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NYU School of Law and its faculty, students, alumni, centers and programs are frequently featured in the media. The following lists recent news stories, interviews and op-eds.

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Washington Post
"Abolishing the death penalty must be part of reimagining safety"
04/09/2021
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
Scales of justice with speech bubbles
"There’s a surprising ending to all the 2020 election conflicts over absentee ballot deadlines"
04/09/2021
The Conversation
Author: Richard Pildes
New York Magazine
"Andrew Weissmann on How to Prosecute Trump"
04/08/2021
New York Magazine
Expert: Andrew Weissmann
Bloomberg News
"Polarizing Candidates Could Get Cash Boost in Democratic Voting Bill"
04/07/2021
Bloomberg
Expert: Richard Pildes
Yahoo News Logo
"Longtime tax target Amazon now leads charge for reform"
04/07/2021
Yahoo News
Expert: Daniel Shaviro
Aljazeera logo
"Does Biden’s American Jobs Plan go big enough on climate change?"
04/07/2021
Al Jazeera
Expert: Institute for Policy Integrity
NPR
"A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways"
04/07/2021
NPR
Expert: Deborah Archer
MSNBC
"The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, 4/7/21"
04/07/2021
MSNBC
Expert: Melissa Murray
Law 360
"ICE Using 'Gamesmanship' To Deport Activist, 2nd Circ. Told"
04/07/2021
Law360
Expert: Alina Das '05
"SPACs: the financial fashion for these shell companies could spell trouble"
04/07/2021
Prospect Magazine
Expert: Michael Ohlrogge
Forbes Logo
"5 Lessons From The Rise And Fall Of SPACs"
04/07/2021
Forbes
Expert: Michael Ohlrogge
Bloomberg News
"Voting Fight Signals a Rupture Between Big Business and the GOP"
04/07/2021
Bloomberg
Expert: Brennan Center for Justice
Time
"How Google’s Big Supreme Court Victory Could Change Software Forever"
04/06/2021
Time
Expert: Jeanne Fromer
Market Watch
"The SPAC crackdown hasn’t truly begun, but the SEC is obviously considering it"
04/06/2021
MarketWatch
Expert: Michael Ohlrogge
Law 360
"6 Things To Know About High Court's Google-Oracle Ruling"
04/05/2021
Law360
Expert: Jeanne Fromer
Gothamist
"He Spent 24 Years Behind Bars Because Queens Prosecutors Broke The Rules. Was This Their Only Wrongful Conviction?"
04/05/2021
Gothamist
Expert: Rachel Barkow
Bloomberg News
"Employers Use Courts to ‘Raise the Cost’ on DOL Rule Reversal"
04/05/2021
Bloomberg Law
Expert: Richard Revesz
New York Times
"Warhol a Lame Copier? The Judges Who Said So Are Sadly Mistaken."
04/05/2021
New York Times
Expert: Christopher Jon Sprigman
MSNBC
"The Beat with Ari Melber, 4/5/21"
04/05/2021
MSNBC
Expert: Melissa Murray
Forbes Logo
"More Than Half Of Republicans Believe Voter Fraud Claims And Most Still Support Trump, Poll Finds"
04/05/2021
Forbes
Expert: Brennan Center for Justice
Wall Street Journal
"Billionaire Bill Foley Is SPAC Market’s Overlooked Star"
04/04/2021
Wall Street Journal
Expert: Michael Ohlrogge
CNN
"Democratic-led states expand voting rights amid GOP push to restrict access"
04/03/2021
CNN
Expert: Brennan Center for Justice
ABC News logo
"Republicans trod well-worn path to court to sue Biden"
04/02/2021
ABC News
Expert: Sally Katzen
Wall Street Journal
"Market’s SPAC Attack Spreads to ETFs. What Should Investors Do?"
