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Professor Richard W. Painter—former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush—appeared on CNN to discuss President-elect Trump’s potential conflicts of interest and how he might order his business…

Professor Richard W. Painter—former chief White House ethics lawyer for George W. Bush—authored an op-ed in the New York Times calling into question recent actions in the F.B.I.’s Clinton…

Professor Jill Hasday, a constitutional law expert, appeared in the “Good Question” segment on WCCO-TV News.  She answered questions about how statutes are repealed.

On October 26, Professor Neha Jain was an expert panelist at a meeting on “General Principles of Law” organized by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations at the U.N. Headquarters…

Berkeley Law School Professor Meir-Dan Cohen reviewed Law and the Modern Mind, by Professor Susanna Blumenthal, in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Professor Cohen reads the…

A team of campaign finance lawyers, including Professor Richard Painter and other notable experts such as Larry Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard, filed a suit on Friday in federal…

Stanford Law School Professor Rabia Belt reviewed Law and the Modern Mind Professor Susanna Blumenthal, in JOTWELL (The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)). Professor Belt surveys the key…

On October 27, 2016, President Obama granted 98 prisoner commutations, bringing to 872 the number of federal inmates who have benefited from his expansive use of presidential pardon power. Among them was…

Professor Paul Vaaler was interviewed by the Star Tribune's political columnist John Rash and quoted in his column on commentary by presidential candidates and Minnesota senators critical of the…

Professor Claire Hill was quoted in an article in the American Banker discussing the reputational and other consequences for Wells Fargo stemming from the recent revelations of the millions of "…

Professor Tom Cotter discussed the possible effects of a proposed $85 billion merger between telecommunications giant AT&T and content provider Time-Warner, for a story on KSTP-TV Channel 5 Eyewitness News…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and…