Cumberland Research Radio

How can we create a tool that law students can use to better manage time for all that law school requires? Cumberland School of Law professors Ramona Albin and Lynn Hogewood join us to discuss their student time management study, with a view toward helping students manage the challenges of “too much to do and too little time to do it” in law school.

Renowned climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe sits down to chat about bridging the gap between climate science and the Christian faith, the complex relationship between religion and politics, and overcoming political and religious gridlock to tackle humanity’s greatest environmental threat.

Given the soaring costs of higher education and legal textbooks, can we find a better, more cost-effective way to educate students? Ed Martin, professor of law at Cumberland School of Law, talks with us about using a cheaper, flexible alternative in the classroom: ChartaCourse.

Ted Leopold, a Cumberland School of Law alumnus and attorney working on a variety of mass tort and complex class action matters, discusses the background, current status, and future of the Flint, Michigan water crisis cases.

Currently the primary federal anti-kickback statute, which helps combat health insurance fraud, only applies when kickbacks are given for services provided by government health insurance plans like Medicare and Medicaid. Cumberland School of Law’s Chinelo Dike-Minor discusses why these consumer protections should be extended to private health insurance programs.

Former slave Mary Ann Cord recounted an oral history to Mark Twain about her tragic experiences while enslaved. Twain subsequently published  A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It.  But Cord never received any credit for the work, nor a dime of the proceeds from the sale of the book. Through the lens of common law copyright law, Cumberland School of Law’s Tim McFarlin takes a close lo...

Did you know that you can be dead in one state but alive in another? Cumberland School of Law's Professor Alyssa DiRusso talks about how this creepy quirk of state law affect trust and estate law, such as when property can be handed down at one's death.