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Supreme MythsProfessor Maybell RomeroProfessor Maybell Romero stops by Supreme Myths for a special episode in which she talks honestly and openly about being physically abused by her father and friends, how that led her to be a prosecutor, and how judges should reflect on the language they use to describe sexual abuse victims. We also discuss her article “Ruined” which is so smart, and so touching, and exactly how law review articles should be, but most often are not, written.2024-01-171h 02
Ipse DixitEtienne Toussaint on Blackness as Fighting WordsIn this episode, Etienne C. Toussaint, Associate Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, discusses his article "Blackness as Fighting Words," which is published in the Virginia Law Review Online. Toussaint begins by explaining how the First Amendment "fighting words" doctrine resonates with Black experience of policing and racial injustice. He observes that the state and the police treat blackness and Black dissent as a form of fighting words, excluded from protection. And he reflects on what it means for how we think about speech in relation to other...2021-06-1531 minIpse DixitDavid Ley on the Myth of Sex AddictionIn this episode, Dr. David Ley, clinical psychologist and sex therapist, discusses the myth of "sex addiction" and his 2015 article Forensic Applications of "Sex Addiction" in US Legal Proceedings, published in Current Sexual Health Reports. He begins by discussing the history of the concept of "sex addiction," which is neither a formal diagnosis described under the DSM-V and has no standardized definition otherwise. Dr. Ley then explains how sex addiction and associated treatments are used as tools for avoiding responsibility for unhealthy and offending behavior, rather than addressing other, true causes such as narcissism. He then draws connections not...2021-03-1828 minIpse DixitRobert Anderson on Analytics for Law Review Submissions and PublishingIn this episode, Robert Anderson, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, introduces ScholarSift, a new analytics platform for law reviews he created with co-founder Trent Wenzel. He discusses initially identifying the need for a platform like ScholarSift and distinguishes it from other search functions with which listeners may already be familiar, while relating the basic mechanics of use. He describes how ScholarSift's algorithm is different than those used by other services and how it can lead to greater citation counts for women, people of color, and other scholars from marginalized communities. He then predicts how...2021-02-1735 minIpse DixitUniversity of Chicago Law Review Online Symposium, Episode 3: COVID-19 and Criminal JusticeIn a special partnership with The University of Chicago Law Review Online and the Academy for Justice, Ipse Dixit brings you a three part series on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice. This symposium of essays, hosted by The University of Chicago Law Review Online, was organized by the Academy for Justice. The contributors include leaders of criminal justice and health law centers, and scholars of criminal legal systems, whose works discuss the intersection of Criminal Justice and the COVID-19 pandemic. Contributors include Valena E. Beety (ASU), Brandon L. Garrett with Deniz Ariturk and William E. Crozier (Duke), Sharon Dolovich (UCLA), Maybell Romero (Nor...2020-12-1937 minIpse DixitUniversity of Chicago Law Review Online Symposium, Episode 2: COVID-19 and Criminal JusticeIn a special partnership with The University of Chicago Law Review Online and the Academy for Justice, Ipse Dixit brings you a three part series on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice. This symposium of essays, hosted by The University of Chicago Law Review Online, was organized by the Academy for Justice. The contributors include leaders of criminal justice and health law centers, and scholars of criminal legal systems, whose works discuss the intersection of Criminal Justice and the COVID-19 pandemic. Contributors include Valena E. Beety (ASU), Brandon L. Garrett with Deniz Ariturk and William E. Crozier (Duke), Sharon Dolovich (UCLA), Maybell Romero (Nor...2020-12-1833 minIpse DixitUniversity of Chicago Law Review Online Symposium, Episode 1: COVID-19 and Criminal JusticeIn a special partnership with The University of Chicago Law Review Online and the Academy for Justice, Ipse Dixit brings you a three part series on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice. This symposium of essays, hosted by The University of Chicago Law Review Online, was organized by the Academy for Justice. The contributors include leaders of criminal justice and health law centers, and scholars of criminal legal systems, whose works discuss the intersection of Criminal Justice and the COVID-19 pandemic. Contributors include Valena E. Beety (ASU), Brandon L. Garrett with Deniz Ariturk and William E. Crozier (Duke), Sharon Dolovich (UCLA), M...2020-12-1731 min
