Advisory Opinions is a legal podcast by The Dispatch. Hosts David French and Sarah Isgur meet twice a week to talk about the law, the courts, their collision with politics, and why it all matters.
Trump Found Liable for Sexual Abuse
62 hours 8 mins; May 11, 2023
Perceptions of Violence
64 hours 32 mins; May 09, 2023
Disney Sues DeSantis
65 hours 46 mins; May 04, 2023
Killing Zombies at the Justice Monastery
85 hours 26 mins; May 02, 2023
Are You There God? It's Me, The Lemon Test
66 hours 58 mins; April 27, 2023
The Tech Term Arrives
64 hours 35 mins; April 25, 2023
Sarah's Buckets Hit SCOTUS (Oh, and Fox News Settles Dominion Case)
73 hours 56 mins; April 20, 2023
A Nerdy Amuse Bouche
76 hours 41 mins; April 18, 2023
Screaming Complaints
75 hours 13 mins; April 13, 2023
About Those Dueling Abortion Rulings...
89 hours 42 mins; April 11, 2023
A Mumbling Indictment
68 hours 52 mins; April 05, 2023
Tennessee Law Drags On
84 hours 17 mins; April 04, 2023
...But Was It a Crime? (Live From Harvard)
73 hours 30 mins; April 01, 2023
Sarah VS Serial
84 hours 49 mins; March 30, 2023
Free Speech Re-Education Camp
74 hours 38 mins; March 28, 2023
Trumped Up?
77 hours 31 mins; March 23, 2023
The Walk of Shame (Is Protected Speech)
85 hours 51 mins; March 15, 2023
The Stanford Squeeze (w/ Judge Kyle Duncan & David Lat)
133 hours 6 mins; March 14, 2023
The Sun Shines on in Kentucky
75 hours 10 mins; March 09, 2023
Murdaugh Trial and Georgia Juror… Eventually (Catching Up, Ep. 2!)
86 hours 27 mins; March 07, 2023
Catching Up With SCOTUS, Ep. 1: The Saga Begins
76 hours 0 mins; March 02, 2023
Judge Rao on Separation of Powers
60 hours 42 mins; February 28, 2023
What's Mine is Mine
70 hours 56 mins; February 23, 2023
Hateful Conduct (But Actually Speech)
62 hours 5 mins; February 16, 2023
Defamation Vibes
77 hours 4 mins; February 14, 2023
Yale Anons
75 hours 56 mins; February 09, 2023
The Problem With 'History and Tradition'
74 hours 51 mins; February 07, 2023
Untested Theories
81 hours 59 mins; February 02, 2023
Is That a Mein Kampf in Your Pocket?
70 hours 53 mins; January 31, 2023
Spies, Shredders, and Mistaken Identities
77 hours 46 mins; January 26, 2023
Rod Rosenstein Talks Special Counsels
69 hours 8 mins; January 24, 2023
Saved By Cert
77 hours 44 mins; January 19, 2023
Stop Doing This
75 hours 30 mins; January 17, 2023
Is It Windbreaker Time, Yet?
62 hours 43 mins; January 12, 2023
Be Not So Sensitive
68 hours 45 mins; January 10, 2023
Confession by Stand-Up
64 hours 51 mins; January 04, 2023
Everybody Wants a Little More Pandemic
83 hours 40 mins; December 22, 2022
Between Persuasion and Coercion
64 hours 15 mins; December 20, 2022
Twitter, Trafficking, and Section 230
53 mins; December 15, 2022
Depends What You Mean By 'Shall'
75 hours 41 mins; December 13, 2022
Is This a Lollapalooza?
77 hours 7 mins; December 08, 2022
Special Master No More
74 hours 25 mins; December 06, 2022
The Brooding Omnipresence of the Law
84 hours 53 mins; December 01, 2022
First Amendment Monday (on a Tuesday)
85 hours 12 mins; November 29, 2022
The Access Grift
61 hours 37 mins; November 22, 2022
The Future of the Federalist Society
81 hours 17 mins; November 17, 2022
The Gobsmacking Guns Case
70 hours 0 mins; November 15, 2022
Guns. Ho.
71 hours 21 mins; November 10, 2022
No More Pre-Mortem (Almost)
71 hours 29 mins; November 08, 2022
Affirmative Action Hearing, pt. 2
78 hours 40 mins; November 03, 2022
SCOTUS Considers Affirmative Action
68 hours 22 mins; November 01, 2022
Chess World Vibes
77 hours 47 mins; October 27, 2022
Chess Cheats and Hot Sauce
60 hours 37 mins; October 25, 2022
Where’s the Beef?
65 hours 32 mins; October 20, 2022
The Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Trump
72 hours 43 mins; October 18, 2022
The Case That Broke David's Inbox
66 hours 30 mins; October 13, 2022
Live From George Mason
88 hours 3 mins; October 11, 2022
The Onion Files an Amicus Brief
70 hours 12 mins; October 06, 2022
You Must Have Misunderstood Law
78 hours 38 mins; October 04, 2022
The Bell Tolls Long Conference
61 hours 38 mins; September 29, 2022
Live from the University of Michigan
68 hours 7 mins; September 27, 2022
Ken Paxton’s Airing of Grievances
72 hours 54 mins; September 22, 2022
The Supreme Court Sides With Process
67 hours 53 mins; September 20, 2022
Getting Your Legal Career Started
54 mins; September 13, 2022
Special Master to Review Mar-a-Lago Documents
80 hours 27 mins; September 08, 2022
Trump vs. DOJ in Courtroom Battle
77 hours 37 mins; September 02, 2022
Will Baude Responds to Common Good Constitutionalism
68 hours 54 mins; August 30, 2022
Future of Cultivated Meat
47 mins; August 25, 2022
50 Ways of No
63 hours 58 mins; August 23, 2022
Bret Devereaux Talks Orc Battle Tactics
61 hours 43 mins; August 18, 2022
Mar-a-Lago Search Part of Espionage Act Investigation
78 hours 59 mins; August 16, 2022
Kevin Stroud Talks the History of English
56 mins; August 11, 2022
FBI Searches Trump's Home: What Does it Mean?
48 mins; August 09, 2022
Shouting Fire in a Crowded Theater
67 hours 8 mins; August 09, 2022
Justice Department Sues Idaho Over Abortion Law
64 hours 25 mins; August 04, 2022
Steven Pressfield on Writing Historical Fiction
60 hours 19 mins; August 02, 2022
Judge Rudofsky Talks Corpus Linguistics
70 hours 55 mins; July 28, 2022
Judge Luttig Talks Electoral Count Act Reform
65 hours 24 mins; July 26, 2022
A Conversation About Academic Freedom
63 hours 16 mins; July 21, 2022
Akhil Amar Talks Liberal Originalism
59 mins; July 19, 2022
Twitter Sues Elon Musk to Force Acquisition
68 hours 31 mins; July 14, 2022
Supreme Court Term Wrap Up with Kannon Shanmugam
70 hours 56 mins; July 12, 2022
Revisiting the Coach Kennedy Case with Hiram Sasser
75 hours 41 mins; July 07, 2022
Supreme Court Wraps Up Term with EPA Decision
65 hours 28 mins; July 05, 2022
Supreme Court Narrows 2020 Ruling on Tribal Lands
59 mins; June 30, 2022
Praying Football Coach Wins at Supreme Court
73 hours 26 mins; June 28, 2022
Supreme Court Overturns Roe and Casey
84 hours 27 mins; June 24, 2022
Supreme Court Strikes Down New York Gun Law
92 hours 58 mins; June 24, 2022
Supreme Court Rejects Ban on Public Money for Religious Schools
