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Our faculty are highly active in their fields of expertise. They are frequently sought after to comment on the legal aspects of current events in the media and at conferences and symposia across the country.

Faculty in the News

November 24: The Charlotte Observer | SC man was 17 when convicted of murder in 1973. 50 years later, he still wants parole (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
November 24: Stern | Elon Musk suffers defeat in court: Tesla is said to have known about autopilot errors (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 22: The Guardian | Judge finds ‘reasonable evidence’ Tesla knew self-driving tech was defective (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 22: JALOPNIK | 'Intentional Misconduct And Gross Negligence': Judge Rules Tesla Knew About Autopilot Defect That Led To Deadly 2019 Crash (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 21: San Francisco Chronicle | Cruise CEO's resignation (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 21: Reuters | Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 20: Post & Courier | Sexual Assaults. Riots. Too Few Guards. Broken Locks. Why Can't the State Fix County Jails? (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
November 20: Post & Courier | State Failed to Follow Law With Jail Inspections. Now It's Changing Course (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
November 20: The NY Times | 'Lost Time for No Reason’: How Driverless Taxis Are Stressing Cities (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 16: Tech Crunch | The Wild West of robotaxis: Will Texas be a regulatory haven or chaos unleashed? (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 15: Detroit News | Cruise and San Francisco Police Emailed A Lot. Here's What They Said. (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 13: Axios Philadelphia | Philly lags PA cities in releasing bodycam footage (Seth Stoughton)
November 10: San Francisco Chronicle | Exclusive: Data shows Cruise and Waymo's sudden driverless taxi expansion in S. F. (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 10: Automative News | In Cruise crash aftermath, will self-driving tech get kicked to the curb? (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 6: The Intercept_ | Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars had Problems Recognizing Children -- And Kept Them on the Streets (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 4: WLTX | Demolition begins on historic Constan Carwash location (Ben Means)
November 3: WLTX | Lawyers discuss what US Department of Justice investigation into Alvin S. Glenn could mean (Madalyn Wasilczuk
November 2: The State | Murdaugh’s lawyers ask SC Supreme Court to kick Judge Newman off the case (Gregory Adams)
November 2: Automotive News | Cruise faces a safety reckoning that will determine its self-driving future (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 1: Business Insider | Tesla's Autopilot not to blame for a crash that killed a driver and left his wife and son badly injured, jury finds (Bryant Walker Smith)
November 1: CBS Mornings | Tesla autopilot not at fault for fatal 2019 crash in California, jury finds (Bryant Walker Smith)

October 27: WACH FOX | When Love Hurts: Domestic Violence in SC (Lisa Martin)
October 27: AP | Cruise, GM’s robotaxi service, suspends all driverless operations nationwide (Bryant Walker Smith)
October 26: JALOPNIK | Cruise Didn't Tell Anyone That A Woman Was Dragged 20 Feet After Being Pushed Into Robotaxi (Bryant Walker Smith)
October 26: LA Times | A Cruise car hit a pedestrian. The company’s response could set back California’s new robotaxi industry (Bryant Walker Smith)
October 26: Post & Courier | Pee Dee advocates working to combat domestic violence in rural areas (Lisa Martin)
October 25: Understanding AI | California suspension is an existential threat to Cruise (Bryant Walker Smith)
October 24: Reuters | California sidelines GM Cruise's driverless cars, cites safety risk (Bryant Walker Smith)
October 22: AP | A Police Dog Attacked a Black Trucker on his Knees. An Ohio City Is Dealing with the Aftermath (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
October 20: Law360 | Tax Profs Urge Justices To Uphold Repatriation Levy (Clint Wallace)
October 18: SC Lawyers Weekly | Legal Deserts: Scarcity of lawyers threatens justice in in many rural areas (Elizabeth Chambliss & Taylor Gilliam)
October 8: The Mercury News | Losing control: When San Jose police confront people in mental health crisis, why do they end up hurting them so often? (Seth Stoughton)

September 28: WIS | Impact of teen violence in the Midlands (Madalyn Wasilczuk)
September 25: The Post & Courier | Trump went to a gun store in South Carolina. But could he legally buy a weapon? (Seth Stoughton)
September 12: The Atlantic | America Has a Private-Beach Problem (Josh Eagle)
September 1: ARSTechnica | Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers? (Bryant Walker Smith)

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)

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