Legal Scholarship for Equal Justice

CLE Seminar
When
April 27, 2016, 8:00 am to 12:30 pm
Where
Walter F. Mondale Hall
Room 15

University of Minnesota Law School
229 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Students from all three Minnesota law schools will present the results of their research and scholarship on current Equal Justice hot topics. From all the topics practitioners and professors submitted to the Minnesota Justice Foundation, law students chose five topics, researched and worked on them for an entire semester, and prepared presentations and original scholarship. This seminar offers you the chance to learn what they learned about issues of current importance to equal justice. 

Who should attend?

  • Lawyers in private practice
  • Government lawyers
  • Policy-makers 
  • County commissioners
  • Legislators
  • City council members 
  • Prosecutors
  • Defense lawyers
  • In-house counsel 
  • Law enforcement personnel
  • Public-interest lawyers
  • Immigration lawyers 
  • Anyone interested in issues of equal justice

Schedule

8:00am-8:10am: Welcome and Introduction (Janine Laird, Minnesota Justice Foundation and John Gordon, University of Minnesota)

8:10am-9:00am: Stop the Traffic: Protecting Refugees from Human Trafficking (Suzan Boulad, University of Minnesota)

9:00am-9:45am: Making Domestic Abuse No-contact Orders Safe and Effective (Mohammed El-Bashir, Mitchell|Hamline)

9:45am-10:00am: Break

10:00am-10:50am: Roar of the Paper Tiger: Enforcing Minnesota's Anti-bullying Statute (Nia Chung Srodoski, University of Minnesota)

10:50am-11:35am: Finding Students Who Need Special Education: Are We Losing Them? (Andrew Wolf, University of St. Thomas)

11:35am-12:25pm: Grand Juries in Police Violence Cases: The End of the Road? (Maire (Alex) Fenaughty, University of St. Thomas)

12:25pm-12:30pm: Wrap-up

CLE Credits
4 Standard CLE credits have been approved; Event Code #217731
Who
Suzan Boulad

3L, University of Minnesota Law School

Suzan is a long-time advocate for refugee rights. In 2014 she received the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Fellowship to provide legal services to Syrian refugees in Turkey. Locally, she works with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria.

Mohammed H. El-Bashir

2L, Mitchell|Hamline School of Law

Originally from Sudan, Mohammed graduated from Grinnell College with a major in History. Currently a Law Clerk at the Ramsey County Public Defender's Office, he has worked with Badya Centre for Integrated Development Services in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, where the primary mission was peace-building and empowering local communities caught in civil war.

Maire (Alex) Fenaughty

3L, University of St. Thomas School of Law

Alex is a graduate of American University in Washington, DC, with a major in International Relations. She is a law clerk at the Washington County Public Defender's office and hopes to pursue a career in criminal defense.

Nia Chung Srodoski

3L, University of Minnesota Law School

Nia is the Lead Symposium Editor of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, and the President of the UMN Law Student Division of the Federal Bar Association. She has also been a judicial extern for the Hon. Joan N. Ericksen and an intern at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota. Nia wants to practice complex business litigation and to continue doing public-interest work throughout her career.

Andrew Wolf

3L, University of St. Thomas School of Law

Andrew graduated from the University of St.Thomas with a double major in History and Philosophy. Andrew has externed with the Hon. Mark C. Vandelist in Minnesota’s First Judicial District, and currently serves as a litigation law clerk at the League of Minnesota Cities.

Sponsored by

Legal Scholarship for Equal Justice is a project of the Minnesota Justice Foundation designed to address broad legal issues of current importance to equal justice.  LSEJ encourages scholarly work by Minnesota law students and professors that helps disadvantaged people and contributes to equal justice for all.

Contact
Kassi Williams