In this episode, Karan has a conversation with Loyola Professor Juan Perea, a Curt and Linda Rodin Professor of Law and Social Justice. Professor Perea has written extensively on topics ranging from racial inequality, the legal history of race relations in the United States, and the civil rights of Latinos. Professor Perea teaches courses about Constitutional Law and Race in the Law at Loyola. Karan and Professor Perea discuss Professor Perea’s article about the inequitable impacts of the GI Bill and how this contributed to the status quo of affirmative action policies. They also discuss the current affirmative action discourse, outlook going forwards, and both the short/long-term implications of the SFFA ruling.

Ben sits down with Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell Jr. to discuss his path to leadership within the Cook County Public Defenders’ office as well as his background and past experiences as both a public defender and a policy advocate in Chicago. During the course of their conversation, they discuss the offices’ goals and priorities, both past and present, as well as efforts the staff is taking to implement the Pretrial Fairness Act which effectively abolished the cash bail system in Illinois.

In this episode, Maris sits down with Cherie Mathews, a patent holder and entrepreneur who transformed a difficult experience with breast cancer into a patented product that has helped over 150,000 cancer patients. Cherie, among a disproportionately small number of female patent holders, candidly discusses the experiences that fueled her journey to patenting the garment – from being raised by a father who encouraged problem-solving to working on innovative projects at IBM. Maris and Cherie also discuss how intellectual property law can help solve societal issues, especially those that affect women and, ultimately, how we can begin to close the gender patent gap.

In this week's episode, Andy gets together with Associate Editor Johannes Alvarez-Rivero. Together, the two talk about and break down some of the landmark cases that eventually brought the Supreme Court 2023's "Student's for Fair Admissions v. Harvard"--the case that rejected affirmative action and ruled that colleges and universities can no longer use race as a factor in admitting students.

Yasmeen Khayr, a project coordinator at Loyola University Chicago’s Center for Urban Research and Learning, sits down with Casey to talk about her work as a researcher navigating the Domestic Violence Court in Cook County and evaluation of the Family Court Enhancement Project.

Casey sits down with Loyola alum, and current Loyola mock trial coach, Nat Cobbett to discuss how his participation in trial advocacy programs as a law student set him up for success as a trial attorney.

In today’s episode, Andy sits down with Tim Love, the executive director of the Office of Equity and Compliance and Title IX coordinator for Loyola University Chicago. In their discussion, Tim and Andy talk about some of the more intricate and humanistic details of working in this position and how it fits into the overall world of post-JD and law studies.

In this episode, Nneka Ugwu sits down with Savannah Joy West for a lawyerly lesson. Tune in for a candid conversation about her reflections from law school, advice for aspiring attorneys, and a crash course on the day-in-the-life of an Investment Funds attorney. Savannah is an associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on the formation, structuring, and operation of private equity funds and their management companies. She graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with her J.D. in 2020. She graduated from Amherst College with her B.A. in Political Science & Art History in 2015. After Amherst, Savannah received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English in South Africa which she completed before starting law school.

Please note the views expressed in this episode do not express the views of LUC Law or the guest’s employers.

In the final episode of her privacy series, Marisa sits down with Liz Hein, Foursquare’s VP of Compliance and Data Protection to talk about geolocation data, how she thinks about privacy, and the rapidly changing world of privacy engineering and thought.

Link to Daniel Solove’s paper referenced by Liz: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4322198

In this series, Marcus explores what Academic Freedom is through interviews with Dean Sacha Coupet, Associate Dean of Mission Innovation with the Loyola Chicago School of Law, and Zach Greenberg, Senior Program Manager for the Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

In this Part, we speak with Mr. Greenberg. In Part 1, we spoke with Dean Coupet.