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Shortly before Christmas U.S. District Judge James Selna published the public redacted version of his 115-page opinion in TCL Communication Technology Holdings, Ltd. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson,…

Professor Myron Orfield was quoted about the effects of the Trump administration’s decision to delay the enforcement of Obama Adminstration fair housing rules. “Residential segregation is at the heart of…

Professor Francis Shen’s research on inequality, American military casualties, and the 2016 election of Donald Trump was quoted in a London Review of Books…

Professor Carol Chomsky was quoted in an article in NetNewsLedger commenting on the trials of Dakota held after the U.S.-Dakota War in 1862. Thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged in Mankato, Minn. on…

Professor Klass was quoted in an article reporting on the U.S. Department of Energy’s role in partnering with a merchant transmission line company, Clean Line Energy Partners, to build a transmission line to…

Professor Jill Hasday discussed the law governing sexual harassment and mandatory arbitration clauses on WCCO’s News and Views with Roshini Rajkumar.

Professor Linus Chan was quoted in a Star Tribune article about immigration arrests in Minnesota and surrounding states increasing by two-thirds and deportations jumping by more than…

The turmoil at the Consumer Financial Protection Brueau was the subject of a story in the StarTribune in which Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted. Cox noted that the CFPB consumer response system has…

The Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has appointed Professor Susan Wolf to the External Advisory Panel for TOPMed, the Trans-…

Professor Jill Hasday discussed the history of legal struggles over women’s exclusion from military registration, conscription, and combat service in episode 12 of the Washington Post's Constitutional…

Professor Francis Shen's new research on how jurors decode criminal mental states was featured in The Crime Report at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. The forthcoming article,

Professor Richard Painter—former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush—wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about the implications of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s…