EdUp Legal

Welcome to America's leading higher education podcast where we talk trending legal, regulatory and compliance matters - EdUp Legal!  YOUR host is Deborah Solmor In this episode, her guest is Tery Gonsalves , Partner and Chair of the education practice at the law firm of Alston & Bird . Today we look at the student loan forgiveness landscape. What did President Biden’s plan provide for and...

In today’s episode, we welcome Camille M. Davidson , Dean, and Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University School of Law . Dean Davidson started as Dean amid the pandemic after serving as a judicial hearing officer for the State of North Carolina and as a tenured law professor and associate dean of academic affairs in faculty development in Charlotte, North Carolina. This year Southern Illino...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today’s episode, we welcome Ashley Krenelka Chase , assistant professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law . At Stetson Law, she has taught legal research and writing and advanced research and technology courses. Before becoming a professor, she was the associate di...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today's episode, we welcome Madeleine Landrieu , Dean and Judge Adrian G. Duplantier, Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law , a position she has held since 2017. Dean Landrieu shares some differences in teaching Common Law and Civil...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today's episode, we welcome three guests to discuss Penn State Dickinson Law's leadership and antiracist education: TaWanda H. Stallworth, MDiv , program manager for the Antiracist Development Institute , Professor Dermot Groome , and Anu Gupta , founder and CEO of Be More a...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today's episode, we welcome Brian Gallini , the Dean of Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, a position he has held since 2020. He shares his experience becoming a dean during the pandemic and his transition from the University of Arkansas. Dean Gallini tel...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today’s episode, we welcome David Thomson , the John C. Dwan Professor of Online Learning at Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver . Professor Thomson tells us about his new book—The Way Forward for Legal Education. In his book, he suggests several proposals that...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today’s episode, we welcome Aliza Shatzman , the president and co-founder of the Legal Accountability Project , a non-profit aimed at ensuring law clerks have positive clerkship experiences and helping support and extend resources to those who don’t. Aliza shares with us her...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network!  In today's episode, we welcome Jennifer Gerarda Brown . She is Dean and Professor of Law of the Quinnipiac University School of Law , a position she has held since 2013. She has been on their faculty since 1994. Dean Brown shares with us her role when the pandemic hit and...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! We welcome Elisabeth Steele from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in today's episode. Elisabeth is a pedagogical coach and a virtual presence coach. She teaches effective online practices, involving classroom observations, face-to-face classes, meeting with students, conducti...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today’s episode, we welcome Dean Antony Page , the third dean of the Florida International University College of Law , a position he has held since the Summer of 2018. He shares with us his unconventional path to the deanship, his background as a professor, his public and pr...

Welcome back to America's leading legal education podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today’s episode, we welcome Karen J. Sneddon , Interim Dean and Professor of Law of Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia, a position she started in October 2021. Dean Sneddon, who has been a part of the faculty at Mercer since 2006, shares with us that in 2023 they w...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network!  In today’s episode, we welcome a 1987 St. Mary's University School of Law alumni, Mike Bassett , a civil litigation attorney who has practiced law for nearly four decades. He is the founder of the Bassett Firm , a Dallas-based boutique law firm that has tried over 300 cas...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today's episode, we welcome Laura A. Rosenbury. She is the Dean and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law , a position she has held since July 2015. Dean Rosenbury shares the remarkable progress Levin College of Law is ma...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today's episode, we welcome Carla D. Pratt, a national leader in diversity and inclusion and the holder of the inaugural Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Chair in Civil Rights, Race, and Justice in the Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law , a position she starts this summe...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network!  Today’s episode welcomes Felicia Epps , Dean, and Professor of Law at the University of North Texas Dallas College of Law . Dean Epps talks to us about UNT Dallas College of Law, the newest and 10th law school in Texas, and the newest ABA accredited law school in the coun...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we welcome the new Dean of the Liberty University School of Law , Morse Hyun-Myung Tan . In addition to his work in academia, and in large law firms and as mediator for organizational clients, Dean Tan brings with him the unusual experience of serving as Ambass...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In this episode, we welcome Lee Fisher , who serves as Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler BakerHostetler Chair in Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University, a position he has held since 2017. Dean Fisher shares with us his unusual path to the deanship, fr...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today's episode, we welcome Michael Waterstone , who was appointed the 18th Dean and Senior Vice-President of Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles in June of 2016. Dean Waterstone shares his path to the deanship and the values that resonate with him at Loyola Marymount...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! In today’s episode, we welcome Dean Danielle M. Conway , someone I admire and who has inspired me since before I was Dean. Dean Conway is the Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law . Dean Conway shares her extraordinary efforts in starting the La...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! This episode of EdUp Legal includes two partners from the #1 ranked legal search firm in the United States, Major, Lindsey & Africa . Major, Lindsey & Africa is a global navigator for lawyers at any stage of their career, and includes today's guests, Jeffrey Lowe , Glob...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! Today's program features Anthony Niedwiecki , who started as President and Dean at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in 2020. Prior to that, he was dean and professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law from 2017-2020. Dean Niedwiecki brings with him a wealth of experie...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! Dean Megan M. Carpenter began her role at the University of New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce School of Law in summer 2017. The fit was a natural one for Dean Carpenter given her expertise in intellectual property and innovation, particularly with Franklin Pierce School of Law hav...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! Judith Daar, 16th Dean of Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law, began her dean tenure in summer 2019, and during this episode she shares how she does the job while she and her husband commute every other weekend between Kentucky and California, where her husband ha...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education law podcast, EdUp Legal - part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network! Enjoy this conversation with J. Rich Leonard , Dean at Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University , and learn more about how the 5th dean of the law school transitioned to being a leader in legal education after decades on the federal bench. Dean Leonard spearhe...