The Current State of Energy Affordability and Insecurity

A Legal View from Iceland

Sigurður Helgason, associate lawyer at Juris law firm in Reykjavik, Iceland, talks with Cumberland School of Law Dean Blake Hudson about the major modern challenges faced by Iceland, from high interest rates to inflation to whether Iceland should pursue European Union membership. He also discusses the importance of the United States to Iceland’s independence and how Iceland sits squarely between the U.S. and Europe, legally, culturally and economically.

Saving the Great Salt Lake

Brigham Daniels, professor and co-director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, talks with Cumberland School of Law Dean Blake Hudson about the environmental importance of, and threats to, the Great Salt Lake and federal, state and local efforts to save it.

Don’t Waste Your Law License

Mike Papantonio, partner at Levin Papantonio and a 1981 graduate of Cumberland School of Law, talks with Dean Blake Hudson about the path to making an impact as a trial lawyer and the need for lawyers to use their license to practice law in a way that has meaning and impact.

An Introduction to Cumberland’s Online Graduate Programs

Kerry McInerney, director of Graduate and International Programs at Cumberland School of Law, talks with Dean Blake Hudson about Cumberland’s online Master of Laws (LLM) and Master of Studies in Law (MSL) graduate programs and degrees. He discusses the focus on regulatory compliance, the future of our program, and how our students are having a real world impact in their professions through their pursuit of these degrees.

The Other Immigration Crisis: A Decline in High-Skilled Workers

Maryam Stevenson, assistant professor of Law at Cumberland School of Law, talks with Dean Blake Hudson about her research on immigration law, and in particular high-skilled workers. She discusses the changes to the H1-B visa program and details concerns over a shortage of high skilled laborers in, for example, the medical field (doctors and nurses) in the coming decades.