News
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National Moot Court Competition Team Advances to Finals
November 28, 2017The Law School’s National Moot Court Competition teams achieved outstanding results at the Region 14 tournament held at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul Nov. 16-18, winning a best brief award and sending one team on to the national finals.
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Prof. Kevin Reitz, Robina Institute to Help Lead University Grand Challenges Research
November 15, 2017The Law School’s Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and its co-director, Professor Kevin Reitz, have been selected to take part in a new interdisciplinary research project under the auspices of the University’s Driving Tomorrow Grand Challenges program.
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Law School to Host “Summit for Civil Rights: Racial Unity and Integration as a Path to Prosperity”
October 20, 2017The Law School’s Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity and Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice will present a “Summit for Civil Rights: Racial Unity and Integration as a Path to Prosperity” Nov. 9-10.
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Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Clinic to Host Walk-In Legal Advice Sessions
October 13, 2017The Law School’s Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Clinic will host free drop-in legal advice sessions. The sessions are designed to help innovators, creators, and entrepreneurs protect their ideas, kickstart their startup companies, and build and secure their dream businesses. All sessions are offered under limited representation, and are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Abigail Hencheck (’19) Awarded Human Rights Fellowship
October 2, 2017Second-year Law School student Abigail Hencheck (’19) has been selected to receive a 2017-18 Benjamin B. Ferencz Fellowship in Human Rights and Law. The fellowship, which is awarded by World Without Genocide, an organization based at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St.
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Prof. Karen Lundquist Named LegalCORPS Volunteer of the Year
September 26, 2017Karen Lundquist, assistant professor of legal writing and English as a second language in the Law School’s LL.M. program, has been honored as the 2017 Volunteer of the Year by LegalCORPS, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit.
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Prof. JaneAnne Murray Receives Commendation for Clemency Work
September 19, 2017The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has presented Professor JaneAnne Murray with a presidential commendation for her “commitment to ensuring justice and due process for all” as a leader with two NACDL clemency efforts: Clemency Project 2014, an initiative spearheaded by the Obama administration, and the recently launched NACDL/FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums) State Cl
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Prof. Brad Clary (’75) Appointed to ABA Accreditation Committee
September 6, 2017Clinical Professor Brad Clary (’75) has been appointed to serve on the Accreditation Committee of the American Bar Association’s Council on Legal Education, the official U.S. Department of Education-approved accrediting agency for the nation’s law schools.
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Law School Welcomes the Class of 2020, LL.M. and M.S.P.L. Students
September 1, 2017At 9 a.m. on Aug. 28, the members of the J.D. class of 2020 gathered in Mondale Hall for the start of their University of Minnesota Law School orientation. The next four days would be a whirlwind: welcoming speeches from Dean Garry W.
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Prof. Shen’s Study Provides New Insight Toward Reducing Racial Bias in Courtroom
August 25, 2017The American criminal justice system relies on jurors to regularly decode the mental states of criminal defendants. When those defendants are people of color, decoding minority mental states is a centerpiece of the justice process.