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The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to hear an important case that could determine the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 law that aims to protect against the separation of Native American families. The case, Haaland v. Brackeen, is a consolidation of several cases, one of which centers around a couple …

Expert Q&A: Professor EagleWoman explains important ICWA case heading to Supreme Court

Jessie Stomski Seim ’08 is convinced she would have never attended law school or become general counsel for a tribal government if not for the scholarship she received to play basketball at the University of Wisconsin. With the NCAA Women’s Final Four coming to Minneapolis in April, Stomski Seim, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) …

Alum using NCAA platform to raise awareness of Native athlete representation

Prospective students are invited to register now for upcoming online information sessions about the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute. Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022 at 12 pm (CST) Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022 at 6 pm (CST) Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 10 am (CDT) Monday, April 4, 2022 at 12 pm (CDT) Tuesday, May 3, …

Spring 2022 Native American Law Online Information Sessions for Prospective Students

The Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn., recently won faculty approval for a new certificate. Certificates are focused tracks within the J.D. program to allow law students to specialize in a field of law and graduate with practice-ready skills. The Native American Law and Sovereignty Certificate …

Mitchell Hamline’s Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute debuts certificate

Prospective students are invited to register now for an online information session about the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute. Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021 from 12-1 pm (CST) Online via Zoom REGISTER NOW

Register Now: Prospective Student Online Information Session on Nov. 18

“Seeing these Native 1Ls is a sign that we are still here and are thriving in spite of what was done to us.” Weston Jones chose to attend Mitchell Hamline because it occupies his people’s traditional lands. A member of the Oglala Lakota Nation who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes record number of Native students

“I will be the first tribal member to earn a law degree. And now, some of my students want to attend law school.” Angela Levasseur is certain people would wonder why she applied to law school at age 41. The enrolled member of the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, who lives on her reservation in northern Manitoba, …

Mitchell Hamline student planning post-graduation work for her tribe’s self-determination and self-sufficiency.

  Mitchell Hamline Professor Colette Routel has been named to the bench in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The appointment, announced Thursday by Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, was one of two made to fill vacancies in the Fourth Judicial District that will occur with the retirements of Judges Margaret Daly ‘81 and Kathleen …

Mitchell Hamline Professor Colette Routel appointed to judgeship