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The Mitchell Hamline Law Review is taking another step into the digital world with the launch of a blog that aims to raise the law review’s profile and provide an outlet for general-interest articles on legal issues. The “Amicus Curiae” blog, launched in early February, publishes submissions on recent happenings in the law on a …

New blog extends law review’s digital reach

Mitchell Hamline Professor Carolyn Grose hopes her new book helps law students and working attorneys become better persuasive advocates by improving their narrative and storytelling skills, regardless of practice area or type. “For me, narrative theory does two things—gather and organize information, and persuade,” Grose says. In “Lawyers, Clients and Narrative: A Framework for Law …

Prof. Carolyn Grose’s book aims to improve storytelling in law

In his new book, Prof. Jonathan Kahn takes issue with implicit bias. It’s right there in the title: “Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong About the Struggle for Racial Justice.” It’s not that Kahn doesn’t believe in implicit bias—the idea that we all carry certain prejudices against groups of people or other …

Professor Jonathan Kahn takes on implicit bias in new book

Eric C. Tostrud ’90, distinguished practitioner in residence at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, was nominated Monday by President Donald Trump to serve as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Tostrud had been mentioned previously as a likely nominee for one of the openings created in 2016 when …

Eric Tostrud nominated for federal judgeship