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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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"World's Greatest Leaders"
03/28/2017
Fortune
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Diversity is Awesome"
03/28/2017
Fortune
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"60 Minutes Presents: Behind Bars"
02/26/2017
60 Minutes
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Lynching memorial aims to help U.S. acknowledge a history of terror"
12/19/2016
PBS NewsHour
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Civil rights leader Bryan Stevenson to receive Columbia’s Key to the City"
11/16/2016
The State
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Overcoming Trump Anxiety: Lessons from a Civil Rights Leader"
11/15/2016
Fortune
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Steve Bannon a 'threat to global security,' says civil rights attorney"
11/14/2016
CNN
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson Launches Video on Lynching and the Legacy of Racial Terror"
10/27/2016
The Birmingham Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson's Fervent Battle Against Bias in the Criminal Justice System
10/20/2016
Birmingham Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"DOJ to Investigate Conditions at Alabama Prisons"
10/07/2016
Associated Press
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Death row attorney Bryan Stevenson on 4 ways to fight against injustice"
09/27/2016
Huffington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Inside the Upcoming Memorial and Museum Dedicated to Lynching Victims"
08/24/2016
Smithsonian
Featured: Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative
"Why America Needs a National Lynching Memorial"
08/23/2016
Mother Jones
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"The slow decline of the death penalty"
08/16/2016
Washington Post
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Memorial in Alabama Will Honor Victims of Lynching"
08/15/2016
New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"What College Freshmen Are Reading"
07/30/2016
NPR
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Punished for Being Poor"
07/16/2016
Slate
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Inside Obama’s radical experiment in national reconciliation"
07/14/2016
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Equal Justice Initiative founder on race, police and how to move forward"
07/11/2016
CBS News (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"When One Mother Defied America: The Photo That Changed the Civil Rights Movement"
07/10/2016
Time
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bain Capital executive gives $1m to anti-incarceration nonprofit"
07/05/2016
Boston Globe
Featured: Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative
"Court Demands New Look at Race of Jurors in 3 Convictions"
06/20/2016
Associated Press
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"For third time in 5 weeks, Supreme Court tells Alabama to reconsider death row case"
06/07/2016
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Alabama death row inmate's attorneys restate claim of mental incompetence on appeal"
06/02/2016
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"U.S. Supreme Court grants review in another Alabama death row inmate's case"
06/01/2016
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"UD grads challenged to 'change the world'"
05/28/2016
Newark Post
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Top civil rights lawyer says U.S. criminal justice reforms are falling short"
05/13/2016
PBS Newshour (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Supreme Court Splits on Execution Appeal, Keeping Alabama Man Alive"
05/13/2016
Wall Street Journal (Subscription required)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"What's next for Alabama death row inmate Vernon Madison after execution was stayed?"
05/13/2016
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Supreme Court deadlocks in Alabama death penalty case"
05/12/2016
CNN
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Alabama death row inmate Vernon Madison seeks stay of execution"
05/10/2016
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Author, Attorney Bryan Stevenson On Racial Injustice And How To Address It"
05/09/2016
WYPR (Audio)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Advice for the Next President"
05/09/2016
Slate
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"U.S. Supreme Court vacates judgment in case of man who killed Pelham police officer"
05/02/2016
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Do The Words 'Race Riot' Belong On A Historic Marker In Memphis?"
05/02/2016
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson Is Working To Transform How Society's Most Vulnerable Access Legal Aid"
05/02/2016
Town & Country
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Lousiana prisoner freed after serving 41 years unconstitutional sentence"
04/30/2016
Jurist
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Ta-Nehisi Coates: America's essential author"
04/21/2016
Time
Author: Bryan Stevenson
"World's Greatest Leaders"
03/25/2016
Fortune
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Alabama Prison Uprisings Come as State Grapples With How to Fix System"
03/15/2016
New York Times
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Who is Carter Davenport, warden stabbed in Alabama prison riot?"
03/12/2016
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Google gives $1M to Bryan Stevenson's racial justice effort"
02/26/2016
USA Today
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"How 'To Kill a Mockingbird' shaped race relations in America"
02/22/2016
The Economist
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Civil rights veterans enjoy songs of hope at Kennedy Center"
02/22/2016
Washington Post
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Emmett Till and Tamir Rice, Sons of the Great Migration"
02/12/2016
New York Times
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Cory Booker: By the Book"
02/04/2016
New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bentley seeks prison bond issue, prekindergarten boost"
02/02/2016
Associated Press
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Death penalty repeal defeated in Delaware"
01/29/2016
Newsworks
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Stevenson: Juvenile sentencing decision about fairness"
01/25/2016
Montgomery Advertiser
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"How A Visit To Death Row Turned This Man Into A Crusader For Justice"
01/11/2016
Huffington Post
Featured: Bryan Stevenson