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Can you share a bit about your background? Where you’re from, where did you go to undergrad, and where did you work over the summer or where will you work this summer?

Absolutely! I came to Minnesota Law from a town in Northern Arizona called Flagstaff, a mountain town in the high desert. I went to undergrad at the University of Arizona in Tucson. This past summer I worked remotely as a litigation intern for a small nonprofit called Legal Impact for Chickens, where I did animal welfare work.

In November Shokri Abdelhalim (LLM ‘25) attended the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku,Azerbaijan, representing the University of Minnesota with the Institute on the Environment delegation. Shokri is an LLM student from Egypt and joined the Human Rights Center as a Research Fellow on climate change and human rights in September 2024.

The Human Rights Center was thrilled to support Stepan Karamalac's participation at the 17th session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues at the United Nations Office at Geneva, where he represented the Bulgarian/national minority of Moldova. Stepan is a Visiting Fellow with the Human Rights Center and  The Hubert H.

Kayla Gillespie ’25 is the recipient of the Minnesota Women Lawyers (MWL) 2024 Social Justice Writing Award. This award will be presented at MWL's 30th Annual Rosalie Wahl Leadership Lecture on November 14th in recognition of her paper “Bostock, the Safe Streets Act, and Protecting LGBTQ People from Discriminatory Policing.”

Minnesota Law alum Amy Cohen ’24 received an honorable mention in recognition of her paper entitled “From Powell to Present: Defining the Right to Counsel Beyond Rothgery.”

Professor Alan Rozenshtein has been named a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. He is also a senior editor and the research director for Lawfare. His scholarship and writing focus on executive power, government surveillance, and technology regulation, in particular digital platforms and artificial intelligence.

Mahmoud Ahmed, Education, Community, Outreach and Research Coordinator at the James H. Binger Center for New Americans, has been named a fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC). Alongside this prestigious fellowship, Ahmed has begun a Master of Human Rights (MHR) degree at the University’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts.

It is with deep sadness that Minnesota Law announces the passing of Professor Emeritus Fred L. Morrison.

During the spring semester, second-year law student Madeleine Kim ’25 spent hours poring over reports about the Nepali Civil War, which lasted a decade starting in the mid-1990s. She dug into the nuances of Nepali law, researched legislative reforms that happened in the aftermath of the war, and studied their impact on women and the LGBTIQ+ community. 

Cinema Libre Studio premiered the film "I Am Gitmo" on May 2, 2024, at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. The evening celebrated the launch of the CLSNOW streaming platform and included the presentation of the CLSNOW Human Rights Award to Minnesota Law Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Honorary King's Counsel, Regents Professor, Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, and faculty director of the Human Rights Center.