Human Rights and Forced Migration Speaker Series – Session I: Climate Impacts as Drivers of Displacement

February 22, 2023, 12:15 to 1:15 pm, online

Climate change and its multiple effects are finally prominent on international and domestic priority agendas. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is increasingly challenging countries to analyze the human rights impacts of climate change, including legal responses to forced migration and how governments monitor the private sector's exploitation of natural disasters and depleting resources. The U.S. White House also issued a report on climate change and migration, recognizing the need to review humanitarian responses within the U.S. immigration system.

1 standard CLE credit has been approved, event code #482512 and #482513 (on-demand).

Minnesota Justice Foundation Silent Auction 2023

February 13, 2023, 8:00 am - February 17, 2023, 5:00 pm, online

Each year, the Minnesota Justice Foundation (MJF) Student Chapter at UMN hosts a Silent Auction to raise money for the Public Interest Clerkship grants. These grants fund 2-3 students doing legal aid work each summer. Students will be able to bid on items like lunch with their favorite professors, amazing gift baskets, handmade pottery, a signed Vikings mini helmet, and more!

The auction is online at auctria.events/mjfauction2023.

On January 17, 2023, the Court of Appeal for England and Wales handed down its decision in Anan Kasei Co. v.

Minnesota Law Mourns the Passing of Dave Durenberger ‘59, Three Term U.S. Senator

Dave Durenberger ‘59, who served 16 years in the U.S. Senate, has died at the age of 88.

Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota,  In 1955, Durenberger graduated from St. John's University in Collegeville. The top cadet in his ROTC class, he became a lieutenant in the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps, and later a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He enrolled at Minnesota Law, and graduated in 1959, practicing corporate law.

Dave Durenberger ‘59

Professor Jill Hasday was a guest on Minnesota Now with Cathy Wurzer.

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted by USA Today in an article covering Gonzalez v. Google, an upcoming Supreme Court case involving Section 230, and the extent to which tech companies like Google and Twitter are liable for the content users post on their site. Prof. Rozenshtein commented, “The real question is what do the justices think on the merits and I think we have absolutely no idea. The internet of today looks very different than the internet of the mid-1990s. To be frank, I’m surprised it's taken them this long.”

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was interviewed by Voice of America on the topic of the repatriation of women and children from the camps in North-East Syria and other challenging human rights issues.

Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was interviewed and quoted in RTE, Ireland's TV and radio news media, about the United Nations appeal to the Taliban over its recent ban of women and girls in secondary schools and its ban on women NGO workers in Afghanistan. Prof. Ní Aoláin said that the UN alone won't be enough to move the needle on change. "There are resources, political capacities, perhaps some carrots and very few sticks that the UN can use.

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