Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in The Daily Beast about the dispute between New York Attorney General Schneiderman and a group of attorneys general led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. The attorneys…
—Professor Oren Gross appeared on Israel's Channel 10 discussing the legality under United States constitutional law and international law of targeted killings in general and the killing of Anwar Al Awlaki in Yemen…
—Professor Dale Carpenter will debate University of St. Thomas Law School Professor Teresa Collett on the subject of the proposed state constitutional amendment banning marriage for same-sex couples. The debate,…
—Professor Michele Goodwin was quoted in the Houston Chronicle, section A, page 25, on whether Gov. Rick Perry's stem cell therapy was legal. According to Goodwin, it is unclear exactly what type of stem…
—Professor Michele Goodwin wrote an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm blog on the controversial issue of corporeal punishment to penalize women drivers in Saudi Arabia, a nation…
—Professor Susan Wolf led a conference on new approaches to oversight of human subjects research in the cutting-edge field of nanomedicine. The conference, entitled "Nanodiagnostics and Nanotherapeutics: Building…
—Professor Richard Painter was interviewed for WCCO's "Good Question: How Much Is The Government Watching Us?" Painter said the Patriot Act, which allows the National Security Agency to spy on American citizens…
—Professor Amy Monahan was quoted in a St. Cloud Times article entitled "Legislators' Per Diems may be Counted as Income toward Pensions." According to the article, "Monahan says Minnesota's policy on…
—Professor Kristin Hickman was quoted in an article on Bloomberg's Government Web site, BGOV.com, regarding a set of pending tax shelter cases that the U.S. Supreme Court will discuss at its Sept. 26 private…
—Professor Bernard Levinson will present a lecture at a symposium on the reception of Torah in Wisdom literature at Humboldt University of Berlin. Levinson's lecture is entitled "Reception History as a Window…
—Professor Steve Meili has been asked to join a group of judges, practitioners, academics and NGO leaders investigating ways of increasing the pro bono representation of low-income immigrants in Minnesota. Recent…
—Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Star Tribune article entitled "Google's Search Formula Faces Scrutiny." The article discusses Google CEO Eric Schmidt's upcoming appearance before the Senate…