Show BioHide BioDavid Raban (MPP/JD '20) is a staff writer for the Law & Politics section of the Chicago Policy Review. He previously worked on AirTalk at 89.3 KPCC, an NPR-affiliated radio station in Los Angeles, and he founded the organization University of Chicago Public Policy Podcasts. He holds a B.A. in History, Psychology, and Political Science from the University of California Santa Barbara.
In March 2018, David Raban traveled to Santiago, Chile, where he conducted research on Chilean copyright law. As part of his trip, he spoke with Claus Krebs, a Chilean copyright attorney with Clara & Cia. You can find the whole interview in podcast form here.T... More »
Remember Rachel Dolezal? An instructor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University and president of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Dolezal hid her racial origin until 2015 when an intrepi... More »
Editor’s Note: The following interview has been edited for length. Click here for the entire interview in podcast form. This interview is a collaboration between the Chicago Policy Review and the University of Chicago Public Policy Podcasts (UC3P).What’s it li... More »
From the United States to France, from Turkey to the Philippines, the rising specter of authoritarianism across the globe has frightened proponents of liberal democracy. Among those invested in the current world order, the discourse now confronts whether democ... More »
Even as decades have passed since the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans and Hispanics continue to encounter disproportionately low levels of electoral representation. In search of an appropriate remedy, the U.S. Congress passed amen... More »
What is the sex bureaucracy? How has it interacted with social norms to shape regulations regarding sex in the United States over time? In what ways has it changed, and to what extent has its new form retained a variety of bureaucratic elements? Should the pub... More »
Republicans refused to hold hearings on President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, and now Democrats are threatening to do the same for President Trump’s nominee, Neil Gorsuch. This gridlock is just one example of how all three branches of ... More »