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Minnesota Law excelled at the Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition held in White Plains, New York from February 19 - February 21. The National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition is one of the largest moot court competitions in the country—53 teams competed at this year's competition. 

Prof. Anguiano has been appointed by Chief U.S. District Judge Schiltz to serve on the Federal Practice Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota for a three-year term. In this role, Prof.

A delegation from the University of Minnesota Law School’s Human Rights Center and James H. Binger Center for New Americans is in Geneva, Switzerland, from March 2–6 to participate in the 61^st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The University of Minnesota Law School mourns the passing of Tom Moe ’63 who died on February 15 at age 87. He was born in Des Moines and lived in several cities before his family settled in Edina, Minnesota. He was a celebrated athlete at Edina High School, gaining both local and national recognition in all three sports he played, football, basketball, and baseball.

The Honorable Peter J. Lindberg ’63 passed away on January 23 at age 90. Lindberg was born in Red Wing and grew up in St. Louis Park. The first in his family to graduate from college, Lindberg graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1961 and the University of Minnesota Law School in 1963.

Congratulations to Minnesota Law's Theatre of the Relatively Talentless (TORT) for receiving the 2026 Tony Diggs Excellence Award for "Excellence in Recreation and Entertainment" from the University of Minnesota's Student Union & Activities! 

Last fall, Emily Bingham ’26 was awarded the 2025 Sidney M. Perlstadt Memorial Award from the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel for her paper, "States Shouldn’t Bank on the Savings Clause: An Analysis of the Department of Labor’s Savings and Deemer Clause Arguments in PCMA v. Mulready."

Minnesota Law excelled at the Mardi Gras Sports Law Moot Court Competition held in New Orleans from February 6 - February 7. Minnesota won the competition outright and also obtained multiple individual and team awards. 

Professor 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. As a senior fellow, he will advise on fair housing issues and the opportunities and challenges of growing racial diversity in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas.