Human Rights Center Faculty Director and UN Special Rapporteur, Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is urging 57 countries to repatriate nationals that are being held in camps in Northern Syria. Joined by other UN human rights experts, Professor Ní Aoláin has issued a statement expressing serious concerns at the inhumane treatment and squalid conditions within the camps.

Professor Klass discussed existing federal authority for the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to overcome existing legal and political roadblocks to building the long-distance electric transmission lines needed to connect wind and other renewable energy resources to U.S. population centers.

Conducting Research in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethics in an Emergency

March 3, 2021, 9:00 am to 1:30 pm, online

Join national leaders including Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith of Yale Medical School, who will lead a White House task force dedicated to health equity, and Dr. Christine Grady, Chief of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, to consider how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing research ethics.

Experts will discuss how to advance ethics and equity when conducting pandemic research, how to reconcile the need for research with the clinical imperative to save lives, and how the pandemic is affecting research design.

4.25 Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits have been approved. Event code: 338010

Professor Jill Hasday testified before the Minnesota House Committee on the Judiciary, Finance, and Civil Law in support of a bill that would ban employers from asking job applicants about their pay history.

Professor Paul Vaaler told WCCO the GameStop story shows the power of the internet, but expressed skepticism about the populist investing movement developing into a long-term trend. “Getting a mob to move in one direction is a tough thing to do,” Vaaler said. “In this case, they did. Don’t hold your breath that it’s going to happen again soon."

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