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Weeks from graduation, KARE 11 story highlights student’s family’s refugee journey

Posted: May 10, 2022
As Khou Yang finishes her final weeks of law school at Mitchell Hamline, she was recently invited on a trip down memory lane by a local television reporter, nearly 30 years after the news organization documented Yang and her family as they moved from a refugee camp in Thailand to their new home in Minnesota. …

Weeks from graduation, KARE 11 story highlights student’s family’s refugee journey

Doug Blanke, longtime head of Public Health Law Center, to retire

Posted: May 9, 2022
After 22 years at the helm of the Public Health Law Center, Executive Director Doug Blanke has announced his retirement, effective June 30.  Doug’s achievements in public health policy, legislative advocacy, and consumer protection, span four decades on the local, state, national, and international stages. A former Minnesota Assistant Attorney General, Doug played a key …

Doug Blanke, longtime head of Public Health Law Center, to retire

For Judge Richelle Wahi ’03, equity work is path towards true justice

Posted: May 6, 2022
When Judge Richelle Wahi ’03 presides at the Dakota County Courthouse in Hastings, Minnesota, she explains to parties why she doesn’t always make eye contact. “It’s important that people feel seen and heard.” Wahi experienced hearing loss later in life, so she reads from a court reporter’s real-time transcription on a screen in front of …

For Judge Richelle Wahi ’03, equity work is path towards true justice

Mitchell Hamline debuts wellness center

Posted: May 4, 2022
In a continued effort to meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff, leaders at Mitchell Hamline on Monday cut the ribbon on a new wellness center. “Law school for students and faculty and staff is necessarily and sometimes unnecessarily stressful,” said Professor Natalie Netzel ’15. “This is an investment for our people to be …

Mitchell Hamline debuts wellness center