Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Kristin Hickman’s work was cited by two judges of the United States Tax Court in Intermountain Ins.…
—Professor Claire Hill's article on two recent amendments dealing with reform of credit rating agency regulation, the LeMieux-Cantwell amendment and the Franken amendment, was published in the Dealbook blog of the …
—Professor Richard Painter's op-ed supporting the President's nomination of Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit was published in the Los Angeles Times. The op-ed described Liu as a moderate liberal who would be a…
—A commentary in the Minneapolis Star Tribune calling for the reform of the state's forfeiture laws, cited Professor Steve Simon's DWI research. Simon, a DWI expert and founder of the Minnesota Criminal Justice…
—Professor Painter was interviewed by NPR's All Things Considered on the controversy over Senator Ben Nelson's vote on parts of the financial reform bill that are opposed by Warren Buffet's Berkshire…
—Professor Jane Kirtley delivered a lecture, "Near v. Minnesota: How Far Have We Come? as part of the Minnesota History Center's "History Lounge" series. She described the historical background of the 1931 case that…
—Professor Brian H. Bix has been appointed the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission Drafting Committee on Premarital and Marital Agreements. The Committee is considering drafting a new proposed uniform law to…
—Professor Kitrosser is quoted in Nick Coleman's Star Tribune column about state's veto power. Commenting on a proposed state constitutional amendment to limit the effect of federal laws in Minnesota,…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in an editorial by Deborah Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle on the President's nomination of Godwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit. The op-ed disagreed with Professor…
—Professor Claire Hill's article, "What Cognitive Psychologists Should Find Interesting About Tax," published in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, was discussed in a Behavioral Economics blog in …
—Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin was quoted in an article about suicide laws and Internet chat rooms that was recently published in The Globe and Mail, a leading Canadian newspaper. Goodwin commented on…
—Professor Jane Kirtley appeared on a panel, "LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Oh My! The Ethical Dangers of Social Networking for Attorneys" at the 23rd Annual Media and the Law conference in Kansas City, MO. The…