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Brett Ludwig ’94 today was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Ludwig has served as a judge the U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin since 2017.

Ludwig, 51, will take over the seat long held by Rudolph Randa, who died in 2016. 

Today we launch our "Meet the Class of 2023" series with Elisabeth Bernabe, 1L, who spent the last two years as a paralegal in the international trade & investment group of the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan Lovells, one of the world’s largest law firms. As an undergraduate at Yale University, she interned for a summer at a start-up in Belgium, and was a member of the women’s golf team. 

Minnesota Law this week welcomes 213 students from 121 undergraduate institutions in 34 states and seven countries to its first-year J.D. class. The Class of 2023 is setting new records for gender and racial diversity at Minnesota Law.  In addition to women making up a majority of incoming students for just the fourth time in the school’s history, the first-year class is the most racially diverse to enter the Law School in more than 15 years.

A new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant of approximately $1.6M will bring together medical and legal experts to produce ethics recommendations for the use of breakthrough MRI technology that is portable and cloud-based.

Eura Chang, 2L, was one of four law students selected nationally to receive the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Law Foundation’s inaugural Sharon and Ivan Leadership Scholarship for outstanding professional promise and leadership potential.

Chang is a member of the Minnesota Law Review, a Robina Public Interest Scholar, and co-president of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association. 

Minnesota Law’s Journal of Law & Inequality (JLI) and  Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity recently co-hosted the virtual 2020 Summit for Civil Rights with Georgetown Law’s Workers’ Rights Institute.

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is among the prominent academics featured in the upcoming Big 10 Law School Speaker Series “Perspectives on Race, Law, and Equality.” Spanning a wide range of topics, including abolition of the police force and mass incarceration, the series brings together -- virtually -- the nation's leading scholars in these timely and important areas of the law.

Parth Deshmukh, 2L, worked this summer at Winthrop & Weinstine, a well-established Minneapolis law firm boasting 130 attorneys working in more than 60 practice areas. It was an excellent opportunity for Deshmukh, who hopes to one day practice business law, to gain exposure to a number of different practice areas, and to connect with a number of the firm’s lawyers.

The University of Minnesota Law School, in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience based at Vanderbilt Law School, and the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Mass General Hospital, has been awarded a new grant from the Dana Foundation to support the curation and dissemination of research and legal cases at the intersection of law and neuroscience.

Zoe Psiakis, 2L, has a summer clerkship with Anishinabe Legal Services (ALS), which provides legal services to low-income residents of the Leech Lake, White Earth, and Red Lake Reservations (Cass, Hubbard, Beltrami, Clearwater, Mahnomen, Becker, and Itasca counties). Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Psiakis has gotten to work on-site with real-life clients, an opportunity that she has found to be invaluable.