
The Legal Eagle Review is an informative and thought-provoking weekly radio show and podcast where the show hosts, NCCU law professors Irv Joyner and April Dawson, talk with guest experts and discuss current legal and political issues affecting everyday people in Durham, the surrounding community, and the state. The show airs on WNCU 90.7 FM on Sundays from 7-8p. The Legal Eagle Review is sponsored by the North Carolina Central University School of Law, and the Virtual Justice Project.
Episodes

Nov 19, 2023

Nov 12, 2023
Nov 12, 2023
58 min
On this show, we discuss the African American political agenda in North Carolina.

Nov 5, 2023
Nov 5, 2023
58 min
On this show, we discuss the African American political agenda in North Carolina.

Oct 29, 2023
Oct 29, 2023
57 min
On this show, we talk with one of the leading voices for digital rights on behalf of the public interest, Chris Lewis, President & CEO of Public Knowledge, about technology and the impact on marginalized group.

Oct 22, 2023
Oct 22, 2023
58 min
On this show, we discuss the history, mission, and activities of the NCCU Veterans Law Clinic and how it strives to assist present and former service members to achieve the benefits and honor to which they are entitled. Our guest is NCCU Law Professor Stephen Valentine, a former service member and military lawyer and the director of the NCCU School of Law Veterans Law Clinic.

Oct 15, 2023
Oct 15, 2023
59 min
October 15, 2023, begins estate planning week. On this show, we talk with three experts about the need for everyone to do estate planning. Our guests are Dorothy Nachman, Professor of Law at NCCU School of Law, where she teaches, among other courses, Property, Decedents' Estates, and Estate and Gift Taxation; Mariah Street, Business and Legacy Planning Attorney; and Pamela Harrigan-Young, Attorney, Tax Expert, and CPA.

Oct 8, 2023
Oct 8, 2023
57 min
On this show, we have an informative and revealing discussion with the Honorable Patricia Timmons Goodson, who is beginning her tenure as the Dean of the NCCU School of Law.

Oct 1, 2023
Oct 1, 2023
1hr 30 sec
On this show, we talk about the budget changes to the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission and how those changes largely eliminate the participation of lawyers and give one party the power to select the vast majority of the members. Our guests are Former NC Court of Appeals Judge and former NC Judicial Standards Commission chair, Wanda Bryant, and former NC Court of Appeals Judge Chris Brook, a lawyer with Patterson Harkavy and an adjunct Constitutional law professor at NCCU School of Law.

Sep 24, 2023
Sep 24, 2023
59 min
Environmental racism describes the long-standing discriminatory practice of racial discrimination in environmental policy, the enforcement of regulations and laws, and the deliberate targeting of communities of color for the location of toxic waste facilities. On this show, we will discuss how the industrial hog operations in NC are contributing to environmental racism right here in North Carolina with our guests Blakely Hildebrand, a senior attorney at Southern Environmental Law Center, Sophia Jayanty, counsel in the fair housing division of Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Christopher Brook, Former North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge, attorney with Patterson Harkavy, and adjunct professor at NCCU School of Law.

Sep 17, 2023
Sep 17, 2023
59 min
On this show, we have an informative and revealing discussion
with Sandy Darity and Kirsten Mullen regarding their most recent book, The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice.
