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This is Stanford Legal, where we look at the cases, questions, conflicts, and legal stories that affect us every day. Stanford Legal launched in 2017 as a radio show on Sirius XM. After a short hiatus, we are back as a standalone podcast. Don’t forget to subscribe or follow this feed on your favorite podcast app. That way you’ll have access to new episodes as soon as they’re available. Past episodes are still available on demand on your favorite app.

Law matters. We hope you’ll listen to new episodes that will drop on Thursdays every two weeks.

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Rich Ford and Pam Karlan for Stanford Legal Podcast

Stanford Legal’s co-hosts are world-renowned legal scholars who bring a wealth of knowledge from the classroom and the real world to each interview.

Pam Karlan studies and teaches what is known as the “law of democracy,”—the law that regulates voting, elections, and the political process. She served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission, an assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and (twice) as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She also co-directs the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, which represents real clients before the highest court in the country, working on important cases including representing Edith Windsor in the landmark marriage equality win and David Riley in a case where the Supreme Court held that the police generally can’t search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested unless they first get a warrant. She has argued before the Court nine times.

And Rich Ford’s teaching and writing look at the relationship between law and equality, cities and urban development, popular culture and everyday life. He teaches local government law, employment discrimination, and the often-misunderstood critical race theory. He studied with and advised governments around the world on questions of equality law, lectured at places like the Sorbonne in Paris on the relationship of law and popular culture, served as a commissioner for the San Francisco Housing Commission, and worked with cities on how to manage neighborhood change and volatile real estate markets. He writes about law and popular culture for lawyers, academics, and popular audiences. His latest book is Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History, a legal history of the rules and laws that influence what we wear.

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