Nadia Anguiano ’17, associate clinical professor of law and director of the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic, received the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award for clinical teaching at Minnesota Law’s 137th commencement ceremony. The Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic represents noncitizens in complex immigration cases before U.S. District Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Anguiano’s work focuses on addressing the adverse immigration consequences of criminal convictions, challenging unlawful immigration detention, and upholding due process rights in immigration proceedings.
Nicholas Bednar ’16, associate professor of law, was appointed as a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Institution’s program on Governance Studies. At Brookings, he applies his expertise in administrative law and civil service to enhance the understanding of federal employment. Bednar also received the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award for tenure/tenure-track teaching at the University of Minnesota Law School’s 137th commencement ceremony. He specializes in administrative law, executive-branch politics, immigration, and quantitative methods.
Alexander Boni-Saenz, Robins Kaplan Distinguished Scholar, was elected as a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). ALI elects individuals who reflect the excellence and diversity of today’s legal profession. ALI’s membership comprises eminent judges, lawyers, and law professors from all areas of the United States and numerous foreign countries, selected based on their professional achievements and demonstrated interest in advancing the law. Boni-Saenz’s scholarship focuses on age as a socio-legal category, legal issues in aging, and theoretical and doctrinal questions in inheritance law.
Jill Hasday, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor in Law, won multiple awards for her book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (2024 Oxford University Press). We the Men has been named the 2025 winner in the History category by the International Book Awards. It was also named a finalist in the 2025 Women’s Issues/ Women’s Studies category. The National Indie Excellence Awards named We the Men the 2025 winner in the History: United States category. It was also named a finalist in the Social/Political Change category for 2025. Additionally, We the Men received the 2025 Bronze Medal in the United States History category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons), University Regents Professor, Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, and faculty director of Minnesota Law’s Human Rights Center, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. In 2017, Ní Aoláin was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. In this capacity, she worked closely with states and United Nations entities to advance human rights protections in some of the most challenging contexts globally. She was renewed for an additional three-year term in 2020, which ended in November 2023. Ní Aoláin was recently named a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2025-26 academic year in the Fulbright-Schuman European Union Affairs Program. Ní Aoláin’s Fulbright research will focus on surveillance technologies, particularly the European capacity to regulate the use of commercial mercenary spyware, which poses both human rights and security threats to European democracy and the rule of law.
Amy Sweasy ’95, adjunct professor, received the 2025 Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award for practical/skills teaching at the Law School’s 137th commencement ceremony. She teaches evidence, criminal procedure, professional responsibility, and trial practice at the Law School. She served in the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for 28 years, most recently in the Complex Prosecution Unit. Sweasy has tried more than 100 felony jury trials, from theft to first-degree murder, and has specialized in homicide, elder abuse, child abuse, violent crime, and police use-of-force cases.
Alan Rozenshtein, associate professor of law, has been named a senior visiting fellow at the Institute for Law and AI (LawAI). LawAI is an independent think tank that researches and advises on the legal challenges posed by artificial intelligence to promote sound legal analysis that fosters security, welfare, and the rule of law. Rozenshtein is also research director at Lawfare, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He teaches artificial intelligence and the law, constitutional law, and legislation and regulation.