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After 30 year career in Army, Mitchell Hamline student excited for second career in the law

Posted: December 11, 2023
During her 30 years in the Army, Karen Hanson often looked for online law school programs but never could find any. When she retired in 2020, she was accepted into an Executive Leadership Ph.D. program and discovered law schools were now offering online options. Then, she found Mitchell Hamline—the first ABA-approved law school to offer a substantially …

After 30 year career in Army, Mitchell Hamline student excited for second career in the law

Category: Feature, News Tag: dispute resolution, estate planning, Karen Hanson, student, Student Experience, veteran

Putting down the light sabers: Mitchell Hamline brings dispute resolution to Star Wars in new book

Posted: August 21, 2023
More dialogue, less ‘pew pew pew’ Luke Skywalker’s galaxy may be far, far away but “Force”-ful lessons for settling differences in this world abound in “Star Wars and Conflict Resolution: There Are Alternatives to Fighting.” The book is the latest publication from Mitchell Hamline’s nationally ranked Dispute Resolution Institute and its publishing arm, DRI Press. …

Putting down the light sabers: Mitchell Hamline brings dispute resolution to Star Wars in new book

Category: News Tag: dispute resolution, Dispute Resolution Institute, DRI Press, Han Solo, Jen Reynolds, mediation, Noam Ebner, Sharon Press, Star Wars

Expert Q&A: Professor Blair explains Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Posted: February 25, 2022
Mitchell Hamline is dedicated to protecting the rule of law and teaching that rule of law to future attorneys. We believe in educating our students to become attorneys who either defend or improve those laws. We stand with the Ukrainian people as they try to protect their sovereignty and the international rule of law. We …

Expert Q&A: Professor Blair explains Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Category: Feature, News Tag: dispute resolution, Expert Q&A, Henry Allen Blair, international law, NATO, Russia, Ukraine

Mitchell Hamline student supports efforts in planning first-ever Summit for Democracy

Posted: December 15, 2021
Mitchell Hamline student Lidice “Lilly” Calero Calafell hasn’t only spent the last few weeks finalizing her last semester in law school. She was also diligently supporting President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, first announced on the campaign trail last year. Calafell, a part-time blended learning student, is part of a team of US State Department officials …

Mitchell Hamline student supports efforts in planning first-ever Summit for Democracy

Category: Feature, News, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tag: Biden, dispute resolution, Lilly Calafell, State Department, student, Summit for Democracy

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

Category: Feature, News, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tag: Criminal Justice, DEI, dispute resolution, racism, systemic racism, truth and action


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