Faculty in the News

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—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Star Tribune article on the NRA's efforts to defeat gun control legislation in Minnesota. Painter, a former White House counsel in the George W. Bush…
—A Financial Times op-ed on applying the strengths of the traditional partnership model mentioned an earlier New York Times Dealbook op-ed by Professors Claire Hill and Richard Painter that…
—Professor Richard Painter published an op-ed in the New York Times on-line edition about the excessive influence of the National Rifle Association on the Republican Party.
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Thomson Reuters article on Justice Stephen Breyer's decision to recuse from an important environmental case in which his brother, a federal district judge, had sat on the…
—Professor Richard Painter's prior research on legal and ethical risk-taking by decision makers experiencing a "loss frame"—a choice between two bad alternatives—in business or government was cited by the …
—As reported in Roll Call, Bloomberg and other media outlets, Professor Richard Painter, Lawrence Lessig, Trevor Potter, and Theodore Roosevelt IV had a telephonic press conference in which they outlined the…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on financial disclosure and conflict of interest issues that could arise from Governor Mitt Romney's private equity holdings if he…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted extensively in a Politico article on campaigning for the president's reelection by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in Wisconsin. Her campaigning did not…
—Professor Richard Painter was interviewed on Federal News Radio, the radio network for federal government employees, about the Office of Special Counsel determination that U.S. Health and Human Services…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Bloomberg Businessweek article on the Office of Special Counsel finding that the U.S. Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch…
—Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Bloomberg Businessweek article about a former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner who made frequent telephone calls back to the SEC on behalf of her law…