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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.

Incoming LLM Jung Ho Shim is originally from Seoul, South Korea, most recently living in Boston where her family lives. She is a surgical oncologist with an expertise in performing laparoscopic and robotic surgeries for intestinal cancers. She’s also worked with pharmaceutical and IT companies in helping to develop drugs as well as AI-driven platforms for doctors and patients.

Welcome to Minnesota Law! Can you tell us why you decided to get an LLM from Minnesota Law?

The University of Minnesota Law School is proud to welcome the Class of 2026! Comprising a diverse and talented group of 218 individuals, the incoming class promises to continue the Law School's tradition of producing exceptional lawyers who make a difference in their communities, the nation, and the world.

LLM student Ilkin Gurbanov is from Azerbaijan and is a Fulbright Scholar. He earned his bachelor of laws degree from the Police Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He is a police colonel and has worked for the past 17 years as a law enforcement officer with experience in combating human trafficking, irregular migration, and the provision of passports and IDs. He has lectured and trained officials on various subjects related to state regulation of migration processes, combating human trafficking as well as protecting and rehabilitating victims.

LLM student Mariia Melnyk is from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. She studied in a school that focused on foreign languages and has been learning English since she was 7 and Spanish since she was 10. Due to a different academic approach in Ukraine, she went to law school right after high school. There she obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in International law and the law of the European Union. While working on her master’s degree, she spent a semester studying international commercial arbitration and EU investment law in Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Incoming LLM Lucy Zhang is from Shanghai, China. She received her bachelor of law degree from Fudan University and a master of law degree from the China University of Political Science and Law. She participated in the exchange program at the University of Montreal. She’s been a transaction lawyer in the Shanghai office of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP for several years. After she completes her LLM degree, she will continue her career with Faegre.

Welcome to Minnesota Law! Can you tell us why you decided to get an LLM from Minnesota Law?