Faculty News

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor and Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, participated in a conference organized by the Belgrade…

Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 was interviewed by E&E News about a proposal by the Office of Personnel Management to have civil servants sign a governmentwide nondisclosure agreement (NDA). The measure is…

Professor Ana Pottratz Acosta was interviewed by MPR News about the Trump administration signaling a tougher approach to legal immigration with a new policy that could force more green card applicants to…

Sarah Brenes, Executive Director of the Binger Center for New Americans, was interviewed by the Sahan Journal about the aid give by community groups throughout Minnesota who…

Minnesota Law Gun Violence Prevention Clinic Fellow Christian Purnell was interviewed by the Rochester Post Bulletin about the lack of action by the Minnesota state legislature on firearm restrictions. A…

Dean William McGeveran, William S. Pattee Professor of Law, was interviewed by the Minnesota Star Tribune about a proposed law, passed by the Minnesota state legislature,…

Professor Sam Merchant was interviewed by Axios Twin Cities about the length of sentence Feeding Our Future leader Aimee Block was expecting to receive in her role pandemic-era fraud scheme. Some of the lower…

Professor Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, was interviewed by CNN about the sentencing of Aimee Bock, who was called the mastermind of a massive fraud scheme to steal…

Professor Daniel Schwarcz, Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, was interviewed on the “LawDroid” podcast about his work with a randomized control trial…

Professor Daniel Schwarcz, Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, was interviewed on the “ESI Survival Guide” podcast discussing the first randomized control…

Professor Daniel Schwarcz, Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, was interviewed on the “AI and the Future of Law” podcast discussing his recent research on…

Professor JaneAnne Murray published an essay on the influential “Sentencing Matters” substack, run by Prof. Douglas Berman and Jonathan Wroblewski, entitled “The Silent Tragedy of Female Incarceration in U.S.…