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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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"Crime Is Down, Yet U.S. Incarceration Rates Are Still Among the Highest in the World"
04/25/2019
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Who Belongs in Prison?"
04/08/2019
New Yorker
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Prosecutors need to treat police shootings like a threat to public safety"
03/13/2019
Washington Post
Author: Rachel Barkow
"The Democratic Candidates Should Tell Us Now Who They’ll Put on the Supreme Court"
03/10/2019
New York Times
Experts: Rachel Barkow and Bryan Stevenson
"Was Paul Manafort’s Sentence Too Light?"
03/08/2019
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"The Clemency Process Is Broken. Trump Can Fix It."
01/15/2019
The Atlantic
Co-author: Rachel Barkow
"The criminal justice reform Trump can achieve without Congress"
12/04/2018
Washington Examiner
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Thousands of Prisoners Left Out of Obama's Effort to Soften Unfair Drug Laws"
09/17/2018
WNYC Studios (audio)
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Pardons Have Changed A Lot (And We’re Not Just Talking About Arpaio)"
10/05/2017
FiveThirtyEight
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"White House That Often Talks Tough On Crime Hosts Advocates For Former Inmates"
09/15/2017
NPR
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail"
07/24/2017
The New Yorker
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Meet the Law Prof Who Helped Get Clemency for 96"
01/20/2017
National Law Journal
Featured: Rachel Barkow
"Advocates Look To Obama For 'Unprecedented' Action On Federal Prison Sentences"
11/12/2016
Buzzfeed News
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"'This is our chance': will criminal justice reform cease after Obama leaves office?"
09/05/2016
The Guardian
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Obama promises more pardons, but can he do it?"
08/07/2016
USA Today
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"The Supreme Court’s ‘Wise Latina’ Notches Her First Key Victory"
06/28/2016
ThinkProgress
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Obama commutes prison terms of 42 non-violent drug offenders'
06/03/2016
Reuters
Expert: Rachel Barkow, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
"Obama commutes sentences of 58 non-violent drug convicts"
05/06/2016
Thomson Reuters
Expert: Rachel Barkow, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
"Obama grants clemency to 58 more drug offenders"
05/06/2016
Post Gazette
Expert: Rachel Barkow, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
"Inmate families hope for the mercy of a president"
04/04/2016
BBC
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Obama's prisoner clemency plan faltering as cases pile up"
03/14/2016
Reuters
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"On Commutations, DOJ Blames Volunteer Lawyers for Failing to Do Its Job"
03/14/2016
Reason
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Scalia’s pick: Justice Rachel Barkow"
02/29/2016
The Hill
Featured: Rachel Barkow
"Amicus: The Contradictions of Antonin Scalia"
02/20/2016
Slate (Audio)
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"A Scalia Clerk Remembers Her Former Boss"
02/13/2016
Observer
Author: Rachel Barkow
"Attorney overseeing clemency initiative leaving in frustration"
01/19/2016
Washington Post
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"President Obama's parsimony on pardons"
12/30/2015
Star Tribune
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"President Obama commutes sentences of 95 federal drug offenders"
12/18/2015
Washington Post
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Bureaucracy Hampers Clemency Appeals For Eligible Federal Prisoners"
12/17/2015
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"On Matter of Mercy, Obama Can’t Blame GOP for Gridlock"
12/08/2015
National Journal
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"What You Need to Know About the New Federal Prisoner Release"
10/06/2015
Marshall Project
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Let's hear from the presidential candidates on clemency reform"
08/02/2015
Cleveland.com
Author: Rachel Barkow, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
"After Hope For Early Release, Prisoners' Applications Stuck In Limbo"
07/28/2015
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"NYU Law Unveils Clemency Pro Bono Law Office"
07/15/2015
National Law Journal
Expert: Rachel Barkow, Deborah Gramiccioni, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
"Judge Regrets Harsh Human Toll Of Mandatory Minimum Sentences"
12/16/2014
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Garner, Brown Decisions Spark Calls for Grand Jury Reform"
12/12/2014
US News & World Report
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"It's A Complicated Relationship Between Prosecutors, Police"
12/04/2014
NPR (Audio)
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"Raised Hands, and the Doubts of a Grand Jury"
11/29/2014
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"The president’s idle executive power: pardoning"
11/26/2014
Washington Post
Author: Rachel Barkow
"It’s Time to Overhaul Clemency"
08/18/2014
New York Times
Expert: Rachel Barkow
"NYU Law Professor Tapped for Sentencing Commission"
04/17/2013
New York Law Journal
"Big banks wield big clout as new financial rules are written"
03/09/2013
Bloomberg News
"Brief of the Week: NYU center advocates against judges ruling on factors to increase minimum sentences"
01/08/2013
National Law Journal
"The Quality of Mercy, Strained"
01/06/2013
New York Times
"NYPD Captain Tweets Warnings About Felons Released from Prison"
12/20/2012
DNAinfo
"Rajat Gupta may get prison term of 6 years or less"
10/14/2012
Business Standard
"Corporate Probation: Punishing or Punting?"
08/31/2012
Wall Street Journal (Subscription Required)
"Clarify What's Cruel and Unusual"
07/08/2012
New York Times
"The justices seem to understand that juveniles aren't like the rest of us"
06/25/2012
Slate
"Save the Jury"
05/30/2012
Slate