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True North: Navigating Law with Dean Richard Freer

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True North: Navigating Law with Dean Freer explores the values and vision guiding Emory University School of Law. Hosted by Dean Richard Freer, the podcast is a storytelling platform featuring conversations with faculty, alumni, students, scholars, and leaders in the profession. Each episode highlights the law school’s mission and priorities—student flourishing, academic eminence, and community impact—through personal stories and insights that connect timeless principles with today’s challenges in law and leadership.

True North is recorded by the Office of Communication in the HearSay Multimedia Studio at Emory University School of Law with Jamillah May (Digital Producer), Tayo Fayemi (Production Manager), and A. Kenyatta Greer (Content Director), and original theme music by Chandler M. Greer.

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Season 2 of True North: Navigating Law Launching October 2026

Join Dean Rich Freer for conversations with students, faculty, alumni and leaders from across Emory University about the ideas, experiences and questions shaping Emory Law and the legal profession.

This season, we’re going beyond the classroom to hear from the people doing the work, creating new opportunities and helping shape what comes next. From emerging areas of law to the experiences shaping today’s students and graduates, True North offers a closer look at the people and ideas moving legal education forward.

Season 2 kicks off at the end of October 2026!

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Season 2 Trailer


Episode 1

Dean Richard Freer sits down with Andrew Jennings, Associate Professor of Law and director of the Carney Center at Emory Law, to discuss his remarkable journey from practicing corporate lawyer and litigator to leading one of the school's most exciting new initiatives. They explore what attracted him to Emory, the unique opportunity presented by the Carney Center's founding, and his vision for building a distinctive institution that advances the study and practice of business law.

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Andrew Jennings

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