After a University-wide search committee conducted a national search that resulted in extensive screenings and three finalist candidates, the University of Minnesota Law School is thrilled to announce the appointment of William McGeveran, Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett Professor of Law, as the next dean of Minnesota Law, effective June 17, 2024. Executive Vice President and Provost Rachel T.A.
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin’s work at U.N. Special Rapporteur was cited in the New York Times. The Biden administration has repatriated a family of 10 American citizens who had been stranded for years in desert camps and detention centers in Syria run by a Kurdish-led militia that battled the Islamic State. As U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Prof.
Professor Richard Painter’s comment on X about Trump’s Florida trial that’s been delayed by Judge Aileen Cannon was quoted in the New York Times. Opinion editor David Firestone wrote, “It always feels a little too simplistic to suggest that federal judges deliberately act in the interest of the president who nominated them. Most of them, in fact, do their jobs with integrity and independence.
With the help of the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, Saima Fazli was able to win asylum and stay with her family in the United States.
In 2021, Saima Fazli was one of more than 124,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan as part of Operation Allies Refuge. Fleeing Taliban rule, Fazli and her family came to the United States. While her mother and siblings qualified to be on her father’s Special Immigration Visa, Fazli was just a few months over the cutoff age of 21 to be included.
Professor Alan Rozenshtein was interviewed by Scripps News, ABC News, and CBC News about TikTok parent company Bytedance suing the U.S. government over a new law that would ban the app unless Bytedance sells it within the law’s 270-day deadline. Congress raised concerns the Chinese government could force Bytedance to share user data and it could manipulate algorithms to influence U.S. public opinion. Prof. Rozenshtein said he believes TikTok is going to argue that the threat is speculative.
Cinema Libre Studio premiered the film "I Am Gitmo" on May 2, 2024, at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. The evening celebrated the launch of the CLSNOW streaming platform and included the presentation of the CLSNOW Human Rights Award to Minnesota Law Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Honorary King's Counsel, Regents Professor, Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, and faculty director of the Human Rights Center.
Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal about TikTok’s parent company suing the federal government claiming the new federal law that forces a sale of the app violates the First Amendment and unlawfully singles out the company for punishment. In the coming litigation, the Justice Department may need to show that Congress had compelling reasons that justify the burdens on free speech that come with shutting down a popular communications platform. It is possible that the U.S.
As reported in several prominent blogs about sentencing, the Clemency Clinic, directed by Prof. JaneAnne Murray, secured a sentence reduction (colloquially known as compassionate release) in a federal case in the District of Montana for a 74-year-old client on home confinement until 2030. The Bureau of Prisons released Linda Reynolds in 2022 to home confinement because her age and medical conditions rendered her vulnerable to COVID-19.