Kathryn J. Sedo

Professor of Clinical Instruction

Kathryn J. Sedo

190 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-5515

612-624-5771

sedox001@umn.edu

University of Michigan, A.B., J.D.

Clinical Professor Kathryn J. Sedo is an authority on cooperative law. She teaches clinics in the areas of tax law, general practice, workers' compensation, and disability law.

Professor Sedo received her A.B. degree and J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Michigan. After graduating from law school, she practiced law with the firm of Sedo and Darnton in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

She joined the clinical faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School in 1979. She has been an adjunct professor at Madonna College. In addition, she has taught at the Université Jean Moulin in Lyon, France, and the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Since 1984, Professor Sedo has represented worker and consumer cooperatives in the Upper Midwest. She is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association and the American Bar Association Taxation Section.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles

The Application of Securities to Cooperatives: A Call for Equal Treatment for Nonagricultural Cooperatives, 46 Drake L. Rev. 259 (1998).

Duties & Responsibilities of the Cooperative Board of Directors, Challenges to the Cooperative Board of Directors (Oct. 1996).

Recent Developments in Discovery, Civil Pretrial Practice (1989).

Legal Issues in Worker Cooperative, Employee Ownership for Smaller Companies 10 (1987).

Cooperative Mergers and Consolidations: A Consideration of the Legal and Tax Issues, 63 N.D. L. Rev. 377 (1987).

A Model for a Self-Employed Worker Cooperative, 6 Employee Ownership, May-June 1986, at 3.

Recent Developments in Discovery, Civil Pretrial Practice (Minn. Inst. Legal Educ. 1985).

Consumer Cooperative and Securities Laws, 27 Moving Food, June-July 1984, at 20.

Local Law Schools: New Approaches..., Bench & B. Minn., July 1984, at 21 (with Doug Heidenreich & Marilynne Roberts).

Legal Audits of Cooperatives, 35 Cooperative Acct. 59 (1982).

COURSES

Courses

Federal Tax Procedure
Tax Clinic