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—Professor Myron Orfield and Vice President Walter Mondale were quoted in a Pioneer Press article, entitled "How Obama Administration got St. Paul to Pull Landlord Suit Out of Supreme Court." Both Orfield…
—Professor Dale Carpenter debated Maggie Gallagher, president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, at a University of St. Thomas forum at the Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in an article in Politico on President Obama's Super PAC and plans for high ranking Administration officials, including some cabinet members, to speak at Democratic…
—Professor Myron Orfield's demographic research about black middle-class suburbanization and housing discrimination was discussed on Minnesota Public Radio. The MPR piece was on Minnesota's shrinking black middle…
—Professor Dale Carpenter wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, entitled "Prop. 8 Simply Can't Justify Itself." Carpenter states, "What potentially dooms Proposition 8 as it nears the Supreme Court is…
—Professor Michele Goodwin presented the 2012 John W. Fisher II Lecture in Law and Medicine at West Virginia University College of Law. Goodwin's talk was entitled "Who Owns Your Body? A Conversation About Medical…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Dayton Daily News article about a political contribution by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray to an Ohio political campaign. Painter…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was a guest on "News and Views with Susie Jones" on WCCO Radio, discussing digital free speech…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on the settlement of a SEC case against two Bear Sterns hedge-fund managers who had previously been criminally charged and acquitted…
—Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article concerning the settlement between five major banks and various state attorneys general along with federal authorities. Cox stated that…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a story in the Thomson Reuters News & Insight blog regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee's approval of a bill to allow cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court. Kirtley said…
—Professor Gregory Shaffer has received a Grant-in-Aid for research on the World Trade Organization to be conducted in Geneva. Shaffer has also become an Affiliated Professor with…