This week, it's the latest edition of "Things Haven't Always Been Like This". Farah Peterson teaches us about the judges of the early 1800s and their now-strange-seeming institutional world in which judging and legislating were less distinct and more collaborative.
This show’s links:
Farah Peterson’s faculty profile (https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/fp9r/2708426)
Farah Peterson, Interpretation as Statecraft: Chancellor Kent and the Collaborative Era of American Statutory Interpretation (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3201036)
Dark Sky (https://www.hydratext.com/blog/2012/6/5/dark-sky.html) (blog post)
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (https://www.amazon.com/Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography-Cancer/dp/1439170916)
Oral Argument 168: Galaxy-Sized Diamond (http://oralargument.org/168) (with Maggie McKinley on petitioning in Congress)
Richard Verdon, A Large Meteor (https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1032589101877395462)
Guido Calabresi, A Common Law for the Age of Statutes (https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Common_Law_for_the_Age_of_Statutes.html?id=KSy5QpdRMNsC)
Special Guest: Farah Peterson.