Legal Tenzer: Casual Conversations on Noteworthy Legal Topics Prof. Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer

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Eric Goldman, the Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Law, and Co-Director of High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara Law School, discusses the House of Representatives’ recent vote to compel ByteDance, a Chinese tech company, to sell TikTok to U.S. Nationals.
About Our Guest...
Eric Goldman is a Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law in the Silicon Valley. He also co-directs the High Tech Law Institute and supervises the Privacy Law Certificate. He joined the Santa Clara Law faculty in 2006.
His research and teaching focus on Internet, IP, and advertising law topics, and he blogs on these topics at the excellent Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Managing IP magazine has twice named him to a shortlist of North American “IP Thought Leaders,” and he has been named an “IP Vanguard” by the California State Bar’s IP Section.
Before joining the Santa Clara Law faculty, he was an assistant professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Before that, he practiced law for eight years in the Silicon Valley as General Counsel of Epinions.com and an Internet and technology transactions attorney at Cooley Godward LLP.
Eric received his BA, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in Economics/Business from UCLA in 1988. He received his JD from UCLA in 1994, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review, and concurrently received his MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

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Professor Josh Galperin, Assistant Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, shares the origins of Earth Day and explains how the day has strayed from its original intent.
About Our Guest...
Professor Josh Galperin joined the Haub faculty in July 2021. Prior to joining the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, Josh was on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law since 2018, where he taught Torts, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Environmental Law, Policy, and Practice. Josh was a student nominee for the Distinguished Public Service Professor award and a dean’s nominee for the Provost’s Diversity in the Curriculum award. He was also a two-time winner of the Most Valuable Professor award. Prior to Pitt Josh was the Director of the Environmental Protection Clinic, Lecturer in Law, and a Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Josh was also a lecturer and the Environmental Law and Policy Program Director at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE). In addition to directing and teaching the Environmental Protection Clinic, Josh directed the dual law-environment degree program between YSE and Pace, Vermont, and Yale law schools. He was a lead collaborator in the Land Use Collaborative between YSE and Pace. Josh was also the associate director for the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy where he oversaw all operations of the Center including budgeting, fundraising, research, and teaching. Josh received the award for excellence in research, teaching, and service from the YSE graduating class of 2017.
Josh’s research and teaching cover environmental law, administrative law, food and agriculture law and policy, property, constitutional law, and tort law. He has published extensively on environmental law, with particular emphasis on the role of non-governmental advocates in the creation and maintenance of environmental law, takings and just compensation, invasive species policy, and private environmental governance. His research in administrative law looks at constitutional democracy and administrative legitimacy with a focus on how governance intuitions influence political power. He has also written about food and agriculture law and policy, particularly where agriculture and food law intersect with environmental policy and administrative law doctrine. His work appears in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Cambridge University Press, University of Virginia Journal of Environmental Law, Denver Law Review, Arkansas Law Review, Vermont Law Review, Fordham Urban Law Journal, George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law, and elsewhere.

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Natalie Nanasi, Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women and Associate Professor of Law, shares her extraordinary work on preventative gun violence. She discusses United States v. Rahimi, which is before the Supreme Court this term. Rahimi considers whether the federal law that prohibits the possession of firearms by people subject to domestic violence restraining orders violates the Second Amendment.
About Our Guest...
Natalie Nanasi is an Associate Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women at Southern Methodist Dedman School of Law.
In the Hunter Clinic, Professor Nanasi supervises students’ representation of survivors of intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and sexual abuse in a broad range of legal matters. She also oversees students as they conduct systemic policy advocacy and community education to find long-term solutions to the problem of violence against women. Professor Nanasi's research explores the intersection of gender and feminist theory with immigration and firearms. Her scholarship has appeared in numerous journals and law reviews, including the Ohio State Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Temple Law Review, Villanova Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.
Prior to arriving at SMU, Professor Nanasi was a Practitioner-in-Residence and the Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at American University, Washington College of Law (WCL). Before joining the faculty at WCL, she was the Senior Immigration Attorney and Pro Bono Coordinator at the Tahirih Justice Center, where she represented immigrant women and girls fleeing human rights abuses such as female genital cutting, domestic and sexual violence, forced marriage, and honor crimes. Professor Nanasi also served as counsel in the landmark asylum case of Matter of A-T- and as an Equal Justice Works Fellow from 2007-2009, with a focus on the U visa. Prior to her work at Tahirih, she was a law clerk to the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz of the District of Columbia Superior Court.
Professor Nanasi received her J.D. from Georgetown Law, where she earned an Equal Justice Foundation fellowship for her work at the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Center in New Delhi, India, and assisted in the representation of HIV-positive immigrants at Whitman Walker Clinic Legal Services. Prior to her legal career, Professor Nanasi was a rape crisis counselor and supported single teenage mothers at a transitional residence facility in Boston.

