Cumberland Research Radio

Will Dorton, assistant professor of law at Cumberland School of Law, talks with Dean Blake Hudson about the competing merger offers Warner Brothers board received from Netflix and Paramount. Dorton explains what Netflix would have had to do to beat Paramount's offer and provides his perspective on the corporate law takeaway from the merger.

Professor Bill Holt, associate director of Cumberland School of Law's Land Use & Natural Resources Law Center, talks with Dean Blake Hudson about his article “Ghost Towns, Dead Malls, and Foreclosed Landscapes in Post-Industrial Society” soon to be published in the American Sociological Association journal Contexts. Holt discusses the features of U.S. law and its economy that contribute to the abandonment of developed spaces across the nation and highlights the projected changes in U.S. landscapes over the next several decades.

Cumberland School of Law Professor Layne Keele talks with Dean Blake Hudson about the U.S. Supreme Court’s citation of his Oklahoma Law Review article “Only Mostly Dead: How the Irreparable Injury Rule Can Protect the Jury Trial Right for Claims in Restitution.” Professor Keele’s article deals with legal versus equitable remedies and how the distinction affects the right to a jury trial, and he discusses the implications of this issue and how the Supreme Court ruling paves the way for future rulings.

Sigurður Helgason, associate lawyer at Juris law firm in Reykjavik, Iceland, talks with Cumberland School of Law Dean Blake Hudson about the major modern challenges faced by Iceland, from high interest rates to inflation to whether Iceland should pursue European Union membership. He also discusses the importance of the United States to Iceland’s independence and how Iceland sits squarely between the U.S. and Europe, legally, culturally and economically.

Brigham Daniels, professor and co-director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, talks with Cumberland School of Law Dean Blake Hudson about the environmental importance of, and threats to, the Great Salt Lake and federal, state and local efforts to save it.

Mike Papantonio, partner at Levin Papantonio and a 1981 graduate of Cumberland School of Law, talks with Dean Blake Hudson about the path to making an impact as a trial lawyer and the need for lawyers to use their license to practice law in a way that has meaning and impact.

Kerry McInerney, director of Graduate and International Programs at Cumberland School of Law, talks with Dean Blake Hudson about Cumberland’s online Master of Laws (LLM) and Master of Studies in Law (MSL) graduate programs and degrees. He discusses the focus on regulatory compliance, the future of our program, and how our students are having a real world impact in their professions through their pursuit of these degrees.

Maryam Stevenson, assistant professor of Law at Cumberland School of Law, talks with Dean Blake Hudson about her research on immigration law, and in particular high-skilled workers. She discusses the changes to the H1-B visa program and details concerns over a shortage of high skilled laborers in, for example, the medical field (doctors and nurses) in the coming decades.

Professor Uma Outka, the William R. Scott Law Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, speaks with Cumberland School of Law Dean Blake Hudson about the issue of energy affordability, particularly in the context of low-income households. She discusses current programs at the federal level to address energy affordability and some reasons these programs have not been enough to adequately address energy insecurity. 

Ramona Albin, associate professor at Cumberland School of Law, speaks with Dean Blake Hudson about her research on the persistence of rape mythology. She explains that while rape shield laws are supposed to protect rape victims, mythologies undermining victims’ claims continue to create injustices in the law. She compares rape shield laws in the U.S. with those in Canada and the U.K. and what we can learn from those comparisons, concluding with insights into the potential future impact of this work.