Connor Shaull ‘20 began a new job at the Stinson law firm in Minneapolis on Jan. 11. Two days later, he was arguing a complex point of criminal procedure before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.
Learn more about Shaull's experience with the case and Clemency Project in Minnesota Law magazine's special online-only coverage.
Moderate clergymen had urged Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. to show restraint in 1963, to not protest segregation in Alabama’s biggest city. King, along with colleagues Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, ignored those pleas. When King was arrested, then locked inside a cell, he composed a response.
Associate Clinical Professor of Law Linus Chan has been appointed the Law School's Vaughan G. Papke Research Scholar.
The Papke Research Scholar title is intended to recognize and celebrate important scholarly contributions by the Law School’s clinical law faculty who have and continue to produce important and substantial scholarship. Chan’s appointment runs through June 30, 2023.
Professor Paul Vaaler recently spoke with Twin Cities Business on the topic of corporate campaign contributions in light of a flurry of announcements by companies of reductions in such contributions after the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.
"What corporations are trying to buy is access,” Vaaler said. “It’s less about ideology, and more about issues.” For some companies, that could mean donating to a candidate that supports tax changes that are more favorable to their business.
Fourteen clients represented by the Law School’s Clemency Project, directed by Professor JaneAnne Murray, were among the list of commutation grants announced by President Trump yesterday. All were represented pro bono and their clemency petitions were filed with the Office of the U.S. Pardon Attorney.
Dean Garry W. Jenkins joined 156 other deans from law schools across the country in issuing a public statement addressing the 2020 election and the events that took place in the U.S. Capitol last week. It is highly unusual for so many law deans to join together to speak with one voice on an issue not directly related legal education.
