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Professor Vincent Munoz (University of Notre Dame) opines on Justice Alito’s interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause in Fulton. Professor Daniel Farber (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law) provides commentary.

Professor Joshua Kleinfeld (Northwestern Law) compares state actors with private institutions as entities subject to majoritarian control and discusses the ramifications of these institutions on individual freedoms.

Jeff Ogar, General Counsel at Stand Together, speaks about free speech, his journey from growing up in Berkeley to graduating from Berkeley Law, and his role at Stand Together, which is the Koch Foundation’s charitable giving arm.

Professor Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law Houston) and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (University of California, Berkeley, School of Law) discuss seminal Supreme Court cases and their effect on the American legal system.

This spring, the Supreme Court will hear Groff v. DeJoy, a case on the religious liberty rights of employees under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Chapman Law Professor James Phillips discusses the case, his research on the meaning of “undue hardship” under the Civil Rights Act, and what the case means for textualist theory and methodology. Professor John Yoo of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law provides commentary.

Former Congressman Bob Barr opines on the ways in which "wokeness" undermines the U.S. legal system.