University of Minnesota Law School Alumni

Claims against the former Bolivian President and Defense Minister for crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killings are viable, ruled Judge Adalberto Jordan of the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida on Nov. 9, 2009.

Renowned psychologist and professor Andrea Braverman, PhD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, will speak on "How the Internet is Reshaping Assisted Reproduction: From Donor Offspring Registries to Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing" at 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, November 18 at the...

Danielle Bailey, a Law School-Humphrey Institute joint-degree student ('11), and Emily Van Vliet ('10) took first place at the Region 7 ABA Negotiation Competition at Drake University held November 6-8, 2009...

Ryan W. Scott ('05) was quoted in a Nov. 5 Wall Street Journal article examining disparity in sentences for similar crimes.

United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Professor David Stras will co-teach a special one-credit seminar on Selected Fundamental Principles of Constitutional Law this spring...

On Nov. 18, 2009, the Minnesota Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in a special session at the University of Minnesota Law School. Judges Lansing, Kalitowski, Johnson and Stoneburner will hear four cases.

This week, Oct. 25-31, 2009, is the first annual National Pro Bono Week, sponsored by the ABA's Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service...

The law firm of Faegre & Benson LLP, through the Faegre & Benson Foundation, has made a $750,000 gift commitment to the University of Minnesota Law School...

Dr. Eugene Borgida, University of Minnesota professor of psychology and law, is among 13 academic colleagues from 10 universities across the country who filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 16, 2009, in support of petitioners in Harjo v. Pro Football.

Bethany A. Fountain Lindberg ('97) was appointed to Minnesota's Tenth Judicial District trial bench on Oct. 6, 2009, by Gov. Tim Pawlenty ('86). Hers was one of three appointments made to fill vacancies on the Anoka County court left by retirements.

Professor David Stras and alumna Amy Bergquist ('07) appeared as sources in the October 2009 issue of ABA Journal magazine. The article, "Shedding Tiers," discusses the longstanding tendency of U.S. Supreme Court justices to choose their law clerks from a tiny pool of six or seven law schools.

Professor Susan M. Wolf, J.D., has been elected to the National Academy's Institute of Medicine (IOM)...

The National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences a grant of $914,044 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for the two-year...

Rebecca Lucero ('07) and Chris Amundsen ('08) were featured in a specialty-practice article in the Fall 2009 issue of PreLaw magazine.