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Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Concludes Term as UN Special Rapporteur
Please join the University of Minnesota Law School in congratulating Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin upon the successful completion of her second term as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. Appointed to this role in 2017, Ní Aoláin worked closely with states and United Nations' entities to advance human rights protections in some of
Professor Barbara Welke Elected President of the American Society for Legal History
Professor Barbara Welke, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History and Professor of Law, has been elected president of the American Society for Legal History. She was installed as president at their annual meeting in Philadelphia in October. The American Society for Legal History is is an international academic society dedicated to fostering scholarship and teaching in the many fields of legal history around the world.
Minnesota Law Clinics Head to the U.S. Supreme Court in Important Immigration Case
Two University of Minnesota Law School clinics—the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic (FILC) and the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic (CRA Clinic)—have joined together with the Houston-based law firms Gonzalez Olivieri LLC and Waterhouse, Dominguez & Strom PLLC to represent a noncitizen before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Clinics’ client, Mr.
Clint Cutler of Bankruptcy Law Clinic Comments on KSTP of the Changes in Bankruptcy Guidance, Effect on Student Loan Forgiveness
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:
Minnesota Law’s Civil Rights Appellate Clinic Wins Case in the U.S. Court of Appeals on Behalf of Survivors of a Veteran who Died in Prison
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.
Minnesota Law Hosts The 2023 Robert A. Stein ’61 Lecture with Justice Amy Coney Barrett
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.
Gun Violence Prevention Clinic Student Director Chad Nowlan ’24 Defends Constitutionality of Minnesota Firearms Laws in Oral Argument in Minnesota v. Greenlee
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.
Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was the Distinguished Speaker at the Launch of the University of Chicago’s McKeon Center
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.
Prof. Myron Orfield, Jr. to Join a Panel Discussion on the “Mondale Dialogues: The Continuing Fight for Fair Housing”
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.
Prof. Matthew Bodie’s Paper Selected as a Finalist for Presentation at UC Berkeley Center for Law & Business Workshop
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.