Ipse DixitRod Blagojevic on Law School ExamsOn December 3, 2020, Maybell Romero, Associate Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law, commissioned Rod Blagojevich, former Governor of Illinois, to create a Cameo for her criminal law class. The result is truly epic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-12-0408 min
Law to FactEnvisioning Law School Post-PandemicIn this episode, we speak with Professor Maybell Romero, Associate Professor of Law at Nothern Illinois University College of Law about law school post-pandemic. Some key takeawaysZoom classes have given professors time and space to offer more in-class assessments, a practice that is likely to migrate into in-person classroom learning.Initial hiring practices via video are likely to stay, offering more access to applicants who can't necessarily afford to travel for that first interview. We do miss seeing our students in person and can't wait to get back into t...2020-11-1927 minIpse DixitBernice Espinoza on Public Interest Lawyering for ImmigrantsIn this episode, Bernice Espinoza, removal defense staff attorney with Vital Immigrant Defense and Advocacy Services (VIDAS Legal) of Sonoma County, shares her story of a life-long dedication to activism and advocacy. After law school, she became a public defender and a crimmigration specialist, eventually joining VIDAS to provide critical legal services to the immigrant community. Espinoza has also been a poet since childhood, and shares a few of her works with us while discussing how her practice has influenced her art and her art her practice. She exhorts those who are able to consider giving to VIDAS to su...2020-08-2735 min
DIY DemocracyEpisode 42: Choosing Rural ProsecutorsThe final episode in a series on electing, or in this case choosing, prosecutors - an interview with Maybell Romero, on rural prosecutors. For more, see her bio: https://www.niu.edu/law/about/directory/romero.shtml and follow her on Twitter: @MaybellRomero For The Appeal's work on prosecutors: https://theappeal.org/topics/prosecutors/ Music by Evan Schaeffer.2020-08-1244 minIpse DixitLeigh Goodmark on Domestic Partner ViolenceIn this episode, Leigh Goodmark, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Clinical Law Program at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, discusses her book Decriminalizing Domestic Partner Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence. Goodmark begins by discussing the history of prosecution of domestic violence in the United States and its eventual criminalization starting in the 1970s. She then discusses how this focus on criminalization essentializes victims of intimate partner violence. Goodmark explains the disparate impact of neoliberal economic policies on communities of color and the poor, as well as explaining mechanisms und...2020-08-0738 minIpse DixitRebecca Bratspies and Charlie LaGreca-Velasco on Legal Comic BooksIn this episode, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law and founding director of the CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform, and Charlie LaGreca-Velasco, an artist and founder of Comic Book Classroom, Denver Comic Con, and the Denver Independent Comics and Art Expo, discuss their "Mayah's Lot" comic book on environmental justice, as well as related comic book projects. Bratspies and LaGreca-Velasco begin by explaining how the came to work on the project. They discuss the development of the comic and how they use it pedagogically. And they discuss upcoming projects. Bratspies is on Twitter...2020-08-0136 minIpse DixitLara Bazelon on Victims' Rights and Restorative JusticeIn this episode, Lara Bazelon, Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice Clinic and the Racial Justice Clinic at the University of San Francisco School of Law, discusses her article (co-authored with Bruce Green, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School), "Victims' Rights from a Restorative Justice Perspective," forthcoming in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law this year. Bazelon begins by discussing the "essentializing" of sexual assault victims, which wrongfully presumes that victims all have the same interests as each other