—Professor Laura J. Cooper has been appointed as the Alternate Member of the Minnesota Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) as a representative of the public at large. PERB is a new agency, created by the 2014…
—Professor JaneAnne Murray was a guest on KCRW's To The Point for an episode entitled "How Many Innocent Americans Are Sitting in Jail?" The episode discussed how local district attorneys get re-elected…
—Professor Paul Vaaler was interviewed by WCCO Radio's Dave Lee on the recent election in Greece of a left-wing populist government pledged to re-negotiate and write off a substantial percentage of sovereign debt…
—Professor Stephen Befort has been elected Co-Chair of the Labor Law Group along with Melissa Hart from University of Colorado Law School. The Labor Law Group is a nonprofit educational trust that promotes…
—Professor Claire Hill has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law. The ALI…
—Professor Francis Shen was quoted and his research on urban school board governance was cited in a Reno Gazette-Journal article, entitled "Appoint School Boards? It's Not Unusual Around the U.S." which…
—Professor JaneAnne Murray published an op-ed in the New York Times addressing the issue of plea bargaining. The Supreme Court called our criminal justice system "a system of pleas" in 2012, she writes,…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Bloomberg News article on financial conflicts of interest that arose because a new Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner did not, upon taking office,…
—Professor Myron Orfield discussed the origin and importance of the disparate impact cause of action under the Fair Housing Act in a ProPublica article entitled "Supreme Court's Latest Race Case: Housing…
—Professor Christopher Soper explained on Minnesota Public Radio the court's mediation order following a hearing in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis bankruptcy case and said that court-ordered mediation…
—Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in a Huffington Post article, entitled "States Fear The Supreme Court Will Eliminate This Key Anti-Discrimination Tool," about the history and importance of the disparate impact…
