Faculty News

Professor William McGeveran spoke on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition program about the $17 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Aetna. The company sent letters to HIV-positive…

Professor Francis Shen’s research on sports concussions and the law was featured in a Huffington Post article discussing Minnesota’s efforts to be a leader in promoting brain health for youth athletes…

Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in an American Banker article about the recent freeze imposed on the collection of personal level data by Mick Mulvaney, new acting director of the Consumer…

Prof. JaneAnne Murray was quoted in an article in the Star Tribune discussing the upcoming criminal fraud trial involving executives of Starkey Laboratories. Murray noted that trials of high-level…

The Star Tribune quoted Professor William McGeveran concerning a settlement in trademark litigation between Minnesota-based insurer HealthPartners and the national warehouse chain Sam’s Club.…

Shortly before Christmas U.S. District Judge James Selna published the public redacted version of his 115-page opinion in TCL Communication Technology Holdings, Ltd. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson,…

Professor Myron Orfield was quoted about the effects of the Trump administration’s decision to delay the enforcement of Obama Adminstration fair housing rules. “Residential segregation is at the heart of…

Professor Francis Shen’s research on inequality, American military casualties, and the 2016 election of Donald Trump was quoted in a London Review of Books…

Professor Carol Chomsky was quoted in an article in NetNewsLedger commenting on the trials of Dakota held after the U.S.-Dakota War in 1862. Thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged in Mankato, Minn. on…

Professor Klass was quoted in an article reporting on the U.S. Department of Energy’s role in partnering with a merchant transmission line company, Clean Line Energy Partners, to build a transmission line to…

Professor Jill Hasday discussed the law governing sexual harassment and mandatory arbitration clauses on WCCO’s News and Views with Roshini Rajkumar.

Professor Linus Chan was quoted in a Star Tribune article about immigration arrests in Minnesota and surrounding states increasing by two-thirds and deportations jumping by more than…