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Faculty News

—Professor Claire Hill was quoted in an article in Risk News, on the Global Association of Risk Professionals website. Hill was quoted on the possible implementation of a Franken Amendment-type regime for choosing…
—Professor Richard Painter was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio for a story on the potential bid for Best Buy by its founder Richard Schulze. Painter said that such a bid could not be kept secret for very…
—Professor Richard Painter, Clint Eastwood, and 131 other Republicans filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to strike down California's ban on same sex marriage in Proposition 8. Many of the other…
—Professor Michele Goodwin was quoted in a Voice of America news article discussing the Russian ban on American adoptions and the challenges faced by adoptive parents of foreign children. Goodwin notes that many…
—Professor Jennifer Green was quoted in a Star Tribune article about the current use of firearms in Minnesota and Minnesota laws regarding permits to carry concealed weapons. Green remarked that the self…
—Professor Stephen Meili discussed the ways that lawyers in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States utilize international human rights treaties in their advocacy on behalf of asylum-seekers and other…
—Professor D. Daniel Sokol discussed global law firm expansion in the February 2013 issue of Lexpert, Canada's leading legal magazine. Sokol noted, "This is a critical moment for Canadian law firms,…
—Professor Susan Wolf will speak at Stanford Law School on February 19 on the debate over return of research results and incidental findings to individuals participating in genetic and genomic research. Wolf's…
—In a New York Times Room for Debate forum on rating agency reform, Professor Claire Hill argued that reducing the salience of rating agencies is an important goal of reform. The recent lawsuit against S…
—Professor Thomas Cotter's newly released book Comparative Patent Remedies: A Legal and Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2013) provides a critical and comparative analysis of patent enforcement…
—Professor Michele Goodwin gave a lecture at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard University on her forthcoming article "Fetal Protection Laws: Moral Panic and the New Constitutional Battlefront." Goodwin's lecture…
—Professor Laura J. Cooper participated in a symposium at Saint Louis University entitled "Teaching Employment and Labor Law." Cooper's presentation, "The Capstone Course in Labor and Employment Law: A…