Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:12 AM
The Washington College of Law at American University continues to push podcasting (plawdcasting) forward by adding a second collection of free podcasts.
The first collection, which was created in August 2005, covers Moot Court competitions and focuses on the school experience in the "creation of and participation in the Inter-American Moot Court Competition and the Summer Academy on Human Rights." You can access this collection here.
The second, and just added, collection offers "[p]odcasts from virtually all WCL Events. Speakers include: President Jimmy Carter, Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia." You can access this collection here.
If you are interested, you can also subscribe to both collections via the feed links the school provides at both collections' web pages.
I believe this is the first law school to start podcasting, but I hope it will be the start of a larger trend. Law schools worldwide continue to host a wide variety of interesting speeches, discussions and commentaries on legal issues of the day. Leveraging new communication mediums (such as podcasts) to disseminate this material is a worthy endeavor.