanwhile, many students feel unduly pressured to m…
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Summary: In this episode of [F]Law School, hosts Haley Florsheim and and Mirei Saneyoshi examine the systemic roots of the affordable housing crisis with guests Sofi Scotti, David Hernandez, and Steven Rome, each of whom have written about this critical issue for The [F]law magazine. From Boston to Newark to Miami, they explore how corporate landlo…
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In this two-part episode on the corporatization of drag, hosts, Sam Perri and Pragnya Vella, interview Grayce Burns, a Harvard Law student, to discuss the rising popularity of drag as both a hobby and profession -- and as a form of both personal and political expression. In Part 1 Grayce explains how corporate control over drag queens is reshaping …
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In this two-part episode on the corporatization of drag, hosts, Sam Perri and Pragnya Vella, interview Grayce Burns, a Harvard Law student, to discuss the rising popularity of drag as both a hobby and profession -- and as a form of both personal and political expression. In Part 1 Grayce explained how corporate control over drag queens is reshaping…
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Jessenia Class and Thy Luong explore the corporate construction and manipulation of boredom with special guest Nelson Reed. They explore how companies have turned boredom into a profit center by pushing myths about why feeling bored is our fault and readily cured by purchasing their products. Get rea…
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Harvard Law School’s Public Interest Propaganda
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Sam Perri and Reya Singh chat with author Frank Obermeyer about his recent article, Harvard Law School’s Graduation Propaganda. Their conversation uncovers the numbers behind Harvard Law’s public interest rhetoric, explores some of the institutional and structural sources of students’ career drift to…
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Jessenia Class and Reya Singh speak with Harvard Law student Pantho Sayed about his article, titled “Not Just a Game,” on the challenges within the video game industry. Sayed focuses on the intense pressure developers face due to the corporatization of game production. An avid gamer and writer, Sayed…
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Summary: In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Troy Brown and Thy Luong speak with Harvard Law student Brandon Martinez about his article, titled “Representation = Taxation,” on U.S. tax policy. In their conversation, Martinez explains how, since the post-World War II era, conservative movements have worked to dismantle progressive tax structures…
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Summary: As campus protests swept the nation last spring, invasive surveillance technology put protestors and student organizers in precarious positions. Through targeted fear-mongering, tech surveillance companies changed cities’ and university’s perceptions of activism. From racially-biased facial recognition to predatory cell towers, corporation…
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Welcome to [F]law School, a podcast created by high school, college, and law school students, as well as young lawyers interested in exploring the flaws in the law. The podcast will focus especially on how many of our most urgent social problems are the product of those flaws and how those flaws are the product of corporate power and influence over…
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During the summer of 2015 thousands of refugees found themselves trapped in the jungle, an unofficial camp in Calais, France. Two English lawyers travelled to the jungle and were shocked to discover unaccompanied children living in unsafe, squalid conditions.In the second episode of It Can Be Done: A Syrian businessman discovers the harsh reality o…
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#1 "My Name is Kotaiba. I am from Syria."
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Introducing a new podcast series from the Migrants' Law Project exploring how the law can be used for social change. Episode one opens in 2015. We meet Kotaiba, a 15 year old Syrian refugee who finds himself in Calais looking for a safe way to reach his brother and sister in the UK. Meanwhile, across the channel, two English lawyers Sonal Ghelani a…
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