What videos or podcasts would you recommend to someone studying law?
Recently on the blog Credit Slips, Dalié Jiménez, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, wrote that a lot of the required “reading” for her consumer bankruptcy policy seminar will in fact be YouTube videos—mostly segments from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight on HBO. A law prof in the comments who teaches contracts and bankruptcy recommended a specific episode of NPR’s Planet Money podcast.
Also widely reported in recent weeks—at Inside Higher Ed and elsewhere—was a quip from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, stating that videos could replace teachers to save money. “If you want to teach the Civil War across the country, are you better off having, I don’t know, tens of thousands of history teachers that kind of know the subject, or would you be better off popping in 14 hours of Ken Burns’ Civil War tape and then have those teachers proctor based on that excellent video production already done?”
So this week, we’d like to ask you: What videos or podcasts (or documentaries or TV programs, et cetera) would you recommend to someone studying law?
Answer in the comments.
Read the answers to last week’s question: Are you a night owl or an early bird?
Featured answer:
Posted by JustTess4All: “Any client who communicates by text or email has been warned to expect me to respond between 9 pm and 1 a.m. or later (earlier?). I rarely get up before 9 a.m. unless I have early court—which is usually only one day a week. The clerk is kind enough to schedule me in the late morning and afternoon when possible. I never expected to be a sole practitioner in a small town, but it has its perks!”
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