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August 28: Reuters | Focus: Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality (Bryant Walker Smith)
August 22: NBC News | In states with few legal protections, students say they’ve been unfairly punished at school (Derek Black)
August 19: Myrtle Beach Sun News | Surfside Beach accused officer of falsifying report. But he can get another police job (Seth Stoughton)
August 18: The Daily Mail (UK) | My car has just done a U-turn across a 4-lane road… but there's no one driving! JAN MOIR takes a spin in the driverless taxis set to become a feature on Britain's streets (Bryant Walker Smith)
August 16: Mother Jones | Affirmative Action May Be Dead—But the Battle Over Race and Admissions Is Just Getting Started (Derek Black)
August 15: Post & Courier | Study: SC Prisons Have the U.S.’s Third-Highest Population of Convicted Children (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
August 14: AP | While a criminal case against a Tesla driver ends, legal and ethical questions on Autopilot endure (Bryant Walker Smith)

July 28: Wired | The Legal Saga of Uber’s Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Is Over (Bryant Walker Smith)
July 27: Democracy Now! | Brutal Ohio Police Dog Attack on Black Truck Driver Highlights Pattern, Echoes Violence of Slavery (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
July 24: The National Desk | Mystery Accidents: Teslas in 'Autopilot' crashing into emergency vehicles (Bryant Walker Smith)
July 24: UnDark | Police Say Dogs Help Solve Crimes. Little Evidence Supports That. (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
July 21: Detroit News | New Federal Office Signals Shift in Approach to Self-Driving Cars (Bryant Walker Smith)
July 19: AP | Officials See Promise in a South Carolina Prison Unit Where ‘Restorative Justice’ Has Boosted Safety (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
July 15: Fresh Society | Op-Ed: It’s not just the Costco shooting. Disabled people are often killed by police (Seth Stoughton)
July 14: Education Week | Trump Says Parents Should Elect Principals. What Would That Look Like? (Derek Black)
July 9: NewsBeezer | Biden’s student debt backup plan likely faces a “big” test (Derek Black)
July 6: The Nation | Wisconsin’s Governor Is Teaching a Master Class on How to Outmaneuver the GOP (Derek Black)
July 5: USA Today | Student debt: Why Biden's backup plan may wind up in trouble again at the Supreme Court (Derek Black)
July 5: The Break | Biden's Plan B on student loan forgiveness relies on Higher Education Act: What to know (Derek Black)
July 5: The Journal Gazette | High court rulings land with malice toward all (Kevin Brown)
July 1: Denver Gazette | Schools' lawsuits against social media giants may mark a tipping point (Derek Black)

June 26: The74 | Supreme Court Skirts Question of Whether Charter Schools are Public (Derek Black)
June 21: Arirang TV | Should we completely ban the death penalty in S. Korea? (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
June 20: The News & Observer | Violence-linked deaths rise in NC jails. Inspectors find the same lapse every time. (MadalynWasilczuk)
June 19: Cardinal News | One state Senate candidate wants to abolish the mandate for a public school system. Here’s why he can’t. (Derek Black)
June 16: SC Lawyer | A Delicate Balance: Planning, Zoning, and Politics (Patrick Hubbard)
June 15: WACH-TV | Columbia Housing tenants cite poor conditions at apartment complexes, demand changes (Macauley Morrison)
June 15: ProPublica | Native American Families Are Being Broken Up in Spite of a Law Meant to Keep Children With Their Parents (Marcia Yablon-Zug)
June 7: NY Times Review of Books | A Can of Gasoline Under Indian Law (Marcia Yablon-Zug)

May 25: South Carolina Lawyer | What Can ChatGPT Do, and Should We Let It? (Eve Ross & Amy Milligan)
May 19: Wall Street Journal | Arkansas Seeks End to School Desegregation Settlements (Derek Black)
May 3: Greenville News | Analysis: Greenville police almost never validate citizen complaints for use of force (Seth Stoughton)
May 2: The 74 | The Conservative Scholar Who Convinced GOP Lawmakers Civics Conceals CRT (Derek Black)

