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
• Farah Peterson, Interpretation as Statecraft: Chancellor Kent and the Collaborative Era of American Statutory Interpretation
• sky.html">Dark Sky (blog post)
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
• Oral Argument 168: Galaxy-Sized Diamond (with Maggie McKinley on petitioning in Congress)
• Richard Verdon, A Large Meteor
• Guido Calabresi, A Common Law for the Age of Statutes

Special Guest: Farah Peterson.

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
• Farah Peterson, Interpretation as Statecraft: Chancellor Kent and the Collaborative Era of American Statutory Interpretation
• sky.html">Dark Sky (blog post)
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
• Oral Argument 168: Galaxy-Sized Diamond (with Maggie McKinley on petitioning in Congress)
• Richard Verdon, A Large Meteor
• Guido Calabresi, A Common Law for the Age of Statutes

Special Guest: Farah Peterson.