Faculty in the News

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—Professor Richard Painter was called to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at a hearing that covered the Hatch Act and political activity inside the White…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Politico story about a White House event in the Blue Room for Wall Street donors. Painter expressed concern that this type of political event is contrary to the…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on the propriety of former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman staying in his post while his supporters organized a potential presidential…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a Star Tribune story about a dissatisfied customer who was sued for libel after she criticized a contractor's work and accused him of operating without a license on…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in Minnesota Lawyer concerning the pending appeal of a District Court judge's order that a blog be taken down because it violates a restraining order against harassment of…
—Professor Michele Goodwin's scholarship on organ transplantation, which asks whether introducing markets into that procurement regime will ease the organ shortage, was featured on Freakonomics.com. In a piece…
—Professor Richard Painter's Harvard Law Review article, "The Dodd-Frank Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Provision: Was it Effective, Needed or Sufficient?" was cited in a Thomson Reuters story on the…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about a motion to disqualify Judge Vaughn Walker from the California Proposition 8 case because the judge is gay. Painter said that the…
—Professor Robert Stein was a featured guest on WCCO's Minnesota Law, presented by Moss & Barnett. Stein spoke with hosts Tom Shroyer and Kevin Busch on the Uniform Law Commission (also known as the…
—Professors Jane Kirtley and Stephen Cribari participated in a CLE seminar entitled "In Trouble Online: Social Media and the Law" held at Thomson-West in Eagan, MN. Kirtley moderated the seminar and also discussed…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in an Associated Press story about a North Carolina child custody dispute which has attracted international attention on Twitter and Facebook after the mother claimed on her blog…
—Professor Ralph Hall spoke at the Minnesota State Bar Association's 2011 Health Law Institute. He was on a panel entitled "Recent Changes in FDA, DOJ and OIG Enforcement Initiatives and Prosecutions Related to the…