Faculty News

Professor Jill Hasday discussed the history of legal struggles over women’s exclusion from military registration, conscription, and combat service in episode 12 of the Washington Post's Constitutional…

The Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has appointed Professor Susan Wolf to the External Advisory Panel for TOPMed, the Trans-…

Professor Francis Shen's new research on how jurors decode criminal mental states was featured in The Crime Report at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. The forthcoming article, …

Professor Richard Painter—former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush—wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about the implications of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s…

Minnesota Public Radio aired a half-hour segment Wednesday where host Tom Weber interviewed Professor William McGeveran about the Supreme Court case of Carpenter v. United States. The case, in which…

Professor William McGeveran testified Tuesday before Minnesota’s Legislative Commission on Data Practices, composed of bipartisan members of the state’s House of Representatives and Senate. He was invited by…

Professor William McGeveran, an expert in data privacy and security, was featured in several media outlets including CNBC TV,…

Professor Francis Shen’s research on dementia and the law was featured in a Harvard Law School Petrie Flom Forum on Dementia and Democracy. Professor Shen argued that we must address the issue of possible…

Nicholas Kristof's column in the New York Times quoted Professor June Carbone's "important" book with Naomi Cahn, "Red Families v. Blue Familes," on the differences in sexual activity and…

Professor Myron Orfield, director of the Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, and Will Stancil, the Institute’s research fellow, are quoted extensively in a New York Times op-ed…

Writing in Foreign Policy, Professor Alan Rozenshtein explains how the "Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act," a Senate bill that would make websites and social-media companies liable for sex-…

On October 31, 2017, Professor JaneAnne Murray was elected to the board of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), the nation's premier nonprofit bar association of lawyers, both…