Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin recently spoke on the Lawfare Podcast about her experience as a United Nations special rapporteur. She discussed the downstream harms of counterterrorism financing, her conversations with Guantanamo Bay detainees, why gender should be a meaningful consideration of counterterrorism policy, and more.

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted by the Star Tribune about the Minnesota Supreme Court rejecting a request to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 primary ballot under the U.S. Constitution’s  insurrection clause. It its ruling, Supreme Court said the petitioners could refile the challenge for the general election. Rozenshtein said he was unsure of the reasoning for the refile option later on for the general election.

A new study, entitled “Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” was released by two University of Minnesota Law Professors, Daniel Schwarcz and Amy Monahan, and University of Southern California Gould School of Law Professor Jon Choi.

Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted by the Washington Post about media calls to grant live television coverage of Donald Trump’s federal trial in March 2024. News organization petitions were sent to a U.S. District Judge requesting an exception to the long-standing rule that bars cameras from federal courtrooms.

Professor Jack Whiteley recently authored an article in the Cornell Law Review entitled “Property in Wolves.” The article was reviewed by Professor Ezra Rosser of the American University Washington College of Law in The Journal of Things We Like (Lots). Professor Rosser writes that the article “tells a fascinating story that forces readers to recognize the myriad ways—including through wilderness bounties—that state policies shape property norms and property formation.”

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was interviewed by Voice of America about international humanitarian law and its application to the conflict between Israel and Gaza. She said that laws governing the conduct of war are among the oldest treaties and norms of international law. “Wars have rules, they've had rules for a long time,” she explained. “Some parts of the law of war are not in treaties but have been established through state practice, meaning it is something that states do consistently without having written it down.

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, was quoted on Swedish Radio about the ongoing detention of Swedish children in NE Syria. In her role investigating human rights issues with the United Nations, she visited the Roj camp last summer and said conditions were terrible. She said there was a lack of water, food, and health care. She said that no Swedish children should be allowed to live like that, it is not their own fault, and the government should take the children home as soon as possible.

Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted by the Washington Post regarding a newspaper publisher and a reporter who were arrested for publishing an article officials said was based on confidential grand-jury evidence — a move that press-freedom advocates are characterizing as an unconstitutional attack on the news media. Kirtley said these arrests follow a number of other recent cases in which local prosecutors have used warrants, threats, and criminal proceedings to harass or pressure journalists. Such prosecutions can be costly, especially for small news organizations.