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Alum helps secure historic opioid settlement for Tribal Nations

Posted: March 22, 2022
A Mitchell Hamline alum was at the center of historic tentative agreements Tribal Nations made in February with three major drug distributors and with Johnson & Johnson. Tim Purdon ‘94 has been a partner at Robins Kaplan since leaving his position as U.S. attorney for North Dakota in 2015. The settlement, totaling $665 million, will …

Alum helps secure historic opioid settlement for Tribal Nations

Mitchell Hamline welcomes Kim Vu-Dinh as an associate professor of law

Posted: March 16, 2022
Kim Vu-Dinh will join Mitchell Hamline’s faculty this summer as an associate professor of law, one of several new tenure/tenure-track faculty being hired at the school. She is an assistant professor of clinical education and director of the Business Innovations Clinic at the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes Kim Vu-Dinh as an associate professor of law

Mitchell Hamline welcomes Forrest Tahdooahnippah as an assistant professor of law

Posted: March 15, 2022
Forrest Tahdooahnippah had heard stories of his father’s activism for Native Americans and Indian Country growing up. But it wasn’t until he did some Internet sleuthing that he learned his father was a lead plaintiff in an important case in Colorado in the 1970s that restored tuition waivers for American Indian students at a college …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes Forrest Tahdooahnippah as an assistant professor of law

Mitchell Hamline welcomes Jason Marisam as an associate professor of law

Posted: March 14, 2022
Jason Marisam will join the Mitchell Hamline faculty this summer as an associate professor of law, one of several new tenure/tenure-track faculty hires at the school. He has been an assistant attorney general in the solicitor general’s division of the Minnesota attorney general’s office since 2016, where he represents and defends the state of Minnesota …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes Jason Marisam as an associate professor of law

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

Posted: March 7, 2022
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