SPRING 2014 NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE SPRING 2014 421 Mondale Hall PAID 229 19th Avenue South TWIN CITIES, MN Minneapolis, MN 55455 PERMIT NO. 90155 Perspectives THE MAGAZINE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF LAW SCHOOL PERSPECTIVES THE MAGAZINE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL

IN THIS ISSUE In this 125th anniversary year, hundreds of alumni returned to the Law School for a variety of all-alumni events as well Two New Master’s as individual reunions for those classes celebrating milestone Degree Programs anniversaries. This year’s lineup of events included three new programs: a student and alumni networking event, Introducing the Center the Corporate Institute’s forum on accelerating business for New Americans innovation and entrepreneurship, and an alumni and faculty anniversary luncheon. Thanks to all who attended for being part of this growing Law School tradition! Theory at Work: David Weissbrodt

Faculty Profile: MORE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WEEKEND ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT Kristin E. Hickman COMMUNITY.LAW.UMN.EDU/SAW.

law.umn.edu FAR AND AWAY Pleasures and Pitfalls of Practice Abroad DEAN BOARD OF ADVISORS David Wippman James L. Chosy (’89) Jennifer Ciresi (’07) ASSISTANT DEAN AND CHIEF OF STAFF William E. Drake (’66) Nora Klaphake John F. Hartmann (’87) Cathy F. Haukedahl (’79) DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Joan D. Humes (’90) Cynthia Huff E. Michael Johnson (’91) Jay Kim (’88) EDITOR AND WRITER Lynn S. Krominga (’74) Jeff Johnson Jeannine L. Lee (’81) (Chair) Marshall S. Lichty (’02) COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST K. Thor Lundgren (’74) Valerie Figlmiller Daniel W. McDonald (’85) Rebecca Egge Moos (’77) DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT Cyrus A. Morton (’98) Michael Tompos Dennis L. T. Nguyen (’98) David B. Potter (’80) DEAR FRIENDS AND FELLOW ALUMNI, DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Roshan N. Rajkumar (’00) AND ANNUAL GIVING Mary S. Ranum (’83) I am proud to support our Law School each year and am grateful to those of you who have joined me so Dinah C. Zebot The Honorable James M. LOCKHART CLUB — Rosenbaum (’69) far this year in supporting the Partners in Excellence JOIN TODAY! CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lisa A. Rotenberg (’85) Annual Fund. Thank you for your generosity! Corrine Charais Amy C. Seidel (’98) The Lockhart Club is the Sarvesh Desai (’14) Joseph P. Sullivan (’67) After attending my 40-year reunion in April, I was reminded of the many benefits that have accrued to me from attending the University of University of Minnesota Law Kathy Graves The Honorable John R. Tunheim (’80) Minnesota Law School—a fulfilling career and personal relationships formed School’s leadership annual giving Karen K. Hansen Kevin Warren and sustained the years with classmates and other University of society. You can become a member Marla Holt Minnesota lawyers. of this growing group of alumni Cathy Madison and friends by contributing $2,000 Todd Melby Gratitude alone is sufficient reason to give, and is an important reason why or more each fiscal year. Your lead- I personally am a donor. More importantly, however, the Law School is at a ership and investment in the Law COVER ILLUSTRATION Perspectives is a general interest magazine published in the fall and pivotal moment in its 125-year history, and it needs our support to sustain School at the Lockhart Club level Stephen Webster spring of the academic year for the University of Minnesota Law School its long tradition of excellence. will be honored with special events celebrating your philanthropy, as community of alumni, friends, and supporters. Letters to the editor PHOTOGRAPHERS If you have not already done so, I ask that you join me by making a gift well as recognition in our printed or any other communication regarding content should be sent to Ruben Gamarra before June 30, 2014, the end of the fiscal year. materials and on our Web site. Jayme Halbritter Cynthia Huff ([email protected]), Director of Communications, Law Library Archives University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, Gifts of all sizes are needed. Pooled together, our gifts to the Partners Recent graduates can become Tony Nelson 421 Mondale Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455. in Excellence Annual Fund will help the Law School provide more scholar- Lockhart Associates by contributing Patrick O’Leary ships, recruit and retain the very best faculty, and expand clinical and $100 for each year that has passed since their graduation (up to 10 Steve Petteway, Collection of the The University of Minnesota shall provide equal access to and other innovative course offerings that prepare students for success in a years ago). Supreme Court of the United States opportunity in its programs, facilities, and employment without regard challenging job market. Our support ensures that today’s students and Tim Rummelhoff future generations have access to the same world-class legal training that to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune you and I received, and that the Law School’s reputation remains strong. For more information, please status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, sexual University of Minnesota Archives contact Courtney Poja at orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Thank you. [email protected] or 612-625-6584. DESIGNER Gary Haugen (’74) Launch Lab Creative ©2014 by University of Minnesota Law School 2013–14 Partners in Excellence National Chair

P.S. Gifts of all sizes can be made in the enclosed envelope, online at www.giving.umn.edu/law, or by calling 612-626-8671. “WE MUST ACT TO FULFILL KING’S DREAM”

his year marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Among its landmark provisions was a ban on housing discrimination in any program that received federal assistance. That provision, however, was rarely enforced, and it Tdidn’t apply to discrimination in the sale or rental of privately owned housing. A lawyer and United States senator who graduated from this law school was instrumental in changing that. On April 5, 1968, the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Senator Walter F. Mondale (’56)—who had been working on fair housing legislation for the past several years—stood on the Senate floor and said, “We must act to fulfill King’s dream…by immediately passing the 1968 civil rights bill, and by moving quickly to provide employment and housing opportunities for all blacks and whites.” Five days later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which strengthened the original 1964 Act, and the day after that, President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill into law. Federal statute now prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in the sale, rental, and financing of all dwellings, whether publicly or privately owned. Today, the work of fulfilling Dr. King’s dream goes on, and many people who are deeply committed to this work are part of our Law School community. For example—speaking of fair housing—Professor Myron Orfield and his colleagues in the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity recently issued a report that shows in great detail how mortgage lending in the DEAN DAVID WIPPMAN Twin Cities area is skewed against non-whites. Other examples abound: • The “Theory at Work” article in this issue of Perspectives features Professor David Weissbrodt, who has dedicated his career to international human rights issues. • Professor Mark Kappelhoff just traveled to Mexico in a delegation led by Senator for high-level discussions on cross-border crime, particularly heroin importation and human trafficking. Kappelhoff is a leading expert on the latter. • The Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic, along with co-counsel from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi and the Advocates for Human Rights, filed a petition for certiorari in the asylum case Gormou v. Holder. The petition asks the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and correct the government’s misinterpretation of a controversial statute that requires most persons fleeing persecution to apply for asylum within one year of their arrival in the United States. • A third-year student at the Law School, Julia Decker, recently was awarded the Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Student Director Award for her work in the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic. Decker drafted an amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit to support the grant of asylum for an LGBT applicant from Haiti. She also assisted in a Second Circuit case involving a young man who was forced to flee to the U.S. to save his life after renouncing his membership in a Guatemalan gang. • Each year, the members of the Asylum Law Project, a student group, forfeit their January and March study breaks to travel to different parts of the country assisting in pro bono work. And the soon-to-graduate class of 2014 has cumulatively volunteered 16,459 hours helping 4,489 clients through the Minnesota Justice Foundation. These are just a few examples of the work being done by students, professors and alumni. Each case, each brief, each volunteer effort moves the work of civil rights forward. Each builds upon and extends into the future the tradition of this Law School.

