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Professor Alexandra Klass was quoted in an article about opportunities for Energy Secretary Nominee Jennifer Granholm to use existing provisions of federal law to spur the growth of long-distance electric…

Professor Caleb Smith and Mollie Wagoner, 2L, were quoted in a Bloomberg Tax article on the challenges that the Tax Clinic faces in representing low-income taxpayers. Professor Smith discussed the challenges…

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was a panelist at the Law Library of Congress's Human Rights Day Event 2020, held on Dec. 10, 2020. The topic was "Contact Tracing and the Right of Privacy" and addressed the…

Professor Perry Moriearty with two of her students, Kaitlyn Falk, 2L, and Matthew DiTullio ’20, represented Myon Burrell before the state Board of Pardons through the Law School's Child Advocacy…

On Dec. 15, the Minnesota Board of Pardons commuted the sentence of Myon Burrell, client of Professor Perry Moriearty and the Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic. Burrell, a juvenile…

Professor JaneAnne Murray, Director of the School's Clemency Project and also a board member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), co-authored NACDL's model "Second Look" legislation…

Professor JaneAnne Murray and students from the school's Clemency Project, which Murray directs, provided assistance to the ACLU of Minnesota and Ballard Spahr LLP in developing and researching a class action…

Professor JaneAnne Murray, Director of the School's Clemency Project, was quoted in an article by Minnesota Public Radio (…

In a Bloomberg Law video, environmental & energy law professor Alexandra Klass discusses the legal and regulatory hurdles involved in building oil & gas pipelines in the United States.

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin's was interviewed in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. Speaking on her work as a UN Special Rapporteur addressing human rights concerning counter…

Professor JaneAnne Murray, the Director of the Law School's Clemency Project, and also Director of the Trial Penalty Clemency Project of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), was quoted…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin—U.N. Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism—has recently been a featured speaker at and…