and the state in criminal prosecutions of sexual assault. She then discusses recent victims...2020-05-2041 minIpse DixitAndrew Ferguson on Big Data Prosecution and BradyIn this episode, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Visiting Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, discusses his article Big Data Prosecution and Brady, forthcoming soon in the UCLA Law Review. Professor Ferguson begins by discussing how prosecution has changed from a purely reactive role to one that's more proactive with "intelligence-driven" strategies, and how that's enabled by the use of big data in prosecutor's offices. He identifies a fundamental problem that arises with prosecutorial reliance on data and its centralization--systems used by prosecutors and police are not designed to identify Brady materials. Professor Ferguson introduces a new...2020-05-0538 minIpse DixitAndrew Davies on Rural Access to CounselIn this episode, Andrew Davies, Director of Research at the SMU Deadman School of Law's Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, discusses his article Gideon in the Desert: An Empirical Study of Providing Counsel to Criminal Defendants in Rural Places, published in the Maine Law Review 2019 symposium edition. Davies discusses the issue of rural indigent defense as an issue of scarcity of resources, then explains what is required on the Gideon/Argersinger/Scott line of cases. He the explains how he went about capturing and theorizing access to counsel when collecting and analyzing data from over one hundred rural Texas...2020-05-0546 min
Law Profs Are People TooS1E2-Maybell RomeroMaybell Romero joined the NIU Law faculty in 2017. Her teaching and writing interests focus on criminal law, criminal procedure, legal ethics, and law and rurality. 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. She also holds a B.A. from Cornell University, where she studied both English and government.
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Politics of COVID-19 Podcast - The SyllabusMichael Sinha on COVID-19, Historical Pandemics, and the Legal Limitations of Quarantine Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Michael Sinha on COVID-19, Historical Pandemics, and the Legal Limitations of QuarantinePub date: 2020-03-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Michael Sinha, Research Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science at Harvard Medical School and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, discusses three of his articles, "The Perils of Panic: Ebola, HIV, and the Intersection of Global Health and Law," pub...2020-03-3135 minIpse DixitMichael Sinha on COVID-19, Historical Pandemics, and the Legal Limitations of QuarantineIn this episode, Michael Sinha, Research Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science at Harvard Medical School and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, discusses three of his articles, "The Perils of Panic: Ebola, HIV, and the Intersection of Global Health and Law," published in 2016 in the American Journal of Law and Medicine, "A Panic Foretold," published in 2016 in Critical Public Health, and his most recent work, "Covid-19 -- The Law and Limits of Quarantine," published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this month. Dr. Sinha...2020-03-2935 min
Ipse DixitCoronavirus Cocktail Hour 5: Antrim CocktailIn this special series of coronavirus pandemic episodes, Maybell Romero and Brian L. Frye explore Charles H. Baker, Jr.'s mixological treatise, "The Gentlemen's Companion: Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask," which was originally published in 1939 by Derrydale Press. Each episode will feature one drink. Romero and Frye will read Baker's description of the drink and his recipe, prepare the drink, and describe how it tastes.Antrim Cocktail1 oz. cognac1 oz. port0.5 tsp. sugarshake with cracked ice, serve in manhattan glass Hosted on Acast. See a...2020-03-2607 min
Ipse DixitCoronavirus Cocktail Hour 4: AlamagoozlumIn this special series of coronavirus pandemic episodes, Maybell Romero and Brian L. Frye explore Charles H. Baker, Jr.'s mixological treatise, "The Gentlemen's Companion: Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask," which was originally published in 1939 by Derrydale Press. Each episode will feature one drink. Romero and Frye will read Baker's description of the drink and his recipe, prepare the drink, and describe how it tastes.J. Pierpont Morgan's Alamagoozlum, the Personal Mix Credited to that Financier, Philanthropist, & Banker of a Bygone Era0.75 oz. gold rum0.75 oz. sugar syrup0.75 oz. g...2020-03-2311 min