David Wippman Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law

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Pleasures and Pitfalls of Practice Abroad

24 THEORY AT WORK David Weissbrodt

By Cathy Madison Illustration by Stephen Webster

2 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu 1 DEAN’S PERSPECTIVE “We Must Act to Fulfill King’s Dream” 4 AT THE LAW SCHOOL 4 Law School Announces New Master of Science in Patent Law Program 5 J.D. Students Can Now Earn a Master’s in Tax Law at Uppsala University 6 6 A Pioneering Collaboration: The Center for New Americans 8 Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt Delivers Horatio Ellsworth Kellar Lecture • MPLS Program Preps Students for Law School Success 9 “Throwback Thursday” on the Law School’s Facebook Page • Innocence Project Clinic Case Helps Spark Wrongful Imprisonment Legislation 10 Historian Cynthia Brilliant Herrup Delivers Erickson Legal History Lecture 11 A New Location for the Minnesota Justice Foundation • Debating Corporate Personhood at the National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition • Save the Date for the Second Annual Stein Lecture, Featuring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 12 Staff News 13 Vikings on Campus • Answers to Law School’s Facebook “Throwback Thursday” Questions 14 HRC’s Marsha Freeman (’76) Helps Taiwan Enhance Human Rights 9 15 Career Center News and Opportunities • Humphrey Fellowship Program Celebrates its 35th Year 16 Gifts to Generations 26 FACULTY PERSPECTIVE 26 Faculty Awards, Grants and News 28 Prof. Oren Gross Delivers Irving Younger Professorship in Law Reappointment Lecture 29 Prof. June Carbone Delivers Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology Appointment Lecture 30 Prof. Jill Hasday Commemorates Appointment to Centennial Professorship in Law • Faculty Works in Progress 31 Prof. Robert Stein (’61) Presents Everett Fraser Chair in Law 31 Reappointment Lecture • Faculty Book 32 Recent IMO Studies Question Housing Assumptions and Mortgage Practices • New Faculty 33 Faculty Profile: Kristin E. Hickman 34 STUDENT PERSPECTIVE 34 Student Profiles 37 Women’s Judicial Luncheon • New Journal Editors 38 Student News and Awards 39 TORT Gets a Clue 40 ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE 40 Alumni Profiles 39 43 Summer CLE 44 Alumni News and Awards • Recent Regional Alumni Events 46 Class Notes 47 Graduate and Student Networking Reception 48 A Celebration of Volunteers 50 Upcoming Alumni Events • Pre-TORT Happy Hour 51 Tribute: Law School Community Mourns the Death of Joan Mondale 52 In Memoriam

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LAW SCHOOL ANNOUNCES NEW MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PATENT LAW PROGRAM

BEGINNING NEXT FALL, THE LAW J.D. courses with courses expressly School will offer a one-year Master designed for the program. “We’re of Science in Patent Law Program excited to welcome into our class- specifically for scientists and engi- rooms scientists and engineers who neers. Developed by Associate Dean wish to enhance their knowledge Sharon Reich Paulsen and Professors base and professional credentials with CHRIS FRANK Tom Cotter, William McGeveran a particular focus on patent law and and Ruth Okediji, the unique intellectual property,” says Reich inaugural class only, scholarships program will prepare students for a Paulsen. of $15,000-20,000 will be offered variety of careers, including patent “Patent filings have nearly doubled to those accepted. Graduates of the prosecution, portfolio management, since 2000, while the number of new program will have the opportunity technology licensing and innovation. patent bar members has remained to take a patent bar review course Chris Frank, who holds a B.S. in flat,” says Frank. “This is a true at the Law School to prepare for chemical engineering and a J.D. opportunity gap. As companies the patent bar exam. “Patent bar from William Mitchell College continue to file more patents, there review courses are only offered in of Law, has been hired as director. is an increasing need for patent a few places around the country, so His previous experience includes professionals who offer a more we’re pleased that we can offer this patent prosecution and portfolio strategic and sophisticated approach on-site course to our students,” management for clients ranging to patent law. Our program has says Reich Paulsen. from individual inventors to been designed to meet this need.” More information can be found Fortune 500 corporations. Tuition will be equivalent to at law.umn.edu/legaledprograms/ The curriculum will combine one year of law school. For the mspl.html.

4 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu 4 Winners of the Corporate Institute’s inaugural Business 3 Following the Kellar Lecture Law Case Competition: Jesse in November, speaker Jonathan Stark (’14), Joseph Serge (’15), 1 Left to right: Registrar Haidt (right) signs one of Laura Gordon (’15), and Samuel Mike Galegher, administrative 2 Admissions director his books for a fan. In the Brylski (’14) assistant Deborah Hill, Nick Wallace (’05), associate background are Irving 6 At the Kellar Lecture assistant deans Erin Keyes director Kate Snowdon, and Gottesman (left), psychiatry 5 Justice of the reception, left to right: (’00) and Patrice Schaus, and counselors Ally Hilding and professor emeritus, and at Paul Rubin; Joan Howland, policy and communications Hallie Prest (’12) at the staff Eugene Borgida, affiliated pro- the Nuremburg Symposium in associate dean and professor; coordinator Paula Swanson party in January fessor of psychology and law. November 2013 Judge (’68)

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J.D. STUDENTS CAN NOW EARN A MASTER’S IN TAX LAW AT UPPSALA UNIVERSITY

THE LAW SCHOOL’S INTER- partnership with Uppsala, national Programs Office has Scandinavia’s oldest university, for announced that University of the past 30 years. Its Faculty of Law Minnesota law students now have is Sweden’s highest-ranked law the opportunity to earn a master’s school, with an educational model degree in international and European based on critical thinking, prob- tax law at Sweden’s Uppsala lem-solving, and small-group, University. The program requires one peer-based learning. Each seminar, semester of coursework (in English) assignment, or exam centers on real at Uppsala, through the existing or hypothetical problems, with Uppsala-Minnesota exchange solutions discussed and proposed by program, plus the completion of a reading statutory texts along with University of Minnesota law students final paper under the supervision of legal cases and literature. who would like to develop their skills Uppsala faculty. The master’s in tax “I warmly welcome University in this area.” law will be awarded by Uppsala of Minnesota law students to our Uppsala is a city of 200,000 located University, not by the Law School. master’s program in international and 40 minutes from Stockholm. It Courses successfully completed European Union tax law,” said Bertil features a 14th-century cathedral, a through the program will count Wiman (LL.M. ’83), professor of fiscal 16th-century castle, extensive toward the student’s Law School law at Uppsala. “Having taught botanical gardens, and a lively cultural J.D. requirements. European tax law at the University of scene. The Faculty of Law is located The Law School has enjoyed a Minnesota in the past, I am certain in the center of the city, in a building faculty and student exchange that the program will suit those that dates to the 17th century.

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A PIONEERING COLLABORATION: THE CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS

Left to right: Prof. Nancy Cook; Prof. Steve Meili; Kate Evans, teaching fellow; Prof. Ben Casper (’97); Meghan Heesch, teaching fellow; Kjerstin Sanden, administrative coordinator; and Prof. Linus Chan

“The Robina Foundation’s focus is on projects that are transformative,” says Kathleen Blatz (’84), retired Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice and chair of the Robina Foundation board. “This new center has the potential to be transformative in so many ways—through clinics that will broaden opportunities for students to work on real-world problems, the connections with the legal community, the outreach component, and of course the fact MINNESOTA IS HOME TO NEARLY provide unique real-world learning that this is a cutting-edge area where 400,000 foreign-born residents, experiences for law students. the Center can help refine and many of whom have fled their home “While Minnesota has a deserved advance law.” countries because of war, persecution, reputation for outstanding legal Sally Silk, a commercial litigator at and human rights abuses. These services in the immigration field, the Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi and refugees and asylees often are in dire needs continue to grow and far director of its pro bono immigration need of expert assistance to navigate outstrip available pro bono resources,” practice, believes that the Center is on the U.S. legal system, yet most lack says Clinical Professor Benjamin track to become a national model for the resources to pay for counsel— Casper (’97), who has been named providing comprehensive legal and only a few have the funds to director of the Center for New services to immigrant communities. pursue a complex immigration Americans. “By combining our “Minnesota has a long history of appeal. Similarly, on any given day, community’s resources and expertise, supporting progressive causes, and the 300 noncitizens in Minnesota are we can significantly expand both the new Center exemplifies this tradition being held in detention. Unable to availability and impact of pro bono with its unique collaborative struc- work, most cannot afford to hire a representation. This partnership is a ture, purposeful national litigation lawyer to defend their rights. smart way to leverage the experience strategy, and inspiring goal to increase Now, with the generous support of of law firms and the expertise of student learning opportunities.” the Robina Foundation, the faculty and immigration counsel at Dianne C. Heins (’97), director and University of Minnesota Law School nonprofits. Through strategic litiga- pro bono counsel at Faegre Baker is joining with leading area law firms tion and non-adversarial policy Daniels, says the Center is filling two and nonprofit organizations to address engagement, we can have a major significant needs: “Through our work the enormous gaps in legal services impact, especially as the debate over together, we can provide meaningful for noncitizens through the establish- immigration reform continues in the representation of detained people ment of the Center for New U.S. Congress.” who are in a very coercive environ- Americans. The Center—the first of The Center was designed in formal ment. In addition, we can seek federal its kind in the country—will expand partnership with the pro bono jurisprudence by going beyond the urgently needed legal services for programs of three of Minnesota’s individual case to make policy.” diverse immigrant communities, preeminent law firms—Faegre Baker pursue litigation to improve the Daniels; Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Comprehensive Clinics and nation’s immigration laws, educate Ciresi; and Dorsey & Whitney—and a Commitment to Education noncitizens about their rights, and the state’s leading immigration and Outreach train lawyers to provide high quality nonprofits—the Immigrant Law The Center offers three new pro bono legal services in collabora- Center of Minnesota, the Advocates integrated clinics. The Federal tion with the Center’s three clinics. In for Human Rights, and Mid- Immigration Litigation Clinic seeks myriad ways, the Center also will Minnesota Legal Aid. to improve immigration law through

