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Professor Susan Wolf was invited by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health to debate new recommendations from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics on…
Professor Michele Goodwin was quoted in an MPR News article entitled "What the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Case Means for MN Colleges." According to the article, the Supreme Court ruling on Fisher v.…
Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Star Tribune article on a Hennepin County Commissioner whose spouse's firm has been lobbying the Commission for a major contract. Painter said it's common for a…
Professor Bernard Levinson is the author of a new book entitled A More Perfect Torah: At the Intersection of Philology and Hermeneutics in Deuteronomy and the Temple Scroll (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns,…
Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Star Tribune article about aggressive patent infringement lawsuits filed by patent assertion entities or "patent trolls." Cotter stated that the number of such suits has…
Professor Jill Hasday's recent article, "Siblings in Law," 65 Vanderbilt Law Review 897 (2012), was cited by Israel's Supreme Court. The case considered the rights of brothers to live together in the same…
Professor D. Daniel Sokol was selected to present at the prestigious Junior Faculty Forum, organized by Stanford, Yale, and Harvard law schools. This year's forum will be held at Yale Law School. Sokol's paper, "…
Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a front page Wall Street Journal article covering the University of Michigan's practice of accepting payment for release of its market moving consumer economic data to…
Professor Susan Wolf presented "Consent in Whole Genome Sequencing: The Debate Over Return of Results & Incidental Findings" in a webinar series sponsored by Genetic Alliance. This ongoing series focuses on the…
Professor William McGeveran appeared in the "Good Question" segment on WCCO News, answering the question, "How much does the government really know about us?" McGeveran said, "The government, if you take it all…
Professor Stephen Meili presented a paper on complimentary protection in comparative perspective at the Nordic Asylum Law Seminar at the University of Bergen, Norway. Meili used his research on the impact of human…
Professor Susan Wolf appeared on NPR's Science Friday to discuss issues raised by whole genome sequencing. The…