Faculty in the News

Faculty News

Professor Richard Painter was quoted in an editorial by Deborah Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle on the President's nomination of Godwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit. The op-ed disagreed with Professor…
Professor Jane Kirtley appeared on a panel, "LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Oh My! The Ethical Dangers of Social Networking for Attorneys" at the 23rd Annual Media and the Law conference in Kansas City, MO. The…
Professor Claire Hill's article, "What Cognitive Psychologists Should Find Interesting About Tax," published in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, was discussed in a Behavioral Economics blog in
Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin was quoted in an article about suicide laws and Internet chat rooms that was recently published in The Globe and Mail, a leading Canadian newspaper. Goodwin commented on…
Professor Amy Kristin Sanders, an affiliate professor of the Law School, received a University of Minnesota Grant-In-Aid this spring for "The FCC, Indecency and Primetime TV: The Regulation of Nudity and Profanity…
Amy Kristin Sanders, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an affiliated professor of the Law School, presented "Limiting Liability: Can Geo-Locational and Other Tools Help…
Amy Kristin Sanders, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an affiliated professor of the Law School, participated in an Apr. 5, 2010, segment of WCCO-TV's "Good Question"…
Bernard Levinson, professor of Classical & Near Eastern Studies and an affiliated professor of the Law School, has been invited to serve as the Henry Luce Senior Fellow in Religious Studies at the National…
In a New York Times times article on the SEC's fraud case against Goldman Sachs, Professor Richard Painter was quoted as saying that the novel nature of the fraud charges made it important for the S.E.C. to…
Professor Jane Kirtley discussed the Federal Shield Law bills currently in Congress on "Access Minnesota," a radio show produced by the Minnesota Association of Broadcasters which aired throughout the state.
Ms. Totenberg's NPR story about the April 16 Senate hearing on Goodwin Liu's nomination to the Ninth Circuit quoted Professor Richard Painter's posts to the website Legal Ethics Forum. Ms. Totenberg quoted that…
Professor Jane Kirtley delivered a lecture on "The Impact of Internet-Based Sites Such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube on Teacher Privacy and Related Rights in the Classroom" at the American Federation of Teachers…