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Faculty in the Media
Our faculty are frequently featured in national and international media for their insightful commentary.
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NPR
Supreme Court suspends Trump administration’s deportations to foreign prisons
Senior Lecturer Michele Deitch describes the mega prison in El Salvador where hundreds of migrants have been deported as a “Kafkaesque situation” where families are left unaware of their loved ones’ whereabouts. -
Deseret News
It’s not just the religious conservative schools wondering now if they need to forgo federal funding
Clinical Professor Steven Collis observed that the Trump administration’s use of federal funding to influence university policies has occurred before in education, and said that it is unclear if such strings on aid are legally and constitutionally allowed. -
Bloomberg Law
Trump Allows Migratory Bird Killings, Cancels Further Protection
Senior Lecturer Melinda Taylor predicts the courts will find the Trump administration’s decision to allow unintentional bird killings under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act illegal, as was ruled previously. -
The Wall Street Journal
The Little-Known Bureaucrats Tearing Through American Universities
Adjunct Professor Scott D. Schneider describes the Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism’s new approach to pressure universities by cutting federal funding as being unprecedented and outside standard legal processes. -
HuffPost
Judges, Attorneys Face Trump’s Salvadoran Black Hole
Clinical Professor Denise Gilman believes that the Trump administration sending detainees to El Salvador qualifies as an “enforced disappearance” under international law and conflicts with both U.S. statute and legal norms. -
The Christian Science Monitor
To speed deportations, Trump revives rarely used laws
Clinical Professor Denise Gilman predicts the courts likely will engage with the expansive use of foreign policy and wartime powers following President Trump’s invoking of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 during a time of peace.