PickVidsBest Law, policing & justice Videos
The 188 Law, policing & justice videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 4 intermediate, 181 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include LastWeekTonight, TEDx Talks, Tom Scott.
Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen explains in a TEDx talk why Germany has lower crime and far fewer prisoners than the US, and what American criminal justice could learn from German prisons.
Municipal Violations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on municipal violations.
DEFCON 17: That Awesome Time I Was Sued For Two Billion Dollars
Jason Scott of textfiles.com tells the story at DEFCON 17 of being sued for two billion dollars by a scammer who plagued him and others for over a decade.
YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else?
Tom Scott examines why YouTubers must declare paid endorsements while TV, film and other media face no such rule, comparing regulations in the UK and US.
Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier? | Op-Docs
A New York Times Op-Docs short in which actors perform a real legal deposition transcript.
Call Between Alexey Navalny and FSB Officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev [English Subtitles]
Bellingcat's publication of the recorded call in which Alexey Navalny, posing as a security aide, gets FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev to describe the operation to poison him.
Я позвонил своему убийце. Он признался
Alexei Navalny phones an FSB chemical-weapons specialist, posing as a senior official, and gets him to describe the 2020 Novichok poisoning and its cover-up.
The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery
A long documentary-style video arguing that slavery in the US effectively continued through convict leasing and the prison system until around 1942.
Don't Say Velcro
Velcro Brand's legal team makes a short, humorous ad asking people not to use "velcro" as a noun or verb and to say hook and loop instead.
Can We Pull Back From The Brink? (Episode #207)
A Sam Harris podcast episode from June 2020 on the protests and unrest after George Floyd's death, discussing racism and police violence in America in light of the available data.
Opioids II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's second Last Week Tonight segment on the opioid epidemic, covering the role of large companies in driving it.
Epic v Apple: Judgment Day - Who Won? Who Lost? ...and Why? (VL538)
Hoeg Law's Virtual Legality walks through the 185-page Epic v.
The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository
A 98-minute LEMMiNO video reconstructing what happened inside the Texas School Book Depository before, during, and after the Kennedy assassination.
Republic, Lost (my favorite version)
Lawrence Lessig's 2011 Berkeley book talk based on Republic, Lost, arguing that money in politics creates institutional corruption in Congress.
Abolish Copyrights and Patents? A Soho Forum Debate
A Soho Forum debate in which patent lawyer Stephan Kinsella argues for abolishing copyright and patents against law professor Richard Epstein.
People & Power - On a wing and a prayer
An Al Jazeera English People & Power investigation from 2010 into safety problems with the Boeing 737NG, featuring whistleblowers on cracking parts, hand-made structural components and an alleged cover-up.
What is Right to Repair? An introduction for curious people.
Louis Rossmann gives a basic, non-technical introduction to right to repair legislation for people new to the issue.
The Surprising History of Copyright and What It Means For...
Karl Fogel's 2006 Google Tech Talk traces copyright from a 16th-century English censorship law to a distribution monopoly.
Lina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily Show
FTC Chair Lina Khan sits down with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show to discuss the agency's work protecting consumers from unfair business practices.
DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow's DEF CON 31 talk describes how platforms decay in a pattern he calls enshittification.
Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)
Adam Neely interviews Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin about their project to generate and copyright every possible melody as MIDI.
Opioids III: The Sacklers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on the Sackler family and how they have handled opioid lawsuits.
Watching This Video Disqualifies You From Jury Duty for Life
CGP Grey explains jury nullification, a juror's power to acquit despite the law, and why mentioning it can get you struck from jury selection.
Errol Morris interviews mob lawyer Murray Richman - 1/3
Part one of Errol Morris's First Person interview with Murray Richman, a New York lawyer who defends mob figures.