Minnesota Law is home to a very vibrant community of international students from around the globe. One of those students is Natacha Garcia from Caracas, Venezuela, who first came to Minnesota Law in 2016 to get her LL.M. After completing that program, she enrolled in our J.D. program and is currently a 3L.
Why did you choose Minnesota Law when you originally came here for your LL.M. degree?
Governor-Elect Tim Walz appointed Nancy Leppink ’85 as commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry.
Leppink is currently chief of labour administration with the Labour Inspection and Occupational Safety and Health Branch of the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Leppink has more than 25 years’ experience as a strategist and leader in employment and labor policy, law, administration, enforcement and compliance. Her experience includes work at the international, national, and state levels working with public, private and non-profit sectors
Minnesota Gov.-elect Tim Walz has appointed Rebecca Lucero ’07 as commissioner of the state’s Department of Human Rights.
Lucero currently serves as the public policy director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.
Professor Allan Erbsen was recently elected to membership in the American Law Institute.
ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law. The group drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Model Codes, and Principles of Law that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.
Erbsen joins about 20 fellow faculty members currently teaching at Minnesota Law who have been elected to ALI membership.
Professor Stephen Meili discussed the implications of the recent midterm elections on U.S. immigration law and policy at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute on November 9. Meili’s talk focused on what is—and is not—likely to change as a result of a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and a more solidly Republican Senate. Among other things, Professor Meili noted that the election is unlikely to change the slim chances for any kind of comprehensive immigration reform in the near future.
