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2024

Alumni board selects one recipient for Student Award of Merit

Posted: May 22, 2024
The Student Award of Merit honors graduating students whose contributions and participation in organizations and other events go beyond the normal expectations for a student and who exhibit a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. This year, the Mitchell Hamline Alumni Association selected one recipient for the Student Award of Merit: Alison Baker Faul …

Alumni board selects one recipient for Student Award of Merit

Commencement ceremony May 31 for 370 students

Posted: May 21, 2024
Commencement at Mitchell Hamline School of Law not only marks the closing of the spring term—it recognizes the years of hard work graduating students have invested. It honors all they’ve accomplished and become. It ushers in their next step as they join a community of over 20,000 alumni and adds two new letters to the …

Commencement ceremony May 31 for 370 students

Ellen Kennedy receives national and local FBI awards

Posted: May 2, 2024
Ellen Kennedy, executive director of World Without Genocide, based at Mitchell Hamline, was presented a Community Leadership Award by FBI Director Christopher Wray at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 19. She was recognized for her commitment to human rights and for supporting the FBI’s work on the felony crime of transnational repression (TNR). Authoritarian governments …

Ellen Kennedy receives national and local FBI awards

New report blasts Minnesota’s civil commitment program

Posted: April 24, 2024
Mitchell Hamline’s Sex Offense Litigation & Policy Resource Center on April 24 issued a press release about a new report on Minnesota’s civil commitment system for sex offenders. The release is below:   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 2024 Media Contact: Eric S. Janus Director Sex Offense Litigation & Policy Resource Center eric.janus@mitchellhamline.edu (651) 290-6345 …

New report blasts Minnesota’s civil commitment program