I Just Discovered the Common Law Podcast! Have You?

Somehow I had not noticed the UVA Law has a podcast called Common Law.  As near as I can tell, there is some variation but also some continuity in the hosts, and the subject matter is not always the common law.  Rather, it is a law talk blog in which the UVA hosts interview UVA and non-UVA faculty about recent legal issues and recent legal scholarship.

A recent episode, involving friend of the Blog Kim Krawiec on her favorite topic, Taboo Trades.  Inattentive as I am, I learned from the podcast for the first time the intriguing origins of Kim’s interest in taboo trades.  She was working at a BigLaw firm on derivatives transactions and learned that such transactions were once regarded as a form of gambling and were illegal, as life insurance contracts once were.  I know.  Amazing.  Gambling was once illegal!

This episode is hosted by UVA’s Dean Risa Goluboff and Professor Cathy Hwang.

Listen!  And lucky you!  There are five seasons that you have not yet listened to!