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Childhood in Hawaii drives Hybrid program student’s interest in Indian Law Clinic

Posted: February 13, 2019
Laura Galland relished the cultural diversity and general emphasis on culture in Hawaii, where she grew up. She also noticed how poorly the government treated native Hawaiians regarding their land. Galland, a fourth-year student at Mitchell Hamline, lives in Arizona now and has been a paralegal in civil litigation for 30 years. When she entered …

Childhood in Hawaii drives Hybrid program student’s interest in Indian Law Clinic

Professor Sandeen awarded Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics

Posted: February 5, 2019
She will spend fall 2019 semester in Helsinki, Finland The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Sharon K. Sandeen, the Robins Kaplan Distinguished Professor in Intellectual Property Law and director of the IP Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, has been awarded the …

Professor Sandeen awarded Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics

Dean Mark Gordon to step down June 30

Posted: January 23, 2019
Mitchell Hamline School of Law President and Dean Mark C. Gordon announced that he will be stepping down from the role he has held since 2015, effective June 30, 2019. “We have accomplished everything we set out to do when I accepted this position in 2015 and agreed to lead the combination of William Mitchell …

Dean Mark Gordon to step down June 30

Media takes note of immigration work being done by students, faculty

Posted: January 16, 2019
Media outlets in the Twin Cities are profiling some of the recent work done by Mitchell Hamline students, faculty, and alumni on behalf of immigrants seeking asylum on the country’s southern border. Paula Duthoy ’90 took seven students to an immigration detention center in Texas over the winter break to provide legal services to asylum seekers. …

Media takes note of immigration work being done by students, faculty

Students get insiders look at IP law as members of professional group

Posted: January 11, 2019
Two Mitchell Hamline students are getting an insider’s view of intellectual property law as members of the Jimmie V. Reyna Intellectual Property American Inn of Court. 2Ls Akina Khan and Robert Lee, students in the Intellectual Property Institute, were selected for yearlong memberships to the professional organization in the fall. It’s one of five in …

Students get insiders look at IP law as members of professional group

Watch video of Mitchell Hamline’s winter commencement ceremony

Posted: January 10, 2019
76 graduates received their degrees at Mitchell Hamline’s winter commencement on Sunday, Jan. 13. The new graduates join the ranks of more than 20,000 alumni. Minnesota Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson was the keynote speaker. The student speaker was Matthew A. Janzen, and Professor Jim Hilbert gave the Charge to the Class.  

Watch video of Mitchell Hamline’s winter commencement ceremony

Family’s experience with Legal Aid attorney inspires student’s work in Child Protection Clinic

Posted: January 1, 2019
When Scotty Ducharme was a boy in International Falls, Minn., he and his four siblings sought legal protection from their father. Ducharme remembers writing affidavits and talking with the police; his older siblings testified in court. It was a frustrating and difficult process that would rule Ducharme’s relationship with his father until he became an …

Family’s experience with Legal Aid attorney inspires student’s work in Child Protection Clinic