Events

Join the Human Rights Center and Advocates for Human Rights for a special conversation with Morris Tidball-Binz, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial summary or arbitrary executions. He joins us to speak about his mandate’s role in promoting and implementing the Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death. Mr.

The University of Minnesota Law School will host Professor Richard W. Painter, S.

The Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology formally invites the Minnesota Law community to a discussion on recent changes in U.S. and international privacy and cybersecurity law. 

Across four panels and a keynote address, panelists will open each session with brief individual remarks, followed by a moderated roundtable discussion and audience Q&A. Speakers will share research, practical experience, and insights into how law is responding to rapid technological change. We hope you will join us for a full day of conversation and connection.

The history of research ethics shows that ensuring the ethical and responsible conduct of research requires investment of time, personnel, and resources. Major shifts under way now raise questions about the future of research ethics — how to ensure needed safeguards while taking advantage of potential opportunities. Speakers will consider the impact of significant changes in federal ethics personnel and research funding, including debate about overhead (“indirect cost”) recovery on grants, which at many institutions supports crucial ethics oversight.

Join the University of Minnesota Law School for the 2026 Dewey Lecture in the Philosophy of Law with Professor Brian Tamanaha, John S. Lehmann University Professor at Wash U Law.

Professor Tamanaha’s lecture will address the theoretical perspective on jurisprudence and state law conveyed in this lecture is substantially indebted to John Dewey, through three themes: