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Melissa Lorentz joins Mitchell Hamline as Indian Law Fellow

Posted: September 20, 2017
During the 2017-2018 academic year, Melissa Lorentz will teach Introduction to Tribal Law and a portion of the Advanced Indian Law course. Lorentz is a 2015 graduate of William Mitchell College of Law. During law school, she devoted much of her time to the Indian Law Impact Litigation Clinic, where she participated in various stages …

Melissa Lorentz joins Mitchell Hamline as Indian Law Fellow

Mitchell Hamline team helps Wisconsin tribes lift night-hunting ban

Posted: October 19, 2015
Indian tribes can once again hunt deer at night off-reservation in northern Wisconsin, under an order issued recently by a federal judge in Madison. Leading the representation of the tribes in this case, which has been working its way through the courts for more than two decades, was a team from the Mitchell Hamline Indian …

Mitchell Hamline team helps Wisconsin tribes lift night-hunting ban