As A Matter of Law University of Richmond Law Review

On April 28, 2021, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. The case could shape the future of school students' free speech rights for years to come. Featuring a range of legal experts, we look at the history of the Court's First Amendment jurisprudence since the seminal case of Tinker v. Des Moines in 1969, and how the Court might chart a path forward in the digital age.

Special thanks to our guests, Prof. Emily Gold Waldman, Prof. Jud Campbell, and the ACLU's Monique Gillum & Arianna Demas.

Please note: this episode contains some explicit language.

Maybell Romero joined the Northern Illinois University Law faculty in 2017. She has varied research interests in criminal law, criminal legal system ethics, constitutional law, and juvenile justice; a major focus of her research centers on rural criminal legal systems. She teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication, Constitutional Law, Children & The Law, and a seminar on Criminal Justice System Ethics. From 2015 to 2017, Professor Romero was a visiting professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. She has served as both a state’s attorney and defense attorney during her decade of practice in Utah, where she also handled child welfare and civil litigation matters.

Professor Romero is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (2006), where she was the editor-in-chief of the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University (2003), where she studied both English and government.

NIU page, https://www.niu.edu/law/about/directory/romero.shtml.
Twitter: @MaybellRomero

Photo source: Newport News police, Va. by Dave Conner, https://www.flickr.com/photos/conner395/3860690230.

Jacob Tingen is an immigration attorney in Richmond and host of the Nation of Immigrants podcast. He also teaches an immigration rights course at the University of Richmond. Jacob gives us his perspective on how immigration law practice has changed since the beginning of the pandemic, and life under the Trump administration more generally. This is the first in a series of interviews about the effect of COVID-19 on legal practice.

Episode Notes:

Nation of Immigrants podcast: https://jacobtingen.com/nation-of-immigrants

Buzzfeed News, A Government Watchdog Group Will No Longer Conduct Onsite Inspections of Immigration Facilities Because of the Coronavirus (July 2, 2020), https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/an-government-watchdog-group-will-no-longer-conduct-onsite.

White House proclamation of July 2, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-suspending-entry-aliens-present-risk-u-s-labor-market-following-coronavirus-outbreak/

CNN, Trump is Now Blocking Most of the Legal Paths to Immigrate to the US (July 9, 2020), https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/trump-legal-immigration-coronavirus/index.html.

Image credit: https://www.boundless.com/blog/visa-bulletin/