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Faculty News

Professor Jane Kirtley was the principal speaker for a panel entitled "Privacy Protection, Safety and Security" at Practising Law Institute's Communications Law in the Digital Age conference in New York. In…
Professor Jane Kirtley discussed secrecy and the search for the new University of Minnesota president in an article in the Star Tribune. Addressing concerns about candidates who might be discouraged from…
Professor Jane Kirtley presented a paper entitled "SLAPP-ing Back: A Perspective on Protecting Public Debate, from the U.S.A." at the 2010 Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Conference in Toronto.
Professor Jane Kirtley presented a paper/work in progress, "'It's About Trust': Should Government Intervene to Compel Disclosure in Social Media?" at Social Media and the Value of Truth: The 3rd Annual Symposium…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a CQ Researcher report on "Journalism Standards in the Internet Age." She discussed challenges to maintaining traditional principles of accuracy and fairness with the…
Prof. Jane Kirtley was quoted by Bloomberg News in a story about a Second Circuit case that will consider whether an executive convicted of securities fraud for allegedly backdating stocks was denied…
Professor Jane Kirtley organized and moderated a panel, "Criminal Libel: A 15th Century Crime for the 21st Century," at the 93rd Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in "Mood lighting" by Patrick Thornton on the MinnLawyer Blog, regarding former U.S. Agriculture Department Shirley Sherrod's announced intention to sue Andrew Breitbart for…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a Minnesota Independent story, "Conservative paper's partisan links back data requests, despite denials." Prof. Kirtley discussed how government records custodians should…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a Reuters story about Chevron Corp.'s attempt to obtain outtakes from a documentary filmmaker's project about a dispute over oil pollution in Ecuador. Chevron argues that there is…
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…

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…