Faculty News

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.…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin’s career work fighting for human rights law was profiled in the Star Tribune. Highlighting her recent appointment to the United Nations as its Special Rapporteur on…

Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in a City Pages article on Congressional legislation to restrict the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cox observed that the CFPB has been an…

Professor Steve Meili presented his research on the constitutionalization of asylum law at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. His talk was part of the RSC’s weekly seminar series. In his talk,…

Professor Eugene Borgida will participate in a panel discussion about mitigating implicit bias in the criminal justice system, to be held on October 25 from 2-4 p.m. at the Minneapolis Jury Assembly Room at the…

Professor John H. Matheson was invited and has joined the Expert Reference Group for the Australian Research Council funded Discovery Project “Devising a Legal Blueprint for Corporate Energy Transition.”…

Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Minnesota Lawyer article titled “Minnesotan Sees Red Over Disney” in connection with a lawsuit filed by child development expert Denise Daniels alleging that…

Professor June Carbone was quoted in the National Catholic Reporter on the relationship between marriage and changing economic circumstances.  The article quoted a public presentation she gave in…

Professor Heidi Kitrosser was among the legal experts interviewed for a column in vox.com on the legal and political significance of Trump White House staffers' uses of private e-mail accounts. Kitrosser…