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Minnesota Public Radio aired a half-hour segment Wednesday where host Tom Weber interviewed Professor William McGeveran about the Supreme Court case of Carpenter v. United States. The case, in which…

Professor William McGeveran testified Tuesday before Minnesota’s Legislative Commission on Data Practices, composed of bipartisan members of the state’s House of Representatives and Senate. He was invited by…

Professor William McGeveran, an expert in data privacy and security, was featured in several media outlets including CNBC TV,…

Professor Francis Shen’s research on dementia and the law was featured in a Harvard Law School Petrie Flom Forum on Dementia and Democracy. Professor Shen argued that we must address the issue of possible…

Nicholas Kristof's column in the New York Times quoted Professor June Carbone's "important" book with Naomi Cahn, "Red Families v. Blue Familes," on the differences in sexual activity and…

Professor Myron Orfield, director of the Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, and Will Stancil, the Institute’s research fellow, are quoted extensively in a New York Times op-ed…

Writing in Foreign Policy, Professor Alan Rozenshtein explains how the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act," a Senate bill that would make websites and social-media companies liable for sex-…

On October 31, 2017, Professor JaneAnne Murray was elected to the board of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), the nation's premier nonprofit bar association of lawyers, both…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein wrote a commentary for Lawfare regarding how policymakers should analyze the status of social-media companies for content-regulation purposes. Rozenshtein argues…

Professor Stephen Befort was interviewed for a Star Tribune article entitled, “Richfield Finds It's Hard to Fire a Cop.” Professor Befort described an empirical study of labor arbitration cases…

Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in a Star Tribune story on the 51050 Senate vote which completed the Congressional rescission of a rule passed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau limiting the…

Professor Daniel Schwarcz testified at a hearing on the “Federal Role in the Insurance Industry” before the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee, in Washington D.C.…