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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

Prof. Denise Roy retires from Mitchell Hamline after three decades

Posted: July 25, 2024
It can be bittersweet to leave a place before you’re ready, something Professor Denise Roy has now done twice in her career. The first time was in 1991, as Roy made the decision to add the title “professor” to her repertoire. Now, she faces the same emotions when, after spending 33 years teaching law students, …

Prof. Denise Roy retires from Mitchell Hamline after three decades

Former Hamline Law Dean Donald Lewis retires from firm he co-founded

Posted: July 19, 2023
Donald Lewis, an accomplished attorney who served as dean of Hamline University School of Law from 2008 to 2013, recently retired from the Minneapolis firm he co-founded, Nilan Johnson Lewis. The 70-year-old has shifted to part time arbitration and mediation work with JAMS, a private company that provides alternative dispute resolution services. Lewis’s tenure at …

Former Hamline Law Dean Donald Lewis retires from firm he co-founded

Event will honor Professor Marie Failinger after nearly 40 years at Mitchell Hamline

Posted: February 1, 2023
Join us on Feb. 21 as we celebrate Professor Marie Failinger’s retirement with a CLE and reception. Failinger, 70, said she still plans to be involved with the law school, but she’ll no longer teach full time because of her health. She’s retiring after nearly 40 years with Hamline University School of Law and Mitchell …

Event will honor Professor Marie Failinger after nearly 40 years at Mitchell Hamline

Ed Butterfoss, longtime professor and former Hamline Law dean, retires

Posted: July 28, 2022
Ed Butterfoss always returned to teaching. During his time as a faculty member at Hamline University – and later Mitchell Hamline – schools of law, Butterfoss found himself elevated – sometimes drafted – for leadership positions, including several years as Hamline Law’s dean. But he always felt the pull of the classroom, eschewing a long …

Ed Butterfoss, longtime professor and former Hamline Law dean, retires