Faculty News

Minnesota Law Gun Violence Prevention Clinic Fellow Christian Purnell was interviewed by the Rochester Post Bulletin about the lack of action by the Minnesota state legislature on firearm restrictions. A…

Dean William McGeveran, William S. Pattee Professor of Law, was interviewed by the Minnesota Star Tribune about a proposed law, passed by the Minnesota state legislature,…

Professor Sam Merchant was interviewed by Axios Twin Cities about the length of sentence Feeding Our Future leader Aimee Block was expecting to receive in her role pandemic-era fraud scheme. Some of the lower…

Professor Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, was interviewed by CNN about the sentencing of Aimee Bock, who was called the mastermind of a massive fraud scheme to steal…

Professor Daniel Schwarcz, Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, was interviewed on the “LawDroid” podcast about his work with a randomized control trial…

Professor Daniel Schwarcz, Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, was interviewed on the “ESI Survival Guide” podcast discussing the first randomized control…

Professor Daniel Schwarcz, Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, was interviewed on the “AI and the Future of Law” podcast discussing his recent research on…

Professor JaneAnne Murray published an essay on the influential “Sentencing Matters” substack, run by Prof. Douglas Berman and Jonathan Wroblewski, entitled “The Silent Tragedy of Female Incarceration in U.S.…

Professor Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, was quoted by the Daily Beast about Donald Trump’s efforts to enrich the Trump family through his…

Professor James Coleman was interviewed by the Minnesota Reformer about the Trump administration moving to block a lawsuit filed almost six years ago by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison that…

Professor Ana Pottratz Acosta, visiting assistant professor and director of the the Immigration & Human Rights Clinic of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans, was interviewed by MPR News about…

Professor Matthew Bodie, Robins Kaplan Professor of Law, spoke to Robert Iafolla at Bloomberg Law about the power of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to seek preliminary…