The Legal Eagle Review

Law school is a unique and difficult endeavor, but reaching the end of the journey is equally rewarding. On this show, we talked with four graduating NCCU law students about their law school experience and future plans. Our guests: Desirae Hutchinson, Mariel Kirby, Xavier Lightfoot, and Ernest Smith.

In North Caroline, charter schools were authorized beginning in 1996 with the enactment of the NC Charter School Act, and the first North Carolina charter schools began operation in 1997. When charter schools were initially authorized, there was a cap and not more than 100 charter schools would be authorized. The cap was removed in 2011, and in August 2019 the state will have nearly 200 charter schools. As a result of the significant rise of charter schools and concerns about the inequity and the lack of accountability, State Senator Dan Blue introduced Senate Bill 247, which would establish Joint Legislative Study Committee to study the impact of charter schools on traditional public schools and student academic performance and put a hold on the granting charter applications until after the committee has issued its report and recommendations. On this show, we discuss charter schools in NC with Malik Edwards, Law Professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law, and Erika Wilson, Law Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law.

It is estimated that the Mexican population that resides within the United States is approximately 10% of that country’s estimated 326 million residents. The Mexican government operates 50 official Consulates in the United States with one being located right here in the Raleigh-Durham area. On this show we discuss the Mexican Consulate in this area is its official Consul General, Dr. Remedios Gomez Arnau. Also joining in the conversation is Joseph Garcia, a third-year student at the NCCU School of Law.

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors was created in 1971 and charged with the responsibility of governing or overseeing the work of the State’s 17 public higher education institutions. The Board currently has 24 members, including the President of the UNC Faculty Assembly. On this show, we discuss the work of the UNC Board of Governors with Professor David Green, the President of the UNC Faculty Assembly, and Professor Kimberly Cogdell-Grainger, Secretary of the UNC Faculty Assembly.

Anyone who has ever been involved in litigation knows it can often take years for a case to be resolved, even if the case is ultimately settled. There are other options to resolve legal disputes. Within our legal system, there are a variety of forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) systems that allow parties to resolve their issues more quickly and with less cost. On this show, we discuss with our guests the various forms of alternative dispute resolution and we talk about when it might be better for disputing parties to seek these alternatives to the litigation process to resolve their differences. Our guests on this show are Pam Glean, NCCU Law Professor and Chair of the Dispute Resolution Institute, and Mavis Gragg, Supervising Attorney for the NCCU Law Dispute Resolution Clinic.

Our country is facing a serious access to justice problem. On this show, we talk with the co-founders of the NCCU School of Law Virtual Justice Project, which was created to address the access to justice problem in the state and the country.

South Africa is one of the world’s newest democracy with a majority Black population that escaped horrible racial oppression and domination in 1994. For the past twelve years, delegations of NCCU law students, faculty members, alums and supporters have traveled to South Africa during Spring Break to learn about that country’s racial history and how it is responding to the challenges of democracy. Join us for a discussion with students who participated in the 2019 South Africa experience.