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Ipse Dixit

Brian L. Frye, Luce Nguyen, Maybell Romero, Antonia Eliason, Saurabh Vishnubhakat, John Culhane, Benjamin Edwards, Matthew Bruckner

Booking Overview

This is a legal-scholarship interview show featuring academics, authors, and other subject-matter experts discussing their research, books, articles, and law-related projects. Credible pitches include law professors, legal historians, constitutional and antitrust scholars, political scientists, and occasional adjacent experts whose work directly engages legal issues; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need substantial, specialized scholarship or a relevant published project.

Metrics

Episodes: 838

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 1.5k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

brianlfrye@gmail.com

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Host

Brian L. Frye - Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Luce Nguyen - Student at Oberlin College and co-founder of the Oberlin Policy Research Institute, an undergraduate public policy organization.

Maybell Romero - Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law.

Antonia Eliason - Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Saurabh Vishnubhakat - Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M School of Law.

John Culhane - Professor of Law at Widener University Delaware Law School.

Benjamin Edwards - Associate Professor of Law at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law.

Matthew Bruckner - Associate Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Law professors, legal scholars, legal historians, and academics or authors with substantial research, a forthcoming or recently published book, a significant article, or a law-related project to explain.
Required Achievements:  
Published academic books or articles, Faculty appointments at accredited universities, Original research in constitutional law, civil procedure, intellectual property, antitrust, migration, or related legal fields

Recent Guest Discussions

Mike Plante - Independent Film, Louis Sher’s Theater Empire, The Prosecution Of Nico Jacobellis, And Jacobellis V. Ohio.

Anna O. Law - Migration Policy, Citizenship, And The Historical Role Of State And Local Governments In Regulating Migration.

Lisa P. Ramsey - Trademark Law, The First Amendment, Free Speech Conflicts, And Reforming Trademark Law.

Richard L. Heppner, Jr. - Tag!: The Jurisdiction Game, Gamifying Civil Procedure, And Using A Board Game To Teach Procedural Rules.

Jerry Edwards - The Original Understanding Of The First Amendment, Reconstruction, And Implications For Modern Constitutional Interpretation.

Recent Topics

Law, Legal Scholarship, Constitutional Law, Antitrust, Legal History

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Ipse Dixit
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Mike Plante on Louis Sher & Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)

September 21, 2026

In this episode, Mike Plante, a filmmaker, producer, and programmer, discusses his new book "Sensation Cinema: The Audacious, Defiant History of Louis Sher and the Art Theatre Guild," which is published by Sticking Place Books. Plante begins by describing his own background in independent film and how he became interested in Louis Sher. He explain who Sher was and how he came to create an empire of independent movie theaters in the 1950s. He the describes the circumstances surround the arrest...

Richard Heppner on Gamifying Civil Procedure

August 21, 2026

In this episode, Richard L. Heppner, Jr., Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and Associate Professor of Law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University, discusses TAG!: The Jurisdiction Game, his new board game based on the rules of civil procedure. Heppner begins by explaining why he decided to create the game and how he developed the rules. He describes how he used the game in his civil procedure classes and how it can help students learn how to understand and apply the ...

Lisa Ramsey on Trademarks & Free Speech

August 21, 2026

In this episode, Lisa P. Ramsey, Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, discusses her new book "Trademarks and Free Speech: Conflicts and Resolutions," which is published by Cambridge University Press. Ramsey begins by explaining what trademarks are, what they protect, what kind of rights they create, and why they exist. She identifies how trademark law comes into conflict with the First Amendment and free speech, and how the abuse of trademarks can exacerbate the conf...

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