Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Brad Karkkainen was quoted in a MinnPost article, commenting on litigation filed by the non-profit White Bear Lake Restoration Association against the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource (DNR) to…
—Professor William McGeveran was a panelist in a roundtable about cell phone privacy on the Huffington Post's new video podcast channel, HuffPost Live. The panel considered court and Congressional decisions about…
—Professor Richard Painter's prior research on legal and ethical risk-taking by decision makers experiencing a "loss frame"—a choice between two bad alternatives—in business or government was cited by the …
—Professor Dale Carpenter was quoted in a Star Tribune article entitled "Convicted Priest Gets New Trial in Sex Case." The article stated that the State Court of Appeals said a priest was improperly…
—Professor Dale Carpenter was quoted in a MinnPost "Eric Black Ink" column entitled "Something Changed: Picking a Supreme Court Justice is Now a Partisan Battle." Black wrote: "I asked constitutional law professor…
—Professor William McGeveran appeared in the "Good Question" segment on WCCO News, answering a viewer's query about Facebook. A hoax message spreading through the social network encourages users to post a status…
—Professor Oren Gross was a guest on WCCO's News & Views with Roshini Rajkumar to talk about the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Gross is an expert in international law, national security law, international…
—Professor Claire Hill's paper with Professor Steven Davidoff, "Limits of Disclosure," was cited in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation blog. The paper argues that…
—Professor Steve Meili presented his research comparing asylum jurisprudence and practice in the United States and Canada at Oxford University's North American Center, which is based at St. Antony's College. Meili…
—Professor Bernard Levinson will give a talk in conjunction with the Italian translation of his book Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel at Pontifical Gregorian University. Levinson is…
—Professor Susan Wolf appeared on Minnesota Public Radio with Karen O'Connor, co-producer of a new Frontline film on assisted suicide entitled, "The…
—Professor Michele Goodwin gave a TEDx talk that focused on the rule of law and its limitations in protecting against violence directed at women and girls. Goodwin highlighted her field research in India, the…