April 25: CT Mirror | Hartford’s budget delusion: More police spending will reduce crime (Seth Stoughton)
April 25: LAist.com | San Bernardino Police Involved In Fatal Shooting Of Fleeing Man Both Have Histories Of Alleged Excessive Force (Seth Stoughton)
April 24: Yahoo News | 'A smack on the wrist': Kim Potter released after 16 months in prison for killing Daunte Wright (Seth Stoughton)
April 21: Reuters | US jury set to decide test case in Tesla Autopilot crash (Bryant Walker Smith)
April 20: Reuters | Musk counts on full self-driving as next Tesla profit driver (Bryant Walker Smith)
April 19: K-12 Dive | Lawmakers, witnesses debate merits of private school choice (Derek Black)
April 18: Education Week | GOP Lawmakers Tout Choice as a Way Out of Failing Schools (Derek Black)
April 13: News Nation | Tough EPA tailpipe emissions proposal generates debate (Bryant Walker Smith)
April 6: NBC12 | Central State Hospital policy states prone restraints are prohibited (Seth Stoughton)
April 4: LA Times | Family of 18-year-old mom who was killed by school officer will get $13 million (Seth Stoughton)
April 2: Post & Courier | SC Asks Spartanburg to Build a Bigger Jail. But will it fix overcrowding? (Madalyn Wasilczuk)

March 30: NBC12 | Police use-of-force expert on Irvo Otieno video: ‘We know better’ (Seth Stoughton)
March 30: The Chronicle of Higher Education | Colleges Could Be Flooded With Citizen Lawsuits Under Proposed DEI Legislation (Derek Black)
March 29: CNN | Atlanta’s so-called ‘Cop City’ is igniting protests. Here’s what we know about the foundation behind it (Seth Stoughton)
March 23: Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers | Updated Title IX Rules to Bring Clarity to Sex Discrimination Claims (Emily Suski)
March 23: South Carolina Lawyer | Bar Bytes: Include Alt Text for Accessibility (Eve Ross)
March 21: LA Times | Los Angeles police accidentally release photos of undercover officers to watchdog website (Seth Stoughton)
March 21: The Conversation | What does ‘moral hazard’ mean? A scholar of financial regulation explains why it’s risky for the government to rescue banks (Cassandra Jones Havard)
March 20: Post & Courier | Death of 28-Year-Old Man in Charleston County Jail Custody Ruled Homicide (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
March 18: Post & Courier | An Overcrowded Upstate Jail Is Among SC’s Deadliest. One Man’s Family Wants Answers (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
March 17: The Washinton Post | Few legal challenges to laws limiting lessons on race, gender (Derek Black)
March 16: GoUpstate | Calls made for DOJ investigation at Spartanburg jail weeks after report on inmate deaths (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
March 8: The Conversation | What are the limits of presidential power to forgive student loans? A constitutional law expert answers 5 questions (Derek Black)
March 5: ABC News | Recent high-profile deaths put police body cameras under new scrutiny (Seth Stoughton)
March 4: HotCars.com | Tesla Officially Admits Its Self Driving Cars Cause Crashes With A Massive Recall (Bryant Walker Smith)
March 1: Greenville News | Report details deaths in SC prisons, jails, more died in Spartanburg jail than others (Madalyn Wasilczuk)

February 27: Axios | Philadelphia Police body camera footage remains largely unreviewed (Seth Stoughton)
February 25: Prevention | Black Women Say Products for Black Hair Are Dangerously Toxic—Why Are We Still Not Listening? (Marie Boyd)
February 20: efahrer.com | Why are Teslas still allowed to drive when autopilot is so dangerous? (Bryant Walker Smith)
February 17: LA Times | If 'self-driving' Teslas are defective, why are regulators letting them stay on the road? (Bryant Walker Smith)
February 8: LAist | 3 Experts Question Whether Fatal Huntington Park Shooting Was Justified. One Defends It (Seth Stoughton)
February 7: The 74 | Conservatives' Civil Rights Complaints Target Meet-Ups for Students of Color (Derek Black)
February 3: Bloomberg Tax | Amazon, Agency React to Professors' South Carolina Sales Tax Brief (Tessa Davis & Clint Wallace)
February 2: Business Insider | Mercedes-Benz's new self-driving tech is turning up the heat on Tesla at the worst possible time (Bryant Walker Smith)
February 1: The Conversation | Tyre Nichols' death underscores the troubled history of specialized police units (Seth Stoughton)

