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Faculty News

—Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in MinnPost.com article entitled "House GOP Floats Plan to Restructure Regional Planning." Orfield commented on the proposed changes to the regional government system. Orfield and…
—Professor Richard Painter was cited in a Thomson Reuters story on the appeal to the Second Circuit of an order by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff refusing to approve a settlement between the Securities and Exchange…
—Professor Gregory Shaffer was selected to be Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, which will be held in Boston in late May 2013. The LSA is a group of scholars…
—Professor Jane Kirtley spent the week of March 12 in Thailand, delivering a series of lectures on libel and slander law in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Chonburi. In addition to speaking to journalists and academics at…
—Professor Eugene Borgida was interviewed on WBEZ, the National Public Radio affiliate in Chicago, on cameras in the courtroom. On the station's "848" show, Borgida discussed the Illinois Supreme Court's order in…
—Professor Stephen Cribari will teach a one-credit, one-week course entitled, "Law and Cultural Heritage," at the University of Arkansas from March 12-16, 2012. The course is a condensed version of one taught here at…
—Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been nominated for the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for her latest book, On the Frontlines: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict…
—Professor Gregory Shaffer was interviewed on international intellectual property law and developing countries by the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Chair in Buenos Aires where he was their…
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Professors David Weissbrodt and Jennifer Green participated in an online discussion on PointofLaw.com of the pending Supreme Court case, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, about whether the Alien Tort…

—Professor Tom Cotter served as one of several contributors in an online symposium regarding a new book, Creation Without Restraint: Promoting Liberty and Rivalry in Innovation (Oxford University Press 2012)…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Politico article on an apparent violation of the Hatch Act by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius who endorsed a candidate for governor of North Carolina in…