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March 8: Houston Chronicle via 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)

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)

July 31: Tulsa World | Stricken warning was 'unnecessary' in pursuit policy, Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. Then 4 people were killed in chases (Seth Stoughton)
July 31: Greenville News | SC death penalty cases are in court for years. More than half end up reversed (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
July 31: Greenville News | The death penalty has a racist past. In SC, evidence shows that hasn't changed (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
July 29: Lawfare | How Young Is Too Young to Be a Police Officer? (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
July 23: Tulsa World | Trooper in fatal OHP pursuit for stolen tag had rifle cocked before spinning out SUV at over 100 mph (Seth Stoughton)
July 21: Daily Kos | Supreme Court ruling could mean less equitable school systems (Derek Black)
July 20: Politico | Impact of Supreme Court's climate ruling spreads (Nathan Richardson)
July 16: Star Tribune | Stopping the next Derek Chauvin: Minneapolis to invest in software to flag problem cops (Seth Stoughton)
July 13: Post and Courier | Planned Parenthood, Greenville Women’s Clinic file lawsuit to stall SC’s ‘heartbeat’ law (Scott Bauries)
July 12: The New Yorker | Prenups Aren’t Just for Rich People Anymore (Marcia Zug)
July 8: Wired | Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco (Bryant Walker Smith)
July 1: Scientific American | Supreme Court decision hinders EPA but leaves avenues open for climate regulation (Nathan Richardson)
July: South Carolina Lawyer | Research Tips and Resources from a UofSCLaw Librarian (Rebecca Plevel)

June 29: Washington Post | Vital education issues the Supreme Court could revisit (Derek Black)
June 24: New York Times | Truck Beach was for locals. Then the oceanfront homes arrived. (Josh Eagle)
June 24: Slate | Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch are destroying their mentor's legacy (Thomas P. Crocker)
June 21: Yahoo! News | Supreme Court throws out Maine's ban on religious schools receiving public funds (Derek Black)
June 20: Engineering.com | Should we expect self-driving cars to be as safe as airplanes? (Bryant Walker Smith)
June 16: CBS News 19 | Institute looked into police misconduct and civil rights (Seth Stoughton)
June 15: Wall Street Journal | Tesla tops list of crashes thought to involve driver-assistance technology (Bryant Walker Smith)
June 15: Washington Post | Teslas running Autopilot involved in 273 crashes reported since last year (Bryant Walker Smith)
June 15: Los Angeles Times | Most driver-assist crashes involved Teslas, new data show. But questions abound (Bryant Walker Smith)
June 15: New York Times | Self-driving and driver-assist technology linked to hundreds of crashes, U.S. data shows (Bryant Walker Smith)
June 14: Politico.com | The Supreme Court could foster a new kind of Civil War (Nathan Richardson)
June 9: WOOD-TV | National expert: Murder charge against GRPD officer not surprising (Seth Stoughton)
June 9: Associated Press | Teslas with Autopilot a step closer to recall after wrecks (Bryant Walker Smith)
June 8: New York Times | How safe are systems like Tesla’s Autopilot? No one knows (Bryant Walker Smith)
June 8: The Atlantic | Don’t forget the first half of the Second Amendment (Thomas Crocker)
June 7: Derek Black graduated from the 2022 Furman University's Riley Institute Diversity Leaders Initiative.
June 6: Wall Street Journal | Elon Musk threatens to end Twitter deal over lack of information on spam accounts (Benjamin Means)

May 26: Los Angeles Times | The DMV said it would investigate Tesla over self-driving claims. Then, crickets (Bryant Walker Smith)
May 21: Aiken Standard | ‘You’re in Aiken County now’: Pattern of warrantless bus searches on I-20 emerges (Seth Stoughton)
May 19: Post & Courier | SC George Floyd protester’s 4-year prison sentence raises free speech fears (Colin Miller)
May 16: UofSC | Student shares sex trafficking story to raise awareness, help victims (Aparna Polavarapu)
May 16: The Conversation | Russia's reported abduction of Ukrainian children echoes other genocidal policies, including US history of kidnapping Native American children (Marcia Zug)
May 13: Pamela Robinson, director of the Pro Bono Program, conducted a workshop during the American Bar Association's Equal Justice Conference for law school pro bono directors that focused on professional identity and and benchmarks for pro bono programs. On May 11, she also conducted a workshop titled "More Than a Bus" along with Betsy Goodale with the SC Bar, discussing the challenges and rewards of using mobile units like the Palmetto LEADER to provide community outreach.
May 10: Education Week | Leaked abortion draft has Supreme Court education cases in political cross-hairs (Derek Black)
May 9: Politico | Will Brown v. Board of Education be next to fall? (Derek Black)
May 6: Washington Post | The demise of Roe wouldn’t endanger school access, legal scholars say (Derek Black)
May 4: Washington Post | Supreme Court leak strikes fear among environmental lawyers (Nathan Richardson)
May 4: The State | ‘Failing my clients.’ Lawyers tell court that Richland jail is denying legal counsel (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
May 2: Route Fifty | In San Francisco, people can now catch rides in cars without anybody behind the wheel. But as the technology spreads, are regulators ready? (Bryant Walker Smith)
May 1: Post and Courier | Mount Pleasant charter school threatens to upend SC charter regulations with district transfer (Derek Black)

