Library Podcast To Investigate UVA Law’s Background

“Authorized Understanding,” a new podcast made by the Arthur J. Morris Legislation Library’s Exclusive Collections department, will discover the history of authorized training at the University of Virginia. The exhibit debuts March 29.

Meggan Cashwell, the library’s Horatio and Florence Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Lawful Record, is the host. Cashwell produces the podcast in collaboration with Library Coordinator Addie Patrick and UVA English M.A. scholar Rebecca Barry, who joined the crew as an Institute for Community Heritage intern in summer time 2022. Together with Randi Flaherty, head of unique collections, and Loren Moulds, head of electronic scholarship and preservation, Cashwell is co-editor of a forthcoming contributor quantity on the history of lawful training at UVA that encouraged the podcast.

Cashwell, who is an avid podcast listener herself, mentioned “Legal Knowledge” is a way for the library to educate a larger viewers about the central themes of the ebook and the Law School’s record.

“I consider this is a timely instant for an institutional historical past podcast, as UVA continues to grapple with its legacy,” she said. “In our situation, curricular background has presented a lens to examine variations in and outdoors the classroom over time. The podcast is as much about lawful teachings as it is the nationwide landscape of the legislation and significant social and cultural developments in the U.S.”

Year one will protect the Law School’s first 100 yrs above six episodes, with subject areas ranging from the Law School’s founding and how slavery was taught as a legal notion, to the Civil War and coeducation. Friends contain Professor Anne Coughlin and UVA record professor Elizabeth R. Varon. Some episodes have accompanying field recordings, with two at Pavilion X on the Garden, a former residence of UVA Regulation college.

The initial episode, “The Jeffersonian Vision for Legal Education and learning,” will function David Konig, an emeritus professor of regulation and record at Washington College in St. Louis who is a major authority on Thomas Jefferson and the enhancement of law in early The united states.

Cashwell reported the framework will allow her and her company to notify a far more holistic and transparent historical past by outlining the context of authorized instruction at the time.

“In just about every episode, we target on individual tales and not just all those of college and learners,” Cashwell explained. “You will listen to about the enslaved people today who crafted the College, the wives and daughters of UVA Law professors, and myriad other persons who formed the Law School’s background.”