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collaborative impact litigation in the “Many people plead guilty to crimes without realizing federal courts. Students work with the full extent of the immigration consequences. We law firm lawyers and immigration experts in important cases before are in the early stages of creating a program that will the Board of Immigration Appeals connect our law firm partners with clients whose best and the U.S. District Courts, Appeals option may be to go back to criminal courts to revisit Courts, and Supreme Court. Students also engage in non-adversarial policy their old convictions.” —Linus Chan, professor of the advocacy outside the courtroom Detainee Rights Clinic that furthers the Center’s litigation priorities. primary objectives.” detention can have a huge impact not The Detainee Rights Clinic Students in the Immigration and only on one’s legal case, but also on defends the rights of indigent Human Rights Clinic Center have personal and family well-being,” says noncitizens incarcerated by the taken on the case of an East African Chan. He notes that summer associ- Department of Homeland Security. immigrant whom the Department of ates in turn will learn valuable skills Students build crucial legal skills by Homeland Security has sought to related to investigation, client representing clients at all stages of strip of resident status due to theft interviewing, and oral arguments. their cases, from intake to fast-paced convictions. Clinical students are The second project will focus on administrative hearings before representing him in applications for helping certain clients seek post-con- immigration judges to appeals when asylum based on long-term ties to the viction relief. “Many people plead necessary. U.S. and the high probability he will guilty to crimes without realizing the The Immigration and Human face persecution if deported to his full extent of the immigration Rights Clinic represents asylum unstable home country. consequences,” says Chan. “We are in seekers fleeing persecution. Students Faegre Baker Daniels attorneys the early stages of creating a program interview and counsel clients, have worked with the Center on two that will connect our law firm partners research conditions in the countries appellate cases, one seeking to with clients whose best option may from which their clients have fled, overturn a widely criticized immigra- be to go back to criminal courts to draft briefs in defense of their clients’ tion ruling that imposed unfair new revisit their old convictions.” claims, and present claims to the procedures in deportation cases and The Center’s Education and Department of Homeland Security, the other on a case concerning the Outreach Program is hosting round- the Immigration Court, and the proper interpretation of when an tables and conferences on relevant Board of Immigration Appeals. immigrant can be deported for a and timely topics, as well as building Work on several major cases is controlled substance offense. alliances with departments and already underway at the Center. A Casper points to this work as a programs throughout the University team from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & prime example of what a law firm and with organizations such as the Ciresi, working with the Advocates can offer—and be given in return. Greater Minneapolis Council of for Human Rights and students in “Faegre brought unique insight and Churches, Tubman Center, the Law School’s Federal expertise to the table, including a Minneapolis Public Schools Adult Immigration Litigation Clinic, has young partner who clerked for Education, and Parents in filed a cert petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Community Action. Supreme Court regarding a West Scalia. This was really valuable,” says African man who was tortured in his Casper. In return, Heins notes, those “It Can Be Done” home country. The man missed the involved have been equally rewarded: While the need may seem over- one-year deadline to file for asylum “Our lawyers have learned so much whelming, Casper believes that the by just 33 days. Casper says the and have really loved working on combined resources of the Center Center’s goals are to gain Supreme these cases.” can help successfully address the Court intervention in the case while significant gaps in legal services for seeking a legislative fix to the onerous Planning New Initiatives noncitizens. “The scale of our time limit on asylum applications. Two unique initiatives are underway community works beautifully for this Silk says, “RKM&C has a long to further involve law firms in the kind of strategic partnership. We can track record of high-stakes litigation Center’s work. If approved by the drive transformative change here that at all levels, from Immigration Court Immigration Court, summer associ- will impact the U.S. immigration all the way up to the U.S. Supreme ates at law firms, under the guidance system and improve the lives of Court. We can bring that experience of Linus Chan, professor of the countless new Americans.” to a case that has the potential to Detainee Rights Clinic, will represent improve immigration law through immigrant detainees in hearings to By Kathy Graves, a writer based impact litigation, one of the Center’s get bond. “Being released from in Minneapolis

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Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt Delivers Horatio Ellsworth Kellar Lecture

more than 3 million times. Haidt was conflicts of interest are far more named a “top 100 global thinker” of powerful than the law acknowl- 2012 by Foreign Policy magazine edges. The practice of electing and one of the 65 “world thinkers of judges, who raise money for their 2013” by Prospect. His most recent campaigns, is, in Haidt’s view, a book is the New York Times best- “moral-psychological abomination.” seller The Righteous Mind: Why Law students, attorneys, and judges, Good People Are Divided by Politics Haidt concluded, hold onto the and Religion. rationalist delusion at their—and Haidt began his lively talk by society’s—peril. describing the “rationalist delusion… The late Curtis B. Kellar (’40)

JONATHAN HAIDT stalking the halls of the academy.” established the Horatio Ellsworth It’s not that rationality doesn’t exist, Kellar Distinguished Visitors he said; it’s that pure rationality Program in memory of his father in ON NOV. 20, 2013, JONATHAN doesn’t exist, and indeed that 1996. In keeping with his father’s Haidt gave the Horatio Ellsworth reason most often functions in the many interests, Curtis Kellar’s desire Kellar Distinguished Visitors Lecture service of intuition, ideology, and was to support an interdisciplinary on the theme “Moral Psychology self-interest. The implications for lecture series at the Law School that and the Law.” Haidt is the Thomas lawyers and the law are profound. would connect emerging issues in Cooley Professor of Ethical Legal judgments can be easily the law with other disciplines, such Leadership at New York University’s swayed by extraneous and improper as art, drama, and literature. Mr. Stern School of Business and a influences. (Consider the old saw Kellar retired in 1981 as an associate leading researcher in the fields of “Justice is what the judge ate for general counsel for Mobil Oil Corp. morality and positive psychology. breakfast”; Haidt pointed out that, He served on the board of directors His three TED talks—on political according to a new study, it’s not of the Law Alumni Association and psychology, religion, and political what a judge eats but when he or the Board of Visitors at the Law polarization—have been viewed she eats it that affects rulings). And School.

MPLS Program Preps Students for Law School Success

WHILE HE WAS AN UNDER- seat reservation fee, refundable the class average was a 5-point graduate at Saint John’s University upon completion of the program— LSAT increase from the diagnostic in Collegeville, Minn., Alex gain firsthand insight into the law test to the final practice exam— Schoephoerster (’15) had a general school admissions process, financial and a few students raised their interest in becoming a lawyer. aid, student life, and careers in the scores more than 10 points.” What he didn’t have was a way to law. They also visit a Minneapolis “The Kaplan instructor did a test and focus that interest, to law firm to meet with working great job of breaking down the determine where he ought to attorneys and Law School alumni LSAT and explaining how to attack pursue his J.D. and how to increase and receive a professional LSAT each question,” says Schoephoerster. his chances of admission. Enter the preparation course from Kaplan. “My score increased the most in Law School’s Minnesota Pre Law Kate Snowdon, the Law School’s the logic games section. Before the Scholars (MPLS) program, which associate director of admissions, MPLS class, I would get only about provides precisely the guidance calls MPLS “a wonderful opportu- half the logic games questions prospective law students need. nity to learn what it means to be a correct on practices—but after- The program runs from late law student and a lawyer.” She also wards, I rarely got even one logic May through mid-August and is notes the value of the LSAT prep question wrong. limited to 25 students each year; a component, which offers a greater “I would recommend MPLS to particular emphasis is on enrolling number of practice exams than anyone who is even considering students from groups that have many commercial prep courses do. law school,” he says. “Choosing a been historically underrepresented “LSAT performance improvements law school is a big decision. This in law schools nationwide. for MPLS participants have been program can help ensure that you Participants—who pay only a $100 measureable,” she says. “In 2013, make the right choice.”

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INNOCENCE PROJECT CLINIC CASE History Buffs HELPS SPARK

In celebration of the Law School’s WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT 125th anniversary, we’ve been observing what’s known as LEGISLATION “Throwback Thursday” on the Law School’s Facebook page. Each Thursday, we post an archival Law School photo with a question about it. We post the answer the next day. /Minneapolis–St. Paul 2014 /Minneapolis–St. Paul EXONERATED KOUA FONG LEE LOOKS ON AS SEN. RON LATZ 1 AND REP. JOHN LESCH ANNOUNCE A COMPENSATION BILL.

