Faculty in the News

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—Professor Claire Hill was interviewed by Betty Liu of Bloomberg TV regarding the current credit rating agency reform proposals in the financial regulation legislation presently being considered by Congress. Professor…
—Professor Richard Painter was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered and quoted in the…
—Professor William McGeveran was quoted in a story on National Public Radio's Morning Edition about changes in Facebook's privacy settings. McGeveran, who has written about privacy and social media, suggested…
—Professor William McGeveran was one of the guests in a "Room for Debate" forum sponsored by the New York Times web site about privacy on Facebook. McGeveran, who has written scholarly articles about privacy…
—Professor Richard Painter's editorial published in The American Lawyer urged for a repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, because the policy institutionalizes dishonesty in the military. "Many problems…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in Salon.com on the controversy over President Obama's offer of an Administration job to Joe Sestak if he dropped out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary. Professor Painter…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted by the St. Paul Pioneer Press in a story concerning the St. Paul Public School district's attempt to withhold advisory committee recommendations on school spending by…
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Professor Jane Kirtley told the [Cheyenne] Wyoming Tribune Eagle that a state judge was wrong to issue a temporary restraining order prohibiting newspapers from publishing a leaked report prepared by a…

—Professor Jane Kirtley appears in "Access Denied: Navigating the Legal Challenges to Newsgathering," a roundtable discussion on government secrecy and other threats to press freedom. The two-hour DVD, produced by the…
—Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin was recently interviewed by PBS and quoted in an article about racial and cultural difficulties in both international and domestic adoptions, "Baby Rescue or Baby Factory?" Goodwin…
—Professor Claire Hill was quoted in The New Yorker, in an article by James Surowiecki entitled "The Age of Political Risk," on the historical precedents for investor reaction to the present situation in…
—The United States Supreme Court in Graham v. Florida,--- S.Ct. ----, 2010 WL 1946731 (U.S.), held that a state may not impose a sentence of life without parole (LWOP) for a nonhomicide crime committed by a…