Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in Bloomberg magazine in an article on a 2008 meeting in which hedge fund managers sought and apparently got nonpublic information from Treasury Secretary Hank…
—A paper recently published by Professors Amy Monahan and Daniel Schwarcz in the Virginia Law Review was featured on Minnesota Public Radio. In the paper, Monahan and Schwarcz argue that the Patient…
—Professor Amy Monahan was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article entitled "FSAs Encourage Rather than Reduce Unnecessary Healthcare Spending." Monahan gave a statement on health flexible spending accounts…
—Professor Jane Kirtley delivered a lecture on the speech and press clauses of the First Amendment as part of the "Rereading the Constitution" series for the University of Minnesota's College of Continuing…
—Professor Jane Kirtley received a "Pioneer" Award from the National Scholastic Press Association at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The NSPA's highest…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Thomson Reuters story on disciplinary action taken against a federal bankruptcy judge for violating a conduct rule prohibiting membership in a discriminatory country club…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was a member of a media panel on TPT-TV's "Almanac." Kirtley discussed the $1 million libel judgment against KSTP-TV for a story about a naturopath, which may be the largest punitive…
—Professor Richard Painter was interviewed on Channel 11 news about the suspension of a Hennepin County Judge for violating the requirement that judges live in the judicial district in which they sit. Painter said…
—Professor Claire Hill gave the 2011 Barbara Aronstein Black Lecture at Columbia Law School. Her lecture was entitled "How Contracts On Wall Street (And Some Other Places) Do Things With Words."
—Professor Daniel Schwarcz testified to Congress on several legislative proposals that would exempt insurers from provisions of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform and Consumer Protection Act and limit the authority…
—Professor Ralph Hall testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The hearing was entitled "Medical Devices: Protecting Patients and Promoting Innovation." Hall's written…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Star Tribune article on the Petters bankruptcy trustee's efforts to "clawback" gains from some of Petters' investors to compensate for losses of other investors…