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Students, professor contribute to Supreme Court case over tribal police authority

Posted: June 1, 2021
After finals ended last winter, Mitchell Hamline students Ge-Waden Dunkley, Annika Sanora, and Alia Hawkins got to work. They weren’t getting a head start on the spring semester but rather answering a call from Professor Colette Routel, seeking help on a brief she was co-writing in a case over tribal sovereignty. On Tuesday, that hard …

Students, professor contribute to Supreme Court case over tribal police authority

Mitchell Hamline professor Colette Routel named to shortlist for Hennepin County judgeship

Posted: April 5, 2021
Mitchell Hamline professor Colette Routel is one of three women being recommended to be a judge in Hennepin County, Minnesota’s most populous county. The Minnesota Commission on Judicial Selection recommends candidates to the governor, who ultimately makes the selection. In this case, the panel is making recommendations to fill the Fourth Judicial District seat made vacant …

Mitchell Hamline professor Colette Routel named to shortlist for Hennepin County judgeship

Marking 30 years of Native American Heritage Month

Posted: October 29, 2020
November is Native American Heritage Month, an ideal time to remember the historical, political, intellectual, and legal contributions of Indigenous peoples in North America and specifically in the United States. Tribal nations entered into nation-to-nation treaty agreements with the newly formed United States in “perpetual peace and friendship” from the late 1700s through the late …

Marking 30 years of Native American Heritage Month

Indian Law Program renamed Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute

Posted: October 12, 2020
Mitchell Hamline’s Indian Law Program will now be known as the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute. The commitment to this area of law has deep roots in both of Mitchell Hamline’s legacy schools, with Co-director Colette Routel as the longest-serving steward of the program since it began in 2009. The change helps highlight the …

Indian Law Program renamed Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute

Mitchell Hamline professor’s brief cited in historic Supreme Court ruling

Posted: July 13, 2020
Thursday’s landmark decision on treaty rights from the U.S. Supreme Court included input from Mitchell Hamline’s Indian Law Impact Litigation Clinic. The ruling, McGirt v. Oklahoma, affirmed that a large part of eastern Oklahoma remains a reservation for the Creek Nation, because Congress never passed legislation that explicitly abrogated the reservation created through an 1833 …

Mitchell Hamline professor’s brief cited in historic Supreme Court ruling