On UnCommon Law, legal issues, public policy, and storytelling collide. We'll explore the most important legal stories of the day: Will lawmakers be able to rein in artificial intelligence before it's too late? Can the government ever consider race in college admissions? How much power do federal agencies have to make the rules that shape our lives? Can you sue a haunted house for being too scary? Produced and hosted by Matthew S. Schwartz. Winner of the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts
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Signup to Generate a PitchOn UnCommon Law, legal issues, public policy, and storytelling collide. We'll explore the most important legal stories of the day: Will lawmakers be able to rein in artificial intelligence before it's too late? Can the government ever consider race in college admissions? How much power do federal agencies have to make the rules that shape our lives?
Recent episodes include "SPECIAL: Justice Stephen Breyer on Trump, the Rule of Law, and Whether the Supreme Court is Political" (1 July 2026, 58 minutes), "How the DOJ Decides Who Gets Charged and Who Doesn't in America" (18 June 2026, 35 minutes), and "Justice Transformed: When DOJ Norms Disappear" (6 May 2026, 27 minutes).
UnCommon Law publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 77 episodes.
Booking probability for UnCommon Law is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. UnCommon Law requires a Pod Score of 82 or higher. UnCommon Law's contact route on record: verified email.
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In this special episode of UnCommon Law, former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer sits down with Bloomberg Law's Matthew S. Schwartz to discuss the Court, executive power, Dobbs, judicial independence, and the rule...
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How does the Justice Department decide who gets charged with a crime and who doesn't? In the post-Watergate era, the Justice Department developed policies and institutional safeguards intended to separate political...
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When Robert Jackson stood in the Great Hall of the Justice Department in 1940 and told the country's federal prosecutors that they held more power over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America, he...
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For decades, the Justice Department has operated with a widely shared understanding: that prosecutors should follow the evidence, not the president. That understanding was never written into law; it was shaped by norms...
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A generation of schoolchildren learned from Schoolhouse Rock that bills become laws through careful committee work, open debate, and thoughtful compromise. But as this episode of UnCommon Law makes clear, that tidy...
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In this episode, we explore the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine through the Loper Bright case, examining its impact on the regulatory landscape in America. In just the first...
Federal agencies expanding their power beyond congressional intent? Unelected bureaucrats making policy decisions? Regulatory whiplash?! According to the litigants urging the Supreme Court to strike down the Chevron...
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Wayne Reichle – who’s been in the fishing business his whole life – had never heard of the Chevron doctrine. That's the two-step legal test that courts used for the past 40 years to decide whether a federal agency had...
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Congress often passes major legislation setting out broad principles, and then lets the federal agencies sort out the details. But what should an agency do if Congress’s instructions are ambiguous or silent? That was...
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This season on UnCommon Law, join us as we explore the rise and fall of agency power, and what that could mean for the future of regulation in America.
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Generative AI has promised to reshape the practice of law ever since ChatGPT emerged. However, it's been unclear just how large law firms are using AI. Has it changed how practitioners do their jobs on a daily basis...
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In the season finale of UnCommon Law, we explore the power of AI to transform legal practice. Featuring insights from top law professors, a federal judge, and industry leaders like John Quinn, founder of Quinn Emanuel...
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Deepfakes. Disinformation. Algorithmic bias. Job displacement. These are just some of the harms legislators and regulators worry about when they think about how to tackle the risks posed by artificial intelligence. The...
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The US copyright system encourages human creativity. So does it make sense to grant a copyright to work created by AI with the click of a button? And, if AI generated artwork is given copyright protection, how would...
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The art world was rattled when Jason M. Allen won first place in the Colorado State Fair for "Théatre D’opéra Spatial" — digital artwork created with artificial intelligence. Allen had revised his text prompts hundreds...
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Generative AI tools are already promising to change the world. Systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT can answer complex questions, write poems and code, and even mimic famous authors with uncanny accuracy. But in using...
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Generative AI tools are already promising to change the world. Systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT can answer complex questions, write poems and code, and even mimic famous authors with uncanny accuracy. But in using...
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When Scott Griffin visited the Haunted Trail, he expected to be scared. But he did not expect what happened after he thought the scare was over. This special Halloween episode of UnCommon Law tells the true story of a...
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In the conclusion of UnCommon Law's season-long exploration of noncompete agreements, we look at the Federal Trade Commission's authority to ban the clauses nationwide. We’ve reviewed how the ban would work and explored...
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The Supreme Court has effectively ended the use of race as a factor in college admissions. In a 6-3 ruling, along ideological lines, the divided Supreme Court struck down the admissions programs of Harvard and the...
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