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Professor Jill Hasday was interviewed on KARE11 News about the history of litigation over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage prohibitions and the Supreme Court's likely resolution of this issue in
Professor Susan Wolf was interviewed on MPR for an hour-long show on "The Future of End-of-Life Care." The starting point of the conversation was an article that Wolf published in the New England Journal of…
Professor Dale Carpenter was quoted in a Forbes article entitled "Does A Victory For Gay Marriage Lead To Polygamy? Depends On The Reasoning." "That's a more difficult question for gay-marriage advocates,"…
Professor Jane Kirtley discussed the legal and ethical issues surrounding news reporting involving Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, who described his transgender transition in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC.
Professor Herbert Kritzer has been awarded the Law and Society Association's (LSA) Ronald Pipkin Service Award for sustained and extraordinary service to LSA for more than 35 years. While serving on dozens of…
Professor June Carbone published a feature-length article in Aeon, an online magazine, entitled "The Marriage Calculus." The article, written with Professor Naomi Cahn, describes the growing class gap in…
Professor Tom Cotter was interviewed by KSTP TV5 News for a segment entitled "Cover Band Classics Prompt Costly Copyright Claims Against Minn. Bars." Cotter spoke on the question of whether restaurants and bars are…
Professor Jane Kirtley was a juror in the Commentary category for the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes. This year's award went to Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle, whose columns about Texas grand jury abuses,…
Professor June Carbone was interviewed on her new book, Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family, on the Steven Spierer radio show. The hour-long interview covered the changes in the…
Professor Hari Osofsky co-authored a new book, entitled Climate Change Litigation: Regulatory Pathways to Cleaner Energy (Cambridge University Press, 2015), with Jacqueline Peel from the University of…
Professor Dale Carpenter was quoted in a New York Times article entitled "The Case Against Gay Marriage: Top Law Firms Won't Touch It." "Firms are trying to recruit the best talent from the best law schools…
Professor Paul Vaaler commented on a new initiative announced by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to allocate $250 million to pay for online university education courses taken by Starbucks line workers over the next…