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Associate Dean Peter Knapp to be interim president and dean

Posted: March 8, 2019
The Mitchell Hamline board of trustees has selected Professor Peter B. Knapp, currently associate dean for academic affairs, to become interim president and dean of the law school beginning July 1. Knapp will lead the school while a national search for a new president and dean is conducted. Mark Gordon, who has held that role since 2015, has announced …

Associate Dean Peter Knapp to be interim president and dean

The Roger & Elaine Haydock Scholarship Endowment for Clinics and Externships

Posted: August 1, 2017
Professor Roger Haydock has taught and practiced law for more than four decades and along with his wife, Elaine, has provided generous support for the school stretching back nearly as long. Haydock was hired at William Mitchell College of Law, a predecessor of Mitchell Hamline, in 1971. He established the school’s clinical program and worked …

The Roger & Elaine Haydock Scholarship Endowment for Clinics and Externships

Grant helps faculty and students assess legal needs in St. Paul’s West 7th neighborhood

Posted: June 16, 2017
Thanks to a grant from the American Bar Endowment, Mitchell Hamline’s Medical Legal Partnership is conducting a broad assessment of the legal needs of United Family Medicine’s patients as well as residents in St. Paul’s West Seventh Street neighborhood. Through the use of surveys and public listening sessions, the partnership is identifying pressing legal needs among …

Grant helps faculty and students assess legal needs in St. Paul’s West 7th neighborhood

Target Diversity Scholar aims at career in business law

Posted: April 28, 2017
  Jade Guevara came to law school not knowing exactly what kind of law she wanted to study. But Guevara, a 23-year-old second-year student from Las Vegas, quickly found she was interested in a broad range of issues in business law— from contracts to dispute resolution. “Lawyers in business have to be both business people …

Target Diversity Scholar aims at career in business law

Hybrid Program makes legal education possible for students near and far

Posted: November 25, 2015
Mitchell Hamline’s Hybrid Program, the first-ever on-campus/online J.D. program at an ABA-approved law school, has quickly established itself as one of the most remarkable innovations in legal education. Mitchell Hamline was able to develop the program because of philanthropic donations from alumni and friends like Rolf Engh ’82 and Louis Ainsworth ’77. The Hybrid Program makes earning …

Hybrid Program makes legal education possible for students near and far

Endowed faculty chair advances energy and environmental law program

Posted: November 25, 2015
Mehmet Konar-Steenberg The Briggs and Morgan/Xcel Energy Chair was awarded in the fall of 2012 to Professor Mehmet Konar-Steenberg, and since then the law school’s programming for  energy and environmental law and policy has grown. Faculty endowments at Mitchell Hamline are the most important way for the law school to build and retain a strong, talented …

Endowed faculty chair advances energy and environmental law program