Hi all -- I'm delighted to be here for today's AMA. My full bio is here (https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck). To make a long story short, I'm in my 13th year as a law professor (my second at the University of Texas School of Law), and my teaching, research, and writing generally focuses on the federal courts, national security law, and, oftentimes, the intersection of those two fields.
Aside from teaching and writing, I spend a decent amount of time doing litigation work (I argued a case about military officers holding civilian offices in the Supreme Court in January), am co-editor-in-chief of Just Security (https://www.justsecurity.org/), co-host the National Security Law Podcast (https://www.nationalsecuritylawpodcast.com/), and help CNN with its Supreme Court coverage.
I'm a native New Yorker, which also explains my sports allegiances (Mets / Giants / Rangers / Knicks). My wife, Karen, is also a laywer (http://www.wittliffcutter.com/karen-vladeck). We have a two-year-old daughter and a four-year-old pug. And I tweet too much (https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck).
So that's the short version of me. What would you like to ask about?
- Introduction by Professor Brie Sherwin & Dean Darby Dickerson 0:00 min - 8:00 min
- Making A Murderer As A Microcosm by Professor Tracy Pearl 8:00 min - 27:15 min
- But Did You Hear? Making Sense Sense of Efforts to Discredit Making A Murderer by Professor Brandon Beck 27:15 min - 50:30 min
- Perspective From A Prosecutor by Assistant District Attorney Rickie Redman 50:30 min - 1:10:15 min
- Courtroom Advocacy by Professor Robert Sherwin 1:10:15 min - 1:29:45 min
- Questions & Answers by The Entire Panel 1:29:45 min - 2:02:10
I really found the topic on But Did You Hear? Making Sense Of Efforts To Discredit Making A Murderer to be the most interesting. It all boils down to Ken Kratz. He is the common denominator in the efforts to discredit Making A Murderer. Everything Ken has said in one simple email has spread like wildfire and resonated with a small minority. Some media was quick to report on it because lets face it a good story mixed with conflict sells.
Some of my favorite quotes though came from Assistant District Attorney Rickie Redman:
"What if I was in the same office as this Ken Kratz jerk?"
"If you don't have anything to cover up and nothing bad is going on then you shouldn't have to ever lie. If the truth is on your side it's always on your side."
I hope you all enjoy it and feel free to discuss it.
Has anyone had any luck with UT scholarship awards?
Not sure which day I got the A , but just checked the status checker for the time in a week or so and got in!
Stats in flair, just wanted to share as a data point :)
Does anyone know what is going on? I've been looking at UT for law school and had heard nothing about this.
Edit: As LawAndMortar pointed out, I forgot the link.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 59%. (I'm a bot)
> A Texas school district official told educators if they kept books about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they would have to also offer "Opposing" viewpoints in order to comply with a new state law.
> In an audio clip obtained by NBC News, Gina Peddy, the executive director of curriculum and instruction for Carroll independent school district in Southlake, offered the guidance to teachers during a training on which books teachers can keep in classroom libraries.
> The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, has said that law, HB 3979, is an effort to abolish critical race theory in schools.
> Regardless, school board meetings across the US have seen a wave of protests about critical race theory in recent months and lawmakers in states around the country have proposed laws that would ban the teaching of "Critical race theory" and topics such as the New York Times's 1619 Project.
> Twenty-two states had passed or were considering laws to ban or restrict conversations about race and racism in public school classrooms as of August.
> Propaganda about critical race theory, as well as anger over Covid restrictions, have rocked school board meetings nationwide, prompting the National School Boards Association to ask Joe Biden for federal assistance in response to threats and violence against school board members and education officials.
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From Ray Lamontagne:
Of the cancellation, Mr. LaMontagne says, “I consider myself to be a very open minded human being, and I always try and see things from another’s point of view. I realize this is a controversial issue and there are strong feelings on both sides of it. But no matter how hard I try to understand the rationale for allowing guns on campus or more broadly, the ‘concealed carry’ law in general, I just cannot in any way support that ideology.
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- Introduction by Professor Brie Sherwin & Dean Darby Dickerson 0:00 min - 8:00 min
- Making A Murderer As A Microcosm by Professor Tracy Pearl 8:00 min - 27:15 min
- But Did You Hear? Making Sense Sense of Efforts to Discredit Making A Murderer by Professor Brandon Beck 27:15 min - 50:30 min
- Perspective From A Prosecutor by Assistant District Attorney Rickie Redman 50:30 min - 1:10:15 min
- Courtroom Advocacy by Professor Robert Sherwin 1:10:15 min - 1:29:45 min
- Questions & Answers by The Entire Panel 1:29:45 min - 2:02:10
I really found the topic on But Did You Hear? Making Sense Of Efforts To Discredit Making A Murderer to be the most interesting. It all boils down to Ken Kratz. He is the common denominator in the efforts to discredit Making A Murderer. Everything Ken has said in one simple email has spread like wildfire and resonated with a small minority. Some media was quick to report on it because lets face it a good story mixed with conflict sells.
Some of my favorite quotes though came from Assistant District Attorney Rickie Redman:
"What if I was in the same office as this Ken Kratz jerk?"
"If you don't have anything to cover up and nothing bad is going on then you shouldn't have to ever lie. If the truth is on your side it's always on your side."
I hope you all enjoy it and feel free to discuss it.
