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On November 18, faculty and staff of Minnesota Law and The Advocates co-sponsored the Fall 2022 Asylum Conference.  Over 200 attorneys, paralegals and community members learned how to improve client collaboration and build a case record to withstand appeal.  Participants built skills to address systemic and implicit bias when representing trauma survivors, including critical interviewing skills and techniques to effectively work with interpreters.  Appellate lawyers discussed common errors seen in records on appeal and ways court practitioners can reserve key issues for appeal.  The confere

November is Native American Heritage Month. Four Minnesota Law students, who are members of the Native American Law Student Association (NALSA), answered questions about what Native American Heritage Month means to them and about building capacity for the newly re-formed NALSA affinity group. 

What does Native American Heritage Month Mean to You?

The Association of American Law Schools has awarded Professor Jonathan H. Choi honorable mention in the AALS Scholarly Papers Competition for his paper “Computational Corpus Linguistics.”   

Choi, who specializes in tax law, statutory interpretation, and computational analysis of law, is the first Minnesota Law scholar to receive the award in two decades.  

Choi will be recognized at the AALS Annual Meeting  in San Diego at an awards event on Jan. 5, from 1:00–2:40 p.m. (Pacific time).
 

Fellow alumni,

Students participating in MinnesotaLaw's Immigration and Human Rights Clinic helped their client Rachell, a 27-year-old trans woman from Honduras, get asylum in the United States. Rachell, who escaped from physical and sexual abuse and the threat of gang violence in her native country, now has a permanent home here.

Fabiola Gretzinger ’22 helps maintain a global perspective on abortion laws as a legal fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights in Washington, D.C.

From that lens, Gretzinger sees a “wake-up call” in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. The court’s ruling in June ended the constitutional right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in its Roe v. Wade opinion, now enabling states to impose their own bans.

While there are a number of reasons why Helen Winters, a current 3L, chose to attend Minnesota Law specifically, she lists scholarship support as the number one reason and deciding factor. Winters shares, “I am the first person in my family to attend law school, and I knew that I would not be able to afford law school without support. Due to COVID, I had little prospect of getting a job out of college, and so I chose to apply right away, meaning that I had no money from working to support me.”

Students enter Minnesota Law with widely divergent knowledge and experience with racial injustice and its

Sixth Judicial District Judge Jeanne H. Sederberg '52 died on October 30 at the age of 96.

After graduating Law School as one of only a handful of women in her class, Sederberg could not find work at a Duluth law firm and hung out a shingle. Her home-based private practice specialized in real estate, probate, and wills.

Minnesota Law students Dahlia Wilson, 2L, and Julian Roby, 2L, have been awarded scholarships by the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers (MABL).

Wilson is the recipient of the Judge Michael Davis Scholarship. (Judge Davis ’72 is a senior U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Minnesota). Roby is the recipient of the William McGee Scholarship. (McGee ’80 was a legendary chief Hennepin County public defender.)