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Professor Pottratz Acosta weighs in on immigration issues in wake of election

Posted: November 22, 2024
After November’s presidential election, many are speculating about what the immigration system will look like under a second Trump administration, and what that means for Minnesota. Professor Ana Pottratz Acosta has been quoted in several recent media pieces, weighing in with her expertise as a long-time immigration lawyer. President-elect Trump has declared plans for mass …

Professor Pottratz Acosta weighs in on immigration issues in wake of election

Kaori Kenmotsu brings embodied approach to teaching DRI courses

Posted: September 30, 2024
Returning to her alma mater as an assistant professor of law, Kaori Kenmotsu ’22 brings to Mitchell Hamline a breadth of experience in the worlds of dance, theater, yoga, public policy, community organizing, teaching, and now law. For Kenmotsu, however, it’s all connected. “Coming into it late in my career, law was another piece in …

Kaori Kenmotsu brings embodied approach to teaching DRI courses

Peter Larsen seeks to inspire students to use the law to help others

Posted: September 20, 2024
Peter Larsen remembers the very day he became interested in pursuing law. It was his junior year of high school, and the Minnesota Supreme Court was hearing a case at his school about a drunk driver who hit a family of four after leaving a local American Legion post. It was the middle of the …

Peter Larsen seeks to inspire students to use the law to help others

New faculty strengthen legal writing program

Posted: September 11, 2024
“We can’t underestimate the power of the written word,” said Visiting Professor Udoka Nwanna, describing what she loves about teaching legal writing. A fundamental skill for lawyers, legal writing is often a brand-new way of thinking and writing for law students. Nwanna and three other professors have taken on new positions in legal writing for …

New faculty strengthen legal writing program

Coben steps away from full-time teaching; Roy and Morrow retire

Posted: July 29, 2024
James Coben After 35 years at Hamline University School of Law and Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Professor Coben is stepping away from full-time teaching but will continue to teach dispute-resolution courses. He remains a senior fellow in the Dispute Resolution Institute and will help build out DRI’s new Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution Skills …

Coben steps away from full-time teaching; Roy and Morrow retire