Three Minnesota Law students among the 81 recipients of 2021 fellowships nationwide from the John Paul Stevens Fellowships Foundation.
The prestigious Stevens fellowships were awarded to rising 3Ls Wendy Jacqueline Escobar, Haille Laws, and Emily Newman.
The Stevens fellowship provides grants to enable law students at participating law schools to work in otherwise unpaid public interest summer law positions.
Former U.S. District Court Judge Richard Kyle ‘62 died on June 22 at the age of 84.
A lifelong resident of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Kyle received both his B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Minnesota. At the Law School, Kyle served as president of the Minnesota Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif.
A paper co-authored by Professor Brett McDonnell has received the annual Senior Paper Award from ComplianceNet.
Professor Alan Rozenshtein has just been selected to serve a five-year term on the Council on Foreign Relations as part of program for early-career professionals.
The Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program provides young professionals in government, media, nongovernmental organizations, law, business, finance, and academia the opportunity to participate in a sustained conversation on international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents recently named Professor Susan Wolf a Regents Professor. The designation, granted last week, is the highest level of recognition given to faculty by the University.
Rising 3L Brandon Vaca received a highly competitive fellowship from the Peggy Browning Fund (PBF). Nearly 700 applications were made for the public interest fellowship; only 80 were awarded nationwide.
Vaca is spending the fellowship working at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in Washington, DC.
In his dissent in Borden v. United States (decided June 10, 2021), Justice Brett Kavanaugh cited Professor Francis Shen's law review article, Sorting Guilty Minds. The case involved interpretation of the required mens rea in the Armed Career Criminal Act, and Justice Kavanaugh cited Professor Shen's article when discussing the often blurry line between "reckless" and "knowing" mental states.
Professor Chris Turoski served as symposia chair of the Chemistry and the Law Workshop at the American Chemical Society's Great Lakes Regional Meeting 2021. Elevating the importance of diversity and inclusion in chemistry was a meeting theme. Turoski led an interactive discussion about intellectual property.
Jessamine De Ocampo ’21 recently accepted a position as an associate attorney with EarthJustice’s Coal Program in New York City. As she prepares for the bar exam, she reflected on her time in Minnesota Law’s environmental & energy law program, what led her to EarthJustice, and her aspirations in the E&E field.
Why did you chose to come to Minnesota Law?
Lawrence Zelle ’59, who founded the Minneapolis-based law firm now known as Zelle LLP, passed away peacefully May 8 at his home, surrounded by his family. He was 86.
