Associate Professor of Law

The Supreme Court has overturned a death sentence due to evidence of racial bias, for analysis we FEATURE Diann Rust-Tierney. Diann Rust-Tierney became the Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) in 2004. As NCADP Executive Director, Ms. Rust-Tierney manages and directs the program for the national organization and 100 affiliates seeking to change public policy on the death penalty. Before coming to the NCADP, Ms. Rust-Tierney was the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project in Washington, D.C. from 1991 to 2004. As its lead strategist and spokesperson, she appeared on radio and television to educate the public about problems with the death penalty, and developed death penalty education materials, including a video on race and capital punishment. Media includes: ABC News, Good Morning America, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Crossfire, BET, CourtTV's Supreme Court Watch

CEO

A police officer was acquitted of all charges in the arrest of Freddie Gray, for comment we FEATURE Lisalyn R. Jacobs. Lisalyn R. Jacobs is the CEO of Just Solutions: Bringing in justice to counteract injustice, and the former V.P. of Government Relations for Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund). She has testified before congressional committees at both the state and federal levels. She has worked closely with the Obama Administration on a variety of criminal and racial justice matters, including policing reform, sexual and domestic violence, campus sexual assault, the school to prison pipeline, and the impact of criminal justice reform on women. Media includes: New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Huffington Post

Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies

Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria's presidential election, preventing Norbert Hofer from becoming the EU's first far-right head of state. For commentary we FEATURE Anna Grzymala-Busse. A native of Poland, Anna Grzymala-Busse is the Weiser Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She is an expert on religion and politics, post-communist politics, party competition and elections in Europe, and corruption. She is the President-Elect of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, as well as the Chair of the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. Media includes: NPR, Radio France, The Guardian, Irish Times, New Republic

Professor of Law and Political Science

Bernie Sanders has recently increased his rhetoric against the Democratic Establishment, for analysis we FEATURE Susan Estrich. Professor Estrich's scholarly interests are in law and politics, criminal law, and gender discrimination. At USC Law, she teaches Criminal Law, Gender Discrimination, and Election Law. She has been actively involved in Democratic presidential politics, serving as national campaign manager of the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign in 1988. She is a syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate, and has written for USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. She is a frequent commentator on law and politics for FOX News, and an occasional talk radio show host. Media includes: Fox News, KABC Radio, Creators Syndicate, USA Today, Los Angeles Times