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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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"What could happen to Trump administration after judge’s threat of contempt"
04/16/2025
ABC News
Expert: Rachel Barkow
MSNBC
"How decades of Supreme Court decisions eroding personal freedoms could play into Trump’s hands"
04/06/2025
MSNBC
Expert: Rachel Barkow
MSNBC
Latest Trump pardon shows just how much the rules have changed (for the worse)
03/13/2025
MSNBC
Quoted: Rachel Barkow
Rachel Barkow: Did Trump and Biden Turn Pardons Into a Corrupt Joke?
03/12/2025
Reason
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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Trump Allies Seek Pardons From an Emboldened White House
03/08/2025
New York Times
Quoted: Rachel Barkow
Cook County’s conviction integrity unit repeatedly denied freedom to incarcerated people who were later cleared
02/27/2025
Injustice Watch
Quoted: Rachel Barkow
CNN
On GPS: America's fragile justice system
02/22/2025
CNN
Featured: Rachel Barkow
New York Law Journal
Amid Adams' Dismissal, Experts Ponder Fallout From 'Slap in the Face' to SDNY's Line Prosecutors
02/11/2025
New York Law Journal
Quoted: Rachel Barkow
NPR
Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people. Some say he could do a lot more
12/12/2024
NPR
Quoted: Rachel Barkow
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at Manhunt Photo Looks Like a Loved One. Do You Have to Tell?
12/09/2024
New York Times
Quoted: Rachel Barkow
The New Yorker
Are Blanket Pardons for Officials on Donald Trump’s Target List a Good Idea?
12/08/2024
The New Yorker
Featured: Rachel Barkow
The Nation
Hunter Biden and the Future of Clemency
12/04/2024
The Nation
Coauthor: Rachel Barkow
NPR
We look at the implications of President Joe Biden's pardon of his son, Hunter
12/02/2024
NPR
Featured: Rachel Barkow
New York Times
"Biden Needs to Work on His Clemency Legacy"
09/18/2024
New York Times
Author: Rachel Barkow
New York Magazine
"SCOTUS’s decision to overturn Chevron amounts to a massive power grab"
06/29/2024
New York Magazine
Author: Rachel Barkow
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"Supreme Court Justice Called Out Justice Alito's 'Power Grab'—Attorney"
05/23/2024
Newsweek
Featured: Rachel Barkow
"Note from Rachel: The Most Immodest Court"
01/31/2024
Cafe.com
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"‘I Want to Be Forgiven. I Just Want to Be Forgiven.’"
10/15/2023
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"In Menendez Case, Prosecutors Confront Tighter Definition of Corruption"
09/28/2023
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Trump Has Options for Fighting Charges, but They Might Face Challenges"
06/12/2023
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Willinger on Gun Laws after Bruen, Barkow on Sayfullo Saipov Death Penalty Case, Martini and Susler on Inside Out, and much more"
02/27/2023
"WGN Radio 720"
Expert: Rachel Barkow
Commentary: Pressure Now on Newsom, Biden to Do Something About Death Row
12/21/2022
The Davis Vanguard
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Cop-killing prosecution raises questions about Kim Foxx’s conviction integrity chief"
12/12/2022
WBEZ
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"In Brief: Biden’s Pot Pardons (with Rachel Barkow)"
10/17/2022
Stay Tuned in Brief
Experts: Rachel Barkow and Preet Bharara
Axios
"Facing racial disparities in criminal justice"
10/06/2022
Axios
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"The story of one US governor’s historic use of clemency: ‘We are a nation of second chances’"
09/28/2022
The Guardian
Expert: Rachel Barkow
Washington Post
"A school shooting shattered a town in 1997. Now the gunman could get parole."
08/28/2022
Washington Post
Expert: Andrew Weissman
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"Progressives Look to Pardon Power as Abortion Access Fix"
07/12/2022
Bloomberg Law
Expert: Rachel Barkow
CNN
"Some big-city district attorneys vow not to prosecute abortion cases, setting up legal clashes in red states"
06/30/2022
CNN
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Supreme Court abortion decision faces churn of draft opinions, dissents"
06/03/2022
ABC News
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Is 'stare decisis' dead? How the Supreme Court view of precedent is evolving"
06/02/2022
ABC News
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"What does the Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion mean for other rights?"
05/06/2022
ABC News
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Supreme Court Marshal leads investigation to find leaker"
05/04/2022
Dan Abrams Live
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Sentencing-Commission Years Prepped Jackson for High-Court Job"
03/17/2022
Bloomberg Law
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Once Home to Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sentencing Commission Now Sits Quiet as Issues Go Unresolved"
03/16/2022
Wall Street Journal
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"1st Black woman nominated to serve on Supreme Court"
02/25/2022
ABC News
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson poised to make Supreme Court history"
02/25/2022
ABC Nightline
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as first Black woman on Supreme Court"
02/25/2022
ABC News
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Jackson’s Breadth Would Set Her Apart on Supreme Court"
02/25/2022
Bloomberg Law
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Bragg’s Policy Shift Causes Furor, Though Few Cases Would Be Affected"
01/20/2022
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Democrats offer plan to free more prisoners by overhauling presidential clemency process
12/10/2021
Washington Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"As Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial Begins, Epstein’s Shadow Looms Large"
11/29/2021
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
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"Biden’s DOJ uses a Trump tactic: Federal prosecutors label Black Lives Matter protesters terrorists"
10/19/2021
Daily News
Author: Rachel Barkow
Bloomberg News
"Public Defender Bench Aspirations Emboldened by Biden Nominees"
08/16/2021
Bloomberg
Expert: Rachel Barkow
Mother Jones
"Biden Said He’d Cut Incarceration in Half. So Far, the Federal Prison Population Is Growing."
07/21/2021
Mother Jones
Expert: Rachel Barkow
New York Times
"We Know How to Fix the Clemency Process. So Why Don’t We?"
07/13/2021
New York Times
co-author: Rachel Barkow
New York Magazine
"When Will Joe Biden Start Using His Clemency Powers?"
07/05/2021
New York Magazine
Expert: Rachel Barkow
ABC News logo
"Charged in Jan. 6 riot? Yes, but prison may be another story"
05/01/2021
ABC News
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Poll: Use Clemency Power to Fight Mass Incarceration"
04/28/2021
The Appeal
Expert: Rachel Barkow
Wall Street Journal
"Chauvin Faces Tough Odds for Lenient Sentencing, Legal Experts Say"
04/20/2021
Wall Street Journal
Expert: Rachel Barkow