The Legal Eagle Review Irving Joyner & April Dawson

On this show, we discuss the Allen v. Milligan decision and its expected impacts and implications with guests Marcus Bass, the Executive Director of the North Carolina Black Alliance, and Kathleen Roblez, the Senior Voting Rights Counsel and Litigation Manager at Forward Justice.

Given the recent story in the news of the lawyer who used ChatGPT for legal research and cited fabricated cases created by ChatGPT in their brief, on this show, we discuss the limitations and best practices for using ChatGPT and other LLMs for legal research by lawyers and laypeople with guests Richelle Reid, Assistant Law Library Director at NCCU School of Law, Austin, Director of the Law Library & Professor of Law at Georgetown University School of Law, and Shelly DeAdder, Senior Professor of Legal Writing and Coordinator of the 1L Legal Writing Program at NCCU School of Law.

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. On this show, we discuss the challenges facing the AAPI community and how we might be better allies with guests NCCU Law Professor Kevin Lee and Chavi Koneru, Executive Director of North Carolina Asian Americans Together.

On this show, we explore current efforts to oppose the enactment of legislation that will curtail the teaching of African American history or Critical Race Theory in North Carolina, its impact on educational institutions and teachers, and whether legal remedies exist to resist these efforts with Peggy Nicholson, a Clinical Professor of Law and the Supervising Attorney for the Children Law Center at Duke University School of Law.

On this show, we talk with four of our most recent North Carolina Central University School of Law graduates and soon-to-be new lawyers who discuss their life’s journey through a demanding law school experience.

On this show, we talk with Dr. Ronda Taylor Bullock, who is the co-founder and Executive Director of We Are, a Durham-based organization that provides anti-racism training for children, families, and educators, about the need for anti-racist education and the important work of her organization.