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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard an oral argument in Doe v. Nestle, brought on behalf of child labor victims in the Ivory Coast. At the argument, the judges extensively discussed an…
Professor John Borrows spoke on WTIP North Shore Community Radio about the new White Earth constitution. On Nov. 19, almost 80 percent of the voting members of the White Earth Nation, part of the Minnesota…
Professor Gregory Shaffer was the luncheon keynote speaker at the conference of the Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Shaffer…
Professor Tom Cotter participated in a podcast by The Federalist Society entitled "Patent Re-Reform in Congress," with Jim Copeland of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and New York University School of…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in an Associated Press story on a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling holding that a private business working on a school district project is not required to make subcontractor data…
Professor Susan Wolf will co-direct the first major international workshop on the controversial question of whether researchers should return individual results and incidental findings to people participating in…
Professor Kristin Hickman's amicus brief that she filed before the Supreme Court in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., No. 12-1408, was highlighted in a Bloomberg BNA article entitled "Amicus Brief…
Professor Avner Ben-Ner was the keynote speaker at an international conference, hosted by the faculty of law at the University of Antwerp. Ben-Ner spoke about the global supply chain and the role of the social…
Professor Jane Kirtley was the principal speaker on "Global Privacy and Advertising Developments" at the Practising Law Institute's Communications Law in the Digital Age conference in New York. Kirtley's…
Professor Kristin Hickman has filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc., No. 12-1408. In the brief, Hickman draws from her scholarly work to highlight…
Professor Susan Wolf will speak at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego on Sunday, November 10. Wolf will present on "Incidental Findings and Return of Research Results: Genetics, Biobanks and…
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin serves as associate director of the University of Minnesota Law School and the University of Ulster Transitional Justice Institute's second international gender and conflict…