Faculty in the News

NBC News . June 15, 2013
Steven Schooner explains issues of the government using contractors versus employees in regard to the Booz Allen Hamilton systems analyst's leak of the NSA PRISM program. More

The Washington Post . June 14, 2013
Daniel Solove pens the Outlook piece, "Five Myths About Privacy." More

The Guardian . June 13, 2013
Daniel Solove's 2011 essay, "Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have Nothing to Hide," is quoted. More

Het Financieele Dagblad . June 13, 2013
Jeffrey Manns discusses American and European rating agency reforms. More

NPR . June 11, 2013
Orin Kerr on the catch-22 that is legislating national security issues. More

The Atlantic . June 11, 2013
Daniel Solove's scholarship is extensively quoted in this article that asks,
"Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data?" More

The Daily Beast . June 11, 2013
David Fontana reviews "The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back From Liberals," adding his own analysis of how its small organizational structure has been a key to being so influential. More

Reuters . June 08, 2013
Privacy expert Daniel Solove is quoted on why he believes privacy matters even if you have 'nothing to hide.' More

NPR . June 04, 2013
Spencer Overton explains what is at stake concerning several civil rights cases the Supreme Court is set to rule on this month. More

"The Takeaway with John Hockenberry" WNYC-FM . June 03, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen is interviewed about the Supreme Court's Monday holding that police may collect DNA from those arrested and other cases with rulings still pending. More

The Nation . June 02, 2013
Coverage of William E. Kovacic's recent presentation, "Competition Policy as a Spur to Trade and Investment," given at an Islamabad, Pakistan conference on fostering international trade. More

NPR . June 01, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen helps preview the Supreme Court's June rulings on several civil rights cases it heard this term. More

USA Today . May 29, 2013
Jonathan Turley pens the editorial, "Fire Eric Holder." More

Law Blog . May 29, 2013
Alan Morrison is quoted in an article discussing the ABA's stance that law students should be able to work for free on pro bono cases. More

Bloomberg . May 26, 2013
Robert Brauneis explains the intellectual property and business concepts behind Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville." More

The New York Times . May 25, 2013
Naomi Cahn comments on digital estate planning and what some companies are doing to help customers in this area. More

Delo . May 24, 2013
Jeffrey Manns on the role of rating agencies in Slovenia's debt crisis. More

The Washington Post . May 24, 2013
Jonathan Turley pens "The Rise of the Fourth Branch of Government," providing history and analysis of the country's federal administrative agency system. More

Huffington Post . May 22, 2013
Orin Kerr is quoted in an article discussing the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and whether the actions of two Scripps' employees, who found thousands of customers personal information on the web, would be considered a violation. More

Bloomberg . May 21, 2013
William Kovacic is quoted in an article discussing the willingness of Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook to dialogue with Congress on legal issues. More

The Washington Post . May 16, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen reviews National Law Journal's Chief Washington Correspondent Marcia Coyle's "The Roberts Court." More

CNN . May 15, 2013
Jonathan Turley is interviewed on whether anyone at the IRS could be charged with a crime for targeting conservative groups for increased scrutiny. More

NPR . May 13, 2013
John Whealan explains that the Supreme Court did not decide in the Monsanto patent case the issue of how to treat a product that "automatically reproduces itself with no intervention." More

The New York Times . May 10, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen reviews 'The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals' by Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin. More

The Takeaway with John Hockenberry . May 03, 2013
"The Challenge of Justice: From Ancient Athens to Guantanamo Bay" | Listen to Jeffrey Rosen explore the constitutional questions in the jurisdictional no man's land that is Guantanamo Bay, as he and other experts join a discussion about concepts of law and justice. More

USA Today . May 02, 2013
Lawrence Cunningham, in Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway stockholders' meeting, speaks about his friend and colleague Warren Buffet's decision to open a Twitter account. More

USA Today . April 26, 2013
Sara Rosenbaum is quoted in an article discussing the possible Medicaid expansion in Florida that, if passed, will help uninsured residents buy private medical insurance. More

Bloomberg . April 25, 2013
A study published by the Center for Progress Reform, co-written by Robert Glicksman, on comparisons between state penalty policies for polluting in the Chesapeake Bay is covered in Bloomberg's Daily Environmental Report. More

