The Legal Eagle Review

Conversation with recently appointed NCCU School of Law Dean, Patricia Timmons-Goodson

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.

NC Senate Budget proposal and NC Courts

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.

Environmental Justice

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.

Reparations

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.

Private Booker T. Spicely Memorial & Symposium

On this show, we discuss the July 1944 murder of Private Booker Spicely in Durham at the hands of a Duke Power Company bus driver because he peacefully protested a demand that he move to the back of the bus. Presently underway are local efforts designed to erect a public monument in Durham to honor his service and to promote a community symposium that honors Spicely and other African-American soldiers who were killed as a result of similar efforts. Our guest is Stephen Valentine, Director of the Veterans Law Clinic at the NCCU School of Law.

Jacksonville Murders and White Domestic Terrorism

On this show, we will discuss the continued acts of white domestic terrorism against Black people in this country following the tragic racially motivated killing of three Black individuals in a predominately black community near Jacksonville, Florida, with our guests Ted Shaw, the Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of NC School of Law, and Artemesia Stanberry, Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University.

Law, Technology and the Legal Profession

On this show, we discuss the impact technology is having on the legal profession, and we discuss the NCCU Technology Law & Policy Center with Attorney Diane Littlejohn, Executive Director of the NCCU Technology Law and Policy Center and 2010 graduate of NCCU School of Law, and Attorney Cedric Pickett, a Tech Law Fellows for the NCCU Technology Law and Policy Center, a Certified Information Privacy Professional, and 2018 graduate of NCCU School of Law.

Student Athletes and NIL

On this show, we discuss the impact, benefits, and challenges associated with student-athletes monetizing their own name, image, and likeness.

Indictments of Former President Donald Trump

On this show, we discuss the impact, implications, and importance of the prosecutions and political campaign of Donald Trump. Joining us are three of our regular guests Jarvis Hall, Professor of Political Science in the NCCU Political Science Department; Don Corbett, Constitutional Law Professor at NCCU School of Law, and Tamika Moses, Law Professor at NCCU School of Law and former federal prosecutor.

The Distortion of African-American History

On this show, we discuss the need to teach complete American history, which includes African American history, with guests DOn Corbett, Constitutional Law Professor at NCCU School of Law, and Ajamu Dillahunt Holloway, Assistant Professor of History at NC State.