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In this episode, we speak with Megan Daic, the owner of Daic Law, a Texas-based civil litigation law firm. She is an alumnus at the University of Houston Law Center, where she now serves as an adjunct professor. Earlier this year, Ms. Daic was one of the youngest candidates running for judge in Harris County. 

We talk with Ms. Daic about her experiences as a first-generation college student and, subsequently, law student, what it’s been like starting her own practice, and what made her decide to run for Judge of the 165th District. Though she did not win the primary, Ms. Daic shares valuable insights about the process of running in an election and lessons she learned along the way.

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In this episode, Professor Renee Knake speaks by phone with Podcast Editors, Adri Langemeier and Robert Cunningham, to discuss her forthcoming book, Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court, which is available May 12th on Amazon.

Shortlisted tells the incredible stories of nine women appearing on Presidential shortlists prior to Sandra Day O’Connor’s nomination. We discuss the research that went into writing the book, as well as some of the findings. Finally, Professor Knake talks with us about how we can overcome the challenges still faced by women in the legal field today.

Professor Knake is a law professor and an award-winning author whose work has been featured in BuzzFeed, CNN, National Public Radio, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and other media. She holds the Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics at the University of Houston Law Center where she teaches ethics, constitutional law, and a writing seminar on gender, power, law, and leadership.

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In this episode, Professor Carol M. Rose speaks by phone with Editor in Chief Drew Padley to discuss her career and recent Houston Law Review article, which can be found at the link below:

Carol M. Rose, Cold Corpses, Hot News, and Dead IP: The Reasons for and Consequences of a Legal Status of No-Property, 57 Hous. L. Rev. 377 (2019).

The article was presented at the UHLC Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law (IPIL) National Conference in Santa Fe, NM in May 2019.

Professor Rose is now retired but was most recently teaching at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Previously, she was a professor at Yale, Northwestern, and Stanford. Professor Dave Fagundes (UHLC) writes, in the introduction to the symposium issue containing Professor Rose's article, that she is "part of the pantheon of great American property scholars."

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We were honored that Chief United States District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal took time out of her busy schedule to speak with our Editor in Chief Drew Padley.

Chief Judge Rosenthal is widely regarded by litigants as one of the best trial judges in the country. After making partner at Baker Botts, she was nominated to the federal bench by George H.W. Bush in 1992. In her time as a judge, she has played an invaluable role in the federal rules-making process, serving as Chair of both the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure and the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

In addition to all of that, she is also an incredibly warm, charismatic, and inspirational person.

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Texas State Representative Armando Walle joins Editor in Chief Drew Padley for a wide-ranging conversation about his background, early brushes with politics, legislative accomplishments, and time as a student at the University of Houston, where he earned his undergraduate and law degrees.

Rep. Walle grew up in the district he now represents and was elected to the Texas House when he was only thirty years old. In addition to serving in the legislature, he also operates a small solo law practice.

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Judge King was nominated to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Carter in 1979. Eventually, she would become Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit and chair of the Judicial Conference's Executive Committee.

In her conversation with our Editor in Chief, Drew Padley, Judge King shares the winding path she took to the judiciary and some of what she has been able to accomplish there so far.

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U.S. District Court Judge Vanessa Gilmore discusses her life story with our Editor in Chief, Drew Padley. Judge Gilmore has dedicated her career to public service, most notably as a judge, but also as Chairperson for the Texas Department of Commerce Policy Board and as Chairperson for Texans for NAFTA. In this episode, she also details her role in the community, which has involved spreading awareness of implicit bias to her colleagues, sitting on the boards of nonprofit organizations, and creating tools to help the families of incarcerated parents.

When President Clinton nominated Judge Gilmore to the federal bench in 1994, and when the Senate subsequently confirmed her, she became the youngest sitting federal judge in the country and the first University of Houston Law Center graduate to serve in that role.

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Professor Orly Lobel, the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Employment and Labor Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, delivered the Houston Law Review's 24th annual Frankel Lecture, entitled “Exit, Voice & Innovation: How Human Capital Law Impacts Equality (& How Inequality Hurts Growth).”

Commentators for the lecture were: Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Associate Professor of Law and Justin M. Roach Jr. Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, and Todd Rakoff, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at Harvard Law School. UH Law Center Professor Dave Fagundes, Baker Botts LLP Professor of Law and Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, served as moderator.

The Frankel Lecture is sponsored by the Frankel Family Foundation, to which we are incredibly grateful.

A video of the lecture can be found on our website.

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Professor Jorge L. Contreras of the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law sits down with our Editor in Chief, Drew Padley, to discuss his recent law review article "Pledging Patents for the Public Good: Rise and Fall of the Eco-Patent Commons." His article was published in the Houston Law Review.

Read the article here:

Jorge L. Contreras, Pledging Patents for the Public Good: Rise and Fall of the Eco-Patent Commons, 57 Hous. L. Rev. 61 (2019).

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U.S. District Court Judge Gray H. Miller joins our host, Editor-in-Chief Drew Padley, for a discussion about growing up in Houston, attending the Merchant Marine Academy, working as a police officer while getting his undergraduate degree and JD at the University of Houston, working at a biglaw firm, serving as a judge, and giving back to the community.

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