After a long hiatus, we're particularly unpredictable with an episode that isn't about the Supreme Court. We're joined by NYU law professor Daryl Levinson to talk about his exciting and important new book on constitutional theory, Law For Leviathan: Constitutional Law, International Law, and the State. Listen to learn why the Supreme Court's constitutional pronouncements on separation of powers might not matter as much as you thought—and along the way you'll find out what might happen to Will if he starts breaking into his colleagues' cars at the University of Chicago parking lot. Law for Leviathan: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/law-for-leviathan-9780190061593?cc=us&lang=en&
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Welcome to Divided Argument.
an unscheduled, unpredictable Supreme Court podcast. I'm Will Bode. And I'm Dan Epps.
So, Will, we have had perhaps an unpredictably long gap, or maybe a predictably long gap since our last episode. It's been more than a month. Some things have happened. We've had some interesting stories about behind-the-scenes stuff at the court. We are not going to get into any of that today. We'll save that for a more regular episode. We've got something cool.
I just did want to get some clarification out before we dive in, which is the reason for our delay is not shame for not giving sufficient credit to Benjamin Franklin on the last episode. I think I may have suggested, you know, you were praising him and we talked about, you know, Thomas Jefferson as an inventor. And we got multiple emails from Ted Frank and Dan Simon about that.
Ben Franklin's inventions, the full extent of which I was not familiar.
Lightning rod, bifocals, daylight savings time, the Franklin stove, reaching device, I don't know what that is, some kind of musical instrument popular enough in the late 18th century that Mozart and Beethoven composed for it, improvements to urinary catheters and odometers, arguably the first American political cartoon, swim fins.
Yeah, I told you.
Okay. All right. Well, you didn't tell me you didn't list those things.
So it was great.
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