Ipse DixitCoronavirus Cocktail Hour 3: Adios AmigosIn this special series of coronavirus pandemic episodes, Maybell Romero and Brian L. Frye explore Charles H. Baker, Jr.'s mixological treatise, "The Gentlemen's Companion: Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask," which was originally published in 1939 by Derrydale Press. Each episode will feature one drink. Romero and Frye will read Baker's description of the drink and his recipe, prepare the drink, and describe how it tastes.Adios Amigos2 oz. white rum1 oz. dry vermouth1 oz. cognac1 oz. ginJuice of 1 limeShake with crack...2020-03-2208 min
Ipse DixitCoronavirus Cocktail Hour 2: An Absinthe FrappeIn this special series of coronavirus pandemic episodes, Maybell Romero and Brian L. Frye explore Charles H. Baker, Jr.'s mixological treatise, "The Gentlemen's Companion: Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask," which was originally published in 1939 by Derrydale Press. Each episode will feature one drink. Romero and Frye will read Baker's description of the drink and his recipe, prepare the drink, and describe how it tastes.An Absinthe Frappe, from Heliopolis Palace, CairoFor 2 drinks4 oz. absinthe1 tsp. anisette4 oz. cracked iceShake and pour into...2020-03-2108 min
Ipse DixitCoronavirus Cocktail Hour 1: An Absinthe CocktailIn this special series of coronavirus pandemic episodes, Maybell Romero and Brian L. Frye explore Charles H. Baker, Jr.'s mixological treatise, "The Gentlemen's Companion: Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask," which was originally published in 1939 by Derrydale Press. Each episode will feature one drink. Romero and Frye will read Baker's description of the drink and his recipe, prepare the drink, and describe how it tastes.Episode 1 features "An Absinthe Cocktail":1.5 jiggers absinthe1 dash anis or anisette0.5 jiggers water0.5 teaspoons sugar or syrup1 dash Angostura...2020-03-2009 minIpse DixitSarah Sherman-Stokes on Third-Party DeportationIn this episode, Sarah Sherman-Stokes (@sshermanstokes), Lecturer and Clinical Instructor and Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Clinic at Boston University School of Law, discusses her new article “Third Country Deportation,” forthcoming this spring in the Indiana Law Review. Prof. Sherman-Stokes begins by orienting the listener to different forms of “shadow deportation”; removal from the United States by a number of different extrajudicial methods. She then focuses on what she terms “third country deportations.” Even if a non-citizen is granted relief under the Convention Against Torture, relief under which is mandatory of a showing is made that a non-cit...2020-02-2429 minIpse DixitValena Beety and Jennifer Oliva on Bitemark EvidenceIn this episode, Valena Beety (@valenabeetv), Professor of Law at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, and Jennifer Oliva (@jenndoliva), Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, discuss their new article, "Regulating Bite Mark Evidence: Lesbian Vampires and Other Myths of Forensic Odontology," forthcoming in the Washington Law Review. Professors Beety and Oliva begin the discussion explaining the serious flaws of junk sciences such as bite mark evidence. They then discuss a trial in which a lesbian couple were convicted of murder based upon flawed bite mark evidence propounded by a...2020-01-1837 minIpse DixitMaybell Romero on Prosecutor Unions & Criminal Justice ReformIn this episode, Maybell Romero, Assistant Professor of Law at the Northern Illinois University College of Law discusses her draft article "Prosecutors and Police: An Unholy Union." Romero begins by observing that prosecutors are beginning to unionize and join with police unions, which promises to create issues for accountability and criminal justice reform. She describes the history of police unions and the relationship between police and prosecutors. Among other things, she notes that police unions are different than other kinds of unions, and often serve to protect abusive police officers and practices. She observes that the move among prosecutors...2019-09-0435 minIpse DixitJennifer Oliva on Prescription Drug PolicingIn this episode, Jennifer D. Oliva, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, discusses her new article “Prescription Drug Policing: The Right to Protected Health Information Privacy Pre- and Post- Carpenter,” forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal. Prof. Oliva begins the discussion explaining how common inaccuracies in understanding the current overdose epidemic (focusing on prescription drug use