Author: Lynsey A. Madison (LAW '27)

Reflection of Fred Humphries’ Green Lecture

“Be open to learning about new areas within the law” was one of the first pieces of advice I got upon being accepted to law school. I of course came to law school knowing education law was the specific area of law I wanted to go into after graduation. For a myriad of reasons, I also knew that my academic career would require a mix of courses that were not necessarily education-based but rather, education-adjacent. This left me wanting to attend as many events as possible. Which is hard to do considering I am an evening student who works a full-time job and many of these events are during the day. And while I was open to exploring various areas of the law, there were some I just knew were not up my alley. Technology was one such area that I had zero interest in. The emails from the Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology (iLIT) were ignored. Like I said, with limited time, it was important to be selective in what I invested time …