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Posted: April 27, 2022
After Amber Goodwin ‘21 had spine surgery during law school, she felt relieved to be in Mitchell Hamline’s partially online blended-learning program, so she could complete assignments without sitting in a traditional classroom. But the program didn’t just let her do her work primarily at home in Texas; it created opportunities to meet a diverse …

Change the Law. Change the World.

Joint statement from Mitchell Hamline on the Chauvin trial verdict

Posted: April 21, 2021
The following is a letter sent to the Mitchell Hamline community on Wednesday by the undersigned leaders below: Dear students, staff, and faculty — For many of us, Tuesday’s guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial provided a feeling of relief and a moment to breathe. For many, the verdicts also shined a light on …

Joint statement from Mitchell Hamline on the Chauvin trial verdict

Joint statement from Mitchell Hamline School of Law on Daunte Wright

Posted: April 12, 2021
The following is a letter sent to the Mitchell Hamline community on Monday by the undersigned leaders below:   Dear students, staff, and faculty: Daunte Wright should be alive. Yesterday he was killed at the hands of local law enforcement in our community. The tragedy of another Black man killed at the hands of police …

Joint statement from Mitchell Hamline School of Law on Daunte Wright

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

Deans, student leaders call for justice in George Floyd killing

Posted: May 29, 2020
Mitchell Hamline School of Law Interim President and Dean Peter Knapp released this statement to the school community on Friday, May 29, on behalf of himself and Incoming President and Dean Anthony Niedwiecki, encouraging further action toward justice in the Floyd case and more broadly now that charges have been filed against one of the …

Deans, student leaders call for justice in George Floyd killing