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Faculty News

Prof. Ana Pottratz Acosta Quoted in Visa Verge About Lawsuit to Block Ending Somalia’s TPS

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Professor Ana Pottratz Acosta, visiting assistant professor and director of the the Immigration & Human Rights Clinic of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans, was quoted in Visa…

Prof. Richard Painter Quoted by Law 360 About Minnesota’s Fight Over Medicaid Funds

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Professor Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, was quoted by Law 360 about Minnesota’s fight over $243 million in Medicaid funding frozen by the…

Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Interviewed for U.N. Report on Women Shaping International Justice

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Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor and Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, was interviewed for the United Nations publication, Voices from the Bench: Women Shaping…

Prof. Sam Merchant Interviewed by The Minnesota Daily About Loss of Goodwill Between Local Courts and U.S. Attorney’s Office

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Professor Sam Merchant was interviewed for an opinion piece in The Minnesota Daily about the chaos in the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office stemming from numerous resignations of attorneys and the influx…

Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Interviewed by The Atlantic About Pentagon’s Deal With OpenAI

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Professor Alan Rozenshtein was interviewed by The Atlantic about the business deal that OpenAI signed with the Department of Defense, following the Pentagon’s sudden turn against Anthropic. OpenAI will…

Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Interviewed on NPR About Anthropic Designation as a “Supply-Chain Risk”

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Professor Alan Rozenshtein was interviewed on NPR’s On the Media about about the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on AI company Anthropic. …

Prof. James Coleman Interviewed by Star Tribune About Proposed Changes to Clean Water Act

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Professor James Coleman was interviewed by the Minnesota Star Tribune about the Trump administration being poised to roll back the key provision of the Clean Water Act which has allowed states to…

Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Interviewed on National Security Law Today Podcast About Limits of Government Authority

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Professor Alan Rozenshtein was interviewed on the National Security Law Today podcast about the limits of government authority in light of the recent standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic. In the podcast,…

Prof. Susan Wolf Interviewed by MPR News About How Ethics, Funding Cuts, and AI Affect Scientific Research

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Professor Susan Wolf, Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy, was interviewed by MPR News about scientific research including how funding cuts and AI are…

Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Interviewed for Understanding AI About Legality of Anthropic Being Labeled a “Supply-Chain Risk”

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Professor Alan Rozenshtein was interviewed by Timothy Lee for Understanding AI about the legality of Anthropic being labeled a “supply-chain risk” by the Defense Department. Last Friday, Anthropic refused…

Prof. Richard Painter Co-Authors Commentary in The Contrarian About Legality of Military Action in Iran

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Professor Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, co-authored a commentary in The Contrarian about the legality for the U.S. military action against…

Prof. Sapna Kumar Interviewed by Bloomberg Law About ITC Patent Ruling

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Professor Sapna Kumar was interviewed by Bloomberg Law about a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) decision to bar imports of certain older GoPro-Insta360 camera models over a disputed design patent. The…