Events

Please join us for a two-part training series on filing Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) actions for immigrants in Minnesota. The training is ideal for federal litigators, including attorneys who have experience handling habeas petitions in the immigration context, and Minnesota tort practitioners interested in seeking damages for immigrants harmed by federal immigration enforcement during Operation Metro Surge.

Join the University of Minnesota Law School for Gopher Gratitude Day, a school-wide event celebrating the impact of philanthropy on the University of Minnesota Law School. 

Minnesota Law students, faculty, and staff are invited to celebrate the donors whose generosity makes the Law School an amazing place to study and work:

Join the Human Rights Center on Monday, November 30 for our annual Human Rights Day lecture with keynote speaker David Kaye. David will join us to speak about what Americans can learn from the world and from human rights law about accountability after official crimes.

Join Minnesota Law for the second installment of our new Art Law Series! This event centers around the Legal and Ethical Issues Confronting Museums, featuring a dynamic panel discussion. 

Thomas Cotter, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law will moderate a panel discussion with three distinguished Twin Cities museum professionals:

In December 2023, the Minnesota Supreme Court in the case Cruz-Guzman v. State issued what many legal experts consider the most important state court ruling ever on school segregation. Cruz-Guzman held, for the first time, that the “education clause” of a state constitution, which creates a legislative duty to provide an adequate education, could, standing alone, address school segregation and other issues of racial inequality.