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IN 2007, KOUA FONG LEE WAS released from prison,” Lesch told the convicted of criminal vehicular Minneapolis Star Tribune, “they have homicide and sent to prison. In 2010, parole officers who help them find due largely to the efforts of students housing and jobs, and there’s mental and faculty at the Law School’s health and chemical-abuse counseling Innocence Project Clinic, his convic- for them.” For the wrongfully 2 tion was overturned. The case is a imprisoned, who’ve lost their jobs major impetus behind a bill intro- and been away from their spouses and duced in January at the Minnesota children, there are no services, no legislature—a bill that would provide remuneration. The bill aims to change financial and other compensation to that by allowing such individuals to people who have been wrongfully receive up to $700,000, plus medical imprisoned. and dental care and employment Lee’s case began when he crashed counseling and assistance. Similar laws at high speed into the back of a car are already on the books in 29 states 3 that was waiting at a traffic light in and the District of Columbia. St. Paul. Three people were killed and “This bill is not about making 1 February 20, 2014: Can you figure out two others injured. Lee maintained exonerees rich,” said Julie Jonas (’95), when this photo was taken at the that he had tried desperately to stop managing attorney for the Innocence Law School? his car, a 1996 Toyota Camry, but Project of Minnesota and an adjunct 2 March 13, 2014: Do you know what future despite his efforts, it surged out of faculty member at the Law School Law School alumni were on this Gophers control. He was nonetheless found for the Innocence Project Clinic. “It’s football team when they beat UCLA in the guilty and given a sentence of eight about making them whole by Rose Bowl? Do you know the year? years. After evidence uncovered by restoring them to where they would the Innocence Project Clinic con- have been had they not spent years in 3 April 3, 2014: Can you identify this Law vinced a judge that Lee deserved a prison for a crime they did not School group and the year this photo new trial, prosecutors declined to commit. Of course, the money can was taken? re-try the case. After two and a half never give them those years back, but ? Answers on page 13. years in prison, Lee was a free man. it can help them rebuild and give But as state representative John them some measure of security.” Join the fun at Lesch, one of the bill’s sponsors, As this issue of Perspectives was facebook.com/ pointed out, release from prison in going to press, the bill was headed UMNLawSchool such a situation may be a mixed for floor votes in both the Minnesota blessing. “When guilty people are House and Senate.

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Historian Cynthia Brilliant Herrup Delivers Erickson Legal History Lecture

working without lawyers made It is much easier to name scandals decisions about law enforcement, caused by pardons than injustices and a second used a notorious trial righted by them. But why? Pardons to explore how law reflected are meant to provide a necessary tensions between genders and remedy to the sometimes too harsh generations. She is completing a rationality of the law. Critiques of manuscript on the relationship pardoning usually concentrate on between pardoning and the early the specifics of who gives pardons, modern English constitution, to be who gets pardons, and how and published by Cambridge University why. By looking at the history of

CYNTHIA B. HERRUP Press, and is planning a project to pardons in the tumultuous world of study how legal categories shaped 17th century England, Herrup ideas about salvation, responsibility, examined why societies have ON APRIL 3, 2014, PROF. CYNTHIA and community relations in early pardons and what can reasonably Brilliant Herrup presented the modern England. be expected from them. Erickson Legal History Lecture, In her lecture, Herrup focused on Ronald A. (’60) and Kristine S. entitled “The Problem with a fundamental question: Is the (’72) Erickson are long-standing Pardons.” Herrup is the John R. problem with pardons intrinsic to supporters of the Law School and Hubbard Chair in British History and the concept of pardoning itself? The the University of Minnesota. The Professor of History and Law at the end of every American presidency Ericksons’ philanthropic investment University of Southern California. and many governorships brings in the Law School’s Legal History She holds a Ph.D. in history from controversy about pardons, Herrup Program supports this lecture series Northwestern University. said. For example, was it right for and other aspects of the Legal Her areas of special interest are President Bill Clinton to pardon History Program. The Ronald A. and the relationship of law (particularly financier Marc Rich in 2001? Should Kristine S. Erickson Legal History criminal law) and culture in early Gov. George Ryan have used Series is named in recognition of modern English societies and the pardons to clear Illinois’ death row their leadership and generosity. history of gender and sexuality. Her in 2003? Pardons often are viewed —By Corrine Charais, a freelance first book explored how communi- as signs of unfair treatment, special writer and editor based in ties in early modern England privilege, and even legal ineptness. Bloomington, Minn.

SPRING 2014 >>> APRIL LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS 4 Cynthia B. Herrup University of Southern >>> California Workshops are held on Fridays from MARCH A Pardon Gone Awry: 12:15-1:15 p.m. in Room 1 of Mondale 7 Nancy Buenger The Case of A Rye Mason Hall and are open to the public. To University of Wisconsin—Madison 18 Sharon Park receive the paper in advance of the Home Rule: Equitable Justice in University of Minnesota lecture, email Prof. Barbara Young Progressive Chicago and the Legal Categorizations of the Child Welke at [email protected]. Philippines Refugee and Recipient of U.S. Aid 14 Andrew Gallia during the Cold War, 1945-1960 >>> University of Minnesota >>> FEBRUARY Vestal Virgins and their Families MAY 28 Michael Straus 28 Brooke Depenbusch 2 Jameson Sweet École des Hautes Études University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Internationales “Too Many People Don’t Belong Becoming a Mixed-Blood Nation: The Origins and Development Anywhere”: The Persistence of Power, Nationhood, and the of Guantanamo’s Legal Settlement Law in Depression Era Dakota Mixed-Blood Treaties Black Hole America of 1841 and 1849

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Justice Foundation Debating Corporate Personhood at the Has a New Home National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition

“mandate” of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, claiming it violates their rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. First place went to Chicago- Kent College of Law Team 1, which also won Best Brief honors. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s William H. Bowen School of Law took second place. Brigham Young University Law School MJF staff, left to right: Thom Hart, staff attorney; Chicago-Kent’s winning team: Stephen Pauwels, finished third, and the University Janine Laird, executive director; and Patrick coach; Nick Bartzen, Melody Gaal and Eric of Wisconsin Law School Team 1 Harrigan, administrator Shinaberger; Scott Lechowicz, coach. took fourth. The late William E. McGee (’80), THE OFFICES OF THE MINNESOTA THE 29TH ANNUAL WILLIAM E. for whom the competition is named, Justice Foundation, formerly McGee National Civil Rights Moot was a strong advocate for human located on the Law School’s Court Competition was held at rights. He was the first African subplaza level, have moved to room the Law School Feb. 20-22, with American to be appointed chief N140 on the first floor concourse in 33 teams from 25 law schools public defender in the state of Mondale Hall. competing. The teams submitted Minnesota. During his career, he The phone number remains briefs and made oral arguments also served as a public defender 612-625-1684. The foundation’s in a 2013 U.S. Court of Appeals and prosecutor for Hennepin staff would like to extend a heartfelt case—Conestoga Wood Specialties County and as a staff attorney thank-you to the class of 2014, Corp. v. Secretary of U.S. Dept. and then executive director at the whose members provided 16,459 of Health and Human Services— Legal Rights Center, a nonprofit, hours of volunteer service to 4,489 in which a for-profit corporation community-based organization clients during their Law School and its shareholders sought relief that represents low-income people careers. from the contraceptive-coverage of color.

SAVE THE DATE> September 16, 2014: Professor Robert A. Stein (’61) and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in conversation

For the second annual Stein Lecture, Cornell College, attended Harvard Professor Stein will sit down with Law School, and received her LL.B. Justice Ginsburg for a conversation (J.D.) from Columbia Law School. about current topics of national She holds honorary degrees from 30 JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG interest. Prior to her appointment to colleges and universities, and she is the Supreme Court in 1993, Ginsburg a member of the Council on Foreign endowed this annual lecture to served for 13 years on the U.S. Court Relations, the American Academy of enrich the Law School by inviting of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She has Arts and Sciences, and the American leaders of the bench and bar and been a professor of law at Columbia Philosophical Society. She has written the governments of the United University and Rutgers, and a fellow at widely in the areas of civil procedure, States and other nations to share the Center for Advanced Study in the conflict of laws, constitutional law, and their insights on topics of national Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. comparative law. or international interest. Watch Ginsburg received her B.A. from Professor Stein generously www.law.umn.edu for more details.

