Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in the print edition of The New York Times in an article on President Obama's filming of a campaign commercial in the White House Chief of Staff's office in the West Wing…
—Professor Prentiss Cox was featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer article by Jeff Gelles entitled "Consumer 12.0: Praise for the 1-Year-Old Consumer Protection Bureau." The article described Cox's work on the…
—Professor Michele Goodwin published an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm Blog. The article, entitled "2 Lessons From the Penn State Scandal," discussed the recently-released Freeh…
—Professor Myron Orfield, Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, and Research Director Thomas Luce, released a study that reveals the rapid growth of racially diverse suburbs in the 50 largest U.S.…
—Professor Dale Carpenter spearheaded an effort to submit a law professors' amicus brief to the Minnesota Supreme Court in support of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's authority to select a title for the marriage…
—Professor William McGeveran was quoted in a Forbes.com article about the use of Shell Oil trademarks in an elaborate prank. Greenpeace and other groups opposed to the company's arctic drilling plans have mocked Shell…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted by American Journalism Review in an article about SCOTUSblog, founded in 2002 by Supreme Court litigators, with reporting by veteran journalist Lyle Denniston, and funded by…
—Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in a Star Tribune article entitled "Wells Fargo Pays $175 Million in Bias Case." Orfield commented on the historic Wells Fargo Fair Housing settlement, and he noted that…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a FOX 9 News article entitled "Bain Capital Becoming Bane of Romney Campaign." The article quoted Painter saying, "I'd think they have to show (Romney) making investment…
—Professor Tom Cotter's article "An Economic Analysis of Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine," 53 Ariz. L. Rev. 735 (2011), was featured on the "Written Description" Patent Law Blog in a post by Southern…
—Professor Amy Monahan's article on California's public-sector pension law, published in the Iowa Law Review, was cited in a Marin Independent Journal op-ed entitled "Time to Challenge State Pension…
—Professor Dale Carpenter was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio's "Morning Edition" for a segment entitled "Who Gets to Pick the Title for a Ballot Question?" which involved an analysis of the power to choose the…