Faculty News

May 8, 2015 —Professor June Carbone was quoted in the New York Times Upshot column on the decline in the non-marital birth rates. She linked the result not just to an increase in older women having children, the main point…

May 7, 2015 —Professor William McGeveran, an expert in data privacy law, was interviewed live on Wisconsin Public Radio and…

May 7, 2015 —Professor Jane Kirtley was a featured speaker at the second biennial Indiana Government Information Day held at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis. The audience included government and law school librarians as…

May 5, 2015 —Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin's "Just Security" blog post on "Petitions, Human Rights, and Government Service," was cited in a…

May 5, 2015 —Professor Claire Hill presented a talk, "What, if Anything, Should the Law do About Short-Termism?" at the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference in New Orleans. She argued that notwithstanding classical precepts, some…

May 4, 2015 —Professor June Carbone, author of Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family (with Naomi Cahn), wrote an article on when to get married in Forbes Magazine entitled "Don't Get…

May 3, 2015 —Professor Jessica Clarke's article, "Inferring Desire," 63 DUKE L.J. 525 (2013), was selected by the Williams Institute and UCLA School of Law to receive the Dukeminier Award and Ezekiel Webber prize. The Dukeminier…

April 30, 2015 —Professor Daniel Schwarcz testified at a hearing on "Examining Insurance Capital Rules and FSOC Process" before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investments. In his testimony, Schwarcz…

April 29, 2015 —Professor Paul Vaaler was interviewed by WCCO Radio's Dave Lee on the local business implications of fast-track negotiation and approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a prospective trade and investment…

April 28, 2015 —Professor Dale Carpenter wrote an article in the Washington Post entitled "Gay Marriage Will Win and Equal Protection Will Be the Reason." Carpenter states: "Before today's oral argument in Obergefell v…

April 28, 2015 —Professor Jill Hasday appeared on KARE 11 News Sunrise to discuss Obergefell v. Hodges, a case presently before the United States Supreme Court. The Court's decision in Obergefell is expected to…

April 26, 2015 —Professor Hari Osofsky was interviewed by Roshini Rajkumar ('97) on WCCO News Radio's News And Views for a segment entitled "Can Lawsuits Change Minds When it Comes to Climate Change?" Osofsky recently…