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NEW STAFF University, she has worked in the . Hallie Prest (’12) dean’s office at the Hamline School returned to the Christa of Law, and she was involved in Law School as Daszkiewicz Hamline’s Collegiate Mock Trial an admissions joined the Law Program as a team . Her counselor, after School as a most recent job was with Tubman clerking for faculty adminis- Legal Services. Hennepin County District Court trative assistant. Judge Jay M. Quam (’88). She was employed most recently at Ally Hilding MotivAction LLC as a key account came to the Law Phillip Quintero manager, and she has several years School as an joined the Law of experience in customer service, admissions School as associ- event planning and database counselor after ate editor in the management. working as visit Institute on Crime coordinator in the admissions office and Public Policy. Dennis Depp at Hamline University. She holds a He will also assist in various admin- comes to the master’s degree in leadership in istrative capacities with the Robina University in a student affairs from the University Institute of Criminal Law and shared position of St. Thomas. Criminal Justice. A graduate of the with the Law New School for Social Research in School and the Sue Minor joined New York City, he serves as a Office of Information Technology; the Technology consultant for the Social Science he will serve as the Law School’s IT Department Research Council’s program on director. He has more than 22 years part-time as an digital culture. of IT experience, including, most information recently, the position of chief technology Brian Reilly enterprise architect at the Oak professional. She previously worked accepted a Ridge National Laboratory. in a temporary capacity for the position as Joint Degree Program in Law, webmaster in Chris Frank Science & Technology and the the Robina joined the Law Consortium on Law and Values in Institute’s School as director Health, Environment & the Life Sentencing Law and Policy of the Master of Sciences. Program. He moved to the Law Science in Patent School from the University’s Office Law Program. He Kelly Mitchell of Measurement Services, where he holds a B.S. in chemical engineering joined the Law did web design and other IT-related from the University of Wisconsin School as work for more than 10 years. He and a J.D. from William Mitchell executive holds degrees from the University College of Law. As an engineer, he director of the in biochemistry, mathematics, and has worked at 3M, Novel Biomedical, Robina Institute computer science. and Vascular Solutions. As a patent of Criminal Law and Criminal lawyer, he has experience in private Justice. She previously served as Kjerstin Sanden practice and, most recently, as a executive director of the Minnesota joined the Law senior intellectual property special- Sentencing Guidelines Commission, School as ist at Medtronic. and as secretary of the National administrative Association of Sentencing coordinator for Shana Hansen Commissions. From 2001 to 2011 the Center for was hired as she worked as a manager and New Americans. She holds a B.A. operations staff attorney for the State Court in global development studies manager in the Administrator’s Office of the and Spanish from Concordia Career Center Minnesota Judicial Branch. She College in Moorhead, Minn. and as the Law has also been an instructor for Previously she worked for a human School’s judicial clerkship adminis- many years in the Law School’s rights immigration organization trator. A graduate of Hamline First Year Legal Writing Program. in Buenos Aires.

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Andrew Stephanie Each Thursday, we post an Thompson joined McCauley was archival Law School photo the Law School as promoted from on Facebook with a question a research fellow office supervisor about it. We post the answer in the Law Library. to executive the next day. He is a recent J.D. office and graduate of New York Law School, administrative specialist in the Below are the answers to the where he was associate managing Dean’s Office. Facebook questions on page 9: editor of the Law Review. Jill Seguin was Monica promoted from Wittstock joined executive office the Law School as and administrative a faculty adminis- assistant to donor trative assistant. and volunteer Her most recent relations associate in Advancement. position was as marketing and communications manager at Camp Delanie Skahen Fire Minnesota. She previously was promoted worked at the Law School as the from principal 1 communications specialist/program office and associate for the Consortium on administrative Law and Values in Health, specialist to Environment & the Life Sciences. executive office and administrative specialist in the Dean’s Office.

PROMOTIONS Kaythey Windyk was promoted 2 Valerie from library Figlmiller was assistant to promoted from executive office communications and administra- associate to tive specialist in the Law Library. communications specialist in the Communications Department. 3 Bria Goldman was promoted 1 February 20, 2014: This photo was taken from principal sometime between 1970 and 1973 in office and Fraser Hall. administrative 2 March 13, 2014: This team did win the specialist to VIKINGS ON CAMPUS Rose Bowl in 1962, and our future Law School executive office and administrative alumni were Tom King (’65), Judge Dickson specialist. If the campus seems purpler next (’65), Bob Frisbee (’65), Julian Hook (’67) fall, it’s not an influx of legal prose— and Terry Maus (’66). Morgan Gooch it’s the Minnesota Vikings. The NFL April 3, 2014: This photo was taken in 1933 was promoted team will play its home games at 3 and shows Minnesota Law Review members from principal the University’s TCF Bank Stadium briefing new cases in their office. office and during the 2014 and 2015 seasons administrative while its new stadium is being built specialist to across the river. Watch for upcoming Join the fun at executive office and administrative information on parking restrictions in facebook.com/ specialist. the Law School lot: www.law.umn. UMNLawSchool edu/contact/directions.html.

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HRC’S MARSHA FREEMAN (’76) HELPS TAIWAN ENHANCE HUMAN RIGHTS

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MARSHA FREEMAN (’76), A SENIOR staked out moral territory by under- 1 Marsha Freeman with Taiwanese prosecutor fellow with the Law School’s Human taking the human rights obligations Thomas Tsai. The symposium was conducted Rights Center, was one of six inter- of a recognized state. Over the past with great style (flags, copious flowers) and national experts invited to Taiwan 10 years, Taiwan has ratified several ceremony: the international experts entered in November 2013 to help judges international human rights treaties on the first day to a recorded fanfare, and as and prosecutors better understand and sent the ratification instruments each rose to speak, a musical work from his or the application of international to the United Nations, which— her home country was played (for Freeman, an human rights treaties in its domestic not unexpectedly—rejected them excerpt from Appalachian Spring). courts. based on its 1971 recognition of the 2 The symposium banquet was held in the The island nation of Taiwan— mainland as the “sole and legitimate State Dining Room at the historic Grand Hotel officially, the Republic of China— representative of China.” Unfazed, in Taipei, at whose gold-leaf-trimmed black is one of the most successful democ- the government has produced reports marble table Chiang Kai-chek entertained U.S. racies in Asia, as well as an Asian as required under the treaties and President Dwight Eisenhower and many other Tiger economically. It is also a study invited a group of experts who have world leaders. in the complexities of reconciling served in various U.N. human rights facts on the ground with theories monitoring mechanisms to Taiwan of sovereignty. It was recognized to review implementation. in landmark decisions. She also as the Republic of China in 1948 The November symposium was provided a list of practical suggestions under a government established by one result of this review. Held at the for domestic implementation, Nationalists retreating from Mao Academy for the Judiciary, which including the possibly startling Zedong’s Communist forces on the trains all Taiwanese prosecutors and suggestion that the judiciary might mainland, but in 1971 it lost its seat judges, it was designed to provide undertake self-examination as to at the United Nations to the People’s practical guidance to the judiciary gender issues in the courtroom as Republic of China (i.e., mainland and prosecutors for direct application well as in decision-making, on the China). Today, Taiwan still has of treaty provisions, which is a basic pattern of American projects in the diplomatic relations with 22 govern- principle of Taiwan’s civil law system. 1980s and 1990s. ments and continues to operate Freeman was invited specifically “In the end,” Freeman says, “the under its 1948 Republic of China to discuss application of the U.N. government has engaged in a unique constitution. Convention on the Elimination of self-monitoring exercise that, at the The government of Taiwan walks All Forms of Discrimination against least, provides a major opportunity a fine line between maintaining Women (CEDAW). After noting that for civil society advocacy. Given the nation’s identity as a modern, no insights could be offered based on Taiwan’s resources, this could help well-run, democratic alternative American experience, as the U.S. has it become an example for other to mainland China and avoiding not ratified the convention, she well-off Asian countries in which the assertiveness that could provoke a turned to the experience of other achievement of equality lags behind destructive Chinese reaction. It has countries that have invoked CEDAW the quality of the economy.”

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CAREER CENTER: “BRING WORKING WITH EMPLOYERS A STUDENT”

The Law School’s Career Center and sample job descriptions. OPPORTUNITIES understands how important it is Prospective employers can to find and hire the appropriate engage with our students and Are you attending a professional professionals. We can help connect alumni in numerous ways, including event, CLE, or social or community employers with our students and Career Options Night (fall semes- service program? Do you have an alumni to support hiring needs. ter), the Lunch with a Practitioner extra seat for a student to attend Services we provide to employers Series, our Mock Interview Program with you? If so, please contact include job postings via Symplicity (spring semester), alumni network- [email protected] and the (free to employers); interviewing ing events, and many others. Career Center will notify students programs—on-campus, off-campus, of the opportunity. diversity, public interest, and For more information, and to sign more; Law School grades and up for our Employer Newsletter, Thanks in advance for your quartile information; and informa- please contact us at 612-625-1866 commitment to helping students tion on hiring trends, salaries, or [email protected]. engage with the profession!

