Joanna Schwartz /// Rustic Scales /// Season4:E096

Joanna Schwartz is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She teaches Civil Procedure and a variety of courses on police accountability and public interest lawyering. She received UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015, and served as Vice Dean for Faculty Development from 2017-2019.

Professor Schwartz is one of the country's leading experts on police misconduct litigation. Professor Schwartz additionally studies the dynamics of modern civil litigation. She is co-author, with Stephen Yeazell, of a leading casebook, Civil Procedure (10th Edition), and her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Texas Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among others.

Professor Schwartz is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School. After law school, Professor Schwartz clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York and Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was then associated with Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, in New York City, where she specialized in police misconduct, prisoners' rights, and First Amendment litigation.

 

"The basic facts of any given case aren't in dispute, it's whether you see those facts as wrong doing or not" - Joanna Schwartz

 

Topics we discuss:

• How we have lost our perspective of Shared Ideals
  • Perspective drives how we see the facts
  • How this applies to the law
• Criminal standards of Police Prosecution
• How do we reduce incidence of police force
• The ethics of deadly force
• What is Justice and what is Social Justice
• How she got where she is. 
  • The journey being a bit backwards
  • What keeps her going
  • What recharges her
• Her Mindset and managing life to get everything that needs to be done
• Current research on assumptions used by Supreme Court in making judgements
• Social Media and the First Amendment

 

References:

• Joanna's Full Bio
• Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
• Definition of Deadly Force
• Philando Castile
• Men In Black
• Teddy Shapiro with More In Common
• First Amendment
• 5G networks causing COVID
• Mark Zuckerburg's original congressional hearing

 

Credits:

Lead editor + Producer: Ruf Holmes

 

Music:

Main Theme: "Eaze Does It" by Shye Eaze and DJ Rufbeats, a More In Common Podcast Exclusive.

Guest theme:  "Binding Signatures" by DJ Rufbeats created as a More In Common Podcast Exclusive.