University holiday

May 27, 2019, 8:00 am

The Law School at Walter F. Mondale Hall will be closed for a Twin Cities campus University holiday on Monday, May 27, 2019.

Professor Kitrosser was featured on "News and Views With Roshini Rajkumar" on WCCO Radio on Sunday, January 20th. She spoke with Ms. Rajkumar about the government shutdown and its relationship to the constitutional separation of powers. She also responded to calls and text messages from listeners.

Professor Stephen Meili was interviewed for an article that appeared in the January 17 edition of MinnPost concerning the adverse effect that the federal government shutdown is having on U.S. Immigration Courts. Prof. Meili explained that the shutdown has cancelled tens of thousands of court hearings, thus exacerbating the long backlog of cases that has already plagued the immigration court system.

Professor Klass is quoted in an Energywire article discussing three cert petitions in the Supreme Court raising separate legal issues surrounding controversial natural gas pipeline projects in the northeast U.S.

Professor Kitrosser was quoted in an article in The Atlantic magazine entitled "The Most Remarkable Thing About Trump's Proposed National Emergency." She explains that the conditions for presidential abuses of power, such as norms of unilateral presidential action and very broad congressional delegations, have been present for a long time, and that we are now seeing them exploited even more so than in the past.

In an opinion in HTC Corp. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Judge Rodney Gilstrap twice cited Professor Thomas Cotter's book chapter (coauthored with Norman Siebrasse) titled Judicially Determined FRAND Royalties, from the edited volume The Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law (Jorge L. Contreras ed., Cambridge University Press 2018), as persuasive authority on the subject of determining royalties for the use of standard essential patents.

Interdisciplinary Immigration Project Receives Research Award

An interdisciplinary immigration-data-collection project proposed by Professor Linus Chan and Jack DeWaard, professor of sociology in the College of Liberal Arts, has received a faculty research award.

The title of the newly funded project is “Promoting Transparency and Engagement in U.S. Immigration Court by Ensuring the Quality and Utility of Data Collected by Volunteer Observers.” The University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Initiative approved $47,087 in funding for the 2019 calendar year.

Linus Chan

Human Rights in Practice: Bret Thiele and Mayra Gomez  Global Initiative for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

February 11, 2019, 12:15 to 1:15 pm

The Human Rights in Practice series is an ongoing program aimed to allow students to engage with international law and human rights practitioners in an informal setting to explore diverse career paths in the field. 

About our guest: 

Bret Thiele (JD) and Mayra Gómez (PhD), the founders of Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GIESCR), together have a long track record of human rights advocacy resulting in a range of ground-breaking impacts in economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights.

Discovering the Life of a Law Student: A DiscoverLaw Event

February 26, 2019, 5:30 pm

Come enjoy an evening at the University of Minnesota Law School to learn what it means to be a law student and what a law degree can do for you!  Hear from Admissions and Career Center representatives and explore the academics of law with a brief presentation from our Street Law volunteers. Listen in while a panel of current students discuss their journeys that brought them to the University of Minnesota and the plans they have for their future legal careers.