Heather Schoenfeld: LOUISIANA SHERIFF’S COMMENTS REFLECT MORE THAN RACISM
October 17, 2017 – from The Appeal
She discuses how a Louisiana sheriff’s comments reflect more than racism
2017 News
October
Laura Beth Nielsen's new book, Rights on Trial, was mentioned in Michele Weldon's recent Huffington Post article
October 8, 2017
Professor, and Director, Laura Beth Nielsen's new book, Rights on Trial, was mentioned in Michele Weldon's recent Huffington Post article "It’s Everywhere: In Employment Discrimination, The Law Usually Wins, Not You".
September
Legal Studies Student Published in CULR
September 22, 2017 – from The Columbia Undergraduate Law Review
A student of Professor Heather Schoenfeld's Mass Incarceration course, Darby Hooper, had her paper, "Reforms with History: The Return of Prison Farms”, published in the Fall 2017 edition of The Columbia Undergraduate Law Review (CULR). Congratulations Darby!
June
Shana Bernstein: It’s time for regulatory agencies to start putting public health ahead of private profit
June 17, 2017 – from The Washington Post
May
John Hagan has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences
May 5, 2017
We're very excited to announce that affiliated faculty member John Hagan has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research"! Read more here and see the press release on the NSA website. (May, 2017)
March
Heather Schoenfeld: Column: On race and criminal sentencing, prosecutors escape blame
March 23, 2017 – from The Tampa Bay Times
January
Legal Studies response to Executive Orders
January 30, 2017
Shana Bernstein:How to use the past to fight for your rights today
January 23, 2017 – from CNN
Heather Schoenfeld: Reforming criminal justice: The real impact of a law & order administration
January 6, 2017 – from The Hill