2018 Dean's Graduation Reception

May 11, 2018, 3:00 to 5:00 pm

On Friday, May 11, the Deans and faculty invite the University of Minnesota Law School Class of 2018 and their guests to a graduate reception on the Plaza level of Mondale Hall from 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Frank Guenthner ’18 Wins Burton Award for Legal Writing

The Burton Foundation has announced that Frank Guenthner ’18 is the winner of a 2018 Distinguished Legal Writing Award—one of only 15 students from U.S. law schools to be so honored. In the 19 years since the award’s creation, Law School students have received it 10 times.

Frank Guenthner '18

Human Rights in Practice: Fabrice Houdart, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York

March 23, 2018, 12:15 to 1:15 pm

Fabrice works specifically on the United Nation's set of global standards to support the business community in tackling discrimination against lesbian, gay, bi, trans and intersex people. Fabrice is one of the drafters and global champions of these influential standards which offer guidance on the concrete steps that companies can and should take to tackle discrimination and other human rights violations against LGBT people globally.

Dialogue on Racism and Xenophobia with UN Special Rapporteur Tendayi Achiume

April 4, 2018, 3:30 to 5:30 pm

The University of Minnesota Law School is proud to welcome UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Tendayi Achiume, for a moderated, student-focused dialogue on the theme of race and immigration.

When the United Nations named Tendayi Achiume Special Rapporteur in 2017, she became the first woman to serve in this role. As Special Rapporteur, Achiume conducts fact-finding visits on contemporary forms of discrimination and intolerance and reports to the UN’s Human Rights Council. 
 

Profs. Clary, Welke to Receive University’s Graduate-Professional Teaching Award

Law School professors Brad Clary ’75 and Barbara Welke have been chosen to receive the 2018 University of Minnesota Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education. This honor, the University’s highest teaching award, was given to eight of the institution’s 3,800-plus professors. Recipients were chosen for excellence in instruction; involvement in students’ research, scholarship, and professional development; development of instructional programs; and advising and mentoring of students.

New Directions in Corporate Governance

April 20, 2018, 8:15 am to 4:30 pm

This conference will discuss cutting-edge issues in corporate governance. 

5.75 Standard CLE credits have been requested; Event Code #254871

Minnesota Supreme Court Oral Argument

April 4, 2018, 8:30 am

Minnesota Supreme Court Oral Arguments will be held at the University of Minnesota Law School on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 in Lockhart Hall (room 25). 

Case is A17-0078: Phone Recovery Servs., LLC, for itself & o/b/o State of Minnesota, Appellant, vs. Qwest Corp., et al., Respondents

Life after Law School: A Conversation with Mee Moua

March 21, 2018, 12:15 to 1:15 pm

Join the Binger Center for New Americans for a conversation with Mee Moua ('97). Mee Moua is the Principal of Interdependent Group, LLC, a governance coach to a cohort of newly elected officials, and a law and policy and racial healing circle facilitator with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Prior to these positions, she was the Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice. She served three terms as a member of the Minnesota State Senate.

How Minnesota Law Students and Attorneys Helped Stop Somali Deportations

March 8, 2018, 12:15 to 1:15 pm

Join law students Mary Georgevich and Alexis Dutt, along with former University of Minnesota faculty member Kate Evans and adjunct professor Mirella Ceja-Orozco for a roundtable discussion of how an abusive deportation flight led to a headline-grabbing class action, internal investigation, and nationwide effort to stop the deportation of Somali immigrants. University of Minnesota students and staff have been at the center of this national litigation and will discuss how they worked with partners all over the country to build and win this case.