Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, family law and reproductive rights and justice. She is co-author of “The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary.” Her writing has appeared in publications including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Nation. Previously, Murray was the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction and the Association of American Law Schools’ Derrick A. Bell Award and served as interim dean of the law school. Murray is a legal analyst for MSNBC and a co-host of “Strict Scrutiny”, a Crooked Media podcast about the Supreme Court.
Previously
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