Professor JaneAnne Murray, the Director of the Law School's Clemency Project, and also Director of the Trial Penalty Clemency Project of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), was quoted in a press release issued by NACDL to accompany its delivery of five more trial penalty clemency cases to the Office of the Pardon Attorney and the White House, adding to the previous ten submitted between October and November, which are still awaiting action by the White House.The sentences of these five individuals, as compared to the sentences of their co-defendants or to the

Professor JaneAnne Murray, Director of the School's Clemency Project, was quoted in an article by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) on COVID-19's threat to prisoners, who are unable to engage in realistic social distancing.  Citing the fact that she had and her students have filed several motions for compassionate release for federal prisons, Murray pointed out that these motions require the judges to reexamine the sentences they issued decades ago with a new perspective.  They’re looking at “what th

In a Bloomberg Law video, environmental & energy law professor Alexandra Klass discusses the legal and regulatory hurdles involved in building oil & gas pipelines in the United States.

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin's was interviewed in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. Speaking on her work as a UN Special Rapporteur addressing human rights concerning counter terrorism, Professor Ní Aoláin provides advice to emerging lawyers interested in international human rights and shares on her upcoming books, "The Paradox of Democratic Transition" and "Managing Terrorism through the Courts."