Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff speaks with Kenneth Feinberg, currently President Obama's special master for executive compensation for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and an adjunct professor at the Law Center. Feinberg also served as the special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, fund administrator for the families of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech, and chief of staff for the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

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October 22 TARP executive compensation report factors
Compensation-setting by companies
Public outrage
Structure of compensation/risk management
Industry-wide ripple effect
Unemployed workers versus million-dollar salaries
Metrics for success
Victims compensation funds
Legacy of Senator Edward M. Kennedy

Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas (Tom) Ricks about his recent book The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008. Ricks, the senior Pentagon reporter and U.S. military correspondent for the Washington Post, also authored a 2006 bestseller entitled Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq.

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Change in American policy
"The Surge"/contributing factors
Goals in Iraq
Dysfunction and destabilization
End of war/predictions
Potential abuse investigations/Abu Ghraib
Personal safety
David Petraeus

Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff speaks with attorney and best-selling author John Grisham about his 2006 book The Innocent Man, telling the true story about a man sent to death row for a crime he did not commit.

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Book origins
Death penalty/wrongful convictions/reforms
Ron Williamson — what went wrong
Criminal justice system and the Innocence Project
The Appeal and judicial elections
Law and entertainment
On location: Georgetown Law, Washington, D.C.

Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff speaks with W. Gary Sharp, senior associate deputy general counsel (intelligence) at the Department of Defense and an adjunct professor at the Law Center, about his counterterrorism course, "The Law of '24.'"

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Course origins/issues
Coercive interrogations
Cyberterrorism
Infrastructure preparedness
Prevention
Internet attacks
Progress report
What students learn
TV and the Constitution

Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff speaks with the former Senate majority leader — now chairman of DLA Piper’s global board — about the new presidential administration, the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Obama Administration
Government cooperation
Mitchell Report (baseball)
Middle East
Global lawyers

Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff speaks with the retired associate Supreme Court justice about her efforts to promote discussions on the topic of judicial independence.

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Attacks on judicial independence
Need for education
Our Courts project
Selection process for state judges
Current trends

Georgetown Law Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff speaks with the Supreme Court associate justice about judicial independence.

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Attacks on judicial independence
Public perception of judiciary
Judicial pay
Judicial elections
Nomination process

Georgetown Law Professor Larry Gostin speaks with the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health about global and national health issues.

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Anthrax attacks
SARS
AIDS
Future concerns