Minnesota Law Spotlights

Engage with the Community

The Racial Justice Law Clinic, one of the more than 25 clinical opportunities available at Minnesota Law, centers on community engagement and looking at law through a racial justice lens.

Professor Zaragoza meeting with students involved in the Racial Justice Clinic

Find Your Professional Path

Kim Ortleb, 3L, whose professional goal is to work in environmental policy, served as a summer law clerk for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Develop Your Practical Lawyering Skills

At Minnesota Law, students develop their practical skills from the start with our innovative Law in Practice Program for 1Ls.

A student making their argument during a moot court trial

Join a Network of Leading Alumni

Andrea Walsh ’88 is the president and chief executive officer of HealthPartners, the largest, consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation.

Collaborate and Make a Difference

Tarun Sharma, 3L, and Colton Messer, 3L worked closely with Minneapolis attorney and adjunct professor Chris Pham on a proposal for a new Sports & NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) Clinic, which launched in fall 2022.

Tarun Sharma, Colton Messer, and Chris Pham

Advocate for Real Clients and Causes

Working closely with assistant visiting clinical professor Nadia Anguiano-Wehde, students participating in the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic prevailed in two precedent-setting appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic Group

Join a Network of Leading Alumni

Robert Anderson ’83 was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior in October 2021.

Engage in Meaningful Policy Work

As a 3L, Kendra Saathoff helped draft and testified on proposed legislation that would provide a means for reducing sentences for crimes committed by victims of abuse.

Collaborate with World-Class Faculty

Yemaya Hanna, 3L and Patrick Murry, 3L, working closely with Professor Steve Meili, produced and published a comprehensive research report that offers material assistance to members of the LGBTIQ community from Guatemala seeking to establish claims for asylum.

Professor Steve Meili, Yemaya Hanna, 3L, and Patrick Murray, 3L

Gain Real-World Practice Experience

Working with Corporate Institute Executive Director Emily Buchholz '10, 2Ls Edmund Pine and Molly McKinsey helped a local chocolatier with a taste for honey start a nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of urban beekeeping.