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On January, 12, 2024, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison '90 appointed Prof. Perry Moriearty, former Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington, and Duluth Human Rights Officer Carl…

Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin wrote an article for Just Security about the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Professor Ní Aoláin is a former United Nations Special…

Chevron v. NRDC (1984) and subsequent precedents held that courts should defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes. This “Chevron Deference” has been a topic…

Professor Nadia Anguiano ’17 is one of the lawyers working for the plaintiffs in Campos-Chaves v. Garland to be heard before…

Professor Claire Hill was mentioned in an Op-Ed about the National Rifle Association. It was published originally by The Conversation and aggregated by Phys.org. The piece discussed the lawsuit by the…

As the Star Tribune reports today, the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) has finally agreed to drop its opposition to a lawsuit filed by Prof. Murray's Clemency Clinic on behalf of those…

Professor Perry Moriearty authored an Op-Ed piece in the Star Tribune about Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s approach to juvenile justice and the criticism she’s received,…

Minnesota Law’s Clemency Clinic was mentioned as one of three plaintiffs that sued the Minnesota Department of Corrections over the possible reincarceration of inmates who were on conditional…

Visiting Professor David Schultz wrote an Op-Ed piece for Bloomberg Law about whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution despite 91 felony counts for acts allegedly committed as president. In the…

Professor Prentiss Cox contributed to an Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun about the danger of not reading the fine print in online contracts with companies.

Professor Charlotte Garden was interviewed in USA TODAY about the firing of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow after it was revealed that he appeared in pornography with his spouse. Gow…

Professor Matthew Bodie was quoted in Bloomberg Law about workers at Wells Fargo unionizing bank branches. Employees at a branch in Albuquerque, N.M., voted to organize on Dec. 20 but a petition for a…