April 29: Newsweek | South Carolina's Firing Squad Execution Blasted by Richard Moore's Lawyer (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
April 25: Cheddar News | What will Disney do without its special tax status? (Benjamin Means)
April 21: WJCT First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross | Math textbooks and critical race theory (Derek Black)
April 21: Washington Post | GOP's cozy ties with big business unravel as DeSantis. unloads on Disney (Benjamin Means)
April 18: WBUR - Here and Now | Florida's textbook decision on 'Critical Race Theory' is part of a long debate over textbooks (Derek Black)
April 17: Post and Courier | Decades-old SC law bar student loan defaulters from government jobs (Joseph Seiner)
April 15: The Conversation | Legacy of Jim Crow still affects funding for public schools (Derek Black & Axton Crolley)
April 13: San Francisco Chronicle | An SFPD cop pulled over a self-driving car. What the viral incident means for the future of S.F. (Bryant Walker Smith)
April 12: USA Today | Could public money finance private-school discrimination, religion and fake history? (Op-Ed) (Derek Black)
April 11: ProPublica | Child advocates sue New York over proposed shadow foster care system (Josh Gupta-Kagan)
April 8: ABC News | How an eviction prevention program emerged after the moratorium ended (William Hubbard)
April 3: Post and Courier | An SC judge auctioned foreclosed properties. his wife and children bought dozens (Robert Wilcox)

March 31: Vermont Conversation | Should public money pay for religious schools (Derek Black)
March 30: PAVE (Partners for Automated Vehicle Education) Virtual Panel | AV Fact vs. Fiction (Bryant Walker Smith)
March 24: New York Times | Competing for Streets and Sidewalks (Bryant Walker Smith)
March 23: Post and Courier | Video released as family argues cops escalated deadly fight with mentally ill Columbia man (Seth Stoughton)
March 21: Rebecca Plevel's co-authored article, Using Indigenous Standards to implement the CARE Principles: Setting Expectations through Tribal Research Codes, was published in Frontiers in Genetics, section ELSI in Science and Genetics.
March 21: Joseph Seiner's article, Time, Equity, and Sexual Harassment [PDF], was published in the U.C. Irvine Law Review. Another article, Sensible Just Cause, was accepted for publication by the Boston University Law Review and is forthcoming in 2023.
March 17: Smartcities Dive | Long-awaited safety rule a 'big step' for future of AVs (Bryant Walker Smith)
March 17: Bloomberg Law | Clean Energy Is Grid Reliability's Best Hope, Not Enemy (Shelley Welton)
March 14: Le Journal de L'Automobile | Voitures autonomes : les Etats-Unis ajustent leurs règles (Bryant Walker Smith)
March 13: Wall Street Journal | Courts Threaten to Undercut IRS Efforts to Go After Tax Shelters (Clinton Wallace)
March 11: Complexity (podcast) | The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles with Bryant Walker Smith (Bryant Walker Smith)
March 10: Post and Courier | Columbia nonprofit developing web app to track SC community policing efforts (Seth Stoughton)
March 9: Virginia Public Media | Lawmakers look to courts to "work out" governor's school admissions (Derek Black)
March 8: Wired | ‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy (Bryant Walker Smith)
March 4: The State | Cayce's Lazzarini trial ending was 'rare,' confusing. What it means and what comes next (Kenneth Gaines)
March 2: Eve Ross, a reference librarian in the law library, was elected to serve as an at-large member of the Research Instruction and Patron Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries.
March: Duncan Alford's article, Is a Single Bank Supervisor Inevitable Throughout the European Union, was published in the International In-House Counsel Journal.

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