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Legal Knowledge
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Legal Knowledge Podcast

About the Show

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The Legal Knowledge podcast is based on the UVA Law Library’s new book, Legal Education at the University of Virginia: Tradition and Transformation, which brings together thirteen scholar contributors to examine UVA Law’s history and place in the broader story of American legal education from the institution’s founding to the present. Meggan Cashwell, Randi Flaherty, and Loren Moulds are the volume editors and serve as the hosts of Legal Knowledge. 

In telling the 200-year history of the UVA Law School, the book and podcast center the people who impacted curricular change over time. In each episode we focus on individual stories, and not just those of faculty and students. Listeners will hear about Thomas Jefferson and the first law professor; enslaved individuals who built the University; the wives and daughters of UVA Law School professors; and a myriad of other people who shaped the Law School’s history. The framework of “legal knowledge” allows us to tell a more holistic history by expanding the scope and context of legal education. 

The podcast helps to fulfill our mission in UVA Law Special Collections to preserve, interpret, and share the history of the UVA Law School and make accessible our collections of legal history materials. The book and podcast both make extensive use of our archive and that of UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. Curricular history provides a lens to explore changes in and outside the classroom over time. The podcast is as much about legal teachings as it is the national landscape of the law and major social and cultural developments in the US. Ultimately, it serves as a way to tell this larger story to more people. 

Host and Executive Producer, Season Two

Randi Flaherty

Randi Flaherty serves as co-host and executive producer of the second season of the Legal Knowledge podcast. At the UVA School of Law, she is the law school historian and head of the Law Library’s Special Collections department. Randi is a historian of the early national United States with a current interest in the materiality of legal literature in that period. Randi spearheads a number of public and institutional history projects, including The Historical Landscape of North Grounds.

Host and Executive Producer, Season One

Meggan Cashwell

Meggan Cashwell is the host and executive producer of Season One of the Legal Knowledge podcast. As lead editor of the UVA Law Library’s contributor volume Legal Education at the University of Virginia: Tradition and Transformation (UVA Press, 2025), Meggan created the podcast to share the history of UVA Law with a larger audience. In her role as the Horatio and Florence Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Legal History from 2019-2023, Meggan brought years of institutional knowledge, public history skills, and special collections experience to the podcast. Meggan is currently serving as the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator of Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at UVA.

Host and Co-Producer, Season Two

Loren Moulds

Loren S. Moulds is co-host of the Legal Knowledge podcast and Head of Digital Scholarship & Preservation and Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Virginia School of Law. At UVA Law, he works at the intersection of history, archives, and digital scholarship, helping to interpret and make accessible the Law School’s collections in ways that support research, teaching, and public engagement. 

A historian of twentieth-century American political development, Loren received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia and an MSIS in Digital Archives and Data Management from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a co-editor of Legal Education at the University of Virginia: Tradition and Transformation, his work on Legal Knowledge centers public history approaches to legal education and institutional history, using archival sources to explore how curricular change at UVA Law reflects broader social, political, and cultural developments.

Sound Engineer and Co-Producer, Season Two

Blake Cabral

Blake Cabral is the sound engineer and co-producer of the second season of the Legal Knowledge podcast, and he created the season’s original soundtrack. Blake joined the team in summer 2025 as an intern with the Institute for Public History at UVA. He will graduate from UVA in May 2027 with degrees in Music and History, with a concentration in Law and Society.

Sound Engineer and Co-Producer, Season One

Rebecca Barry

Rebecca Barry is the sound engineer and co-producer of the Legal Knowledge podcast. Rebecca first joined the team in summer 2022 as an intern with the Institute for Public History at UVA. She will graduate from UVA in May 2023 with a thesis on studies of empathy and care in the context of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents.

Transcription Lead

Jane McBrian

Jane McBrian provides editorial and transcription services for the Legal Knowledge podcast. As a member of the UVA Law Library Special Collections department, Jane provides digitization and transcription services for library projects, as well as research and editorial services for the curricular history volume and other library projects. Jane is the Digitization Specialist for Special Collections at the UVA Law Library.

Co-Producer

Addie Patrick

Addie Patrick serves as co-producer for the Legal Knowledge podcast. As a member of the UVA Law Special Collections department, Addie has assisted in archival research and content creation for the Law School’s curricular history volume since the earliest stages of its production and is co-author of a chapter in the volume alongside Meggan Cashwell. She has provided her knowledge of UVA's institutional history, storytelling strategies, and design best practices to each episode in both seasons of the podcast. She also created the podcast’s logo. Addie works as Curatorial Specialist at the UVA Law Library. 

We want to thank WTJU 91.1 FM at UVA for allowing us to record in their studio, and Mary Garner McGehee and Jim Ambuske for lending their podcasting expertise throughout this process, particularly for season one.