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NYU appears in The Bob Zadek Show primarily as the academic affiliation of the program’s guests rather than as a topic of discussion in its own right. The university is named in host introductions and in the identification of speakers, and it functions as a credential establishing a guest’s expertise in law, economics, or criminal justice.

Richard Epstein

The most frequently recurring NYU figure on the show is Richard Epstein. In the 2017 episode on climate change, Bob Zadek introduces him as a professor of law at NYU Law School, noting that he has a trained scientific background and is schooled in economics as well Richard Epstein on Climate Change (2017). Epstein’s own remarks in that episode concern the variability of climate, the resilience of the climate system, and the role of carbon dioxide and water vapor as greenhouse gases; he characterizes himself as a mild skeptic rather than a denier, and describes the debate as one of attitude in which one side calls the other alarmist and the other calls the one side deniers Richard Epstein on Climate Change (2017).

Epstein returns in the 2020 episode on the administrative state, where he is introduced as a professor of law at NYU and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, discussing his book The Dubious Morality of the Modern Administrative State The Dubious Morality of the Modern Administrative State (2020). In the 2023 episode on California’s FAST Recovery Act, the host states that Epstein teaches law at NYU School of Law, where he founded and heads the Classical Liberal Institute, and further identifies him as a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Which Side Are You On? (2022).

David Kaplan

The 2019 episode on the Supreme Court introduces David Kaplan as an NYU Law graduate, a former legal affairs editor of Newsweek who covered the Supreme Court for over a decade, and a bestselling author Demystifying the Supreme Court (2019). Kaplan’s discussion concerns the growth of the Court’s power, the death of Justice Scalia, and the tendency of both left and right to seek judicial solutions to political questions. He argues that the Court has become far more powerful than the founders envisioned, and that he would rather place his bets with democracy than with unelected, unaccountable justices Demystifying the Supreme Court (2019).

Rachel Barkow

The 2019 episode on criminal justice introduces Rachel Elise Barkow as the Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy and faculty director of the Center for Administration of Criminal Justice at New York University School of Law, which Bob Zadek identifies as his alma mater Rachel Barkow on Fixing the Fundamentals of Criminal Justice (2019). The host also notes her prior membership on the United States Sentencing Commission and her clerkships for Justice Scalia and Judge Larry Silberman; Barkow clarifies at the outset that she is no longer on the Sentencing Commission Rachel Barkow on Fixing the Fundamentals of Criminal Justice (2019). The excerpt breaks off before the substantive discussion of mass incarceration develops.

Across episodes

NYU is touched on in four episodes spanning 2017 to 2023 — the climate change episode, the Supreme Court episode, the criminal justice episode, and the California FAST Act episode — but the episodes show no development in how the university is treated: in each case it appears only as a guest’s institutional affiliation, and no excerpt discusses NYU as an organization.

Guests and episodes

6 appearances by 2 guests, 2017–2022. Guests A–Z by first name.

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