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM CELEBRATES ITS 35TH YEAR

Senator Hubert H. Humphrey and President Lyndon B. Johnson exchange pens at the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

THE 2013-14 ACADEMIC YEAR dozen Humphrey Fellows with other Humphrey Fellowship cam- marks the 35th anniversary of the professional interests in human puses and program alumni around Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship rights and other fields of law are the world. Other events for the Program, which was established in assigned to the University of University’s Humphrey Fellows, honor of the late senator and vice Minnesota Law School. The alumni, friends and legacy partners president and his lifelong commit- University’s Humphrey School of ranged from the serious (roundtable ment to human rights, international Public Affairs hosts its own group of discussions, a bus trip to the cooperation, and public service. fellows whose professional interests Humphrey statue on the grounds Sponsored by the U.S. Department focus on public administration. of the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul) of State and administered by the The Humphrey Fellowship to the social (luncheons, receptions, Institute of International Education, Program commemorated its 35th a pizza and bowling outing). During the program brings accomplished anniversary the weekend of April the 2013-14 Humphrey Fellows’ mid-career professionals from 25-27, which happened to coincide graduation reception on April 27, selected developing nations to the with the Law School’s own Spring a prerecorded video message from United States for a year of profes- Alumni Weekend. The kickoff event former President Jimmy Carter sional development, academic was “Living the Legacy of Hubert H. was shown. Carter made the official study, and cultural exchange at one Humphrey,” a pair of panel discus- announcement of the creation of of 17 participating American sions held at the Law School and the Humphrey Fellowship program universities. Each year, about a web-streamed for access by the in 1978.

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GIFTS TO

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & of the Robins, Kaplan, Miller & not. It left both of them deeply Ciresi LLP Creates New Ciresi Distinguished Scholar Fund, cognizant of the need for attorneys Distinguished Scholar Fund the firm is reinforcing the importance with the skills and, equally important, n December 2013, the law firm of scholarship and teaching at the the inclination to represent under- of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Law School.” served communities. Imade a $500,000 gift commitment Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Now the Richeys are doing their to the Law School. The gift will is a national litigation firm with part to see that those in such com- endow the Robins, Kaplan, Miller & headquarters in Minneapolis and munities can get good legal help Ciresi Distinguished Scholar Fund, offices in New York, Los Angeles, when they need it. The couple has which will provide incentives for Atlanta, Boston, and Naples, Fla. The established a scholarship to benefit junior or mid-career faculty with firm has consistently received national students in the Law School who are exceptional potential to grow and recognition for its trial work in enrolled or eligible for enrollment in develop their careers at the University intellectual property, business litiga- a federally recognized American of Minnesota. This support is tion, antitrust, entertainment and Indian tribe; alternatively, the scholar- intended to provide a margin of media law, insurance litigation, ship’s funds may go to an individual excellence above and beyond core and mass tort law, as well as for its with a strong interest in and commit- faculty funding from other sources. award-winning pro-bono, diversity, ment to having a career in public Faculty members who are designated and associate training programs. service—to providing legal service to Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi underserved populations, ensuring Distinguished Scholars will use the Richey Scholarship Will the rights of all people and alleviating funds to further their academic Benefit Law Students poverty. Ideally, the scholarship endeavors in such areas as trial Motivated to Represent recipient will have a demonstrated practice, appellate practice, evidence, the Underserved history of past service as well. civil procedure, torts, intellectual arly in her law career, Paula The Richeys appreciate the skills property, and antitrust. Richey (’76) found herself at a they acquired at the Law School. “All of us at Robins, Kaplan, Eloss when asked for legal advice Both feel an obligation to provide Miller & Ciresi are proud of our long regarding an issue that involved the ways for others to have some of the association with the University of governing council on an Indian reser- same opportunities they have had. Minnesota Law School,” said Ronald vation. “I realized this client needed “Law school teaches more than just J. Schutz (’81), a partner in the firm someone more knowledgeable than I the law,” Walt said. “It teaches you a and the chair of its National IP was about the interrelationship of way to approach and analyze prob- Litigation Group. “We view our tribal, state, and federal law,” she said. lems and prepares you not only to philanthropy there as an extension Richey reached out to public interest practice law but to tackle other of our shared purpose of excellence, attorneys in her community, but her concerns in society.” community service, and commitment search yielded few who could help. Paula and Walt were married in to justice.” The experience stuck with her—and 1957, the year Walt graduated from “The University of Minnesota Law over the years, both she and her Purdue University. Paula completed School has benefitted from a strong husband, S. Walter Richey (’63), had her B.S. degree at the University of partnership with Robins, Kaplan, other occasions to observe and Minnesota College of Education and Miller & Ciresi since the firm was compare the experiences of people Human Development in 1961. Walt founded in 1938,” said Dean David who were able to engage competent worked in engineering at Honeywell Wippman. “With the establishment legal counsel and those who were until 1960, when he left to attend

16 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu “The University of Minnesota Law School has a long history of excellence in human rights law,” said Dean David Wippman. “We are grateful to have a fellowship that will support our students in carrying on this tradition. Through the Human Rights Center, the newly established Center for New Americans, numer- ous clinics, scholarship, advocacy and pro bono work, the Law School S. WALTER (’63) AND PAULA (’76) RICHEY offers a multitude of ways for students to involve themselves deeply and meaningfully in human rights law.” The Mehdi Eftekhari Fellowship the Law School. After earning his Nazie Eftekhari, and son, Amir in Law is part of Fast Start 4 Impact, J.D., he practiced law before transi- Homayoun Eftekhari, created the which means it will receive an tioning to the business sector. He fellowship in their father’s honor. additional $10,000 over four years served on several public and private Between the 1940s and 1970s, for student support. The Fast Start corporate boards of directors and Mehdi Eftekhari was instrumental in program, funded by the University retired as chairman, president and building modern-day Iran, providing of Minnesota Foundation, has raised CEO of Meritex Inc. Paula graduated expert counsel for the nation’s first $11.2 million to date, creating 104 from the Law School in 1976 and telephone service, first electrical grid Fast Start scholarships and fellowships, practiced at several firms before and first system of dams. In 2000, he which are supporting 115 students. establishing the firm of Gibas, Richey and his wife, Homa, moved to and Dube, from which she retired Minnesota to be with their children. in 1996. Here, they helped the Bloomington- The couple, who have five chil- based Foundation for the Children GENERATIONS: dren, are retired on their farm near of Iran provide critically needed The Campaign of the Amery, Wis. Both have worked with a medical care. University of Minnesota variety of domestic and international “My father had a strong commit- Law School nonprofit organizations, including ment to the rule of law, a commit- serving in several countries with ment he hoped to inspire in future The gift stories on these pages Global Volunteers. Both have been jurists,” said Nazie Eftekhari. “He show a range of reasons why members of the Law School’s Board knew that the way to a better life individuals and organizations of Advisors. was through education.” support the Law School. As we The Richeys hope that the Paula The fellowship’s first recipient is celebrate 125 years of shaping K. and S. Walter Richey Scholarship Sanam Ghandehari, who graduated the rule of law for benefit of will provide financial aid to law from the University of Tehran, passed society, the Law School is grate- students often faced with the prospect the Iranian bar exam and practiced ful for each and every contribu- of burdensome debt, and that it will law for six years before immigrating tion received over its history. help sustain the Law School’s ability to the United States. In December to attract students who are passionate 2013 she completed her LL.M. The Law School relies on about doing good in the world. degree at the Law School; the next donations of all amounts to —By Marla Holt, a freelance writer month she entered the J.D. program, sustain its academic mission. A based in Owatonna, Minn. where she is a member of the class special thank-you to Lockhart of 2015. Club donors and to our leader- Eftekhari Fellowship “I was proud to receive a fellow- ship lifetime giving contributors Will Support Law Students ship [in the name of] someone from can be found in a special Studying Human Rights my own country, especially one who Celebration of Philanthropy fellowship for University went to the same law school I did in donor listing available on the of Minnesota Law School Iran,” said Ghandehari. “Iranians like Law School Web site. Astudents studying human me who are trying to make a legal rights has been established in the career in the United States have very To review this roster of contrib- name of prominent Iranian lawyer few examples to follow. This fellow- utors, please go to www.law. Mehdi Eftekhari, who died in ship shows me there are opportunities umn.edu/generations.html. 2013 at age 93. His daughter, for us here.”

