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Tyler Blackmon '24 and Patience McHenry '26 were named Next Generation Leaders by the American Constitution Society (ACS). ACS has selected 34 up-and-coming legal professionals as 2024 Next Generation Leaders (NGL). Launched in 2007, the Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program recognizes and supports law school students who have shown exceptional leadership in their work with their ACS

It didn’t take long for Adam Mikell ’23 to decide where he wanted to spend his time doing pro bono work—the Business Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic. After serving as the clinic’s student director in his last year at Minnesota Law, the corporate finance attorney in his first year at Stinson LLP has a special place in his heart for it.

Since 2013, students in the Law School's Child Advocacy & Juvenile Justice Clinic and Professor Perry Moriearty have worked to reform Minnesota's Heinous Crimes Act, which became unconstitutional in 2012 when the U.S. Supreme Court banned the mandatory imposition of life in prison without parole for children.

Chad Nowlan '24 has received the University of Minnesota President's Student Leadership and Service Award. He joins students from across the University who have shown exemplary leadership and service to their respective communities.

Minnesota Law's 2024-25 Kommerstad Faculty Imagination Fund grants have been awarded to Professors Claire Hill, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin & Alan Rozenshtein, and Paul Vaaler.

Professor Amy Monahan has been named to The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on the Future Role of Employers in the U.S. Health System. 

Liwanag Q. Ojala ’98 will deliver the keynote address for Minnesota Law’s 136th commencement exercises scheduled for 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 11, 2024, at Northrop.
 
Ojala is the chief transformation officer at American Public Media Group and Minnesota Public Radio. She leads digital transformation strategy to advance the mission of “creating the future of public media by amplifying voices to inform, include, and inspire.”
 

Ann Burkhart, beloved teacher, colleague, and friend at the University of Minnesota Law School, passed away March 26, 2024. A nationally recognized expert in real estate law, she taught land-use law and planning, real estate transactions, comparative property law, and consumer protection law. She served on the faculty at Minnesota Law for 42 years and was most recently the Curtis Bradbury Kellar Professor of Law before assuming emeritus status earlier this academic year.