The Law School Lounge

**Listener discretion is advised for this episode.** Welcome back for another episode of the Law School Lounge! This week our host, Krystal Norton, is joined by author and scholar Ronald K. L. Collins. Ron Collins recently published Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial with Carolina Academic Press, and he is here to talk about this historical work. Whether this is your first time learning about Emme...

We are back in the Lounge this week to have another discussion about legal writing. This week we tackle style, tone, grammar and more as it relates to the real-world consequences of poor legal writing. Professor Diana J. Simon of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and Professor Mark Cooney of Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, co-authors of The Case for Effective Legal Writing: Court Opinions, Comm...

The conversation on Multicultural Lawyering continues this week here at the Law School Lounge. Professor Kimberly O'Leary and Dean Mable Martin-Scott of Western Michigan Cooley Law School are back with our host, Krystal Norton, to talk more about their experiences with multicultural lawyering while providing suggestions and tips for our listeners who are new to or continuing the journey. These two experts discuss measuring implicit...

We are back in the Lounge this week with two very special guests to talk about multicultural lawyering. Professor Kimberly O'Leary and Dean Mable Martin-Scott of Western Michigan Cooley Law School created a course and wrote a book dedicated to learning and understanding the concept of multicultural lawyering. In part one of this two-part conversation, we focus on the definition and contours of multicultural lawyering, what it means...

On the latest episode of the Law School Lounge, Host Krystal Norton is joined by Dean Christina Chong-Nakatsuchi, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the Monterey College of Law. Dean Chong is the author of CAP's The Perfect Practice Exam: The Skill of Legal Analysis. Dean Chong talks about why she was inspired to write this book. She also walks listeners through her "Three-Step Method" for legal analysis; a ...

The Law School Lounge is back with a new episode about international dispute resolution (IDR). Host Krystal Norton is joined by author and Professor of Law Mary Ellen O'Connell of the University of Notre Dame Law School. Professor O'Connell explains how she found herself an expert on IDR and why IDR is so crucial to our ever-evolving global community. Mary Ellen and Krystal explore the skills learned through studying or practicing ...

We return this week to talk about pretrial practice with special guests Professor Alex Tanford, Professor Emeritus of Law from Indiana University's Maurer School of Law, and Professor Layne Keele, an Associate Professor of Law at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law. These two guests bring so much to the lounge, including stories and experience about the practice of law, notes for students and new attorneys for different s...

The Law School Lounge is back this week with an insightful and current discussion about Election Law. Special Guests Dean Daniel Tokaji of the University of Wisconsin School of Law and Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos of Harvard Law School bring their expertise to our listeners. They share insights on concepts of pluralism and factions, gerrymandering and districting, campaign finances, the right to vote, and so much more. As lead...

We are closing out our discussion on integrating diversity and equity into law school courses (for now) with part three of the series. This series is inspired by the Integrating Doctrine and Diversity volumes, co-edited by today's guests Professors Nicole Dyszlewski and Suzanne Harrington-Steppen of Roger Williams University School of Law. As this is the final part of our series (go back and list to the first two parts if you haven...

We are back in the Lounge with Part Two of our discussion on integrating diversity and equity into law school courses. This three-part series is inspired by the Integrating Doctrine and Diversity volumes, co-edited by today's guests Professor Nicole Dyszlewski of Roger Williams University School of Law and Anna Russell, a librarian at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In Part Two, we dive deeper into some of the topics from Part ...

Welcome back to a new year here at the Law School Lounge! We are kicking off 2024 with a three-part series inspired by the Integrating Doctrine and Diversity volumes, co-edited by today's guests Professors Nicole Dyszlewski of Roger Williams University School of Law and Genevieve Tung of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. In Part One, we discuss the impetus for their work, goals they set with this project, and how the...

We are in the Lounge this week with Professor Laura Riley, the Director of the Clinical Program at UC Berkeley School of Law and the author of "Homless Advocacy." Professor Riley's discussion with our host, Krystal Norton, covers the stigma faced by unhoused people in the United States, the history of homelessness within the country, how being an effective advocate means competently and compassionately working with people experienc...

Professor Kathy Vinson of Suffolk University Law School and Professor David Romantz of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law are back in the Lounge with host Krystal Norton to dive deeper into CREAC. The second part of their discussion focuses on the "What next?" part of legal analysis. They talk about how to handle multiple CREACs for one document, how to handle policy arguments, whether to use CREAC in all ty...

Host Krystal Norton is joined in the Lounge by Professor Kathy Vinson of Suffolk University Law School and Professor David Romantz of the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law to talk legal analysis and CREAC. As the co-authors of "Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill" and creators of the now widely-applied paradigm CREAC, Professors Romantz and Vinson discuss the thought behind the paradigm, the components that m...

The Law School Lounge is back this week to talk about the historical and enduring nature of racism faced by Black Americans in the context of the criminal jury system. Host Krystal Norton is joined by special guest, Professor Emerita Raneta Lawson Mack, and together they walk through cases, reflections, and current legal issues surrounding racism in criminal jury participation. Professor Mack starts all the way back with the creati...

The discussion topic for this week's episode of the Law School Lounge is transactional lawyering and skills. Host Krystal Norton is joined by Peter Siviglia, an attorney with more than 50 years' experience practicing law in New York and author of Transactional Skills: Contract Preparation and Negotiating (What to do - and What Not to Do). Peter's candid comments throughout this episode help listeners get a feel for transactional la...

We are back in the Law School Lounge this week and host Krystal Norton is joined again by Dean Darby Dickerson, the Dean and President of Southwestern Law School, and Professor Brooke Bowman, a Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law. These two experts in legal scholarship are turning the discussion to law review and law journal editorial boards. In last week's episode, the structure of these boards was addressed. Now...

On this week's episode of the Law School Lounge, host Krystal Norton is joined by Dean Darby Dickerson, the Dean and President of Southwestern Law School, and Professor Brooke Bowman, a Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law. These two experts in legal scholarship are here to discuss law reviews and law journals. Throughout this episode, Dean Dickerson and Professor Bowman articulate the difference between law review...