March 22, 2021
How does social media influence jurors? What concerns are raised when jurors use social media during a trial? What are reasonable restrictions during a trial? How has our understanding of reasonable social media use changed over the past few years? The panel discusses these timely topics as well as baked goods.
The article discussed was: Amy J. St. Eve & Michael A. Zuckerman, Ensuring an Impartial Jury in the Age of Social Media, 11 Duke Law & Technology Review 1-29 (2012)
Host: Schenley Kent
Panel: Tony Fernando, Jo Ann Fernando, Vishal Bajpai
Audio: Mohammed Saleem
Producer: Tony Fernando
March 1, 2021
The panel discusses video games in the context of e-sports, streaming, and how these activities are and/or should be regulated. Covering subjects from performance enhancing drug testing of e-thletes to visas to monetary and 'attention' in-game currencies, there's something in this episode for everyone from the newest n00b to the l33t gamer.
The article discussed was: Elizabeth Chung, Gotta Catch 'Em All! The Rise of eSports and the Evolution of Its
Regulations, 22 SMU Sci. & TECH. L. REV. 231 (2019).
Host: Tony Fernando
Panel: Seth Trott, Jo Ann Fernando
Audio: Mohammed Saleem
Producer: Tony Fernando
February 15, 2021
Professor Michael Mogill joins the panel to discuss how he used Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, the famous 'hot coffee' case, at a Law Day presentation to explain how the jury system works. Other topics discussed include how to teach legal concepts to various non-lawyer/non-law student audiences ranging from children to senior citizens and challenges of teaching law in the time of COVID.
Article: Michael A. Mogill, Teaching Law Day: A Senior Moment, 1 Stetson J. Advocacy & L. 34 (2014).
Guest: Michael Mogill
Host: Seth Trott
Panel: Schenley Kent, Jo Ann Fernando, Courtney Buechler, Nicole Signer, Tony Fernando
Audio: Mohammed Saleem
Producer: Tony Fernando
December 7, 2020
The panel considers exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act which protects financial and business information. Does this create a right to privacy for corporations? Should business information be protected from disclosure, when the business is doing work for the government?
The article discussed is: Jane E. Kirtley, Scott Memmel, and Jonathan Anderson, More Substantial Harm than Good: Recrafting FOIA's Exemption 4 after Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, 46 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev 497.
Host: Tony Fernando
Panel: Nailah Graves-Manns, Seth Trott, Courtney Buechler
Audio: Mohammed Saleem
Producer: Tony Fernando