rather than illicit drug use) exacerbates the crisis. She then explains how this erroneous understanding has precipitated the creation of state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), which collect and maintain data on every dispensed prescription while collecting massive amou...2019-07-2333 minIpse DixitHannah Haksgaard on Rural Practice as Public Interest WorkIn this episode, Hannah Haksgaard, Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Dakota School of Law, returns and discusses her article “Rural Practice as Public Interest Work,” published this summer in the symposium issue of the Maine Law Review. Prof. Hakgaard introduces listeners to the severe rural lawyer shortage faced in every state of the country. She then explains why rural private practice should be considered public interest work for the purposes of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program: 1) to combat the rural lawyer shortage, 2) the mixed nature of rural practice, 3) supplying public services, and 4) to combat low rur...2019-06-2735 minIpse DixitHannah Haksgaard on Blending Surnames at MarriageIn this episode, Hannah Haksgaard, Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Dakota School of Law, discusses her article “Blending Surnames at Marriage,” forthcoming in the Stanford Law and Policy Review. Prof. Hakgaard starts with her engaging personal story of creating a new, blended surname with her husband while relating some of the challenged that arose while attempting to do so initially in South Dakota, then finding success in North Dakota. She then gives a brief overview of the history of surname changes at marriage in the United States along with an overview of current legi...2019-06-2400 minIpse DixitMichael Mannheimer on VaguenessIn this episode, Michael Mannheimer, Professor of Law at the Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law, discusses his article “Vagueness as Impossibility,” forthcoming in the Texas Law Review. Prof. Mannheimer begins by giving an overview and history of the void for vagueness doctrine, focusing on the two traditional rationales for its existence: 1) requiring that statutes, both criminal and civil, give notice of what conduct is illegal, and 2) preventing the delegation of legislative power to those who should not wield it, such as prosecutors or police. He then describes and contrasts differing positions that Supreme Court justice has taken on th...2019-06-1436 minIpse DixitCynthia Godsoe on Teen Sex StatutesIn this episode, Cynthia Godsoe, Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, discusses her 2017 article "Recasting Vagueness: The Case of Teen Sex Statutes," which was published in the Washington and Lee Law Review. Prof. Godsoe begins by orienting the listener to the concept of “vaguenets,” broadly written laws punishing common and largely harmless conduct. She then discusses the history and structure of juvenile courts in the United States and how they establish a system parallel to the adult criminal justice system that is, arguably, even more punitive. Professor Godsoe then discusses how employment of the vagueness doctrine can not...2019-06-1138 minIpse DixitMichalyn Steele on Indigenous ResilienceIn this episode, Michalyn Steele, Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, discusses her new article “Indigenous Resilience,” forthcoming in the Arizona Law Review. Prof. Steele begins the discussion with a discussion of resilience theory and an explanation of how resilience differs from robustness or endurance. She then take the listener through a history of indigenous resilience in the face of often destructive Federal Indian policy from the treaty era to the self-determination era. She closes by discussing principals of resilience central to the nations of Haudenosaunee Confederacy and what everyone can lear...2019-05-2240 minIpse DixitMaybell Romero on Profit-Driven ProsecutionIn this episode, Maybell Romero, Assistant Professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law, discusses her article "Profit-Driven Prosecution and the Competitive Bidding Process," which was published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Romero begins by observing that many municipalities have privatized criminal prosecution, contracting out the job of prosecutor to the lowest bidder. She explains how this creates incentives to generate revenue, rather than do justice. She also reflects on how it might discourage women and minorities from pursuing jobs as prosecutors. And she makes suggestions about institutional changes that would address this problem. Romero...2019-03-0134 min