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Taboo Trades: Boycotts, Shunning & Shaming with Scott Altman

Scott Altman observes that people organizing a boycott tend to imagine themselves participating in the Montgomery bus boycott. Their targets tend to imagine a McCarthy-era purge. Scott joins me and…
Posted by Kim Krawiec November 4, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades: “NIL Buyouts, Liquidated Damages, and Disguised Noncompetes with Dave Hoffman.”

College sports is experimenting with a new contractual device: transfer-triggered “buyouts” in athletes’ name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements. Are these provisions legitimate estimates of a school’s difficult-to-measure losses, or…
Posted by Kim Krawiec October 19, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades Podcast: Survival Labor with Yvette Butler

When does crime become work—and why does the legal system recognize some harmful activities as legitimate labor while criminalizing other activities undertaken to secure food, shelter, safety, or family survival?…
Posted by Kim Krawiec October 11, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades: Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski on Markets Without Limits

If you may do something for free, is there always some way you may do it for money? Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski join me on Taboo Trades to discuss…
Posted by Kim Krawiec September 28, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades: June Carbone on The Crisis of Boys and Men

Academic collaborations sometimes begin in disagreement. June Carbone and Clare Huntington approached the legal rights of unmarried fathers from different perspectives, but their debate ultimately produced “Fatherhood, Family Law, and…
Posted by Kim Krawiec September 16, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades Podcast: Welcome to Season 7!

We're baaaack! With season 7 of the Taboo Trades podcast. Meet the 2026 UVA Law student co-hosts in our welcome episode.
Posted by Kim Krawiec September 5, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades Podcast: Taboo Patents

My guests today are Andrew Gilden, Southwestern Law School, and Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, William & Mary Law School. They join me today to discuss their recent paper, Patenting the…
Posted by Kim Krawiec February 10, 2026No Comments

Taboo Trades Podcast: Season 6 Sign Off

My student co-hosts sign off, bringing Season 6 to an official close. Never fear, I'll be back throughout 2026 with exciting bonus episodes.
Posted by Kim Krawiec December 16, 2025

Taboo Trades Podcast: Eggonomics with Diane Tober

My guest today is Diane Tober, an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama Department of Anthropology and Institute for Social Science Research. She is a medical anthropologist with a…
Posted by Kim Krawiec December 12, 2025
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