Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Herbert Kritzer has been awarded the Law and Society Association's (LSA) Ronald Pipkin Service Award for sustained and extraordinary service to LSA for more than 35 years. While serving on dozens of…
—Professor Tom Cotter was interviewed by KSTP TV5 News for a segment entitled "Cover Band Classics Prompt Costly Copyright Claims Against Minn. Bars." Cotter spoke on the question of whether restaurants and bars are…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was a juror in the Commentary category for the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes. This year's award went to Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle, whose columns about Texas grand jury abuses,…
—Professor June Carbone published a feature-length article in Aeon, an online magazine, entitled "The Marriage Calculus." The article, written with Professor Naomi Cahn, describes the growing class gap in…
—Professor June Carbone was interviewed on her new book, Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family, on the Steven Spierer radio show. The hour-long interview covered the changes in the…
—Professor Hari Osofsky co-authored a new book, entitled Climate Change Litigation: Regulatory Pathways to Cleaner Energy (Cambridge University Press, 2015), with Jacqueline Peel from the University of…
—Professor Dale Carpenter was quoted in a New York Times article entitled "The Case Against Gay Marriage: Top Law Firms Won't Touch It." "Firms are trying to recruit the best talent from the best law schools…
—Professor Paul Vaaler commented on a new initiative announced by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to allocate $250 million to pay for online university education courses taken by Starbucks line workers over the next…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a Washington Post article about Phi Kappa Psi fraternity's announcement that it plans to sue Rolling Stone magazine for a now-repudiated article describing a…
—Professor Dale Carpenter was quoted in a Washington Post article entitled "Is Hillary Clinton Against the Religious Freedom Law Bill Clinton Backed?" Carpenter said, "We know these new statutes are motivated…
—Professor Paul M. Vaaler was quoted in a Minnesota Daily article on recent lay-offs of more than 1,700 workers and the on-going corporate re-structuring strategy at Minneapolis headquarters of Target, the…
—Professor Paul Vaaler was interviewed by WCCO News Radio's Dave Lee on recent changes in U.S. bank regulatory policy at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve (Fed). Regulators at…