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  • New York Times, Allegations Against Prosecutors Bolster Trump’s Criticism of Georgia Case Read here

  • New York Times, Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code is Toothless, Experts Say Read here

  • Washington Post, Four Women on the Supreme Court Would Bring Historic Near Gender Parity for Institution Long Dominated by White Men Read here

  • The Hill Biden's pledge atones for decades of shortchanging Black women Read here

    Politico 13 Legal Experts on How The Breyer Replacement Will Change the Court Read here

  • National Law Journal, Can’t Have It Both Ways: Sidney Powell’s Defamation Defense Could Put Her in Ethical Bind, Experts Say

  • Voice of America, Female Supreme Court Justices Can Change the Conversation

  • Politico, How Amy Coney Barrett Would Reshape the Court — and the Country

  • CNN, How RBG Went From a ‘Moderate’ Choice to a Fiery Dissenter

  • Strict Scrutiny Podcast, I Want More

  • New York Times, Their Very Own Loving Story

  • Law360, Texas Should Cancel Its 2020 Bar Exam

  • SCOTUSblog, Ask the Authors: The Long and Winding Road from Shortlisted to Selected for Female Supreme Court Nominees

  • Signal Boost with Zerlina Maxwell and Jess McIntosh,  Renee Knake Jefferson on her New Book Shortlisted

  • Texas Standard, What Might Have Been: The Forgotten History of Women on the Supreme Court Shortlist

  • National Law Journal, New Book ‘Shortlisted’ Spotlights 9 Women Passed Over for Supreme Court

  • The Hill, No Men Allowed: With Biden’s VP Shortlist, Women are Finally Gaining Political Ground

  • National Law Journal, Ridiculous and Unhelpful: Commentary on Trump’s Bashing of SCOTUS

  • Detroit Free Press, Former MSU Law Professor Renee Knake Returns, this Time as a Board Member

  • Lansing State Journal, New Michigan State Trustee Will Review Some 6,000 Nassar Records the College has Refused to Release

  • Law360, Kozinski’s Return to Court Sparks #MeToo Ethics Questions

  • The Detroit News, Whitmer Appoints Legal Ethics Professor to MSU Board of Trustees

  • Associated Press, Judge’s Hug Not Embraced by All After Dallas Officer’s Trial

  • Law360, Escape Hatch Remains for Judges Accused of Misconduct

  • CNN, Judges Urged to Make Complaint System More Transparent

  • Bloomberg, Ban on Courthouse Romance Proposed to Stem Judiciary Harassment

  • National Law Journal, Witnesses Say Judiciary Needs More Transparency and Reporting Options on Sexual Misconduct

  • BuzzFeed News, The Judiciary Has a Plan to Deal With Sexual Harassment. Law Students, Former Clerks and Professors Say It’s Not Enough

  • Slate, Jurisprudence: The Boys on the Bench—All the Lame Excuses Conservatives are Making to Explain Why the President Isn’t Nominating Female Judges

  • Forbes, Unauthorized Practice of Law Claims Threaten Access to Justice

  • Bloomberg, Texas Death Row Inmate Back at High Court, Claiming Conflict

  • National Law Review, Leading Voices Weigh in on TIKD Antitrust Suit

  • Law.com, The Ethics of Legal Analytics

  • Law360, End Legal Monopoly With Antitrust Review, Law Prof Says

  • Texas Standard Radio Show, When a Defendant is Mistreated in Court, Who Polices the Judges?

  • Christian Science Monitor, For Politicians Facing Misconduct Charges, No Firings

  • Above the Law, Law Schools Should Teach Innovation, Nov. 22, 2017

  • National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Out of State Lawyers Descend on Flint, Michigan, Aid Water Crisis

  • Wall Street Journal, Women Notch Progress: Females Now Constitute One-Third of Nation’s Ranks of Lawyers

  • National Law Journal, Lawyering Suits Pile Up at High Court

  • National Law Journal, High Court Justices to Take Up Lawyer Ethics, Errors

“Renee Knake is a legal ethicist. She concedes the system isn’t perfect, but at least it’s a way for people in Flint to get the legal help they need. ‘I guess my larger problem as an ethicist is, what does it mean to be in a country where people with basic needs like clean water don’t have legal representation to help them navigate the system when government has failed?’”
— National Public Radio
“‘We want our judges to be human and to show their humanity,’ said Renee Knake, a law professor at the University of Houston and expert in judicial ethics. ‘That’s why our cases are decided by human beings and not machines.’”
— Associated Press

Watch Professor Jefferson speak with C-SPAN’s Q&A host Susan Page about Supreme Court shortlists in March 2022

Watch testimony before the federal judiciary in 2018.

“Professor Renee Knake, Professor of Law & Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics, University of Houston Law Center, says, ‘I am not surprised to see the DOJ taking an official action in this case, and while I cannot predict the future, it seems likely to me that the DOJ will continue to be proactive in this way to the extent other lawyer regulators act in anticompetitive ways that reduce consumer choice.’”
— Forbes
“Renee Newman Knake, a University of Houston law professor, told a joint judicial panel on misconduct that women are pressured ‘to endure harassment silently.’ She encouraged judicial leaders to survey employees to understand the extent of sexual misconduct by judges and spur accountability.”
— CNN