New Episodes Each Month
Hosted by Dean Blake Hudson, Cumberland Research Radio provides short but insightful glimpses into the exciting scholarly work of Cumberland School of Law faculty, alumni and friends.
The Cumberland School of Law community possesses a wealth of knowledge and experience and have a passion for sharing it. Did you know that a person can be legally dead in one state, transported across state lines, and legally resurrected in another state—with important implications for trusts and estates law? Did you know that Mark Twain may have run afoul of common law copyright when he wrote a short story based upon an oral slave narrative? These are just a few of the many interesting topics our faculty are exploring.
But our program expands beyond the Cumberland School of Law faculty and alumni to discuss important and interesting research topics with academic faculty and practitioners around the nation and the world.
New episodes are available each month and can be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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.
