Faculty in the News

Screenshot of CNN, with the mugshot of the Boston Marathon Bomber.

CNN

Supreme Court agrees to review Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty case

Professor Steve Vladeck is quoted in an article about the future punishment of the 2013 Boston Marathon bomber.

Border Patrol agents take a group of migrant families to a safer place to be transported after intercepting them near McAllen, Texas

USA Today

Migrant children pushed through immigration court alone as activists scramble to provide legal help

Professor Elissa Steglich is quoted in an article about the crucial need for migrant children to be provided with legal help.

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Elizabeth Warren speaks into a microphone

Business Insider

Critics say Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax plan breaks the law. They’re wrong, according to multiple law professors

Professor Calvin Johnson is quoted in an article about the legality of Elizabeth Warren's Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act.

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Image of a women's clinic, with a patient sitting on a chair in front of a doctor.

Texas Tribune

Texas lawmakers push bill to make it easier to sue abortion providers and harder for new anti-abortion laws to be blocked by courts

Professors Lee Kovarsky and Elizabeth Sepper are quoted in an article regarding the new Texas anti-abortion bill that will make it more difficult for courts to block the law.

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AP News

College educators form alliance to defend free expression

Professor Stanford Levinson is mentioned in an article about joining an alliance formed by college educators to defend freedom of expression.

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Trump flags and American flags flying as rioters stormed the capitol on January 6th.

CNN

House impeachment manager Eric Swalwell sues Trump and close allies over Capitol riot in second major insurrection lawsuit

Professor Steve Vladeck is quoted in an article about President Trump being sued over the capitol riots, in the second major insurrection lawsuit.

More of: Stephen I Vladeck

Wide Shot of the Halawa Correctional Facility in 2019

Honolulu Civil Beat

Death Behind Bars: In Hawaii, the death of a prisoner is often a closely held Secret

Professor Michele Deitch was interviewed in an article about Hawaii's correctional facilities refusing to report to the public the names and identities who die in the state’s network of prisons and jails.

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Texas Observer

Who’s going to take responsibility for air pollution in Texas?

Professor Kelly Haragan is quoted in an article about air pollution and who is responsible for its damages in Texas.

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The National Rifle Association of America headquarters building is seen in Fairfax, Va.

ABC News

NRA is ‘out of ammo’ as it faces a legal mess of its own making, many experts say

Professor Jay Westbrook is quoted in an article about the NRA's decision to file for bankruptcy protection and their plans to reincorporate in Texas.

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Gov. Greg Abbott, sitting in the center of a large table, talks to reporters during a press conference inside the Houston Police Officer's Union Headquarters, where he signed a "back the blue" pledge. Surrounding him are individuals wearing masks.

Houston Chronicle

For Abbott, condemning police defunding was the easy part

Professor Randall Erben is quoted in an article about Governor Greg Abbott's efforts to prevent the defunding of police forces in Texas.

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Harris County Judge Rabeea Sultan Collier wears a face shield and sits behind a plexiglass wall as the jurors sit in the gallery during a jury trial in the 113th court

Houston Chronicle

No ‘meaningful relief’: Harris County trials plunge from 1,600 a year to 52 since COVID

Professor Jennifer Laurin shared her expert opinion in a Houston Chronicle article about the drastically diminished number of speedy trials in Harris County due to COVID-19 public health restrictions.

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Graphic in black and white showing shattered pieces, with the top displaying the word "fractured," and the bottom displaying a house.

ABA Journal

How Jim Crow-era laws still tear families from their homes

Professor Heather Way is quoted in an ABA journal article on Heirs’ property law—a vestige of the Jim Crow South— that investigates a little-known legal loophole that has stripped generations of Americans of their land.

More of: Heather K Way

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