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Clinical Associate Professor of Economics Mark Weinstock, MA, appeared on WPIX-TV (Channel 11), to weigh in on the possible economic impact of the port workers strike affecting 36 US ports from Maine to Texas.

“If the strike lasts less than two weeks, I don’t think the impact on the economy is going to be too significant,” he said.

According to Weinstock, the goods will still ship through the western ports and reach the New York City area by rail or truck with a slight increase in prices.

“I would be surprised if it were higher than 5-10%,” Weinstock said.

Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies Melvin Williams, PhD, was quoted in the New York Times in an article examining Vice President Kamala Harris’s historic run for US president, and specifically how it has outpaced Hollywood depictions of women of color as presidents in fictional film and television programming.

Williams referred to the lack of women of color playing commander in chief roles in the entertainment industry as an example of “symbolic annihilation,” an academic term describing the exclusion of groups in popular culture and mass media.

“We don’t put it on-screen, so you don’t see it as a possibility, and large audiences don’t even begin to fathom it as a possibility,” he said.

Bennett Gershman, a former prosecutor and a law professor at Pace University, suggested that significant portions of the filing may be redacted “given the closeness to the upcoming election” but that many of the actions Trump took in his attempt to overturn the election results “clearly were not official acts.”

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor Bennett Gershman provides insights to Reuters regarding the recent charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the challenges of removing him from office – and the story gets picked up by hundreds of publications around the world. In the article, U.S. prosecutors have charged Adams with accepting illegal campaign contributions and luxury travel accommodations from Turkish nationals attempting to sway his influence, capping an investigation that has sent the largest U.S. city's government into turmoil.

Professor Gershman pens an op-ed in The New York Law Journal responding to a Wall Street Journal editorial, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court needs reformers, not defenders.

Haub Law Professor Josh Galperin speaks to Law360 about the U.S. Supreme Court's "shadow docket," highlighting the surge of appeals from environmental rule opponents seeking to overturn D.C. Circuit rulings that allowed regulations to take effect.