Holding Fourth Podcast

February 20, 2024

Fourth Circuit Personalities

Featuring Professor Allison Orr Larson

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In 2022, Professors Allison Orr Larsen and Neal Devins from William & Mary Law School published an article in the Virginia Law Review titled "Circuit Personalities." In the article, they examined and described how the appeals courts develop and adhere to different norms and traditions, and explain the broader implications of those different personalities in our judicial system.

In this episode we speak with Professor Allison Orr Larsen, who is not only a professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, but also serves as the director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law. (30 minutes)

January 31, 2024

State Solicitors General — Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Featuring Former Solicitor General of West Virginia, Elbert Lin

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Each year, lawyers from the office of the solicitor general, or the SG for short, appear before the Supreme Court to argue on behalf of the federal government, but who argues on behalf of the states?

It turns out that most states have their own solicitors general, but unlike their counterparts in Washington, DC, state SGs frequently appear at all levels of the judiciary, both state and federal. Who are these SGs? What do they do? And do we really have to address them as general?

To help us answer these questions we are joined by the former Solicitor General of West Virginia, Elbert Lin. (33 minutes)

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