ABOUT THE EDITOR

MIKE FARRIS, the elder son of Dr. T.V. “Corky” Farris,” is a retired attorney whose law practice in Dallas included commercial litigation and entertainment law focusing on the movie and publishing industries. He is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was associate editor of the Texas Tech Law Review and was inducted into the prestigious honor society Order of the Coif. He has served as chair of the Dallas Bar Association’s Entertainment Art and Sports Law Section and the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section, where he also served as editor of the section’s Entertainment and Sports Law Journal.

Mike is a multi-time published author of both fiction and nonfiction, including the Amazon best-selling Hawaiian true crime book, A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow. His most recent non-fiction book, the Amazon bestselling Blowhard: Windbaggery and the Wretched Ethics of Clarence Darrow, is an analysis of, and commentary on, four seminal cases in the career of Clarence Darrow.

Mike is also an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Entertainment Law, and a course of his design called Lawyers in Popular Culture. In addition to writing and teaching at UTA, he is a book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books, with more than 85 published reviews.