Calling all interested in entertainment law, law teaching, and book writing! In Episode 91 we chat with Sherri Burr, the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Sherri shares her journey to becoming a law professor and her love of entertainment and art law. She also dives into her writing process and what it means to be a sprinter vs. a marathon writer. She shares her love of people, human nature, and observing human experiences, and the way this curiosity inspires her writing. And she shares insights from her newest book: Living with Nephew: How I got Voted the Meanest Parent in the World, a moving and humorous memoir. The stories Sherri shares during the episode are as good as her 30+ books, so this is not one to miss!
Sherri Burr is the Dickason Chair and Regents Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Sherri joined the UNM faculty in 1988, after receiving her bachelors from Mount Holyoke College, a master’s in International Relations from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, and her JD from Yale Law School. Sherri was the first African American woman to receive tenure and promotion to full professor in New Mexico.
Sherri has taught intellectual property, art law, entertainment law, wills and trusts, and international law, among other courses. She has also authored and co-authored over thirty books, which have won numerous awards. Her 27th book, Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virgina, 1619-1865 was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Sherri has also frequently written items for the general public, and even produced and hosted her own television show—ARTS TALK, which won numerous New Mexico and National Federation of Press Women Awards. She has served on countless boards and associations, including serving as president of the New Mexico Black Lawyers Association, and her current service on the boards of the Albuquerque Museum and the Authors Guild Foundation.
Most recently, Sherri published her first memoir titled: Living with Nephew: How I got Voted the Meanest Parent in the World. You can buy the book here or at any major bookseller