SMU Perspectives
SMU Perspectives Podcasts is a series of interviews with thought leaders at SMU, a private research and teaching institute in Dallas. SMU community members share their expertise on a wide spectrum of topics and research.
Podcasts
How retail investor 'superpowers' can be sequel to "Dumb Money" film
Christina Sautter, SMU law professor specializing in business and investing. She focused on so-called "retail investors" who mostly rely on online stock purchases and advice from "no fee" or lower fee brokerages.
SMU Dallas law school clinic rescues women classified as 'criminalized survivors'
Natalie Nanasi, SMU law professor and Director of the Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women. She discussed a program carried out by her legal clinic to expunge crimes against "criminalized survivors": women who are victims of domestic abuse but sometimes charged with bogus crimes (often by their abusers). Also participating in the podcast: Demetrice M. Lopez, an SMU law professor who assisted in the program; Erica Mellon, SMU law student who participated in the program.
Lengthy permitting processes, lack of electric power storage cloud clean energy dreams
James Coleman, SMU law professor with expertise in energy matters, who discussed obstacles to carrying out initiatives in the Inflation Reduction Act.