Law School News

Faculty and staff welcomed the Class of 2011 at this week's 1L orientation.

Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin, Dorsey & Whitney Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Leverhulme Trust in recognition and support of her interdisciplinary research in the field of transitional justice.

Jesse H. Choper, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School in the 1960s and now Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, returns to the Law School in September as a lecturer.

The 2008-09 LL.M. Orientation kicked off Friday for 29 LL.M. students from 15 countries.

Myron Orfield has accepted an invitation to join presidential candidate Barack Obama's Urban Policy Committee.

Associate Clinical Professor Prentiss Cox, a nationally recognized expert in foreclosure and predatory and subprime mortgage lending, has become a member of the recently formed National Advisory Board of the Institute for Foreclosure Legal Assistance (IFLA), headquartered in Washington D.C.

Barry Feld, University of Minnesota Centennial Professor of Law, has been selected to receive the 23rd Annual Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award, given by the Juvenile Justice Committee of the ABA's Criminal Justice Section.

Paul Banker ('95) and a colleague at Lindquist & Vennum successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court recently, convincing the high court to reverse a previous decision by the 8th District Court of Appeals in the case of Plains Commerce Bank vs. Long Family Land and Cattle Company, Inc., et al.

Retired CIA officer Michael Hurley ('80) will deliver the keynote address at Dean Wippman's installation on Sept. 5, 2008.