Meet the LL.M. Class of '22; Four LL.M. Students Share Their Stories

Minnesota Law boasts a top-notch LL.M. program for international law students that has hosted students from more than 80 countries over its quarter-century-plus history at the Law School. International Jurist magazine recently recognized our LL.M. program as one of the "Best Overall Experience" LL.M. programs in the United States.

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Prison Release Discretion and Prison Population Size

November 10, 2021, 1:00 to 2:30 pm, online

With a focus on the length of prison sentences and their contribution to America's high rate of incarceration, the Robina Institute's Prison Release: Degrees of Indeterminacy Project shines a light on the oft-ignored role that back-end decision-makers - like parole boards and prison officials – play in determining actual time served. Cross-state differences in legal frameworks for prison release decisions reflect differing capacities to reduce and increase prison populations.

1.5 standard CLE credits have been requested. Event code #421025.
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Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin will appear as a witness during the upcoming Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing, titled: Counter-terrorism and Human Rights: Striking the Right Balance. Professor Ní Aoláin will be the first witness to speak, appearing individually on her own panel before the United States House of Representatives, followed by a second joint-panel of experts.

Rules of Medical Necessity 

November 18, 2021, 4:00 to 6:00 pm, online

Health insurance has long been understood to cover most forms of "medically necessary" health care.  But who gets to decide whether particular medical interventions for individual patients are indeed "medically necessary" and hence covered?  Since the 1980s, health insurers have attempted to reserve this authority for themselves.  For just as long, state and federal laws have policed insurers' medical necessity determinations to ensure that they do not put profits ahead of patients.

1 standard CLE credit has been requested. Event code #424550.
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Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization, Disability Justice and Prison Abolition

October 21, 2021, 3:30 pm, online

In this roundtable virtual event, leading disability justice and abolitionist scholar Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe will discuss her new book, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (2020), and the importance of centering disability justice in coalition-building and imagining a world beyond policing, criminalization, and incarceration. What are the disability justice frameworks for abolition? How do these frameworks help us to critically assess existing institutions and practices and effect transformative change? Dr.

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Minnesota Law Students Help Bee Nonprofit to Get Airborne  

As practice scholars at Minnesota Law's Business Law Clinic, 3Ls Molly McKinsey & Edmund Pine advised Mademoiselle Miel, a St. Paul chocolate shop known for its honey-infused bonbons and rooftop beehives, on setting up a nonprofit organization.

The mission of Building Bees will include supporting and training local beekeepers and educating the public on the ecological necessity of honeybees. The group plans to invest in low income and BIPOC communities to better support essential green spaces.

Corporate Institute Executive Director Emily Buchholz '10, 3Ls Edmund Pine and Molly McKinsey, with Susan Brown, owner ofMademoiselle Miel in St. Paul
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