In the second episode of this two-parter, we sit down with Dean Anne Mullins; inaugural faculty bencher, Professor Kristen Adams; and one of the Inns program’s first student readers, Mariana Monforte, a 3L who graduated from Stetson Law this spring. We discuss how law students go from private citizens to public advocates, the importance of developing a cross-generational professional network, and why Dean Mullins calls the Inns program “Hogwarts for law students’!

Your first few weeks of law school can feel like moving to another country where everyone speaks a slightly different language—and you need to be fluent by midterms. Perhaps that’s why Stetson looked to a venerable institution from the UK’s legal system to help 1Ls connect with each other, their professors, and the profession: English Inns of Court.

In this first episode of a two-parter, we sit down with Stetson Law Professor Timothy Kaye, one of the program’s inaugural “benchers”—i.e. faculty mentors—to discuss how Stetson’s Inns program got its start, the system’s British origins, and how the program cultivates a more thoughtful and immersive approach to the study and practice of law.

Athletes and celebrities may be the ones in the spotlight, but behind every sponsorship deal, headline-making trade, or backstage battle over royalties, there's a lawyer making it all happen.

On this episode of Real Cases, we sit down with three Stetson Law alums: music industry attorney and Founding Partner of Keller, Turner, Andrews, & Ghanem, Jason L. Turner; Senior Director and Associate Council for the Charlotte Hornets, Cymoril White; and Vice President of Basketball Strategy for the Utah Jazz, Steven Schwartz. We discuss the ins and outs of copyright termination, new legal questions around data gathering through wearable technology, and the multitude of unusual avenues through which people enter the profession.

They say you should treat law school like a full-time job. But what does that really mean in practice, and how do you get the most out of your first year?

In this episode, we sit down with Assistant Professor Erin Okuno, who both teaches at Stetson Law and graduated from the school in 2013, and John Stafford, who’s now a second-year student at Stetson. We discuss the most common challenges students face in their first year at law school, ways the environment for new grads has changed in the last decade, and how Stetson’s uniquely collaborative environment sets students up for success.

What’s the difference between “waiving” and “modifying,” and how does that affect whether the President of the United States can forgive student loan debt?

In this episode, we sit down with Stetson Law Professor Mark Bauer to discuss Biden v. Nebraska, the Supreme Court case that struck down the Biden administration’s partial student loan forgiveness efforts. On the way we consider the major questions doctrine, the vagaries of standing, and how sometimes―just sometimes―your work in antitrust law gets made into a Hollywood movie.

What do Babe Ruth, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and a cat named Porkchop all have in common? They’ve all been distinguished guests on Stetson Law’s storied hundred-year-old campus.

In this episode we sit down with Brooke M. Smith, a Circulation Librarian and Archivist, and Reference Librarian Sally Ginsberg Waters to discuss the history of that campus, dating back to its original construction as the Hotel Rolyat, an attraction for celebrities during the Roaring Twenties.

More and more job applications are processed by machine learning before a real person ever reads them. But can these algorithms exhibit prejudice? And, if so, what would it mean to adopt algorithmic affirmative action?

In this episode, we sit down with Stetson Professor Jason Bent to discuss the changing landscape of employment and employment discrimination law in the twenty-first century. We discuss the impact of AI, growing concerns about data privacy in employment contexts, and the role new Supreme Court decisions have played in the interpretation of Title VII.

Are presidents immune from criminal prosecution for actions they take in office?

That was just one question – and perhaps not even the most wide-ranging one – under consideration in the decisions released at the end of the Supreme Court’s latest term this summer. In this new episode, we sit down with Stetson Law Professor Louis Virelli to discuss how the court’s recent slate of decisions is reshaping the balance of powers. From gun rights to presidential immunity to fundamental workings of administrative law, the cases from this latest term are rewriting the textbooks.