As part of our special Christmas and Hanukkah programming on the VC, here is a 50-minute podcast interview with Alan Gura. It’s all about McDonald v. Chicago, particularly about the meaning of the Privileges or Immunities clause and of the Due Process clause.
Jim W says:
Like the hanukkah music.
December 7, 2009, 6:31 pmThe Last Man Standing says:
The link is not working.
December 7, 2009, 7:38 pmWill says:
It takes a while for it to download.
December 7, 2009, 8:44 pmRichard Letaw says:
Dave, I’ve been reading your many pieces in this VC Conspiracy site and have been delighted to find you an entertaining as well as astute and informed publicist. Before I hit a key incorrectly a couple of minutes ago and evaporated your work I found that our forefathers had much in common. My family fled the Pale of Settlement in 1890 and made it first to Hamburg and then here.
I’m not an attorney but had the privilege of studying constitutional law in graduate school at the Unversity of Florida in 1953 and 1954 under Professor Earnest Barkley. Pursuing that throughout the intervening 55 years has been my avocation and has contributed to such professional success as I enjoyed.
I’d like very much to correspond with you on a personal basis and exchange some of my barely tutored legal ideas for your professional criticism when you have time to do so.
That’s probably enough to learn whether you’d like to spend a few minutes with me on occasion. Please contact me, if you wish, at rletaw@cox.net.
BTW, were you not associated with Florida State University at one time?
Best regards,
Richard Letaw
December 15, 2009, 4:00 pmVienna, Virginia
Richard Letaw says:
No response to the above. I thought I was being polite and germane. HOWEVER, I did get an advertisement trying to sell me a book. Go bite your dollars!
December 17, 2009, 4:23 pmbob says:
Great bumper music.
I am always amazed that Gura is able to frame relatively complex legal arguments and doctrines in ways that are relatively easy to understand. I wish more lawyers had that ability.
DK is not a bad interviewer either.
Well worth the time.
December 18, 2009, 11:11 pm