Faculty News

Professor Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, was quoted by The Guardian about possible violations of the Hatch Act, which limits the…

Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16 was quoted by the Washington Post about the Trump administration attempt to quash fired federal workers’ appeals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) by arguing…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted by Reuters about Donald Trump’s plan to sell Chinese-owned TikTok's U.S. operations to U.S. and global investors will address the national security requirements…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted in a news analysis by the New York Times about the politicization of the U.S. Justice Department under Donald Trump. According to the Justice Department, former…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor; Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society; and faculty director of Minnesota Law's Human Rights Center, and Alyssa Yamamoto, visiting fellow with…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted by the New York Times about lawsuits against online platforms such as TikTok that have shown videos of “subway surfing” that have resulted in deaths of youths.…

Professor Prentiss Cox ’90 was quoted by the Wall Street Journal about a civil trial that began this week that scrutinizes the tactics Amazon uses to entice consumers to sign up for its Prime service…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted by CBS News about the Trump administration again delaying the enforcement the law that bans TikTok. It’s the fourth time that Trump has pushed back enforcing the…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor about how in the light of the possible TikTok deal, the law to ban the app was not enforced. Despite being banned in…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted in the New York Times about the “framework for a deal” between the U.S. and China to avert a TikTok ban. The Chinese parent company ByteDance had in recent weeks…

Professor Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, was quoted in the Minnesota Star Tribune about the Minnesota Supreme Court’s ruling that women…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was interviewed on a BBC News podcast that analyzed the law that was to have banned TikTok in the U.S. and the postponements by the Trump administration in enforcing the law. The…