Nadia Anguiano ’17, associate clinical professor of law and director of the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic, was appointed by Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz to serve a three-year term on the Federal Practice Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. In this role, she advises the court on proposed amendments to the Local Rules and related procedural practices, participates in the review of rule changes affecting federal civil and criminal matters, and serves as a liaison between the bench and bar to promote clarity and consistency in federal practice.
Nicholas Bednar ’16, associate professor of law, was named a McKnight Land-Grant Professor by the University of Minnesota for a two-year term. The program is designed to advance the careers of outstanding junior faculty members who have been identified as having the potential to make significant contributions to their departments and to their scholarly fields. Bednar specializes in administrative law, executive-branch politics, immigration, and quantitative methods. His research has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, and Political Science Research and Methods, among others.
Alexander Boni-Saenz, Robins Kaplan Distinguished Scholar, was elected an Academic Fellow to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Boni-Saenz’s scholarship focuses on age as a socio-legal category, legal issues in aging, and theoretical and doctrinal questions in inheritance law. He teaches courses in property, trusts and estates, disability law, elder law, and Latinx and the Law. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Oren Gross has been named the Everett Fraser Professor of Law. He has also been appointed a senior scholar with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the Spanish National Research Council. The CSIC is a European leader in scientific research and technological development with a special legal status in Spain. During his visit, Gross is researching “Lawyers Subverting the Rule of Law in Authoritarian Regimes,” building on his research on the role of legal academics in the Third Reich.
Claire Hill, James L. Krusemark Chair in Law, served as an associate reporter on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law: Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, published in 2025. This is the first time that A LI has produced Principles in this area of the law. Work began in 2015 under the leadership of Reporter Geoffrey P. Miller, New York University School of Law. The other associate reporters were Jennifer H. Arlen, New York University School of Law, and James A. Fanto, Brooklyn Law School.
Jane Kirtley, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, director of The Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, and an affiliated faculty member at the Law School, is retiring at the end of the 2025-26 academic year. Kirtley has held visiting professorships at Suffolk University and Notre Dame Law schools. She was a Fulbright Scholar teaching U.S. media law and media ethics at the University of Latvia’s Law Faculty in Riga during spring 2016. Kirtley has written friend-of-the-court briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as two books, many book chapters, and articles for scholarly journals and for the popular and professional press, including The New York Times, The Conversation, and the Guardian (UK).
JaneAnne Murray was recommended for promotion to the rank of clinical professor of law, pending approval by the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. Murray is the faculty director of the Clemency Project Clinic. She specializes in criminal law and government investigations and teaches criminal procedure and sentencing advocacy. Her research interests include plea bargaining, prosecutorial discretion, and sentencing.
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons), Regents Professor; Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy & Society; and faculty director of Minnesota Law’s Human Rights Center, was appointed to the Council of State of Ireland by the President of Ireland. She was also named a commissioner to the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic this spring. In 2025, Ní Aoláin was elected a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford. She was also named a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences, and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for the 2025–26 academic year in the Fulbright-Schuman European Union Affairs Program.
Myron Orfield, Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law, and director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, has been named a senior fellow at the Urban Institute. In this role, he will advise on fair housing issues and the opportunities and challenges of growing racial diversity in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas.
Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, served as associate reporter on the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law, Government Ethics. Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School was the project’s reporter. The recently published work offers guidance on the proper standards of conduct for current and former public employees and officials.
Alan Rozenshtein, associate professor of law, was appointed associate dean for research and intellectual life beginning in July 2026. He is the research director and a senior editor at Lawfare, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting senior fellow at the Institute for Law & AI, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network.
Mitchell Zamoff, assistant dean of experiential education; J. Stewart and Mario Thomas McClendon Professor in Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution; and Distinguished University Teaching Professor, has been named Minnesota Law’s director of undergraduate programs. Minnesota Law currently offers three courses open to undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota. Zamoff will lead efforts to expand undergraduate education programs in alignment with the University's strategic plan.