{"id":15885,"date":"2025-03-10T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletters.asucollegeoflaw.com\/ilp\/?p=15885"},"modified":"2025-03-10T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:17:25","slug":"indian-gaming-and-tribal-self-governance-behind-the-scenes-with-lynn-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletters.asucollegeoflaw.com\/ilp\/2025\/03\/10\/indian-gaming-and-tribal-self-governance-behind-the-scenes-with-lynn-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Gaming and Tribal Self-Governance: Behind the Scenes with Lynn French"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A peek into the MLS course production<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The cameras roll, the microphones are on, and a professor enters the frame to deliver a lecture. Behind the camera, Lynn French, the instructional designer for MLS, ensures every detail is crisp, clear, and seamless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the glare of production lights and the glow of the green screen, one rule is non-negotiable: no lime green or silver sequins. The reasoning is simple, wear the wrong thing, and you might find parts of yourself vanishing into the digital abyss. You also may notice your professor wearing the same outfit across all lectures. That\u2019s no coincidence. While the law is constantly shifting\u2014rewritten, overturned, and reinterpreted\u2014what your professor is wearing doesn\u2019t have to change. In fact, it\u2019s better if their attire doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter the editing process\u2013-Lynn and her team meticulously trim and stitch together content, ensuring lectures remain accurate and relevant. Take the fall of the Chevron doctrine. Every lecture referencing it had to be reviewed and updated to reflect the shift in legal precedent. Yet on screen, the professor remains unchanged, a steady presence amid the fluid nature of MLS production and the ever-evolving legal landscape. Beyond the polished lectures, Lynn also finds immense joy in capturing the conversations with special guests for lectures. The law comes to life when a professor brings in someone with firsthand legal experience. A time when the case studies, doctrines, and precedents take on human form. MLS course production isn\u2019t just about filming lectures\u2014it\u2019s about making sure students see the law in motion, inconversation, and in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I enjoy capturing conversations between people, like when a professor brings in a person who is a living example of the law, as when a representative from the Ak-Chin Community came in to talk about water rights for a Tribal Self-Governance class.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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