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Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a CQ Researcher report on "Journalism Standards in the Internet Age." She discussed challenges to maintaining traditional principles of accuracy and fairness with the…
Professor Claire Hill was the Law '80 Visiting Lecturer at Queen's University Faculty of Law in Ontario, Canada. Her lecture, based on work co-authored with Professor Richard Painter, was entitled "Mindful of the…
Professor Nancy Cook was a speaker at the Clinical Theory Workshop 25th Anniversary Conference held at New York Law School on Oct. 1-2. Her presentation, entitled “The Medium is the Message: Client Voice, Story,…
Professor Nancy Cook presented a draft of an article, “Law as Science: Revisiting Langdell’s Paradigm in the 21st Century,” at New York University. Her talk examined the historical roots of the 19th-century idea of…
Professor Richard Painter was quoted on the Bloomberg news page about Elizabeth Warren's outside work while head of the Congressional Oversight Panel monitoring the $700 billion bank bailout. Warren was…
Professor Amy Kristin Sanders participated on a panel entitled "Building and Managing Online Communities," at a conference at the Center for Sustainable Journalism in Atlanta. The conference, "Media Law in the…
Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in a Minnesota Public Radio story on Sept. 22 about the impact of foreclosures in…
Prof. Jane Kirtley was quoted by Bloomberg News in a story about a Second Circuit case that will consider whether an executive convicted of securities fraud for allegedly backdating stocks was denied…
Professor Heidi Kitrosser will chair a panel on Sept. 20 on executive privilege at the Washington, D.C. office of the Miller Center for Public Affairs of the University of Virginia.
Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in a Star Tribune story on Sept. 19 about debt collection practices with the families of the deceased. The article stated that Cox "argues that collector calls to…
Professor Richard Painter, a former White House ethics adviser, was quoted in a Pioneer Press story on the controversies surrounding Judge Timothy Blakely. When asked, "Was the electorate apathetic,…
The Star Tribune published an article by Professor Laura J. Cooper, responding to an editorial published by the newspaper on Sept. 14. Professor Cooper's article refutes factual assertions made in the…