The American Bar Association now requires law schools to provide “education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism.”[1] But how can a law professor navigate these challenges in the current cultural climate fraught with polarizing divisiveness?

Pop culture can teach us a lot about the law: almost everyone knows the Miranda warnings and can recite them by heart, thanks to Law and Order and other crime dramas,[1] the concept of a “conservatorship” is familiar to many because of Brittany Spears,[2] and the notorious RBG has become a household name, recognizable in a crown and jabot, partly due to Kate McKinnon’s portrayal on SNL.