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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 Fionnuala Ní Aoláin speaking at the UN

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court Building

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.

The 2023 Civil Rights Clinic Team

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.

Chad Nowlan standing in a court room