Faculty in the News

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Professor Charlotte Garden and co-author Michael Oswalt co-authored an opinion piece in The Hill about how collective bargaining can counteract intrusive workplace surveillance. 

Professor Myron Orfield published an opinion piece in the Star Tribune about the implications of school segregation in Minnesota.

Professor Megan Walsh commented in a FOX 9 investigation report on ghost guns — guns without serial numbers. The Minnesota Supreme Court will be hearing a case challenging the validity of the ghost gun law. Some…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald about what could happen if Donald Trump is elected president and the implications of his use of executive powers. Some experts…

Professor Jill Hasday appeared on WCCO Radio’s Adam and Jordana Show to discuss the constitutional implications of former president Donald Trump's conviction in the New York hush money trial.

Professor Richard Painter was interviewed on KCBS Radio about the guilty verdicts in the Trump hush money trial. He provided his analysis of the verdicts. Painter was chief White House ethics lawyer in the…

Professor Paul Vaaler was quoted by the Star Tribune from testimony he provided in the Feeding Our Future federal fraud investigation. Attorneys for one of the defendants questioned Prof. Vaaler about his…

Professor Jill Hasday discussed the book she is writing, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, in a Minneapolis Star Tribune…

Interim Dean William McGeveran’s appointment as the next dean of the University of Minnesota Law School was noted among the latest in law dean and other education news from across the U.S. in ALM|…

Minnesota Law Dean-Designate William McGeveran was interviewed by Minnesota Lawyer. As a member of the Minnesota Law community for nearly two decades, he spoke about being ready to work…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was quoted in the Swiss news website RSI about Swiss citizens who have been unable to leave a Kurdish-controlled prison camp in northern Syria. Prof. Ní Aoláin visited the camp as…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was quoted at length in the Washington Post about 28 Yemenis who had been allowed to take refuge in Oman following their detainment at Guantánamo Bay. Beginning in July, they…