Faculty News

Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in MinnPost about Minnesota abandoning efforts to integrate schools and housing.

Professor Myron Orfield was quoted by KSTP on the recent calls for more accountability in the Metropolitan Council. Amidst a massively over-budget metro-line extension that is still millions of…

Professor Myron Orfield and Research Fellow Will Stancil wrote an op-ed for the Star Tribune in which they argue that the source of Minnesota's shortage in K-12 educators is that teachers aren'…

A Star Tribune piece on efforts to change the 16-member Met Council from an appointed to elected body quoted Professor Myron Orfield, a longtime critic of the council’s structure.

"The Met…

MinnPost quoted Professor Myron Orfield’s testimony before the Minnesota Senate Transportation Committee on a proposal to make sweeping changes to the state’s Metropolitan…

Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in the Minnesota Lawyer on a Hennepin County tax case that was recently announced to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. Hennepin County seized the condominium of a 93-year-…

Visiting Professor David Schultz and Professor Myron Orfield co-wrote an op-ed in the MinnPost about the recent Cruz-Cuzman v. Minnesota Court of Appeals decision, and how it is a direct…

Professor Orfield was quoted in Governing magazine about the harms of growing racial segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul.  

Professor Myron was Orfield quoted in the American Prospect about regional housing planning.  Orfield: "Want affordable housing? Strengthen regional governments."

In a New York Times article entitled "In Minneapolis Schools, White Families Are Asked to Help Do the Integrating," Professor Myron Orfield spoke on the potential benefits of a plan designed to take a…

Professor Myron Orfield, the director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School, is writing a book about the Fair Housing Act in the nineteen-sixties. “Civil…

Professor Myron Orfield, director of the Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, was quoted in Quartz in an article examining racial disparities in economic advantages in urban areas across…