The Law Library’s Stefan A. Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center has opened a new exhibit, “Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective,” that illuminates theories and moments of transitional justice from high medieval Europe through the war crimes trials that followed World War II. The exhibit was created as part of the Human Rights Center’s recent Transitional Justice Week and will be open through spring.

Anne Dutton (’16) has been awarded a two-year postgraduate fellowship through Equal Justice Works, a nonprofit organization whose mission is “mobilizing the next generation of lawyers committed to equal justice.” Dutton will spend the term of her fellowship working at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, representing child asylum seekers in jurisdictions that deny children's claims at rates significantly above the national average.

The Law School’s National Moot Court Competition teams achieved outstanding results at the Region 14 tournament at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, this past weekend, sweeping the best brief awards and sending one team on to the national finals.

Rick Plunkett (’84), who founded the Minnesota Justice Foundation during his 1L year at the Law School, died Nov. 2 at his home in Rochester, Minn. The cause of death was cancer.

While an undergraduate at the University, Plunkett served as president of the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group. After graduating with honors from the Law School, he practiced law for five years before joining his family’s cable, banking, and real estate businesses in the Rochester area.

On September 28, 2016, more than 300 alumni and other members of the Twin Cities legal community gathered at the Commons Hotel on the University campus for a reception welcoming new Law School Dean Garry Jenkins.