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Mitchell Hamline students Jacqueline Peña (left) and Kari Beaudry are profiled in the 2018 Women in Law issue of Attorney at Law Magazine’s Minnesota edition. You can read the entire article online. Beaudry and Peña are taking part in semester-long residencies with the Minnesota Supreme Court this semester. The residencies aren’t typical internships for law students; they’re essentially …

Students’ Minnesota Supreme Court residencies featured in Attorney at Law

The Minnesota chapter of the ACLU honored Prof. Eric Janus with an Earl Larson Award for his commitment to justice and civil liberty work during a Nov. 28 ceremony in Minneapolis. The award is named for U.S. District Judge Earl Larson, founder of Minnesota’s ACLU chapter. Larson’s judgments in the late 1960s and early 70s …

Eric Janus: Award from ACLU “an extraordinary honor”

The Indian Law Program hosted a daylong CLE “Tribal Courts and Treaty Rights: Perspectives from the Front Lines,” Wednesday, Nov. 14, at Mitchell Hamline. The event featured panel discussions by alums who serve as judges and practicing attorneys in tribal court. Angelique EagleWoman, a visiting professor at Mitchell Hamline, also explored a proposal for indigenous community …

Photos: Nov. 14 Indian Law Program event on tribal courts and treaty rights

Kevin J. Armstrong, most recently general counsel for DST Brokerage Solutions in Minneapolis, has joined Mitchell Hamline School of Law as a Distinguished Practitioner in Residence. A financial services executive and attorney who counsels startups and other private entities seeking capital, Armstrong will serve as a mentor and a resource for students, particularly those interested …

Kevin Armstrong joins Mitchell Hamline as Distinguished Practitioner in Residence

Mitchell Hamline professors Allen Blair and David Larson have been chosen to receive the 2018-19 John H. Faricy Jr. Professorship for Empirical Research in the Law. The professorship is rotated annually among the school’s faculty members. It was created by John H. Faricy Jr. ’82 (WMCL), founder of Minneapolis-based Faricy Law, to provide professors with resources to research …

Two Mitchell Hamline faculty awarded professorship