The University of Miami School of Law celebrates the launch of season 10 of the Miami Law Explainer podcast.
The first show of the year, "On Deck and in the Wings at the Supreme Court of the United States," dropped on January 16, 2023, with Associate Dean of Intellectual Life and constitutional scholar Professor Charlton Copeland. Episode 126 delves into the makeup of the current bench and what's in store by way of arguments and decisions during the spring 2023 term.
This season, the Explainer will continue to partner in a series-within-a-series with the academic scholarship discussions "Takeoffs and Landings," with Copeland on the microphone. Each episode features an interview with a faculty member who has recently or is on the cusp of publishing a scholarly work.
One of the highlights of season nine was "A Feminist Reckoning," where Copeland discussed with Donna Coker her article addressing domestic violence advocacy's confrontation with its contribution to the rise of the carceral state and its impacts on race and class marginalized communities. Her research attempts to understand and direct a way forward for gender-based violence at a moment when it has become imperative to look beyond police responses to intimate partner violence.
First up on season 10, will be Professor Jessica Owley, faculty director for the environmental law program, discussing her co-written (with Jess Phelps) "The Afterlife of Confederate Monuments." In their paper, Owley and Phelps consider how, as communities increasingly remove Confederate monuments from public spaces, they must decide what to do with these troubled statues. Given the recent wave of monument removal, they consider how property law and other restrictions impact community decisions on the disposition of monuments removed from public spaces on two levels — by location and future owner.
"So often the public sees scholars opining about matters of immediate impact, my desire for this series was to open to door a bit wider to the role that long term research questions and agendas impacts our faculty's contribution to matters of public concern, " said Copeland.