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Pleasures and Pitfalls of Practice Abroad

By Cathy Madison

LAWYERS WHO WORK ABROAD are an adventurous and mobile bunch, willing to leap cultures as well as time zones. But in doing so, they must face and conquer many challenges, from relocating entire families to adapting to foreign office environments. They learn new skills as well as new languages, and their worlds shrink as they turn vast networks of strangers into friends, developing wanderlust along the way. Photo Illustration: Stephen Webster Stephen Illustration: Photo

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“ The biggest challenge is always going to be language. You need to be good at understanding non-first-language English, even in writing, so you know what specific JENNIFER CIRESI (’07) legal issues you need to address.” —SHINHONG BYUN (’05)

< CONT LAWYERS WHO WORK ABROAD CAN ALSO BE HARD of Korea, she grew up in Australia, Hong Kong, Kenya, to reach. Jennifer Ciresi (’07) shared her story from the Bangladesh, and Korea as well as the United States. She seat of a Hong Kong bus that was shuttling her to work speaks Korean and English, claiming neither—or both— in the wee hours of the morning. As deputy general as her “first language.” counsel, Asia, for Pine River Capital Management, a $14 “The biggest challenge is always going to be language,” billion asset management firm founded a dozen years ago she says. Meetings in foreign countries can be difficult. in a Minnesota lakeside cabin, she has spent seven months In internal meetings, Byun’s command of conversational grappling with a schedule that demands her attention early Korean didn’t always bridge the legalese gap. External and late. She spends the shoulders of her day on calls to meetings, held in English with Japanese and Chinese the U.S., where it is always yesterday. Life is hectic. maritime clients, presented their own challenges. “You “It is completely different here—more fast-paced. No need to be good at understanding non-first-language one has a spare minute,” she says. English, even in writing, so you know what specific legal Ray Eby (’98) relayed his experiences from the airport issues you need to address,” she says. (with a brief hiatus as he went through security), then “I would be better off if I spoke Chinese, but I haven’t followed up online while in the air. Now director of 3M’s had time to pick that up. It’s frustrating,” sighs Ciresi. corporate business development group, he spent two years Hong Kong meetings are conducted in English, but she in Istanbul working as 3M’s director of compliance and also travels to mainland China, where meetings may be in business conduct for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Chinese, in which case she must ask someone to translate. He, too, encountered huge job and lifestyle differences, Bringing along her own translator often isn’t practical. summing up his experience in one word: awesome. James Southwick (’89), deputy general counsel, interna- “This is a natural passion for me,” says Eby, who didn’t tional, and vice president/government affairs for Medtronic, travel overseas until his 30s but has already retired two spent three years working in French-speaking Lausanne, fat passports. “Culture and people are always the most Switzerland. English sufficed at work, where he interacted interesting side of everything. For some people, working with legal teams from throughout Europe as well as the on a car gets them excited. For me, it’s virtually impossible Middle East, Asia, and Latin America, but he and his to change the oil. [Working abroad] is complicated, but family took classes to become “passable” in French. “I could I love it.” survive dealing with restaurants and retailers. I even bought and sold a used car in French, and I got much better at reading. But we weren’t forced to be fully immersed,” he says. TALKING THE TALK Relatively few Turks speak English, says Eby, but he has a different take on the subject. “One of the biggest benefits FEW EXPAT LAWYERS ENJOY THE MULTILINGUAL was not understanding the language. I could order food in advantage of Shinhong Byun (’05), who was a foreign legal a restaurant and engage in small talk, but I didn’t have to consultant at Asian behemoth Kim & Chang in Seoul for listen to talk at neighboring tables about silly things. I never three years before taking leave to pursue her LL.M. in had to listen to guys talking about their boring golf game. admiralty (maritime law) at Tulane University. Born in I could just hear the beautiful tones of the language. It was New York to the now-retired ambassador for the Republic really pleasant.”

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RYAN STROM (’03) SHINHONG BYUN (’05) WITH FRIENDS

WALKING THE WALK Comments had to be shared with humility and restraint, or perhaps saved for another time. “Korean people aren’t ADJUSTING TO FOREIGN OFFICE CULTURE CAN BE very confrontational. They don’t debate as heatedly as other smooth or bumpy, the challenges grating or subtle. For cultures,” she says. “I had to learn how to express my Ciresi, changes related more to job than culture. Working in opinion without coming off as too rash or rude.” A single Minnesota for Pine River, she focused on fund formation woman in what is still a man’s world, she discovered that and documentation in a back-office setting. In Hong Kong, discussing marital status, for instance, is not taboo. She also her role is much broader, incorporating compliance and took care to be sure her demeanor and approach denoted other functions, and she now works next to the traders in respect for elders, which is very important in Asian culture. the front office. Being so close to the action is “dynamic For example, she always used two hands, not one, to give and exciting.” something to or accept something from someone senior. When Ryan Strom (’03), senior counsel for Philip Ray Eby anticipated differences related to Turkey’s Morris International, was posted to Mexico City for three Islamic status but found few because it is a largely secular years, language proficiency influenced the assignment; country. It is, however, hierarchical in its own way. “People college summers in Mexico and Paraguay and a year in are interested in discussing things, but once the boss has Argentina had polished his Spanish. Yet differences surfaced spoken, there is no more discussion. If a boss allows it, they in the office, where 95% of his colleagues hailed from lose respect. They want a boss who leads from the front. Mexico. Russians are similar but they aren’t very open; you have to “How we approach a legal question is different. In the work to figure it out. Turks are frank and open, but they U.S., we embrace ambiguity and uncertainty. If the law won’t question your decision. In Israel, when the boss says doesn’t provide a definitive answer, we inherently advocate whatever the boss says, that’s the beginning of the conversa- for a position. In Mexico, lawyers focus more on the letter tion. They’ll still be disagreeing once the project kicks off of the law,” he says. “It really taught me the value of a U.S. and halfway through.” law degree.” Large international companies such as 3M and Medtronic He missed being able to do legal research online. “If you can smooth transitions simply because their experience is want updates on cases in Argentina, you have to pay outside vast and well-tested, but they can’t cover all the bases. Travel, counsel to go weekly to monitor developments. There is no for example. Eby spent about 70% of his time on the road, notification by the court when an order is issued. As U.S. often gone for six weeks at a stretch. In Belarus, he learned attorneys, we feel we should be able to figure out answers to avoid talking about politics or personal things because independently, but you simply cannot,” he says. the offices were bugged; he was more comfortable in Byun understands Korean culture, but she still faced certain large restaurants or those with outdoor seating. In hurdles when she left the small New York office of criminal Ukraine, he took ill on a train and had to have an emer- defense attorney Eric Franz to join the 700-plus attorneys gency appendectomy in an old Kiev hospital. at Kim & Chang— “a drastic change” in size, style, and “Travel in general is grueling, and some places are culture. In Korea, she dealt with complicated, high-profile rougher than others,” he says. “Catching a plane in matters that placed her at the forefront of international Kazakhstan is different from catching one at LaGuardia.” commercial and maritime issues. Her network was sophisti- Southwick encountered more subtle differences in his cated and broad yet required cultural awareness. Swiss office. “The coffee was a lot better!” he says. “And it CONT >

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“ Travel in general is grueling, and some places are rougher than others. Catching a plane in Kazakhstan is different from catching one at LaGuardia.” — ’ RAY EBY ( 98) RAY EBY (’98) AND DAUGHTER MARGARET

< CONT was anathema to eat lunch at your desk. Really uncivilized. Settling in Switzerland “was stressful at times, but it Every day you trooped down to the cafeteria to eat with becomes an adventure,” says Southwick, citing the hard your department. It was nice to have 30 minutes or so to work of relocating his wife and two teenagers. Whether get your head out of the job a bit and talk about sports, getting drivers’ licenses or setting up Internet connections, weather, and families.” challenges abounded. Surprises, too. “The Swiss are very rule-bound and rigid. It’s against the law to mow the lawn on Sunday. If you live in an apartment building, it’s against the law to flush the toilet after 10 p.m.,” he says. Then MOVING THE FAMILY consider the age laws. “We say they’re crazy to let teens drink at 16, and they say we’re crazy to let teens drive at 16. ACCEPTING A FOREIGN POST MEANS DEVOTING There was plenty of discussion on that.” significant attention to family, housing, transportation, and Shops that closed weekdays at 6 p.m. and always on social challenges less likely to affect domestic assignments. Sunday sparked new family recreation. “First we wondered Jennifer Ciresi volunteered for her two-year Hong Kong how they could ignore the wheels of commerce to that gig. The well-traveled daughter of an Irish immigrant, she extent. Then we decided we’re awfully obsessed with was excited to embrace new cultures. But placing her shopping.” No mall access meant more hiking and explor- children, ages 11, 8, and 5, into good international schools ing European food and art. Public infrastructure provided was a challenge, as was moving into a small apartment with enormous freedom for the kids, who rode trains into the no yard for soccer. mountains to ski. “My son really misses the grass,” she says, although her Eby could have moved anywhere for his international kids enjoy newfound freedoms and have stopped asking to job; he chose Istanbul after a French colleague claimed she go home to Minnesota. “It’s not like living in Eagan on a loved it so much she’d rather quit than return to Paris. He cul-de-sac.” took along his wife and five children, including a daughter Moving to Mexico City from “the lovely, clean Twin who postponed college to attend a local university. While Cities” required a year of adjustment, says Strom, during he didn’t like everything—“The traffic stinks. The Turks call which he was ready to pull the plug several times. school holidays on a moment’s notice”—the family made Accompanied by his wife, toddler, and infant, he expected wonderful friends and were reluctant to leave. different cultural norms. News accounts, after all, blared Shinhong Byun had family and friends in Korea, yet deaths, decapitations, and drug wars. “Imagine the mother- moving was still challenging. Seoul is a bustling city that in-law,” he chuckles. But his biggest daily challenge? can overwhelm. Smaller street signs may only be written in “Crossing the street. They have a complete disregard for Korean. Few locals speak English. A key deposit (anywhere pedestrians, not to mention crosswalks.” from $50,000 to $300,000) is required to rent an apartment. His biggest lesson? “The premium I have to put on “It’s very difficult to do on your own without some kind of patience—not one of my strong suits. Things just take help,” she says, crediting her firm with being better than longer. We also learned that they have a different standard most at smoothing transitions. of care, in childbirth, for example. Our third child was born there. It was a bit of shock.”

