A roundup of faculty appearances in news sources and media from the last week, 2/13/14 to 2/20/14.
2/15 – Lori Andrews was quoted in a New York Times story on criminal investigators’ use of social media to gather evidence (“Social Media, a Trove of Clues and Confessions”). Andrews argued that an unchecked eagerness to use social media in investigations may endanger the right to a fair trial.
2/17 – Douglas Godfrey was interviewed by phone on CLTV’s Politics Tonight for a story about Florida’s “stand-your-ground” law and the Michael Dunn trial.
2/18 – Martin Malin was quoted in an MSNBC article on Northwestern football players’ push for unionization rights (“College football players demand right to form a union”). Malin noted that the players face difficult legal challenges on the road to unionization, since the NCAA insists they are “student-athletes” and not employees.
Blogs:
2/18 – César Rosado Marzán’s recent thoughts on the Volkswagen unionization defeat were highlighted in a post on the blog In These Times (“What Are the UAW’s Legal Options After the Volkswagen Defeat?”).
2/20 – Two recent posts by Christopher Schmidt—part of his new “Drama in the Court” series—were featured in the daily roundup on SCOTUSblog.
2/20 – David Schwartz authored a guest post (with Christopher Cotropia and Jay Kesan) on the Patently-O blog titled “The Value of Open Data for Patent Policy”. The post calls for more publicly available data in the field of empirical legal studies, especially in the study of patent assertion entities—PAEs, commonly known as patent trolls, which the authors have studied and written about.
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