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Jon Lee on Sanctioning Lawyers Who Commit Crimes

May 16, 2026

In this episode, Jon J. Lee, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research and Frank Elkouri and Edna Asper Elkouri Professor in Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, discusses his article "Sanctioning Lawyer-Criminals," which is published in the Washington and Lee Law Review. Lee begins by explaining how the legal profession regulates itself and disciplines lawyers. He describes the history of how the legal profession has disciplined lawyers who commit crimes, including whi...

Davies & Ellis on Brakhage & Sartre

May 07, 2026

In this episode, Byron Davies, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship with the Aresmur research group in aesthetics and art theory at the University of Murcia in Spain, and Addison Ellis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, discuss their article "Stan Brakhage, Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism: Cinema De Trop," which will be published in the journal Film-Philosophy. Davies and Ellis begin by explaining who Stan Brakhage was and describing his films and writi...

Philip Hackney on Arts Tax Policy

April 16, 2026

In this episode, Philip Hackney, Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses his draft article, "Arts Tax Policy: Democracy or Plutocracy?," which will be published in the Loyola L.A. Law Review. Hackney begins by explaining how the tax code conceptualizes art. Then he explains how the tax code conceptualizes charitable organizations and treats them differently from non-charitable organizations. He reflects on the justifications for tax exemption and deduction, e...