Episode 24: “Dance Party, Vol. IV; Bloody Moves”

Learned Hands: The Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association

In this twenty fourth episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry, Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire ask: How do the battles in the Dance of the Dragons establish law or precedent?

Our analysis this week includes:

• The glorious return of burrito metaphors
• Your Hands dive back in on the Battle of the Gullet, the Disaster on the Honeywine, the Fishfeed, and the Butcher’s Ball
• Our sports analogies don’t work because both teams have negative points
• Clint finally gets to gas on about the American Civil War
• Merry defends* her home state of Texas (*lol)
• RIP Jace Velaryon, the North’s strongest Ally
• Everyone has a massive LOL about Criston Cole getting merc’d like an asshole
• Merry & Clint argue about whether Rhaenyra taking the throne has any legal effect

Supplemental reading:

• Texas v. White opinion

Bumpers by Virginie. Audio Engineering by LittleWolfBird. Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.

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