Faculty in the News

Faculty News

—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on the propriety of former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman staying in his post while his supporters organized a potential presidential…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a Star Tribune story about a dissatisfied customer who was sued for libel after she criticized a contractor's work and accused him of operating without a license on…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in Minnesota Lawyer concerning the pending appeal of a District Court judge's order that a blog be taken down because it violates a restraining order against harassment of…
—Professor Michele Goodwin's scholarship on organ transplantation, which asks whether introducing markets into that procurement regime will ease the organ shortage, was featured on Freakonomics.com. In a piece…
—Professor Richard Painter's Harvard Law Review article, "The Dodd-Frank Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Provision: Was it Effective, Needed or Sufficient?" was cited in a Thomson Reuters story on the…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about a motion to disqualify Judge Vaughn Walker from the California Proposition 8 case because the judge is gay. Painter said that the…
—Professor Robert Stein was a featured guest on WCCO's Minnesota Law, presented by Moss & Barnett. Stein spoke with hosts Tom Shroyer and Kevin Busch on the Uniform Law Commission (also known as the…
—Professors Jane Kirtley and Stephen Cribari participated in a CLE seminar entitled "In Trouble Online: Social Media and the Law" held at Thomson-West in Eagan, MN. Kirtley moderated the seminar and also discussed…
—Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in an Associated Press story about a North Carolina child custody dispute which has attracted international attention on Twitter and Facebook after the mother claimed on her blog…
—Professor Ralph Hall spoke at the Minnesota State Bar Association's 2011 Health Law Institute. He was on a panel entitled "Recent Changes in FDA, DOJ and OIG Enforcement Initiatives and Prosecutions Related to the…
—Professor Thomas Cotter was quoted in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota Argus Leader in a story concerning a lawsuit between Marco, Inc. and Advanced Systems, Inc. involving alleged violations of employee…
—Professor Jane Kirtley went on a two-week speaking tour of Azerbaijan and Armenia, sponsored by the U.S. State Department. She delivered public lectures in Baku, Yerevan, and Gyumri, and met with editors, bloggers,…