Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Richard Painter published an op-ed in the New York Times on-line edition about the excessive influence of the National Rifle Association on the Republican Party.
—Professor Barry Feld was interviewed on the National Public Radio Dallas affiliate KERA Radio program "Think" about his new book Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room (NYU Press 2012…
—Professor Barry Feld has recently published two books. New York University Press published Feld's Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation. In this richly detailed empirical study, Feld…
—A recently released documentary, "Girl from Birch Creek," about Rosalie E. Wahl, the first woman named to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1977, includes portions of the video-recorded oral history interview that…
—Professor Greg Shaffer has published two new books, Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change (Cambridge…
—Professor Oren Gross was interviewed on Access Minnesota radio for a two-part program entitled "Gaza Ceasefire and the U.N. Vote on Palestine." Host Jim du Bois interviewed Gross on the recent conflict between…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted by Jon Tevlin in his Star Tribune column on two free speech issues: restrictions on proselytising at a holiday lights display in a Duluth park, and a Crow Wing County…
—Professor Susan Wolf will present at the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) annual conference on research ethics in San Diego on the question of whether researchers and biobanks have…
—Professor Amy Monahan was quoted in a New York Times article regarding a pending case in Rhode Island challenging broad changes to public employee pensions in the state. The article stated: "Rhode Island'…
—Professor Stephen Befort was quoted in a Minnesota Public Radio article on the possible return to work of Minnesota State University Mankato football coach Todd Hoffner, following the dismissal of criminal charges…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Thomson Reuters article on Justice Stephen Breyer's decision to recuse from an important environmental case in which his brother, a federal district judge, had sat on the…
—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…