January 24: Greenville News | South Carolina revisits shield law as Supreme Court debates firing squad, electrocution >>(Madalyn Wasilczuk)
January 23: Road & Truck | Carmakers Have Another Screen in Their Sights: Your Windshield (Bryant Walker Smith)
January 4: IndustryWeek | At CES Tech Mega-Show, Diverless Cars Show Promise, Limitations (Bryant Walker Smith)

December 28: The Verge | We asked 17 smart people to predict the future of transportation in 2023 (Bryant Walker Smith)
December 12: Politico | Oklahoma takes 'momentous' step to allow taxpayer-funded religious schools (Derek Black)
December 8: LA Times | Tesla says its self-driving technology may be a 'failure' - but not fraud (Bryant Walker Smith)

November 24: The University of Technology Sydney in Ultimo, Australia, invited Tessa Davis to participate in its Law, Love, and Money workshop, where she delivered a talk titled "The Gift of Debt."
November 17: Healio | Are Riders of or Companies Who Supply E-Scooters Liable in the Event of a Crash? (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 16: Tessa Davis presented her book project, "Imagining the Body in Tax," at the University of Georgia School of Law's Faculty Colloquium series.
November 14: The 74 | NC's Top Court Compels State to Turn Over $800 Million in School Funding Case (Derek Black)
November 14: Gizmodo | Tesla Autopilot Feature Faces Scrutiny Ahead of Manslaughter Trial (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 8: The New Republic | The Case for Tribal Statehood (Thomas P. Crocker & Marcia Zug)
November 1: Bloomberg | Tesla Gives Demo to Agency Probing Self-Driving Claims (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 1: Reuters | Tesla crash trial in California hinges on question of 'man vs machine' (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 1: Taking the Pulse (podcast) | Emily Suski, Clinic Director, Champs, and Kirby Mitchell, Founder, Medical Leadership Partnership (Emily Suski)

October 26: TaxProf Blog | Hubbard: Building the Next Generation of Rule of Law Leaders (William C. Hubbard)
October 20: Reuters | Tesla flags its cars not ready to be approved as fully self-driving this year (Bryant Walker Smith)
October 13: Lisa Eichhorn delivered a virtual lecture to Ukrainian law students in the Faculty of Economics and Law department at Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University titled "U.S. Courts and Civil Procedure: A Comparative Perspective."
October 6: Yahoo! News | How 2 SCOTUS cases could change American universities (Derek Black)
October 4: Inverse | Why Elon Musk's Robot Dreams May Be a Step Too Far for Tesla (Bryant Walker Smith)

September 26: Bryant Walker Smith was a featured panelist for the panel "What's the future of mobility? " at the "Driving the Next in motor risk" conference at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue and online in Switzerland.
September 20: The Chronicle of Higher Education | What Colleges Can Learn From the Affirmative-Action Lawsuit Against Texas A&M (Joseph Seiner)
September 16: New York Times | As Driverless Cars Falter, Are ‘Driver Assistance’ Systems in Closer Reach? (Bryant Walker Smith)
September 13: Bloomberg | Tesla’s Autopilot Heads to Trial (Bryant Walker Smith)
September 1: CNN | Cruise recalls its robotaxis after passenger injured in crash (Bryant Walker Smith)

August 31: LA Times | Bill targeting Tesla’s ‘self-driving’ claims passes California Legislature (Bryant Walker Smith)
August 15: CNN | Tesla’s ‘full self-driving’ feature may have finally met its match (Bryant Walker Smith)
August 12: Jalopnik | Cruise Server Crash Causes Self-Driving Car Blockades on San Francisco Streets (Bryant Walker Smith)
August 5: IEEE Spectrum | Who Actually Owns Tesla’s Data? The company, says the company—but other interpretations persist (Bryant Walker Smith)
August 5: Post and Courier | A veteran says he has a service dog. McClellanville says he has a vicious one (Scott Bauries)

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