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Alumni News: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Taps Minnesota Law Alumn Lee Sheehy '77 as Interim Community Safety Commissioner
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has named Minnesota Law alum Lee Sheehy '77 to replace outgoing Community Safety Commissioner Cedric Alexander on an interim basis.
"Lee has a long history of navigating complex challenges," Frey said in an interview Friday.
Sheehy will take helm of the office that oversees police and four other city departments on Sept. 1, when Alexander will leave after serving a just over a year as the city's inaugural commissioner.
Detainee Rights Clinic Client Wins Asylum Case One of the Detainee Rights Clinic’s Very First Clients Has Been Granted Asylum
Students in the Detainee Rights Clinic (DRC) recently scored a major victory for a client formerly from El Salvador who has been seeking asylum for nearly a decade.
The clinic began representing the person in 2014, one of its first clients. Clinic leaders secured the person’s release from detention to stay deportation. Over the next few years, students worked with faculty to win an appeal at the Board of Immigration that opened a pathway for asylum.
Prof. Kristin Hickman Appointed Senior Fellow by the Administrative Conference of the United States
Professor Kristin Hickman was appointed as a Senior Fellow by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), to serve a two-year term. The Administrative Conference of the United States is an independent, non-partisan federal agency within the executive branch dedicated to improving administrative law and federal regulatory processes. It conducts applied research, and provides expert recommendations and other advice, to improve federal agency procedures. Its membership is composed of senior federal officials, academics, and other experts from the private sector.
Alumni News: Four Minnesota Law Alumni Judges Sworn In at the State of Minnesota's Office of Administrative Hearings
On June 9, the Minnesota's Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) held a judicial investiture ceremony to formally swear in the 11 newest judges who have joined OAH since 2019. Four of those judges are University of Minnesota Law School alumni. Around 400 guests attended the ceremony, which was open to the public. Minnesota Law alumni sworn in, include: Chief Judge Jenny Starr '03; Workers' Compensation Judge David M.
Tribute: William R. Pearce '52, Accomplished Alumnus and Generous Donor
Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Holds Press Conference in Geneva To Report on Her Recent Visit to Syria
In her role as U.N. Special Rapporteur on the protection of rights while countering terrorism, Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin held a press conference on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland, to report on her end-of-mandate visit to Syria where she called attention to the lingering “mass arbitrary detention” in Syria's infamous al-Hol camp and others like it that she saw during her trip to the region last week—a visit that was billed as the first visit of its kind by an independent human rights expert.
Tribute: Ronald M. Mankoff ‘54, an Early Supporter of Minnesota Law’s Tax Clinic
Ronald M. Mankoff ‘54, passed away on June 27, 2023. Born on the Cheyenne River Reservation near Gettysburg, South Dakota on October 13, 1931, Ron, his parents Sarah Frank Mankoff and Harry Mankoff, along with his sister Marilyn, resettled in Minneapolis during the Great Depression.
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Presents Global Study on Counter-Terrorism's Effect on Civil Society
As part of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Week hosted last week at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin—Faculty Director of Minnesota Law’s Human Rights Center and United Nations Special Rapporteur—presented her Global Study on the Impact of Counter-Terrorism on Civil Societ
Dean Jenkins Joins Big Ten Law Deans in Joint Statement in Affirmation of Support of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Law School and Higher Education
Dean Garry Jenkins joined fourteen other Big Ten law deans in a joint statement published on the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law website to affirm Big 10 law schools' shared values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion regardless of the outcome of the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College.