Tyler Blackmon '24 and Patience McHenry '26 were named Next Generation Leaders by the American Constitution Society (ACS). ACS has selected 34 up-and-coming legal professionals as 2024 Next Generation Leaders (NGL). Launched in 2007, the Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program recognizes and supports law school students who have shown except
Professor Nadia Anguiano '17 was quoted in a Law360 article on the victory secured by the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic in Abdulahad v. Garland on behalf of an Iraqi man who fears torture on account of his Christian faith. Mr. Abdulahad is a devout Chaldean Christian who has called the United States home since arriving as a refugee in 1997.
Professor Richard Painter co-authored an opinion piece for The Atlantic about Donald Trump’s argument for immunity from the U.S. Supreme Court. His lawyers will argue that he is immune to all criminal charges against him arising from acts he committed while president. Prof. Painter writes, “It is no exaggeration to say that this argument — that a president is permanently immune to criminal prosecution for any crimes committed in his official capacity — is the most dangerous assertion any official or former official has ever made in a U.S. courtroom.”
It didn’t take long for Adam Mikell ’23 to decide where he wanted to spend his time doing pro bono work—the Business Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic. After serving as the clinic’s student director in his last year at Minnesota Law, the corporate finance attorney in his first year at Stinson LLP has a special place in his heart for it.
Chad Nowlan '24 has received the University of Minnesota President's Student Leadership and Service Award. He joins students from across the University who have shown exemplary leadership and service to their respective communities.
Since 2013, students in the Law School's Child Advocacy & Juvenile Justice Clinic and Professor Perry Moriearty have worked to reform Minnesota's Heinous Crimes Act, which became unconstitutional in 2012 when the U.S. Supreme Court banned the mandatory imposition of life in prison without parole for children.
Professor Jill Hasday discussed efforts to limit access to medication abortion using the Comstock Act of 1873 in an editorial in the Star Tribune.
Minnesota Law's 2024-25 Kommerstad Faculty Imagination Fund grants have been awarded to Professors Claire Hill, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin & Alan Rozenshtein, and Paul Vaaler.
Professor Amy Monahan has been named to The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on the Future Role of Employers in the U.S. Health System.
