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SBA President Amber Goodwin attends White House event on gun violence prevention

Posted: April 8, 2021
Mitchell Hamline’s Student Bar Association president Amber Goodwin was a guest at the White House Thursday for an event in the Rose Garden where President Joe Biden announced executive action on guns and gun violence. Goodwin, a blended-learning student who lives in Texas, founded a gun violence prevention organization called Community Justice Action Fund several …

SBA President Amber Goodwin attends White House event on gun violence prevention

Community input sought on new project to reduce systemic racism in criminal justice system

Posted: April 7, 2021
The death of George Floyd in police custody last year focused the world’s attention on a longstanding issue in Minnesota: systemic racism in the criminal justice system. Beginning later this month, residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul will have an opportunity to shape a project that aims to reduce the racial disparities that exist in …

Community input sought on new project to reduce systemic racism in criminal justice system

Mitchell Hamline pledges to become an antiracist school

Posted: February 24, 2021
Mitchell Hamline School of Law is pledging to work toward becoming an antiracist law school, with the passage of a resolution approved last week by faculty. The resolution commits the school to several actions to “identify and eliminate racism that exists at our school, in the legal profession, and in the judicial system.” Those actions …

Mitchell Hamline pledges to become an antiracist school

Professor Ibram X. Kendi: Law schools are “absolutely central” to antiracism work

Posted: February 16, 2021
“The heartbeat of racism is denial, and heartbeat of antiracism is confession.” — Ibram X. Kendi Historian and antiracist scholar Ibram X. Kendi called on Mitchell Hamline and other law schools to be at the center of antiracism work in the United States, during an online event Monday evening. The discussion, which drew more than …

Professor Ibram X. Kendi: Law schools are “absolutely central” to antiracism work