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Faculty Spotlight: Professor Thaddeus Pope named Hastings Center fellow

Posted: February 21, 2023
Mitchell Hamline Professor Thaddeus Pope has been named as one of 12 new fellows at the Hastings Center, a preeminent New-York based bioethics research institute and think tank. Founded in 1969, the center was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is the oldest independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute of its kind in the …

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Thaddeus Pope named Hastings Center fellow

Doug Heidenreich, longtime professor and dean, dies at age 90

Posted: January 5, 2023
Doug Heidenreich, an instrumental leader and professor at William Mitchell College of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law for more than 60 years, died Wednesday at the age of 90. “There are very few people who have had more of an impact on our law school than Doug did,” said President and Dean Anthony …

Doug Heidenreich, longtime professor and dean, dies at age 90

Joelle Lester named executive director of Public Health Law Center

Posted: December 16, 2022
The Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law is pleased to announce the hiring of Joelle Lester as its next executive director. For the past five years, Lester has served as the center’s director of commercial tobacco control programs. She succeeds founder Doug Blanke, who retired in June 2022. Her first day …

Joelle Lester named executive director of Public Health Law Center

Mitchell Hamline’s Prison to Law Pipeline work featured on PBS NewsHour

Posted: December 14, 2022
Mitchell Hamline’s work to welcome the first-ever currently incarcerated students at an ABA-approved law school was featured in a story Tuesday evening on PBS NewsHour. The story, produced by Simeon Lancaster and part of reporter Fred de Sam Lazaro’s Agents For Change series and the NewsHour’s ongoing series Searching for Justice, features current students Maureen …

Mitchell Hamline’s Prison to Law Pipeline work featured on PBS NewsHour

Mitchell Hamline professor’s forthcoming article cited in briefs in crucial Supreme Court case

Posted: December 5, 2022
The authors of three briefs in an important election-related Supreme Court case have cited a forthcoming law review article by Mitchell Hamline Associate Professor Jason Marisam. Oral arguments in the case, Moore v. Harper, will be heard this week, on December 7. Marisam’s forthcoming article focuses on the crux of the case – a theory …

Mitchell Hamline professor’s forthcoming article cited in briefs in crucial Supreme Court case