Faculty News

April 30, 2012 —Professor Richard Painter was quoted in West Virginia's Charleston Daily Mail in an article on whether the Hatch Act would disqualify a state Agriculture Commission employee from running in a partisan…

April 27, 2012 —Professor Laura Cooper was quoted in a Minnesota Lawyer article entitled "Judge Says Jimmy John's Violated Law, Must Rehire Fired Workers."

April 27, 2012 —Professor William McGeveran was quoted in a Pioneer Press article about a recent data breach at Minnesota's Division of Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS). McGeveran, an expert on Internet and privacy law,…

April 27, 2012 —Professor Bernard Levinson will speak at Or Emet: Minnesota Congregation for Humanistic Judaism on April 27, 2012. Levinson's lecture, entitled, "The Struggle for the Old Testament in Nazi Germany: The Story of…

April 26, 2012 —Professor Gregory Shaffer delivered the inaugural Distinguished Lecture on Law and the Life Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Shaffer's talk built from his book When Cooperation Fails: The…

April 24, 2012 —Professor Stephen Meili presented data on the unmet legal needs of indigent immigrants at the 2012 Pro Bono/Pro Se Bar Summit, held in Minneapolis. The summit, which was co-sponsored by the U.S. District Court for…

April 24, 2012 —Professor Dale Carpenter delivered a lecture on his new book, Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas, at the Law School on April 23.…

April 23, 2012 —Professor Jane Kirtley was interviewed for 5 Eyewitness News on KSTP TV. Kirtley discussed a proposed bill that would make public details of investigations into public officials, including details of severance…

April 21, 2012 —Professor Jane Kirtley delivered a lecture, "After the Genocide: Rwanda," focusing on the use of genocide denial, defamation, and incitement laws to censor the news media, at a conference, "Nuremberg: Its Legacy for…

April 16, 2012 —Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in a Pioneer Press article entitled "U.S. House Committee Seeking Details over St. Paul's Housing Lawsuit Appeal Withdrawal." "It feels like St. Paul can decide whether it…

April 15, 2012 —Professor Bernard Levinson, Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible and Bruno Chaouat, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies have organized an interdisciplinary symposium that will…

April 12, 2012 —The legal blog Opinio Juris hosted a discussion of Professor Gregory Shaffer's new…