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The Mitchell Hamline Black Law Students Association is now able to offer wider academic, social, and career support to its members through a newly formalized affiliation with the group’s national organization. The mission of the National Black Law Students Association, which started in 1968 at New York University Law School, is to help African-American students …

New status as national chapter opens up opportunities for Black Law Students Association

The Mitchell Hamline board of trustees has selected Professor Peter B. Knapp, currently associate dean for academic affairs, to become interim president and dean of the law school beginning July 1. Knapp will lead the school while a national search for a new president and dean is conducted. Mark Gordon, who has held that role since …

Associate Dean Peter Knapp to be interim president and dean

In 1994, Christine Ver Ploeg heard from a church acquaintance that a new humanitarian organization working in Bolivia was looking for a lawyer to serve on its board. “I had four kids still at home and was juggling a career,” recalls Ver Ploeg, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law from 1977-2013 whose teaching …

Professor emerita works to alleviate poverty in Bolivia

Patty Wetterling, child safety advocate and former chair of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, will deliver the keynote address at the Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public  Policy and Practice Symposium on Thursday, Feb. 28. See a full agenda and register here Through panel discussions and presentations, the daylong symposium—titled “Residency Restrictions: …

Patty Wetterling to speak at Feb. 28 symposium exploring sex offender policies

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