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Last November, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued new guidance that makes it easier for students to offload their student loans in bankruptcy if they meet the following criteria: 

A student team from one of Minnesota Law’s newest clinics, the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic, took on the appeal as one of its inaugural cases and won. The main issue was whether the district court erred in denying the defendants’ motion to dismiss based on qualified immunity. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit unanimously affirmed the ruling, denying the corrections officers qualified immunity and allowing the case to proceed.

The University of Minnesota Law School was pleased to host Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for the 2023 Robert A. Stein ’61 Lecture held on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus at Northrop on Monday, October 16.

Through a partnership with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, the University of Minnesota Law School’s Gun Violence Prevention Clinic intervenes in criminal cases challenging the constitutionality of Minnesota state firearm regulations under the framework laid forth by the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen.

This past week, Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, University Regents Professor; Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society; and faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the Law School was the keynote speaker at the launch of the University of Chicago's McKeon Center's Institute on the Formation of Knowledge.

Professor Myron Orfield, Jr. will join a panel discussion on the “Mondale Dialogues: The Continuing Fight for Fair Housing” on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023 from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. 

Professor Matthew Bodie’s Paper (with co-author Grant Hayden), “Democratic Participation as Corporate Purpose,” was selected as a finalist for presentation at the UC Berkeley Center for Law & Business‘s Organizations and Social Impact Workshop on Thursday, Oct. 12.

The Honorable Thorwald H. Anderson, Jr. '64 has passed away this past April at age 86. According to his obituary, "Upon graduating from Lubbock High School in 1954, Anderson attended the University of Mississippi where he received a BA in political science in 1958. He then served over three years of active duty as a junior officer in the Navy. Following his discharge in 1961, he moved to Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota and received his juris doctorate degree, with honors, in 1964.

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin joined European Parliamentarians in Brussels this week for a global conference on the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The event brought the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur, European Union Parliamentarians, former detainees including Mansoor Adayfi, a non-resident Visiting Fellow at the Law School's Human Rights Center, the former Muslim Chaplain to Guantanamo, and detainee lawyers together.

Governor Tim Walz announced this week that he appointed Minnesota Law alum Tamar Gronvall ’00 to serve as Minnesota's Commissioner of Administration.