Jonathan Turley - Career

Career

Turley holds the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School where he teaches torts, criminal procedure, and environmental law. He runs the Project for Older Prisoners (POPS), the Environmental Law Clinic, and the Environmental Legislation Project. In the classroom, he is known for his self-deprecating humor and for his engaging teaching style, in which he uses entertaining stories drawn from his real-world experiences.

Prior to joining the George Washington University, he was one of the youngest professors to be offered tenure at the Tulane University Law School.

His articles on legal and policy issues appear regularly in national publications; as of 2012, Professor Turley has had over a thousand articles published in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today,Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal. He frequently appears in the national media as a commentator on a multitude of subjects ranging from the 2000 Presidential Election Controversy to the Terri Schiavo case in 2005. He is often a guest on Sunday talk shows with over two-dozen appearances on Meet the Press, ABC This Week, Face the Nation, and Fox News Sunday. He served as a contributor on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, which aired on MSNBC (in one incarnation and title or another) from 2003 until 2011, and later on Current TV in 2011 and early 2012; Professor Turley also appears occasionally on Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!.

Since the 1990s, he has been the on-air Legal Analyst for NBC News and CBS News to cover stories that ranged from the Clinton impeachment to the presidential elections. He is on the Board of Contributors of USA Today.

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