Julia Potach, 3L, and Hillary Richard ’21 were recently named Equal Justice Works fellows.
Equal Justice Works fellows, in collaboration with a legal services organization, work on a project to address the unmet legal needs of the community they will serve.
Professor Jill Hasday's op-ed, "On Roe, Alito cites a judge who treated women as witches and property," was published in the Washington Post.
The James Binger Center for New Americans partners closely with several nonprofit legal services organizations throughout the Twin Cities to provide pro bono legal services to individuals in immigration proceedings. One such partnership involves a Court Observer Program at Minnesota’s Federal Immigration Court in Fort Snelling which is run by the Advocates for Human Rights. In late October 2021, a volunteer Court Observer witnessed a pro se individual struggling in Immigration Court.
Professor Jonathan Choi was quoted by Mother Jones in an article discussing the preferential taxation of private equity firms.
Prof. Tom Cotter's Extraterritorial Damages in Copyright Law, 74 Fla. L. Rev.
Professor Jill Hasday was quoted in the Boston Globe and the Toronto Globe & Mail discussing the recently leaked draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
Retirement has hardly slowed Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus Brad Clary ’75. Two years after retiring, Clary continues teaching at the Law School and, at age 71, recently earned his first-degree black belt in Taekwondo.
The Minnesota State Bar Association has named Zoe Psiakis, 3L, as the 2022 recipient of the Bernard P. Becker Student Volunteer Award.
The award is presented to a law student who has demonstrated a commitment to the provision of legal services to low-income persons.
Professor Jill Hasday appeared on Minnesota Now with Cathy Wurzer to discussed the leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion relating to Roe v. Wade.
Scott Dewey was the featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Labor History Society. The theme of this year’s meeting was labor and environmental politics. Dewey spoke on the historical efforts working-class people have made to organize and fight for a cleaner environment.