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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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"Life After Death Row"
01/10/2016
60 Minutes (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson wants to end racial injustice"
01/08/2016
Al Jazeera America
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"A message of inequality in the criminal justice system still resonates"
12/29/2015
Boston Globe
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Hopelessness is the Enemy of Justice"
12/28/2015
The Progressive
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Historical marker honors advocate who was lynched over a century ago"
12/15/2015
WIAT (Video)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"The Books We Loved in 2015"
12/15/2015
New Yorker
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Historical lynching marker dedicated in Brighton"
12/13/2015
WVTM13
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Historical marker to be placed to remember lynching victim"
12/12/2015
Associated Press
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Faith can help restore racial justice, says lawyer who frees Death Row inmates, marks lynching sites"
12/04/2015
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Mom of Slain Alabama Infant Disputes Allegations"
11/11/2015
ABC News
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"What A Death Row Attorney Has Learned From His Condemned Clients"
10/29/2015
Oprah Winfrey Network
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Ending Mass Incarceration: Bryan Stevenson"
10/20/2015
Laura Flanders Show
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"'America's Mandela' tells N.J. students how to change world in 4 steps"
10/15/2015
NJ.com
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Wrongfully imprisoned Alton Dandridge joins EJI in call for conviction integrity"
10/05/2015
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists Announced"
09/09/2015
WYSO
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Seeking Justice on Death Row"
08/27/2015
WNYC (Audio)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"'One Book, One Community' author speaks on unequal justice in U.S."
08/26/2015
WKAR (Audio)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Police brutality in the US should come as no surprise"
08/26/2015
The Guardian (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"One Lawyer's Fight For Young Blacks And 'Just Mercy'"
08/21/2015
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"A Nation That Lynched Isn't Just a Lynching Nation"
08/20/2015
Charlie Rose (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"New civil rights memorial and other City Council news"
08/04/2015
Montgomery Advertiser
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson"
07/27/2015
Huffington Post
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Broad Green Pictures Lands ‘Just Mercy’ With Michael B. Jordan"
07/24/2015
Variety
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Is This the Greatest Book Award Acceptance Speech Ever?"
07/23/2015
Publishers Weekly
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"A Little Heavy Reading"
07/22/2015
Inside Higher Ed
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson: US failing to confront history of racial inequality"
07/21/2015
HARDtalk (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"‘Watchman’ a truer novel than ‘Mockingbird’"
07/18/2015
News & Observer
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Report Highlights Lack Of Racial Diversity Among U.S. Prosecutors"
07/07/2015
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Watch the U.S. Transition From Slavery to Mass Incarceration"
07/07/2015
Jezebel (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Vast majority of elected prosecutors in US are white, report finds"
07/07/2015
Christian Science Monitor
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Civil rights lawyer seeks to commemorate another side of Southern heritage: Lynchings"
07/05/2015
Los Angeles Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"'You’ve Got to Be Brave, Brave, Brave': Carnegie Medalist Bryan Stevenson Talks about Just Mercy"
07/02/2015
Booklist Reader
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"What's Changed, and What Hasn't, in the Town That Inspired 'To Kill a Mockingbird'"
07/01/2015
Smithsonian Magazine
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Supreme Court Concludes Term With Death Penalty Ruling, Looks Ahead"
06/30/2015
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Lethal injection: US Supreme Court says Alabama, other states, can use drug"
06/29/2015
AL.com
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Lethal Injection Ruling Draws Out Justices' Passionate Opinions"
06/29/2015
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"The Booklist Carnegie Medal Interview: Bryan Stevenson"
06/27/2015
Booklist
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Straddling Old and New, a South Where ‘a Flag Is Not Worth a Job’"
06/27/2015
New York Times
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson on Charleston and Our Real Problem with Race"
06/24/2015
Marshall Project
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"From Ferguson to Charleston and Beyond, Anguish About Race Keeps Building"
06/20/2015
New York Times
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Carrying a mantle for justice and purpose"
06/10/2015
Alabama News Center (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Ala. man freed from death row relishes freedom"
05/23/2015
Associated Press
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"How Anthony Ray Hinton survived 30 years on death row"
05/10/2015
AL.com
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Life After Exoneration"
05/07/2015
Slate
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"This Public Interest Lawyer Could Change America"
05/06/2015
InsideTrack
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Why Desmond Tutu Thinks Bryan Stevenson Is 'Shaping the Moral Universe'"
05/05/2015
Vanity Fair
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Falsely convicted death-row survivor opens up: 'They had every intention of executing an innocent man'"
05/04/2015
Salon
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Obama to Unveil Nonprofit for Young Minorities After Baltimore Unrest"
05/04/2015
New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"SXSW 2015 Interactive Featured Session: Confronting Injustice"
04/30/2015
SXSW Live (Video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Replay: Civil rights attorneys Bryan Stevenson and Ted Shaw discuss justice, hope in Charlotte"
04/30/2015
Charlotte Observer
Expert: Bryan Stevenson