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Professor Herbert Kritzer was quoted in a Star Tribune article concerning compensation received by Minnesota judges for their off-bench activities. According to the article, fewer than half of the state'…
Professor Stephen Meili delivered a paper on U.S. refugee resettlement policy at a conference sponsored by the University of Auckland's New Zealand Centre on Human Rights. The theme of the conference was the…
Professor Michele Goodwin will give the 2014 Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. This annual, endowed…
Professor Prentiss Cox appeared on Minnesota Public Radio's The Daily Circuit to talk about foreclosures. Cox reviewed the recent data on foreclosures and discussed whether foreclosure rates are headed back to…
Professor Susan Wolf published an op-ed in the Star Tribune on the new Presidential Commission report addressing the challenge of incidental findings in medical care and biomedical research. Wolf's piece…
The Presidential Commission on Bioethics has released its long-awaited report on incidental findings. The report quotes and cites heavily from NIH-funded projects led…
Professor Francis Shen was quoted in a TIME article discussing the implications of a new neuroscience study in which electrical shocks were used to bolster feelings of resilience in subjects. Shen…
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…