JUSTICE: A Conversation With Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung

What is justice and how do we get it? Join Robert L. Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung in conversation as they draw on their personal and professional journeys to address these questions.

Melissa Murray, the 2024–25 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. Murray teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, and reproductive rights and justice. She is a co-author (with Andrew Weissman) of The New York Times bestselling book The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary. She is a legal analyst for MSNBC and served as a judicial clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Russell M. Jeung, the 2025–26 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAIP Hate. He is author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans; Moving Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies; At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors; and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches. He co-produced the documentary The Oak Park Story (2010), about a landmark housing lawsuit involving Cambodian and Latino tenants. He was named as one of the TIME‘s 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.

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