Faculty News
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Prof. Hasday Interviewed on NPR about Women and the Draft
April 28, 2019Professor Jill Hasday was recently interviewed on NPR’s Weekend Edition. She discussed the constitutional issues surrounding women’s exclusion from military registration.
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Prof. Hasday Testifies on the Unconstitutionality of Male-Only Military Registration
April 27, 2019Professor Jill Hasday appeared before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service on April 25. Congress created this commission to make recommendations about reforming the Selective Service System. Professor Hasday’s testimony focused on explaining why male-only military registration is unconstitutional.
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Prof. Orfield Quoted in Washington Post on New Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity Study on Neighborhood Change and Displacement
April 26, 2019Myron Orfield, director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, was quoted in Washington Post on coverage of IMO’s new study on neighborhood change.
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Prof. Kitrosser Quoted by Washington Post and NBC News
April 25, 2019Professor Kitrosser was quoted in two national news stories on clashes between President Trump and Congress. In one, a Washington Post article entitled “How the Trump White House Shot Itself in the Foot on Don McGahn,” Kitrosser explained that President Trump cannot “cannot claim ‘backsies’—i.e., un-waive [executive] privilege” after having waived it with respect to testimony by White House Counsel Don McGahn. In the other story—an NBC News article entitled “Trump Goes to War For Power Over Congress”—Kitrosser spoke about a broader range of ongoing controversies, explaining: “Trump is not inventing executive intransigence out of whole cloth. … At the same time, this is not same-old, same-old. He is taking longstanding pathologies in terms of an increasingly imperial executive branch and ratcheting it up many times over.”
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Prof. Orfield, Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity Publish Major Report on Neighborhood Change
April 24, 2019The Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, led by Professor Myron Orfield, recently published a well-received report on “American Neighborhood Change in the 21st Century: Gentrification and Decline.” The report provides a detailed analysis of neighborhood economic expansion and decline across the United States. It develops a new method for measuring how American regions, cities, and neighborhoods are growing, shrinking, and getting poorer or richer over time, and quantifies on a nationwide and local basis the degree of economic growth, low-income displacement, low-income concentration, and neighborhood abandonment.
CityLab recently interviewed Faculty Fellow William Stancil about the report and published an article highlighting the report’s findings, emphasizing the impact of neighborhood change in the U.S.
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Prof. McGeveran Discusses Celebrity Trademarks in Vox
April 23, 2019The online news site Vox quoted Professor William McGeveran and linked to his scholarly work on “selfmarks”—trademarks protecting personal identity, especially for celebrities. The article focused on the self-promotion of famous celebrities such as Hailey Baldwin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, and Kim Kardashian, and the intellectual property doctrines that could protect things like their names and catchphrases. “Famous people want to control as many parts of their persona as possible in the marketplace,” McGeveran explained.
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Prof. Cotter Quoted by Bloomberg Law on Apple-Qualcomm Settlement
April 17, 2019Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article, “Qualcomm, Apple Deal Leaves FTC Case to Set Antitrust Limits,” as noting the settlement earlier this week of an antitrust lawsuit between Apple and Qualcomm leaves Judge Lucy Koh free to issue her opinion in an FTC antitrust case against Qualcomm without the risk of conflicting opinions. Cotter also noted that the settlement avoids the risk to both parties of having a jury decide a very complicated case.
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Prof. Hill Speaks at Canadian Securities Administrators’ Biennial Commissioners Conference
April 17, 2019Professor Hill spoke at the Canadian Securities Administrators’ Biennial Commissioners Conference in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on April 17, 2019. Hill spoke on a panel that included regulators and judges from the US and Canada; the panel’s topic was deterrence of securities violations. Hill discussed grey areas as to what constitutes a violation, and differences among people as to how and whether they could be deterred. She also discussed difficulties in attempting to deter using specific rules, arguing that such rules can promote a ‘whatever is not prohibited is permitted’ mindset.
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Prof. Shen Featured in Q&A with Science Magazine on Portable Brain Imaging Technology
April 16, 2019Science Magazine featured the collaborative work of Professors Francis Shen, Susan Wolf, and William McGeveran, in their joint project with University of Minnesota neuroscientist Mike Garwood on the ethical, legal, and social implications of highly portable brain imaging technology. The work is supported by a National Institutes of Health Neuroethics grant. Professors Shen, Wolf, and McGeveran research and teach at the intersection of law and science, ethics, and privacy.
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Prof. Cotter Quoted by Law360 on Apple v. Qualcomm Trial
April 15, 2019A Law360 article titled “4 Things To Know About The Apple-Qualcomm Antitrust Trial” quotes Professor Tom Cotter for his views on the parties’ litigation strategies in a major antitrust trial that is scheduled to start on April 16. Cotter notes, among other things, that “it’s crucial when trying a case before a jury to have a consistent narrative,” and “that while Qualcomm will cast itself as the creator of the core technology for smartphones, Apple will argue that Qualcomm is ‘double dipping’ by selling its own processors and licensing out processor patents.”