Faculty News

Professor Francis Shen was quoted in an article in the Hastings Star Gazette reporting on disparities in police calls to Walmart and to Target. The newspaper’s report found a nearly 4-1 ratio of police…

Law360 has summarized a study by Professor Herbert Kritzer and two collaborators that was recently posted on SSRN. The study shows that decisional patterns by federal district judges have becoming…

A story in PaRR (Policy and Regulatory Report) about a private antitrust suit against Amazon Services quotes Professor Tom Cotter for his take on the difficulties facing the plaintiff, a store alleging that…

Professor William McGeveran was quoted extensively in an article on Mic.com concerning recent controversial requests that states supply voter data to the federal Pence-Kobach Commission investigating alleged…

Professor Tom Cotter discussed the rules for proving the offense of monopolization under U.S. antitrust law for a WCCO News segment titled “Good Question: Is Amazon Getting Too Big?” Prof. Cotter noted that,…

Professor Susanna Blumenthal wrote a commentary for the Washington Post about the case of William Morva on the day set for his execution by the state of Virginia, pointing to the troubling…

Professor Tom Cotter’s blog, “Comparative Patent Remedies,” was recently listed on Feedspot’s list of Top 100 I.P. Blogs. According to Feedspot,…

Prof. Murray presented at the 26th Annual Federal Sentencing Conference, organized for practitioners by the FBA, the ABA, and the NACDL. Her topic was “Using Social Science at Sentencing,” and, together with Laura…

An article in the ABA Journal extensively quoted Professor William McGeveran concerning the limits of defamation law as a possible response to the publication of so-called “fake news,” such as fabricated…

Professor Jill Hasday was interviewed on KARE 11 TV about the process the United States Supreme Court uses to decide which cases to hear. “Unlike most courts, the Supreme Court has almost complete discretion about…

Professor Stephen Meili presented a paper on the growing use of human rights provisions in national constitutions at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, which was held last week in Mexico City.…

Prof. Bernard Levinson has co-edited a major international volume, The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America (Mohr Siebeck 2016), xii + 1204…