Emphasis Added

In this episode of Emphasis Added, Season 4 hosts Brock Jones and Matt Chelf spoke with  @The University of Houston Law Center  Professor  Kellen Zale  about Land Use issues currently affecting the City of Houston, including the I-45 freeway expansion project's community impacts and the difficulties surrounding new affordable housing projects. Professor Zale is an expert on Land Use, Local Government, Real Estate, and Property law, and has been published in the Stanford, Penn, and Harvard Environmental Law Reviews, amongst many others. 

Episode Contents:
00:00 - Introduction, Professor Kellen Zale
01:10 - What is Land Use?
02:05 - Houston and Zoning
05:40 - Historic Preservation Districts
09:48 - The North Houston Highway Improvement Project
19:40 - Affordable Housing
31:20 - Citizen Engagement

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In this episode, we're joined by University of Houston Law Center Assistant Dean for Career Development Tiffany Tucker to discuss best practices for students participating in legal recruitment through both on-campus and in-office interviewing processes. 

Dean Tucker joined the UHLC Career Development Office after practicing transactional intellectual property and general corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. As a former professional development specialist, her work with UHLC now involves overseeing employer outreach and student career counseling, facilitating the Passport to Success Professional Development Program, managing recent graduate employment data collection and reporting, and providing one-on-one career counseling to alumni.

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The 27th Annual Frankel Lecture, sponsored by the Houston Law Review at the University of Houston Law Center, focused on the U.S. Supreme Court and explored possible gender bias applied in protecting legal rights. Professor Melissa Murray, a leading expert on constitutional law, reproductive rights and justice, discussed “The Jurisprudence of Masculinity” during the keynote.

Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law and Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network Faculty Director at the New York University School of Law. She focuses her research on the legal regulation of intimate life. Her publication “Cases on Reproductive Rights and Justice” is the first casebook covering reproductive rights and justice.

After law school, Murray clerked for Sonia Sotomayor, a then judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Stefan Underhill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Murray is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale Law School.

Commentators for the lecture are:

Helen Alvaré, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School; and 
Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

11:49 - Melissa Murray
41:03 - Reva Siegel
57:03 - Helen Alvaré
01:13:10 - Melissa Murray's response

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In this episode of Emphasis Added, Season 4 hosts Brock Jones and Matt Chelf spoke with  University of Houston Law Center  Professor  Robert Ragazzo  about the recent acquisition of Twitter by Tesla and SpaceX's Elon Musk, and what that deal can teach us about acquisitions in general, including their potential pitfalls. Professor Ragazzo is an expert on Securities Regulation, as well as Business Organizations and Closely Held Corporations. Before his illustrious teaching career, he attended Harvard Law, clerked for the Honorable Jon O. Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and practiced law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
 
Season 4, Episode 4 Contents:

00:25 – Introduction: Professor Robert Ragazzo
01:33 – The Steps in any Acquisition
03:39 – Disclosure Requirements
07:06 – Private Law Suits
20:47 – Twitter Defends
26:19 – The "Poison Pill"
30:30 – Financing Struggles
39:32 – The Lawsuit
44:07 – The Aftermath

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In this episode of Emphasis Added, Season 4 hosts Brock Jones and Matt Chelf spoke with  University of Houston Law Center Professor Julian Cardenas about the current state of the transnational oil and gas industry, how ‘petropolitics’ continue to shape the global economic and social environment, and energy security in the modern age. Professor Cardenas is an expert on transnational petroleum law, best oil and gas industry practices, and oil and gas geopolitics. He served as a career diplomat at the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs for nearly six years and has also been retained as an independent expert on Venezuelan law in international arbitrations regarding upstream and downstream petroleum transactions, direct foreign investments, and international construction projects. Additionally, he has served on the Ad Hoc Administrative Board of Directors for the Venezuelan National Oil Company since 2019, working on overseeing Citgo Petroleum Corporation and other PdVSA assets abroad.
 
