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Event will honor Professor Marie Failinger after nearly 40 years at Mitchell Hamline

Posted: February 1, 2023
Join us on Feb. 21 as we celebrate Professor Marie Failinger’s retirement with a CLE and reception. Failinger, 70, said she still plans to be involved with the law school, but she’ll no longer teach full time because of her health. She’s retiring after nearly 40 years with Hamline University School of Law and Mitchell …

Event will honor Professor Marie Failinger after nearly 40 years at Mitchell Hamline

Doug Heidenreich, longtime professor and dean, dies at age 90

Posted: January 5, 2023
Doug Heidenreich, an instrumental leader and professor at William Mitchell College of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law for more than 60 years, died Wednesday at the age of 90. “There are very few people who have had more of an impact on our law school than Doug did,” said President and Dean Anthony …

Doug Heidenreich, longtime professor and dean, dies at age 90

Mitchell Hamline course gives intro to world of museum law

Posted: January 5, 2023
For all the imagination a trip through a museum can inspire, it might be hard for people to remember that museums are businesses – usually nonprofit – that must comply with the same business and nonprofit laws that exist for everyone else. And then there are laws unique to museums, as students are learning in …

Mitchell Hamline course gives intro to world of museum law

World Without Genocide awarded Special Consultative Status by United Nations

Posted: January 3, 2023
World Without Genocide, an organization based at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, was one of nine human rights organizations to be awarded Special Consultative Status by the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council in early December. The council is one of six main organs of the U.N. and oversees economic development and social issues. Special …

World Without Genocide awarded Special Consultative Status by United Nations

Joelle Lester named executive director of Public Health Law Center

Posted: December 16, 2022
The Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law is pleased to announce the hiring of Joelle Lester as its next executive director. For the past five years, Lester has served as the center’s director of commercial tobacco control programs. She succeeds founder Doug Blanke, who retired in June 2022. Her first day …

Joelle Lester named executive director of Public Health Law Center