Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—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 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 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 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…
—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…