Faculty in the News

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

C-SPAN | NPR | MSNBC | HuffPost | Diane Rehm | TNR . March 29, 2013
Constitutional law experts David Fontana, Alan Morrison, Jeffrey Rosen, and Jonathan Turley provide their thoughts and analysis on the same-sex marriage cases before the Supreme Court. More

NBC News . March 28, 2013
John Banzhaf is quoted in an article discussing the New York Investment Bank that was allowed to bend the "Potty Parity" law stating that women and men must have an equal number of washroom facilities in a public space. More

Inside Climate News . March 25, 2013
Robert Glicksman on the U.S. State Department's handling of public comments for the Keystone XL Pipeline's draft environmental impact statement. More

Thomson Reuters . March 25, 2013
John Banzhaf is quoted in an article about privacy concerns surrounding CVS Caremark's new policy that employees must submit to a health exam or pay a fee. More

The Guardian . March 22, 2013
Robert Cottrol is quoted in an article discussing the status of current gun control legislation in the U.S. Congress. More

MSNBC . March 21, 2013
Alan Morrison is quoted in an article discussing the two Supreme Court same-sex marriage cases, and the flurry of support that high-profile figures are giving to gay marriage just prior to the cases being heard. More

The Washington Post . March 20, 2013
Orin Kerr comments on the differences between the indictments of Matthew Keyes, social media editor for Reuters.com, and Aaron Swartz, an internet activist, under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. More

NPR . March 19, 2013
Spencer Overton is interviewed on NPR's "Tell Me More" about the Supreme Court arguments on the Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. More

The New York Times . March 17, 2013
Orin Kerr is quoted in an article discussing possible changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after a Reuters social media editor was indicted under the 1984 computer crime law. More

Huffington Post . March 16, 2013
Arthur Wilmarth is quoted on the potential lawsuits JPMorgan may face after their "London Whale" trade lost $6.2 billion and they are suspected of withhold damaging information from investors and the public. More

NPR . March 14, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen is interviewed on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" about where the legal line is drawn between thoughts and actual criminal behavior in the New York "Cannibal Cop" case about a police officer who plotted to kill and eat his wife. More

Bloomberg . March 13, 2013
Arthur Wilmarth comments on the implications of The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' proposal to significantly shrink government support for banks. More

CNET . March 13, 2013
Orin Kerr comments on the issues behind the general and overreaching language held in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and how this piece of legislation is now being used to criminalize less serious offenses. More

Aljazeera . March 12, 2013
John Banzhaf responds to the ruling that threw out New York’s ban on large sugary drinks. More

Environment and Energy Daily . March 11, 2013
Robert Glicksman is quoted in the article "Debate over REINS Act Focuses on Whether Lawmakers Are 'Too Stupid'," on regulatory reform legislation. More

PBS . March 11, 2013
Naomi R. Cahn was featured on the PBS program Newshour to discuss what happens to all digital assets, such as email and social media pages, when we die, as well as the legal protocol for these accounts. More

The Huffington Post . March 11, 2013
David Fontana pens "The Laboratory of Judicial Nominations". More

The Washington Post . March 09, 2013
Sara Rosenbaum is interviewed in an article about Arkansas plan showing that health care law’s Medicaid expansion leaves flexibility for states. More

The Washington Post . March 08, 2013
Sara Rosenbaum is interviewed in the article: "Privatizing the Medicaid expansion: Every state will be eying this." More

U.S. News . March 08, 2013
Jonathan Turley is quoted in the article: "Maine, Georgia, Utah Towns Consider Mandatory Gun Ownership." More

The New York Times . March 06, 2013
Joan Meier pens "Home is Where the Harm Is," analyzing and advising on how the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction should be read and followed. More

The New York Times . March 05, 2013
Joan Meier authored an opinion piece titled "Home is Where the Harm Is," discussing laws meant to protect abducted children, and how child abduction should not always be viewed at face value. More

Bottom Line . March 04, 2013
Naomi R. Cahn explains how to protect our digital estates: "Make sure your heirs inherit your online photos…bank accounts…Web sites…blogs…more. Our real-world possessions might not be all that we want to leave to our heirs when we die. Nowadays most people have assets in the cyberworld to pass on as well." More

Fox 5 . March 01, 2013
John Banzhaf on the potential dangers of e-cigarettes. More