Talking Legal History: Barbas on Morris Ernst

Talking Legal History, the podcast hosted by Siobhan M. M. Barco, a former litigator and current doctoral student in history at Princeton University, is out with a new episode.  Barco speaks with Samatha Barbas, University at Buffalo School of Law, about her new book, The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst: Free Speech Renegade (University of Chicago Press, 2021).  "In the 1930s and ’40s, Morris Ernst was one of America’s best-known liberal lawyers. The ACLU’s general counsel for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against artistic censorship. Arriving at a moment when issues of privacy, artistic freedom, and personal expression are freshly relevant, [Barbas's book] brings this singularly complex figure into a timely new light."

--Dan Ernst (no relation)