Faculty News

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin received the 2016 Society of Legal Scholars Research Activities Fund Award to advance research on her project on "Conceptualizing and Quantifying Maternal Harms." The award…

Ellen Anderson, executive director of the Energy Transition Lab, will speak at the "United We Change: What the Paris Climate Summit Means for Minnesota." This event is the Minnesota Center for…

Professor Richard Painter—an expert in securities law and government ethics—was interviewed by KSTP News in a story about a school board official in Stillwater, Minn., who allegedly participated in…

Following up on his op-ed in the New York Times on the Garland nomination, Professor Richard Painter urged in another…

Professor Allan Erbsen’s article “Impersonal Jurisdiction” was recently cited by the Iowa Supreme Court. In the case of State v. Rimmer, the court cited the article’s discussion of how the…

Professor Paul M. Vaaler commented on recent changes in U.S.

Professor Richard Painter was an expert participant on a panel discussion about campaign finance reform at Harvard Law School. Professor Painter noted that dependence on the current campaign finance…

Professor Heidi Kitrosser was a panelist at "Presidential Power in an Era of Polarized Politics," a conference at Harvard Law School, held on April 1. Professor Kitrosser participated in a panel on…

Professor Neha Jain has been appointed as a Member of the Asian Society of International Law's Planning Committee, and has also been elected Vice-Chair of the…

Professor Fred Morrison was featured as an expert interview in a WalletHub article considering the most and least federally-dependent states, and was questioned about the distribution of federal…

Professor Barry Feld was interviewed and quoted in a New Yorker article examining how school administrators are receiving training in police interrogation tactics. Feld noted that because school…

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