Episode 077 – Conversation with Shawna MacLeod, Class of 2012

Episode 077 – Conversation with Shawna MacLeod, Class of 2012.mp3

In this podcast, Shawna MacLeod, Brooklyn Law School Class of 2012 and Editor-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Law Review, talks about her experience at the Law Review which published four issues of Volume 76 last year and the first two issues of Volume 77 this year. Shawna discusses her own student note One Man, Six Votes, and Many Unanswered Questions: Cumulative Voting as a Remedial Measure for Section 2 Violations in Port Chester and Beyond, 76 Brook. L. Rev. 1669 (Summer 2011), where she provided an overview of the relevant Voting Rights Act provisions and the system of cumulative voting in the case of United States v. Village of Port Chester, 704 F.Supp.2d 411 (2010). Shawna also offers suggestions for 1Ls considering joining one of the law journals at Brooklyn Law School.