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Faculty News

Professor Alexandra Klass was quoted in an InsideClimate News article regarding the proposed expansion of the Alberta Clipper oil pipeline to bring tar sands oil from Canada to Superior, Wisconsin, where the oil…
Professor Dale Carpenter wrote an article for the Washington Post about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's appearance at the Law School for the Stein Lecture on Sept. 16. Justice Ginsburg, he noted, told the…
Professor Eugene Borgida was quoted in the Pioneer Press on implicit racial bias in the treatment of a man accused of trespass in a public area of the St. Paul skyway system, subjected to Taser, and…
Professor Stephen Meili presented a series of lectures and clinical training exercises to human rights professors and students at four law schools in Medellin, Colombia during the week of August 25. The lectures…
Professor Claire Hill appeared in the "Good Question" segment on WCCO News, answering the question, "Why Can Companies Use Tax Inversion?" Tax inversions, in which U.S. companies enter into transactions with…
Professor Francis Shen appeared in the "Good Question" segment on WCCO News, answering the question, "How Do They Determine If Deadly Force Was Justified?" "We think about what would a reasonable officer have done…
Professor Brett McDonnell was interviewed on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130's Up & At 'Em morning radio show with Jack Tomczak and Ben Kruse. McDonnell discussed his op-ed article on liberal reaction to the…
Professor Mark Kappelhoff, deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, delivered the opening statement at the Convention on the Elimination of Racial…
Professor June Carbone appeared on WCCO News Radio's Jordana Green Show to discuss marriage and children. Carbone spoke about her new book, Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family…
Professor Jane Kirtley took part in three sessions at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 97th Annual Conference in Montreal. On August 6, her presentation, "The First…
Professor Francis Shen was quoted in a Star Tribune article about the University of Minnesota's expanded research presence at the Minnesota State Fair. Shen will run a State Fair Justice study at the fair…
Professor Myron Orfield's work on the exclusionary rule was cited in a New Yorker article entitled "Crime Fiction: Did the Chicago Police Coerce Witnesses into Pinpointing the Wrong Man for Murder?"