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I speak with Professor Doron Dorfman, Associate Professor of Law about his newest article, Penalizing Prevention: The Paradoxical Legal Treatment of Preventive Medicine.
About Our Guest..
Professor Dorfman’s research and teaching focus on disability law, health law, employment law, torts, and family law. His work has won multiple writing awards, was cited by federal courts and the Israeli Supreme Court, and was featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.
In 2023, Professor Dorfman was honored with the Michael J. Zimmer Memorial Award for a rising scholar who has made a significant contribution to the field of work law. In 2021, he was invited to testify before Congress on the relationship between vaccine requirements and anti-discrimination law.
Professor Dorfman’s research was published or is forthcoming in leading law reviews such as the Michigan Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He also published in top peer review journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law.
Professor Dorfman is a frequent contributor to the Bill of Health Blog at Harvard Law’s Petrie-Flom Center and is an editor for the Equality Section of Jotwell. He serves in leadership roles in the AALS Section on Disability Law and Section on Law, Medicine and Health care and is also the co-organizer of the Disability Legal Studies Collaborative Research Network (CRN) in the Law & Society Association. Dorfman is an affiliated researcher with the aChord Center: Social Psychology for Social Change at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Prior to Seton Hall Law School, Professor Dorfman taught at Syracuse University College of Law. He earned a B.A. in communication (2009), an LL.B. (J.D. equivalent, 2009) and an LL.M. (2010), all from the University of Haifa. He later earned a J.S.M. (2014) and J.S.D. (2019) from Stanford Law School. Before arriving at Stanford, he was a litigator in private practice in Israel and was actively involved in NGOs such as Kav La’Oved-Worker’s Hotline, where he gave legal advice to disadvantaged workers and asylum seekers.
You can follow Professor Dorfman on X @DorfmanDoron.

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Professor Kimberly Holst, Dean’s Fellow for Innovation and Clinical Professor of Law,  at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, explains the NextGen Bar, what it is, when it is, and what states will ask future lawyers to partake.

About our guest...
Kimberly Holst is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.  She is the Immediate Past President of the Legal Writing Institute and has served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Teaching Methods and the Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research.  Professor Holst teaches Legal Method and Writing as well as upper-level writing and skills courses at ASU. Professor Holst’s scholarship examines the intersection of law and media—particularly how media impacts public understanding of law or legal issues. Additionally, Professor Holst has presented to numerous domestic and international audiences about techniques for more effective law school pedagogy.

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Colin Levy, Esq. shares the importance of learning legal tech in law school and embracing it in practice. We discuss his book, the Legal Tech Eco System (available on Amazon) and he shares excellent pointers for incorporating AI into your law school and legal workproduct.
About Our Guest...
Colin Levy is a lawyer and tech maven. His career is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. He views the legal landscape through a prism that refracts business acumen, technological innovation, and legal expertise. This unique perspective is not only entrepreneurial but deeply collaborative, echoing his belief in the synergistic power of these disciplines.
Beyond his professional sphere, Levy is a luminary sharing personal insights on platforms like LinkedIn. His discussions on legal technology, innovation, law, business, and learning are not mere observations; they are reflections of a mind deeply engaged with the evolving narrative of legal technology. His thoughts reveal a commitment to understanding and influencing this narrative, offering a holistic view of the future of law and technology. He was a key speaker at TECHxpo2019, a conference sponsored by the Ontario Bar Association, and has been featured in Above the Law and Bloomberg Law. He also writes frequently on his blog, which Feedspot named as one of the Top 30 Legal Blogs in 2020.
A graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and Boston College Law School, Colin lives in Weston, Massachusetts with his husband Jared and two exceptionally demanding felines.