Kate Nace Day is Professor of Law Emerita at Suffolk University Law School, where she taught for over 30 years. For her work on women’s equality, Kate was one of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s 2013 Top Women of Law. The Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association awarded her the 2018 Lelia J. Robinson award, presented to women who “have captured the spirit of pioneering in the legal profession and have made a difference in the community.” Kate received her J.D. at UC Berkeley School of Law.

Russell Murphy is the author of VOICES OF THE DEATH PENALTY DEBATE: A CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO CAPITAL PUNISHMNENT and numerous articles on criminal law and international human rights. He is Research Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, where he served as Associate Dean and Acting Director of the Foreign Law Study Summer Program at the University of Lund in Lund, Sweden. He was a regular lecturer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He currently is Adjunct Professor of Law at UMass Law School.

For over a decade, Kate and Russ explored visual storytelling in their scholarship and classroom teaching, using video as pedagogy, knowledge, and advocacy. They brought documentary films into required courses. In upper division seminars, their pedagogical experiments asked students to make their own films and video presentations – to enable them to examine issues of social and political policy, moral conflict, and justice that might otherwise be lost in law’s traditional pedagogy.

In 2011, Kate and Russ founded FILM AND LAW PRODUCTIONS to present representative small-scale productions by law students and screen their own projects. Their first joint project was A CIVIL REMEDY, a short documentary on sex trafficking in the United States, that received the Media Award of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (MATA), and the National Women’s Political Caucus’ Exceptional Merit in Media Award – an EMMA. A CIVIL REMEDY was the first documentary film to win either award.