Name: S11 E1 The Global Heat Wave by Miami Law Explainer
Duration: 18 min 27 s
Description: Miami Law’s Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic Doug Ruley handicaps the planet's chance of surviving the climate crisis. Recorded August 22, 2023.

Miami Law’s Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic Doug Ruley handicaps the planet's chance of surviving the climate crisis. Recorded August 22, 2023.

S11 E1 The Global Heat Wave

Earlier this month, a federal judge in Texas ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, even as even more Americans kept their coverage. Health rights expert JoNel Newman diagnoses the program’s past, present, and future. Recorded on January 23, 2019.

S2 E3 The Resiliency of the ACA

At the heart of Frank v. Gaos, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, is an $8.5 million settlement from Google that ended up squarely in the pockets of everyone except those who were harmed by the tech giant’s violation. Class action expert Sergio Campos untangles not just the money trail but the possible outcomes. Recorded on January 31, 2019.

S2 E4 A Court Award in the Wrong Pockets

Verifiable information and truth have been replaced with hyperbole and alternate facts in some sectors of the American consciousness in the topsy-turvy time of Trump. Communications law expert Lili Levi untangles the media morass.

S2 E5 Truth v. Lies in the Trump Era

Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezo’s salvo aimed dead on at American Media Publisher David Pecker’s threat to publish salacious images. Miami Law cyber civil rights expert Mary Anne Franks answers the question: journalism or extortion? Recorded February 12, 2019.

S2 E6 Jeff Bezos’ Red Line

As dozens of lawsuits were filed at the end of January in Indiana, home of the NCAA, the future of football is under fire. Sports law expert and director of Miami Law’s Sports Law Track tackles the gridiron of the legislation. Recorded February 14, 2019.

S2 E7 Concussions and the Future of Football

“Making a Murderer” docu-series star Steven Avery served 18 years for a sexual assault and attempted murder he did not commit. Soon after release, the same county arrested and convicted him of murder. Twelve years into his current sentence, he has won the right to an appeal. Innocence Clinic Director Craig Trocino walks us through the case. Recorded on March 8, 2019.

S2 E9 A Netflix Star’s Appeal

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that they are returning the Gilded Coffin of the Priest Nedjemankh after evidence was unearthed that it was looted during the Arab Spring in 2011. The FBI has asked for governments’ assistance in returning from more than 40,000 cultural artifacts from everywhere from the Indo-Pacific region to the bones of 500 Arikara Native Americans that were illegally amassed by an Indiana collector. Art and museum law expert and lifetime member of the Archaeological Institute of America Stephen Urice digs in on the context and significance of these events. Recorded on March 8, 2019.

S2 E10 Artifacts on the Move

Last week, a Florida jury deadlocked on attempted manslaughter charges against a white policeman in the shooting of a Black mental health therapist. The officer testified that he was aiming at an autistic man who he thought was holding the therapist hostage when he fired three bullets. Seven years ago, a self-appointed neighborhood watch volunteer gunned down a black teenager walking back from a convenience store. From the shooter’s acquittal by a Florida jury grew the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Criminal and constitutional law expert Donald Jones looks at how the landscape has changed through the lens of the movement. Recorded on March 20, 2019.

S2 E11 Officer-Involved Shootings in a #BlackLivesMatter World

More than 60 Americans traveled to Syria to join ISIS. Capture fighters have been returned to the U.S. to face justice but the brides of the caliphate are being held in legal limbo. Immigration law and historian Kunal Parker unboxes the bride brouhaha.

S2 E13 Isis Brides' Legal Limbo

From Alexa and Florence, the chatbot nurse, to privacy exposure on social media to blockchain and artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the landscape of compliance. Corporate governance and social responsibility expert unpacks the brave new world facing compliance leaders. Recorded on May 16, 2019.

S11 E1 The Global Heat Wave

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