04/02/2021
Wall Street Journal
Expert: Michael Ohlrogge
New York Times
"Biden Seeks to Use Infrastructure Plan to Address Racial Inequities"
04/01/2021
New York Times
Expert: Deborah Archer
"How an Upper West Side Hotel Came to Embody the City’s Failure on Homelessness"
03/31/2021
New Republic
Expert: Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy
New York Times
"Georgia to Weaken Citizen’s Arrest Law Cited in Ahmaud Arbery’s Death"
03/31/2021
New York Times
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
Washington Post
"The bogus claim that Democrats seek to register ‘illegal aliens’ to vote"
03/31/2021
Washington Post
Expert: Brennan Center for Justice
New York Times
"How to Fix SPACs: Keep Their Backers Locked In Longer"
03/31/2021
New York Times
Expert: Michael Ohlrogge
MSNBC
"The Beat with Ari Melber, 3/30/21"
03/30/2021
MSNBC
Expert: Melissa Murray
MSNBC
"The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 3/30/21"
03/30/2021
MSNBC
Expert: Melissa Murray
CNN
"'Immediate and drastic.' The climate crisis is seriously spooking economists"
03/30/2021
CNN
Expert: Institute for Policy Integrity
Bloomberg News
"Supreme Court Path Set for Potential First Black Female Nominee"
03/30/2021
Bloomberg Law
Expert: Rachel Barkow
Bloomberg News
"California Pols Eye Corporate Emissions, Climate Risks"
03/30/2021
Bloomberg
Expert: Institute for Policy Integrity
Reuters
"Climate change will deepen rich-poor global divide, top economists warn"
03/30/2021
Reuters
Expert: Institute for Policy Integrity
CNN
"New Jersey lawmakers approve bills expanding voting rights as GOP-led states move to restrict access"
03/30/2021
CNN
Expert: Brennan Center for Justice
"The 2021 Above & Beyond"
03/30/2021
City & State
Featured: Deborah Archer
Yahoo News Logo
"'I was afraid to walk the streets of our community': ACLU President Deborah Archer shares how discrimination fueled her career"
03/29/2021
Yahoo News
Featured: Deborah Archer
Rolling Stone
"Voter Suppression Is Violence"
03/29/2021
Rolling Stone
Expert: Brennan Center for Justice
Washington Post
"The lack of federal voting rights protections returns us to the pre-Civil War era"
03/29/2021
Washington Post
Expert: Michael Waldman '87, Brennan Center for Justice
MSNBC
"The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, 3/29/21"
03/29/2021
MSNBC
Expert: Melissa Murray
MSNBC
"As the trial for the killing of George Floyd begins, ACLU president warns America still has long road of reckoning ahead"
03/29/2021
MSNBC (video)
Expert: Deborah Archer
New York Times
"Too Many People Are Locked Up for Small Thefts"
03/29/2021
New York Times
Expert: Brennan Center for Justice
NPR
"What The New Voting Legislation Means For Georgia"
03/26/2021
NPR
Expert: Michael Waldman '87, Brennan Center for Justice
Marketplace
"How SPACs help companies go public without an IPO"
03/26/2021
Marketplace
Expert: Michael Ohlrogge
"100 Women of Color Remember Their First Encounter With Racism—And How They Overcame It"
03/25/2021
Oprah Magazine
Expert: Deborah Archer
Business Insider
"The red-hot SPAC market is cooling off as first-day trading spikes evaporate"
03/25/2021
Business Insider
Expert: Michael Ohlrogge
Illustration of arches with microphones on top
"Amazon faces test over legal liability in Texas Supreme Court"
03/25/2021
Financial Times
Expert: Catherine Sharkey
NBC News
"Sidney Powell's legal defense: 'Reasonable people' wouldn't believe her election fraud claims"
03/23/2021
NBC News
Expert: Brennan Center for Justice
The New Yorker
"Garland Is the Last, Best Chance to Uncover Trump’s Role on January 6th"
03/21/2021
New Yorker
Expert: Stephen Gillers '68