Season 4, Episode 3 Contents:
 
00:25 – Introduction: Professor Julian Cardenas
03:21 – The Transnational Oil & Gas Industry
17:22 – Petropolitics’ Impact on International Conflicts
28:10 – OPEC+ Impact on Oil & Gas Supply
32:56 – US / Venezuelan Sanctions
46:08 – Mexican Foreign Energy Investment Concerns
52:36 – The Energy Transition and Energy Security

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In this episode of Emphasis Added, Season 4 hosts Brock Jones and Matt Chelf spoke with University of Houston Law Center Professor Emily Berman about the contentious Dobbs decision from the Supreme Court's prior term, what it may mean for upcoming Supreme Court Jurisprudence and institutional legitimacy, as well as the cases to expect in the upcoming 2022-2023 Supreme Court term. Professor Berman is an expert on constitutional law, separation of powers, and national security. Her scholarship on these topics has been published in numerous prestigious law reviews, and she makes frequent media appearances to discuss breaking issues in the area.   

Season 4, Episode 2 Contents:

00:00 – Intro
02:46 – Future Implications of the Dobbs Decision on SCOTUS Jurisprudence
08:40 – Upcoming Cases for the 2022-2023 SCOTUS Term
20:56 – Judicial Legitimacy following the Dobbs Decision
27:36 – The Unprecedented SCOTUS Draft Opinion Leak

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In this episode of Emphasis Added, Season 4 hosts Brock Jones and Matt Chelf spoke with University of Houston Law Center Professor Renee Knake-Jefferson about the historic appointment and confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and diversity in the judiciary. Professor Knake-Jefferson is an internationally renowned expert on professional responsibility and legal ethics, an award-winning author of four books and numerous academic articles, and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. We discussed items like Professor Knake-Jefferson’s recent book on the history of women being “shortlisted” for seats on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s background and jurisprudence, the politicization trend in recent Supreme Court Justice confirmations, and ethical conduct in the judiciary. 

Season 4, Episode 1 Contents:

00:00 – Intro
02:55 – Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
12:50 – Background and Jurisprudence of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
24:35 – Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearing
35:12 – Politicization of Supreme Court Appointments and Confirmations
42:30 – Judicial Ethical Conduct

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On this month's episode of Emphasis Added, future hosts Brock Jones and Matt Chelf joined me to speak with University of Texas School of Law Professor Joe Cosgrove, Jr. about the regulation of social media and privacy rights. Professor Cosgrove has over 35 years of legislative, regulatory, and legal experience including time spent as legal counsel for AT&T. Professor Cosgrove currently teaches Internet and Telecommunications Regulation at Texas Law, and has written on internet law topics like Section 230 and Net Neutrality. We discussed topics like what laws currently govern social media content and why some social media companies might be advocating for stricter regulation, what rights customers really have to their privacy, and what the future of the internet age looks like.

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On this month's episode of Emphasis Added, I spoke with University of Houston Law Center Professor Douglas Moll about fraud and closely held corporations in the context of Theranos, a biotech company that was once valued at $10 billion, and is now worth nothing. Professor Moll teaches multiple business law courses at the University of Houston Law Center and has written multiple articles and books on civil fraud and closely held corporations. We discussed Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes's conduct as portrayed by the ABC News podcast and Hulu Series, "The Dropout," and analyzed different instances of Theranos's fraud exploring questions like when  Silicon Valley's culture of "fake it till you make it" really becomes fraudulent and how investors in a private closely held corporation are disadvantaged when things go wrong.

You can find more from Professor Moll at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=190549

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On this month's episode of Emphasis Added, I spoke with Milbank's Firmwide Head of IP,  David Gindler, and Senior Milbank IP Associate, Jasper Tran, about patent waiver of COVID vaccines and the complexities of being an IP attorney. David's background includes successfully representing clients in trials with verdicts in the hundreds of millions of dollars, negotiating complex IP license agreements, and frequently speaking on hot topics in IP law, mostly notably on topics in life-sciences and pharmaceuticals. Jasper's background includes a practice focusing on complex patent and trade secret litigation in federal courts, conducting due diligence on IP/IT agreement in multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, and authoring numerous scholarly articles on Intellectual Property for journals from law school’s such as Yale and Northwestern amongst others (link to his scholarship below). We discussed the many intricacies to researching, patenting, and manufacturing vaccines and other pharmaceuticals, why the patent waiver debate might be misguided, and the potential enforcement issues that may need to be addressed when the pandemic ends.

Jasper Tran SSRN Author Page – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2357726

Season 3, Episode 10: Contents
00:00 – Intro
04:50 – What Makes IP Attorneys Different
12:30 – Patent Basics
22:25 – The Patent Waiver Debate
35:00 – Enforcement of COVID Vaccine Patents
45:45 – Open-Source IP During a Pandemic
52:00 – Closing Questions

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