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She also serves as advisory board chair of the Women’s many examples of their scholarly and community work. Rights Program of the Open Society Foundations. I’d like to highlight just a few. In October, Professor Robert A. Stein (’61) brought This fall, Regents Professor David Weissbrodt was hon- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to the Law School ored with a CLE panel and dinner at which guests from for a day of activities, including meetings with student across the globe celebrated his extraordinary career in leaders, faculty, and the Federalist Society. Justice Scalia also international human rights. Professor Weissbrodt has inspired taught a class and addressed a packed Northrop Auditorium thousands of students, published dozens of infl uential for a lecture and conversation with Professor Stein. Past articles, co-founded multiple human rights organizations, speakers in the Stein Lecture series include Justice Ruth and served as a member and chair of the United Nations Bader Ginsburg and Vice President Mondale. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of As important as their research and outreach efforts are, Human Rights. our faculty ultimately have their greatest impact in the Professor Mark Kappelhoff recently received the U.S. classroom. Sometimes that impact manifests itself in unex- Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service—the pected ways. Professor Judith T. Younger recently received highest honor the Department of Justice gives—for work an email from a former student, Jonathon Cody (’11), now he did as a deputy assistant attorney general while on serving as the chief of administrative law for U.S. forces in loan to the DOJ last year. Professor Kappelhoff oversaw Afghanistan. He wrote: investigations of police misconduct in Ferguson, Mo., and other cities. “You will be happy to know that the knowledge you conveyed Professor Richard Frase gave the keynote address at the to me of varying property interests, laws, and even rules against U.S. Sentencing Commission’s recent roundtable on state perpetuity has been put to good use on a daily basis. For example, when recently confronted with the question of what sentencing guidelines. Together with Professor Kevin Reitz, ownership right, if any, a bona fi de purchaser had to a previously Frase co-directs the Robina Institute on Criminal Law stolen object, I was immediately—and miraculously, I thought— and Criminal Justice, which partners with local and state able to cite to the basic facts and results of O’Keeffe v. Snyder. jurisdictions around the country to provide recommenda- An answer that seemed to satisfy all parties. It was a moment tions on sentencing and other aspects of the criminal akin to the day that algebra or geometry really does save justice system. someone’s life. There are hundreds of similar examples I could Professor Myron Orfi eld’s brief on the history of housing provide you from our attempts to return possession of an entire country to the rightful owners….” segregation was cited in a major U. S. Supreme Court fair housing ruling in June. Last month, he was a panelist with These are just a few examples of our faculty’s dedication Andrew Young, Josie R. Johnson, and Taylor Branch in and expertise. Their work provides the best answer to the Washington, D.C., at a forum honoring Vice President question, Why Minnesota Law? Walter F. Mondale (’56). Professor Dale Carpenter co-authored “The People’s Brief” for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization. The brief was signed by more than 200,000 people and fi led with the Supreme Court in the case that legalized same-sex marriage this year. Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was appointed by the International Criminal Court to provide an expert report to guide the Trust Fund for Victims in determining David Wippman reparations in the fi rst criminal case (Prosecutor v. Thomas Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law law.umn.edu Perspectives FALL 2015 1 CONTENTS SUITE SPOT LAWYERS AS CORPORATE LEADERS 20 By Cathy Madison Illustrations by Stephen Webster 26 THEORY AT WORK PRENTISS COX (’90) 2 Perspectives FALL 2015 law.umn.edu 9 1 DEAN’S PERSPECTIVE Why Minnesota Law? 4 AT THE LAW SCHOOL 4 A New Approach to the 3L Year: The Saeks Public Interest Fellows Program 5 Law School Institutes S.J.D. Program 6 2015 Commencement Exercises: Embracing the Future 8 Orientation 2015: Getting Off to a Strong Start 9 Energy Transition Lab Hosts Energy Storage Summit • Recent Clinic Successes