About The Life of the Law

Overview

Oral arguments often jump right into the weeds. We provide an independent podcast feed that collects context in the show notes to help you follow along.

This is worth (re-)emphasizing:   We are not affiliated with the Supreme Court of the United States—nor any other entity, for that matter. We collect public information about the case from the Supreme Court's website and include that information in the show notes for each argument.

We don't provide any commentary either, but our show notes put helpful context right at listeners' fingertips—for example:

  1. the attorneys who argued the case,
  2. the question presented,
  3. links to the parties' briefs,
  4. a link to the docket page (where even more information is available), and
  5. a link to the argument transcript.

What the Feed Includes Now

Each episode in the feed is a Supreme Court oral argument (audio provided through links to the public Supreme Court website). The feed includes all the argued cases from October Term 2023 and October Term 2024, and we're updating the feed to include cases from the current term as they become available.

Our Approach

We aim for reliability and objectivity. To that end, we do not provide any commentary of our own. And all the links—including the audio files themselves—come directly from the Supreme Court's website, all freely available to the public.

Next Steps

We'd like to think we're off to a helpful start, but we have ideas for improvements in the future. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to reach out.

And if you're interested in hearing about new features as we roll them out, please subscribe to the newsletter below.

By experience, by analogy, by more inclusive seeing, and also by argument, reasoning, and moral theorizing, morality is developed
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