The Minnesota State Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee conferred its 2021 Bernard P. Becker honors for outstanding legal work on Ashley Meeder, 2L (Law Student) and J. Singleton '12 of Legal Services State Support (Emerging Leader).
Minnesota Law’s Theatre of the Relatively Talentless (TORT) has been recognized for by the University of Minnesota Student Activities Office with a Tony Diggs Excellence Award for Excellence in Recreation and Entertainment.
International Jurist recently named Minnesota Law’s LL.M. program to its 2021 honor roll for best overall law school experience for international students.
Established more than a quarter of a century ago, the Law School’s LL.M. program has hosted students from more than 80 countries. Minnesota Law offers a Business Law LL.M. and a general LL.M. with the option to earn one of 11 concentrations.
Shantal Pai, 3L, and Heather Chang, 2L. are among the 2021 recipients of the President’s Student Leadership and Service Award announced by President Joan T.A. Gabel today.
The awards honor outstanding students for their invaluable leadership and service to the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities and the community.
On Monday, April 26th, the Law in Practice (LiP) program gathered virtually to celebrate outstanding student performance at the 2nd Annual LiPPYs (aka Law in Practice Awards).
Thirty four students awards were bestoewed in a virtual evening that featured fun, celebrity cameos, and a chance to highlight our innovatiive Law in Practice program.
View the full story in Minnesota Law magazine.
Professsor Maria Ponomarenko spoke with CBS News Minnesota about the doctrine of qualified immunity, which shields officers from liability when they violate constitutional rights. Ponomarenko explained that although originally intended to provide officers with a bit of leeway when acting in fast-moving situations, it has over the years become a substantial obstacle to accountability: "in practice it means that lots and lots of victims never recover ... [and] there aren't enough incentives for departments to reform.”
Professor Maria Ponomarenko spoke with Vice News about the need to curb the use of pretext stops by police officers, and to impose stricter standards on police use of force. “There may be circumstances when it actually is better to let somebody walk away,” Ponomarenko said, “than to use overwhelming force in order to take them into custody.”
Professor Maria Ponomarenko discussed policing reform in a panel discussion moderated by Minnesota Public Radio’s Angela Davis. “I don’t think there’s a silver bullet” when it comes to police reform, Ponomarenko said. “The one thing that’s been shown not to work is just passing piecemeal legislation. … If you only address one tiny slice of the problem, things are going to look virtually identical to how they did beforehand.”
Near Cloquet, less than a mile away from where construction on the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is taking place, dozens of people sleep in tents and protest the project in shifts.
