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At all levels of education, meaningful teacher feedback is crucial to a student’s growth. But until recently, law schools seldom gave students more than a cold letter grade on exams weeks, if not months, after the completion of their first-semester core classes.

Cheryl Dalby ’95 has accepted the position of chief executive officer of the Minnesota State Bar Association, Hennepin County Bar Association, and Ramsey County Bar Associations.

The combined CEO position was created after the boards of directors of the three associations decided in June 2018 to adopt a shared staff model to better coordinate efforts, increase efficiencies, and improve member value. Dalby, who has served as executive director of the Ramsey County Bar Association for the last 18 years, was selected after a nationwide search.

The Law School’s National Moot Court Competition teams continued the program’s success in achieving outstanding results at the Region 14 tournament, with one team making it to the semi-finals and the other emerging as regional champions.

The Region 14 competition was hosted by the University of South Dakota Law School in Sioux Falls on Nov. 16-17. The Respondent team (3Ls Allison Chadwick, Kelly Nizzari, and Brendan Johnson) completed a clean sweep of the awards: Region 14 champions; best Respondent brief; best overall brief; and best oral advocate in the finals (Nizzari).

Justice Alan C. Page ’78 received the nation's highest civillian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

This prestigious award may be given by the president to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.

At a special program celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Human Rights Center, Professor Michael Posner, a former top U.S. State Department official and well-known human rights advocate and scholar, marked the occasion with a celebration of the progress made on human rights in the last three decades and exhortation to continue to build on that work.

The spring 2018 edition of Perspectives, the Law School's alumni magazine, recently was recognized with two design excellence awards by the Minnesota Media & Publishing Association (MMPA).

Stanley Efron ’53, a founding member of the venerable Minneapolis law firm Henson Efron and a dedicated benefactor of the Law School, passed away Sept. 27 at the age of 86.

Efron established his first firm, the three-person Efron & Kittler, in 1958, shortly after completing his military service. That firm merged with another in 1976 to form Henson Efron; by 2002, the once-modest enterprise had grown to occupy two floors of the U.S. Bank Plaza Building in Minneapolis.

Francesco Parisi, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law, received the prestigious EALE Award for lifetime achievement from the European Association of Law and Economics.

The association grants the award “for significant contributions to the field of Law and Economics, in particular to the development of this scientific movement in Europe.”

Applying to law school can seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are five tips on how to apply to law school and make your application as competitive as possible:

As part of our new #FacultyBookBite video series, Professors Claire Hill and Richard Painter discuss their book, Better Bankers, Better Banks: Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitments. Originally released in 2015, the book is more timely than ever with numerous recent news stories about scandals at leading financial institutions.