Legal Scholarship for Equal Justice
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