Podcast appearances and mentions of Lisa A Tucker

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is set to retire from the Supreme Court. We wanted to examine his legacy, and then talk about the top candidates to replace him on the highest court in the land. Will Republicans try to fight a Biden nominee, and is there anything they can do? Dr. Lisa A. Tucker, Associate Professor of Law at Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law is on the podcast to break down what Breyer's retirement means and examine his legacy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode we speak with Lisa Tucker, editor of the new book Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical - https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501753381/hamiltonand-the-law/ Lisa A. Tucker is Associate Professor of Law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University and author of the novel Called On, as well as eleven books for children. She has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, People, Time, and NBC Nightly News. We spoke to Lisa about how she assembled a star-powered cast of legal minds to come together to write a book looking at the phenomenally popular musical Hamilton through the lens of the law, how Hamilton makes us challenge our opinions now matter what side of the aisle you are on, and how the musical really makes us think about power – who holds it, and how it is used.

In this episode, Lisa A. Tucker, Associate Professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, discusses her article "From Contract Rights to Contact Rights: Rethinking the Paradigm for Post-Adoption Contact Agreements," which will be published in the Boston University Law Review. Tucker begins by briefly describing the history of adoption in the United States, and how it has changed in the last 50 years. She observes that most adoptions are currently "open," and often include post-adoption contact agreements. However, those agreements are generally not enforceable by birth parents. Tucker argues that we should shift to a system of rights, rather than agreements, for the best interests of the child. Tucker's scholarship is available on SSRN.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.