#13: Poetry, Art, and the Law - Kristen Adams, Jase Madsen, & Taylor Simonds
Release Date: 04/24/2023
#34: From the Stage to the Stadium: Stetson Grads in Sports and Entertainment Law
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
Athletes and celebrities may be the ones in the spotlight, but behind every sponsorship deal, headline-making trade, or backstage battle over royalties, there's a lawyer making it all happen. On this episode of Real Cases, we sit down with three Stetson Law alums: music industry attorney and Founding Partner of Keller, Turner, Andrews, & Ghanem, Jason L. Turner; Senior Director and Associate Council for the Charlotte Hornets, Cymoril White; and Vice President of Basketball Strategy for the Utah Jazz, Steven Schwartz. We discuss the ins and outs of copyright termination, new legal questions...
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#33: Making the Most of Your First Year at Law School
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
They say you should treat law school like a full-time job. But what does that really mean in practice, and how do you get the most out of your first year? In this episode, we sit down with Assistant Professor Erin Okuno, who both teaches at Stetson Law and graduated from the school in 2013, and John Stafford, who’s now a second-year student at Stetson. We discuss the most common challenges students face in their first year at law school, ways the environment for new grads has changed in the last decade, and how Stetson’s uniquely collaborative environment sets students up for success....
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#32: Biden v. Nebraska and Student Loan Forgiveness
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
What’s the difference between “waiving” and “modifying,” and how does that affect whether the President of the United States can forgive student loan debt? In this episode, we sit down with Stetson Law Professor Mark Bauer to discuss Biden v. Nebraska, the Supreme Court case that struck down the Biden administration’s partial student loan forgiveness efforts. On the way we consider the major questions doctrine, the vagaries of standing, and how sometimes―just sometimes―your work in antitrust law gets made into a Hollywood movie.
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#31: The Stetson Law Campus and the History of the Hotel Rolyat
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
What do Babe Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and a cat named Porkchop all have in common? They’ve all been distinguished guests on Stetson Law’s storied hundred-year-old campus. In this episode we sit down with Brooke M. Smith, a Circulation Librarian and Archivist, and Reference Librarian Sally Ginsberg Waters to discuss the history of that campus, dating back to its original construction as the Hotel Rolyat, an attraction for celebrities during the Roaring Twenties.
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#30: Employment Law and Discrimination
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
More and more job applications are processed by machine learning before a real person ever reads them. But can these algorithms exhibit prejudice? And, if so, what would it mean to adopt algorithmic affirmative action? In this episode, we sit down with Stetson Professor Jason Bent to discuss the changing landscape of employment and employment discrimination law in the twenty-first century. We discuss the impact of AI, growing concerns about data privacy in employment contexts, and the role new Supreme Court decisions have played in the interpretation of Title VII.
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#29: Major Cases from the Supreme Court This Summer
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
Are presidents immune from criminal prosecution for actions they take in office? That was just one question – and perhaps not even the most wide-ranging one – under consideration in the decisions released at the end of the Supreme Court’s latest term this summer. In this new episode, we sit down with Stetson Law Professor Louis Virelli to discuss how the court’s recent slate of decisions is reshaping the balance of powers. From gun rights to presidential immunity to fundamental workings of administrative law, the cases from this latest term are rewriting the textbooks.
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#28: Part-Time Students at Stetson
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
How do part-time law students juggle a family, a job, and law school all at once? In this episode, we sit down with two strong advocates for Stetson Law’s part-time program, Dominique Alford-Raymond and Grace Moseley. Together we discuss the diversity, the resilience, and the uniquely strong community among members of Stetson’s part-time program.
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#27: American Indian Law and the Supreme Court
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
In an era of sharp and often predictably partisan disagreements within the Supreme Court, it might surprise some that Neil Gorsuch, one of the court’s 6 conservative justices, has emerged as one of the fiercest proponents of tribal sovereignty to ever serve on the bench. That fact doesn’t surprise Stetson Law Professor Grant Christensen, however. Christensen is a specialist in Federal Indian Law, the unique mixture of federal regulations and tribal sovereignty that governs the lands set aside for Native American communities within the states. In this episode, we discuss the unexpected...
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#26: Climate Change, Environmental Law, and Public Access to Justice
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
Florida isn’t just on the front line for climate change in America – it’s also a testing ground for new legal questions about how to deal with its consequences. In the latest episode of Real Cases, we speak with Assistant Professor Jaclyn Lopez, Director of the Jacobs Public Interest Law Clinic for Democracy and the Environment. We discuss public access to environmental justice, new legal problems raised by increased flooding, and the role the Jacobs Law Clinic is playing in fighting to extend federal Endangered Species Act protection to the ghost orchid, a rare and famous flower unique...
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#25: History, the Law, and Constitutional Consciousness
Real Cases: A Legal Podcast
How did free African Americans before the Civil War regard the Constitution, freedom, and citizenship in a republic that excluded them from political participation? In the latest episode of Real Cases, we sit down with Stetson Professor James Fox to discuss the fuzzy boundaries between history and legal scholarship, different varieties of originalism on today’s Supreme Court, and how greater racial diversity in the academy advances new ways of understanding the past.
info_outlineIn this episode, Stetson Law Professor Kristen Adams and her students Jase Maden and Taylor Simonds discuss the intersections between literature, performance, and legal scholarship they explored in Adams’ course, “The Law as Reflected through Poetry.”