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Webcasting 101: TV on Your PC
by Kendall Callas
Welcome back for another tale of our brave voyage into the unexplored waters of streaming video in the legal community. Each month we highlight examples of law firm, court, and law school “webcasts” — video over the Internet.

WHAT’S ON TONIGHT?

Let’s take another look to see what’s new at two video archives we’ve examined in past columns: MoFo and Harvard Law School.

Morrison & Foerster has refreshed its offering of seminars streaming on the web since we visited in my column in the March 2004 issue of The Bridge. Visit www.mofo.com, click ‘Events’ at far right, then ‘Webinars’ at left, or go to

“MoFo Webinars”
[play
button]http://www.veracast.com/mofo

The firm now offers four webcasts, each over an hour long, some for MCLE credit. You will need to register your name and email address before viewing. (Media player required: either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.)

FOUR MOFO SEMINARS ONLINE

  • Protecting, Defending and Enforcing Plant Intellectual Property Rights (in association with UCSD TechTips and San Diego Center for Molecular Agriculture), streaming video, 3 hours - 8 clips of podium presentations

  • Opportunities for the Wine Industry: What the Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision on the Direct Shipping of Wine Could Mean to Your Business, streaming audio plus slides, 1 hour (June 2005)

  • Maximizing Deal Value Through Business Transformation Sourcing, streaming audio plus slides, 1 1/4 hours (May 2005)

  • Global Privacy Issues and the New Japanese Data Protection Law, streaming audio plus slides, 1 1/2 hours (March 2005)


HARVARD LAW SCHOOL VIDEO ARCHIVE

“The Saturday School Program - Video Archives”
[play
button] http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/saturday_school/video_archive.shtml

Displaying considerable growth since our last visit, Harvard Law School sponsors this lecture series, apparently emphasizing race and civil liberties. Here are presented over 60 videos of professors sounding scholarly, authors discussing their books, and celebrities addressing the topic of the day, as well as a Criminal Law Speaker Series (see the second section below). Most webcasts are over an hour long. (Media player required: RealPlayer.)

Here’s a list of webcasts added since our prior visit (see my column in the June 2003 issue of The Bridge):

  • Harvard Black Law Students Association Spring Conference with speakers Patricia Williams, Columbia University Professor of Law, and Donzaleigh Abernathy, author, actress and activist (March 2005)

  • 50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education: The Future of Race Relations in America, panel discussion with Derrick Bell, NYU Professor of Law, and Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center (November 2004)

  • Bloodsworth: The True Story of The First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA with Kirk Bloodsworth and Tim Junkin (November 2004)

  • Mind Bugs: The Psychology of Ordinary Bias, with Mahzarin Banaji, Professor of Social Ethics, and Carol Pforzheimer, Professor at Radcliffe (November 2004)

  • Military Commissions & The Global War on Terrorism: The Chief Defense Counsel's Perspective, with Colonel Will Gunn, Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions (October 2004)

  • Is the Supreme Court Going Down the Drain?, with Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (September 2004)

  • Interview with Judge Robert Carter, first Distinguished Visitor of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice (August 2004)

  • Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (April 2004)

CRIMINAL LAW SPEAKER SERIES

  • The O.J. Simpson Case, with Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurther, Harvard Professor of Law, and Chris Darden (May 2004)

  • The Bernard Goetz Case, with Mark Baker, Brafman & Ross, Judge Steven Crane, Partner, Slotnick, Shapiro & Crocker, Michael Shapiro, and Ron Kuby (April 2004)

  • The Wrongly Convicted, with Stephen Hrones, Hrones & Garrity (April 2004)

  • Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform, with Derrick Bell, NYU Professor of Law (April 2004)

  • Denying Prejudice: The Japanese American Internment & The Boomerang of Reparations, with Jerry Kang, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (April 2004)

  • The Unchartered Ground, presented by the Boston Association of Black Journalists (April 2004)

  • Celebration of the Bicentennial of Haiti's Independence, panel discussion with Randall Robinson, author and founder of TransAfrica Forum (April 2004)

  • The Road to Brown: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights, with Genna Rae McNeil, Professor, University of North Carolina (March 2004)

  • Reflections on the 1984 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson, panel discussion with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition (February 2004)

  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, with author Frank Wu, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law (February 2004)

  • Race in America, with Randall Robinson, founder of TransAfrica Forum (November 2003)

  • The Scholar as Activist: The Appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, with John Hope Franklin, Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, (November 2003)

  • The Meaning and Challenges of the Michigan Cases, with John Payton (November 2003)

  • Letting the Law Catch Up: The Legacy of Justice Marshall, with Deborah Rhode, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (October 2003)

  • Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty, author Scott Turow, Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, discusses his forthcoming book (October 2003)

  • Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms: Why Sacrificing Immigrants' Rights in the War on Terrorism Undermines Our Security and Our Liberty, with David Cole, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center (September 2003)

  • The Patriot Act and Patriotism, with Danny Glover, actor, human rights activist, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of TransAfrica Forum (September 2003)

  • Open Wide the Freedom, with author Dr. Dorothy Height, Chair and President Emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women, discusses her book (July 2003)

  • Civil War Blacks in Navy Blue: Diary of a Contraband, with William Gould, Professor of Law, Emeritus at Stanford Law School, and Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law (April 2003)

  • The Fells Acres Travesty: Lessons Learned About Prosecutors, Politics, and Life, panel discussion (April 2003)

  • Interracial Intimacies, author Randall Kennedy, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, discusses his latest book (March 2003)

  • The Writings of Justice Thurgood Marshall, J. Clay Smith, of Howard University School of Law, discusses his forthcoming book, Supreme Justice (March 2003)

  • Civil Liberties and the Fight Against Terrorism, Mary Jo White, of the firm Debevoise and Plimpton (February 2003)


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