The Office of Advancement, along with Karin Birkeland ('87), Sarvesh Desai ('14), Kristen Letich ('16), Mike Nilan ('79), Mitch Noordyke ('17), Amy Seidel ('98), and Melvin Welch ('07) invite all alumni and current students to a cocktail social to mix, mingle, and welcome the Class of 2015 to the alumni community!

As state and local governments and electricity users attempt to improve the efficiency of their buildings, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and realize the promises of improved demand-side management of energy resources, the need for electricity and other energy-related data becomes ever more pressing. Yet current law allows companies to keep a significant amount of energy use data confidential.

The rapid pace of Arctic melting has made the region’s massive oil and gas resources increasingly accessible. The Obama Administration’s 2015 decision to issue proposed rules for Arctic offshore oil and gas exploration and to provide conditional approval of Shell Oil’s Chukchi Sea drilling plans reinforce the Arctic as an expanding frontier. In this talk we will explore how “hybrid cooperation” can serve as a critical tool for addressing these regulatory and governance challenges.

Athletics plays an important role in American life.  At its best, athletic competition represents the struggle to create a fair playing field, to forge teams greater than the sum of the contributions of their members, and to include all parts of the community in endeavors that tests the ability and limits of the individual.  In these many senses, athletics is a central arena for the determination of the meaning of equality. Jackie Robinson’s role in shattering professional baseball’s racial line stands alongside Brown v.

Contemporary warfare is often conducted among dense civilian populations, sometimes with in a space in which combatants attempt to blend into their civilian environment. The lecture will address the normative scope of the obligation to protect civilians who are thrust into such a perilous situation.

The event will feature CLE Panels on Human Rights and Business and Human Rights Practice from 3-5 p.m. at the Law School in Room 50.

There is an optional Celebratory Dinner with Keynote Speaker Sir Nigel Rodley, International Lawyer, Professor, and Member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee from 5:30-8 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Campus Club - West Wing (300 Washington Ave. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455). The cost to attend the dinner is $40.