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Mitchell Hamline’s Institute to Transform Child Protection celebrates wins at Minnesota Capitol

Posted: September 17, 2023
Jamie Becker-Finn ’11 grew up on the Leech Lake reservation, an impoverished community in northern Minnesota where she has seen first-hand what poverty, discrimination, and an inequitable justice system can do to families and children. And when those families can’t afford legal representation to argue on their behalf, things get even more complicated. In some …

Mitchell Hamline’s Institute to Transform Child Protection celebrates wins at Minnesota Capitol

Mitchell Hamline faculty offer Supreme Court analysis, also appear in national news stories

Posted: July 12, 2023
Several Mitchell Hamline faculty members have appeared in news media in recent weeks. Many were regional news stories, where they offered legal analysis on several critical Supreme Court opinions. In addition, three faculty members also appeared in national news stories on other topics. Here’s a rundown. National news appearances July 14: Professor Thaddeus Pope spoke …

Mitchell Hamline faculty offer Supreme Court analysis, also appear in national news stories

New journal article details dash to create unique COVID-19 clinic at pandemic’s start

Posted: January 14, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down business, schools, and much of regular life in the spring of 2020, several clinical faculty members at Mitchell Hamline were soon thinking about the collateral consequences of those shutdowns: Visitations in the child welfare system would be disrupted; undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families would need help accessing some of …

New journal article details dash to create unique COVID-19 clinic at pandemic’s start

Institute to Transform Child Protection celebrates legislative wins in Minnesota

Posted: November 15, 2021
After years of work, Mitchell Hamline’s Institute to Transform Child Protection was part of an event in October with Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan to celebrate several legislative wins for Minnesota families. The institute had worked specifically on two proposals that became law. The measures were part of a larger bill that …

Institute to Transform Child Protection celebrates legislative wins in Minnesota

A voice for change: Alum seeks to destigmatize criminality

Posted: September 14, 2021
Nadine Graves ’17 understands firsthand the collateral consequences of a criminal past. She had plans to become a nurse and worked as a nursing assistant until she was convicted for felony marijuana possession as a juvenile. “I was misled to believe that a “friend” was having soccer jerseys shipped to my house and it turned …

A voice for change: Alum seeks to destigmatize criminality