A challenge to a New York City gun regulation could be the Supreme Court’s first major Second Amendment ruling in almost a decade. Adam Winkler of UCLA Law and Ilya Shapiro of the CATO Institute discuss the case with host Jeffrey Rosen.

Battles over the future of slavery in the nation and the territories, the nature and extent of individual rights and the meaning of equality, and whether and how the union could survive characterized the Lincoln-Douglas debates; historians Sidney Blumenthal and Lucas Morel explore the debates with host Jeffrey Rosen.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George F. Will discusses his political and constitutional philosophy with Jeffrey Rosen.

What were the biggest constitutional debates between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists? Scholars Jack Rakove and Mike Rappaport join host Jeffrey Rosen to explore those debates.

President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking people on Twitter based on their viewpoints, according to a recent decision by the Second Circuit. Debating this decision, First Amendment experts David French and Katie Fallow join host Jeffrey Rosen.

Exploring the legacy of the nation’s first women’s rights convention and the ensuing movements that shaped the Constitution, gender law experts Erika Bachiochi of the Ethics & Public Policy Center and Tracy A. Thomas of the University of Akron School of Law join host Jeffrey Rosen.

Two of Justice Stevens' former law clerks, Daniel Farber of Berkeley Law and Kate Shaw of Cardozo Law, share some favorite memories from their clerkships and remember some of the late justice's landmark majority opinions and dissents, in conversation with host Jeffrey Rosen.

On the anniversary of the duel in which Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton, this episode explores Burr’s ensuing treason trial and its lasting implications today. Host Jeffrey Rosen is joined by Burr historians Nancy Isenberg and Kevin Walsh.

We review the Supreme Court 2018-19 term and explore Chief Justice Roberts’ newfound role as the swing justice with guests Ilya Shapiro of Cato and Leah Litman of the University of Michigan Law School. Jeffrey Rosen hosts.

Moderators Michael Lewis and Jeff Rosen sit down with current and former judges for candid conversations on how they have managed the challenges their role often requires them to face and how they have approached their work.

Exploring the influence of the Declaration of Independence on political and constitutional movements throughout American history – Danielle Allen of Harvard University and Ken Kersch of Boston College join host Jeffrey Rosen.

Antitrust law experts Barry Lynn of Open Markets Institute and Mark Jamison of American Enterprise Institute discuss the new investigations into leading big tech companies and what the consequences might be for the future of antitrust.

Exploring the possible consequences of the 2020 election for the Supreme Court and the Constitution—Professors Bruce Ackerman of Yale Law School and Randy Barnett of Georgetown Law join host Jeffrey Rosen.

Exploring the recent Supreme Court decision in Box v. Planned Parenthood and the “fetal personhood” debate—National Review’s David French and law professor and historian Mary Ziegler join host Jeffrey Rosen.

Two leading lawyers on either side of the abortion debate—Kathryn Kolbert and Clarke Forsythe— dive into the history of the Supreme Court’s key abortion cases, including Roe and Casey, and analyze whether currently pending and future abortion cases might lead the Court to revisit or overturn Roe.

Adam Liptak of the New York Times and Keith Whittington of Princeton University join host Jeffrey Rosen to examine the recent conflicts between the executive and legislative branches, and answer the question: what is a constitutional crisis, and are we in one now?

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. tells the story of Reconstruction and Redemption in conversation with NCC President and host Jeffrey Rosen.

Would adding a citizenship question to the census—which a recent lawsuit argues could dissuade people from responding to it— violate the Constitution’s enumeration clause, which requires that an “actual enumeration”, or a counting, of all Americans be performed every ten years? Does it matter how and why the question is added? Debating these questions are the Brennan Center’s Tom Wolf and Chapman University School of Law Professor John Eastman. Jeffrey Rosen hosts.

This episode sheds constitutional light on the Mueller report, focusing on obstruction. Host Jeffrey Rosen is joined by Mary McCord, senior litigator at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, and Josh Blackman, associate professor of law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston.

Where does the First Amendment draw the line between constitutionally protected journalism and unlawful cyber-crime? Josh Geltzer of Georgetown University Law Center and Ben Wizner of the ACLU join host Jeffrey Rosen to debate this question that has been reignited by the indictment of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange.

How did a Vietnam War veteran’s request for disability benefits turn into one of the key Supreme Court cases of this term, one with major implications for the future of the administrative state? Jonathan Adler of Case Western Law School and Ron Levin of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law explain. Jeffrey Rosen hosts.

Exploring the latest challenge to the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act—experts Abbe Gluck of Yale and Tom Miller of AEI join host Jeffrey Rosen.

Nick Stephanopoulos, one of the attorneys in the North Carolina gerrymandering case before the Supreme Court this week and a law professor at University of Chicago, debates Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation, on whether the Supreme Court should strike down partisan gerrymandering as violating the Constitution, and more. Jeffrey Rosen hosts.

John Yoo of Berkeley Law and Steve Vladeck of University of Texas Law join host Jeffrey Rosen for a wide-ranging discussion on executive privilege, focusing on potential executive privilege claims by President Trump in various scenarios including the Mueller report, the House obstruction inquiry, and pending civil lawsuits against Trump.

Several key death penalty cases came before the Supreme Court this term; capital punishment experts Richard Broughton and John Bessler join host Jeffrey Rosen to analyze the cases and what they might mean for the future of the death penalty.