U.S. News & World Report . April 24, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen authors "Lawmakers Try to Cut Corners With the Constitution," taking the position that the "suggestion that the Boston bombing suspect should be interrogated as an enemy combatant because of his ties to Chechnya and "radical Islamic" thought is legally and constitutionally unconvincing." More

MSNBC . April 22, 2013
Jonathan Turley is interviewed on "Hardball with Chris Matthews" about why Dzhokhar Tsarneav, one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, should be prosecuted as a criminal, rather than as an enemy combatant. More

USA Today . April 21, 2013
Jonathan Turley pens "More Surveillance Not Answer to Boston Terror." More

Montana Public Radio . April 18, 2013
Robert Glicksman is interviewed on how the United States can find a balance between environmental protection and economic development. More

The Huffington Post . April 17, 2013
Spencer Overton authors the op-ed, "Justice Scalia's Latest 'Racial Entitlement' Remark." More

Bloomberg . April 17, 2013
Sara Rosenbaum is quoted in an article discussing a recent Medicaid expansion proposals that will use federal funds to help poor Americans buy private insurance. More

The Daily News Journal . April 17, 2013
Ralph Steinhardt is quoted in an article about the recent Supreme Court ruling that international human rights violations with no direct link to the United States cannot be challenged in U.S. courts. More

Huffington Post . April 17, 2013
Robert Cottrol is quoted in an article discussing whether the commerce clause covers the recently passed law that exempts all Kansas-made guns from federal gun control laws. More

USA Today . April 16, 2013
Jonathan Turley pens "Gene Patent Full of Holes" about the Myriad case before the Supreme Court. More

The New York Times . April 12, 2013
Ralph Steinhardt explains aspects of an $18B judgment against Chevon in an Ecuadorian court for harm to the environment and local people. More

The Huffington Post . April 12, 2013
David Fontana pens "The Washington Lawyer Nominee." More

Reuters . April 11, 2013
Sara Rosenbaum is quoted in an article about the Department of Justice's charges against the primary health insurer for Virginia Tech University after an audit discovered the insurer had been defrauding the school and its students. More

Slate . April 09, 2013
Naomi Schoenbaum authors "Kamala Harris, Sheryl Sandberg, and a Double Bind for Working Women," taking a look at the public debates around issues of women and work. More

Chicago Tribune . April 08, 2013
Charles Craver comments on the class action lawsuit that more than 6,000 Dollar Tree employees have joined against their employer for failing to pay overtime. More

The Motley Fool . April 08, 2013
Lawrence Cunningham is interviewed on his most recent edition of his book The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America. More

Los Angeles Times . April 08, 2013
Alan Morrison is quoted in an article discussing whether gay couples should be allowed to make joint campaign contributions and how this decision may be affected by the Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of DOMA. More

Fox . April 08, 2013
A group of former FCC commissioners and other law experts have written a letter to Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder explaining that if the team continues to use the word "Redskin," they will bring the issue to the FCC where they think it is likely to be found in violation of federal broadcast law because it constitutes an indecency if not an obscenity. The tactic of challenging the use of the word "Redskins" before the FCC was conceived by public interest law John F. Banzhaf, who has successfully taken legal action at the FCC to get cigarette commercials banned and before that in 1969 against a D.C.-area television station that refused to use African Americans in meaningful on-the-air roles. More

StarTribune . April 06, 2013
Sara Rosenbaum is quoted in an article discussing a recent class-action lawsuit against UnitedHealth for treating mental health claims differently than medical or surgical claims. More

The Washington Post . April 03, 2013
Alan Morrison speaks on whether one's law firm client list can predict judicial proclivities. More

The Washington Post . April 03, 2013
Alan Morrison is quoted in an article about whether Obama's judicial nominees are overly controversial. More

NPR . April 03, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen was interviewed about the role social media companies have in dictating online speech rules on NPR's All Things Considered. More

The New York Times . April 01, 2013
Naomi Cahn co-authored an opinion piece on the gender pay gap, discussing why "progress" seen in a diminished disparity may be misleading. More

D.C. Bar's "Washington Lawyer" . April 01, 2013
W. Burlette Carter is quoted in an article about the high-profile class action lawsuit against the NFL from thousands of former pro football players whose primary complaints deal with the NFL's handling of long-term health risks of concussions. More