Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—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 Susan Wolf appeared on Minnesota Public Radio with Karen O'Connor, co-producer of a new Frontline film on assisted suicide entitled, "The…
—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 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…
—Professor Susan Wolf will lead a faculty seminar at Harvard Medical School on November 16. This seminar, sponsored by Harvard's Division of Medical Ethics, will focus on "Returning Individual Results and…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was the principal speaker for a panel, entitled "Global Privacy and Advertising Developments," at the Practising Law Institute's Communications Law in the Digital Age 2012 conference in New…
—Professor Myron Orfield and the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity hosted a forum entitled "Fully Developed Suburbs." Some 132 suburban officials from cities and school districts came to the Law School to…
—As reported in Roll Call, Bloomberg and other media outlets, Professor Richard Painter, Lawrence Lessig, Trevor Potter, and Theodore Roosevelt IV had a telephonic press conference in which they outlined the…
—Professor Susanna Blumenthal was quoted in a Star Tribune article entitled "Anoka County's Silent Inmate Flummoxes Authorities." The article detailed the case of a 37-year-old nurse apprehended for…
—Professor Dale Carpenter was quoted in a Pioneer Press article entitled "Pig Tattoo Lands Reputed Gang Member in Hennepin County Jail." The article detailed an event of a person's body art possibly…
—Professor Daniel Gifford recently spoke to a group of investigators of the Minneapolis Civil Rights Department on administrative law. Gifford reviewed the law on due process and the structure of administrative law.
—Professor Claire Hill presented her paper "Limits of Dodd-Frank's Rating Agency Reforms" at a conference hosted by the Università degli Studi di Salerno on Le Agenzie di Rating.