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“Each trial is about the government’s power to punish,” Professor Stephen Cribari said in an article in the Grand Forks Herald, regarding U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson's recent overturning of a jury…
Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin delivered the legal keynote address at the University of California Hastings College of Law for the Hastings Women’s Law Journal annual symposium, “Choice in the 21st…
More than 400 law professors, among them Law School Professors Carol Chomsky, Jennifer Green, Heidi Kitrosser, and Gregory Shaffer, signed a letter dated February 1st to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid…
Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a story in the Minnesota Daily about a pending class action antitrust suit filed by a former UCLA basketball star against the NCAA. Cotter states that the NCAA matter…
Professor Daniel Schwarcz contributed to a Minnesota Public Radio story on President Obama's recent proposal to establish a Health Insurance Rate Authority that would provide Federal oversight of health insurers…
Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in the Minnesota Daily in an article about the Google Book Search settlement hearing. Cotter discusses some of the underlying copyright and antitrust issues relating to…
Prof. Jane Kirtley was quoted in the Charlotte (NC) Observer concerning a proposal in Mecklenburg County to disable a feature permitting individuals to search for property records online using the owner'…
Prof. Bernard Levinson has been named a CLA Scholar of the College. The Scholar of the College award was established to acknowledge outstanding achievement by faculty in the College of Liberal Arts. Scholars of…
Professor Richard Painter was quoted in The National Law Journal, about the inconsistency of two recent rulings by the U. S. Supreme Court on campaign spending. Painter who writes about judicial campaign…
Professor Daniel Schwarcz contributed to a story on Minnesota Public Radio concerning a bill in the US House of Representatives that would repeal the long-standing antitrust exemption for health insurance…
Professor Gregory C. Shaffer's op-ed titled "A method to its madness," on the US-European dispute over genetically modified foods appeared in The European Voice. The piece grows out of his recent book, "…
Professor Richard Painter is quoted in an Associated Press article on the New York Attorney General's charges against Bank of America and its former CEO for allegedly misleading shareholders about the acquisition…