Tracy Pearl | Alternative Career: Law Professor and Researcher

<p>In today’s episode, we chat with Tracy Pearl— an internationally recognized scholar on emerging technology, and a law professor at Texas Tech University. Tracy is also a researcher and writer, with a focus on risk regulation and tort law.</p><p><br>Tracy discusses her career path, and her continuing passion for writing scholarly articles on a variety of fascinating topics including driverless vehicles, crowd crush, and Miranda. She also shares tips on how other women lawyers can get into academia. </p><p><br></p><p>We’ll dive into those topics, as well as…</p><p><br></p><ul> <li>Advantages of life as a law professor</li> <li>The challenges of women in academia</li> <li>The lag in the legal system to develop new statutes, regulations, and case law in the realm of new forms of technology</li> <li>How to get your research and papers into the hands of the people that need to see them</li> <li>And more</li> </ul>