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Observations from a Civil Procedure professor during a pandemic. As a personal project borne out of an effort to create a "pandemic of kindness", the purpose of this podcast is educational and mental health related. Please refer to the Osterholm Update from the University of Minnesota's Center for Infection Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) where Dr. Osterholm each week encourages us all to be part of a pandemic of kindness. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars. Advance Thanks to Taylor Swift for her use of "Out of the Woods" for educational purposes.
Episodes
8 episodes
Episode 8: Walking
This episode also gives you a chance to consider how you want to maximize your efforts during the Fall Break, this episode has a two-fold purpose. On one hand, it focuses on how using walking to maximize your memory retention and time, as walki...
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Episode 8
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8:29
Episode 7: Sleep
You might remember that I talked about the value of sleep and the strategic use of sleep to maximize the hard work that you are doing to transform your brain and build long-term memory to help you maximize the effort that you are making in your...
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Episode 7
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7:48
Episode 6: Future You
This episode is an homage to my former student Civil Procedure student Morgan Marmaro, currently an Associate at Freshfields, who was the person who gave me the phrase “That is a problem for future me.” That insight was a perspective shift for ...
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9:02
Episode 5: Potassium
This podcast was recorded in 2021 at the requests of several students from 2021. The genesis came from a conversation with a student who was explaining how tired they were and how their brain didn’t function in the way they had been used to in ...
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Episode 5
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7:27
Episode 3: Should
This episode was originally recorded in October 2020, and I have not touched the recording since then. Speaking some of the words aloud in this episode helped me realize how much I despise the word “should” in terms of the creation of false, un...
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Episode 3
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6:53
Episode 4: Pedagogy (the updated 2025 version)
I originally recorded this episode in 2021, when I was teaching Civil Procedure mostly online. In my effort to reach my students in that context, I decided to be even more transparent than normal about the process of lifelong learning and profe...
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Episode 4
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13:56
Episode 2: Fear (original content for 2025)
In this episode, created especially for Civil Procedure 2025 and in recognition of constructive conversations with students during Breakfast Clubs, Professor Franck explores concepts of fear, acceptance, growth, bravery, and professional develo...
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Episode 2
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10:27
Episode 1 - Resistance (2020)
In this original, pilot podcast recorded during September 2020, Professor Franck offers responds to multiple student requests on behalf of her students when law school was being taught 100% online for the first time ever and students were scatt...
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Episode 1
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