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“ Waiting at a bus stop, walking down the street— no time is wasted, because you‘re improving your language skills and having this experience. It adds meaning.” —RYAN STROM (’03)

“You can get on your feet much earlier than at a large JAMES SOUTHWICK (’89) law firm in the U.S.,” she says. “If you go to a conference in the States, you may not have the opportunity to meet a keynote speaker unless you’re very aggressive and introduce yourself. It’s much easier to meet top names in Asia, where LOOKING BACK—AND AHEAD it is equally competitive but a much smaller pool.” Rapid growth makes the Korean legal market appealing, although “IT’S A SACRIFICE TO LEAVE YOUR COMFORT ZONE Byun cautions that spending too many years abroad can and go someplace else. But what you get when you’ve cause one to lose touch with U.S. law. been living in a place that is not your own country is For those aspiring to foreign assignments, advice is respect,” says Strom. “There’s also a feeling of added value, plentiful. “When you practice in the international sector, even to the mundane aspects of life. Waiting at a bus stop, it’s not what you know but how you go about approaching walking down the street—no time is wasted, because you’re a particular issue. There’s less premium on substantive improving your language skills and having this experience. knowledge and more on the ability to communicate simply It adds meaning.” and clearly,” says Strom. Like all the Law School alumni interviewed here, Strom “Either you work for an organization that does work reflects on his foreign stint with fondness and appreciation. overseas and build your competence so they trust you, He and his wife (aka social director) became firmly or you develop some real expertise in a very narrow area. ensconced in the expat community. “We were sad to leave, Expat assignments are usually more of the first kind,” to go back to the foreign country that is New York City…. says Eby. Despite the fact that most of our friends were other The key to success, however, is basic. “Sometimes Americans, we felt exceptionally welcomed in [Mexico]. Americans come in and presume to know everything, but if The people were interested in us, and we never felt that we you come in and say you can’t wait to learn about their weren’t wanted.” He’d return to Latin America “in a country, they’re ecstatic,” he adds. “People are the same heartbeat”—maybe Colombia, which he says is beautiful, everywhere. Whether they’re Muslim or Orthodox, they has a strong educational base, and is “up and coming, kind have families at home and want to take care of their of the next Mexico.” children. When you respect people wherever they are, Ciresi appreciates the chance to grow her career, learn everything gets a whole lot easier.” Chinese, and travel to Thailand, Malaysia, and Beijing with Where might Eby aspire to go next? English is the her family. She finds the financial community surprisingly first language of business in Europe and Asia but not close-knit and helpful and often socializes with her coun- Latin America, he muses. The Gulf countries, not so terparts in other hedge funds. family-friendly. Africa: complicated. “Budapest. I loved Perhaps the world shrinks when you live abroad. eastern Europe very, very much,” he says. “But I’d love to Shinhong Byun was pleasantly surprised by visits from go anywhere.” classmates, the Law School dean, and a chief judge and senator from Minnesota. In addition to a wider network, Cathy Madison is a freelance writer and editor based in her Seoul post gave her a boost up the ladder. the Twin Cities.

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This article is part of an ongoing series highlighting professors’ community work at state, national, and international levels. For all the differences in the issues they tackle, the citizens profiled in this series have much in common. They trace the roots of their current service to early educational and professional experiences. They thrive on putting expertise and passion to work on causes in which they believe. They bring fresh perspectives back to students in hopes of inspiring them to put their own scholarship into practice.

David Weissbrodt: Global Leadership on Human Rights

ON A COLD THURSDAY NIGHT IN MARCH, TWO Heins, Weissbrodt, and others founded the Minnesota University of Minnesota professors were in the audience for Lawyers International Human Rights Committee (now The Dream of Valentino at the Ordway Center in St. Paul. the Advocates for Human Rights) and set to work develop- When the opera’s composer, Regents Professor Emeritus ing uniform legal and medical standards for investigating Dominick Argento, stood for a bow at the end of the show, political assassinations. The guidelines, adopted in 1989 the applause rose. As David Weissbrodt, Regents Professor by the United Nations as the Manual on the Effective and Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law, moved quietly Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and among the crowd with his wife, Pat Schaffer, he was in a Summary Executions, are used and known worldwide as favorite milieu far from the world stage of human rights on the Minnesota Protocol. which he has played a leading role for four decades. And if When Rudy Perpich Jr. joined Amnesty International no one stood to applaud his presence, it’s only because most while enrolled at Stanford Law School, he asked his father, Minnesotans don’t know that he’s one of the chief archi- then-Governor Perpich, “What are you going to do to tects of human rights advocacy, teaching, and scholarship in improve human rights?” At the request of the governor’s the state and far beyond. When Weissbrodt arrived at the Law School in 1975, “David Weissbrodt is a human rights innovator, he was already well versed in human rights law. After networker, problem-solver, and doer.” graduating from the University of California Law School at Berkeley, he studied religious discrimination and —Kristi Rudelius-Palmer human rights on a Robbins Fellowship and interned at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva in 1971-72. staff, Weissbrodt outlined 10 proposals for addressing torture. Weissbrodt was hired to teach torts, and he still does. “But Perpich responded, “Let’s do them all.” One of the results the subject of human rights was my particular interest,” he was the establishment in 1985 of the St. Paul-based Center says, “and I asked to teach that subject.” He was among the for Victims of Torture. first scholars to teach human rights at a U.S. law school, and Weissbrodt has often spent his sabbaticals teaching and he helped found the International Human Rights consulting, rather than dialing back his pace. In 1983 he was Internship Program in 1976, which later operated out the first visiting professor in an exchange program between of Washington, D.C. Weissbrodt broke more new ground the University of Minnesota and Université Jean Moulin in when he established the University of Minnesota Human Lyon, France. He taught his courses en français. In 2004 he Rights Center (HRC), only the third such program in the taught at the United Nations University in Tokyo and the nation, in 1988. Since that year, HRC has—among its many Monash University Law School in Melbourne, Australia. other activities—involved 538 interns in direct human During the five summers (2004-09) he was on the rights advocacy and in assisting 365 human rights organiza- faculty for Oxford University’s master’s program in human tions in 91 countries. In recent years, HRC’s online library rights law, Weissbrodt won rave reviews from the experi- of human rights documents and reference materials has enced legal professionals who were his students. Program made it even more valuable internationally. director A.E. Shacknove wrote, “David has the unusual When Minneapolis attorney Sam Heins (’72) learned of ability to transcend his national background and outlook Weissbrodt’s work with Amnesty International in London and to teach in a truly international manner that is both in 1982-83, he asked, “What can we do in Minnesota?” relevant to and respectful of the approaches of different Weissbrodt answered, “The dead body project.” cultures and legal systems.”

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President Bill Clinton nominated Weissbrodt to the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, which he served from 1996 to 2003. Elected as chair for 2001-02, Weissbrodt became the only American to head a U.N. human rights group since Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the inaugural Human Rights Commission. In 2005 Weissbrodt was named to the board of trustees of the U.N. Trust Fund for Contemporary Forms of Slavery; he served as its chair in 2008.

WEISSBRODT SAYS HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE HAS been working with colleagues who had very different ideas DAVID WEISSBRODT about human rights but nonetheless shared a commitment to the basic rights of their fellow human beings. As he reminisces about getting to use his Spanish and French and Weissbrodt took notes on Kuria’s activities and family, about a working group that included representatives from essentially treating him as though he were already a China, Cuba, Russia, and Senegal, it’s clear he relished the prisoner. When Kuria was imprisoned without trial two relationships as much as the intellectual stimulation. months later, Weissbrodt had the information Amnesty Kristi Rudelius-Palmer has long had a front-row seat International needed to mount the campaign that ulti- from which to observe Weissbrodt in action. When she mately won Kuria’s release. Years later, Kuria—by then an was his mentee, he took her to the U.N. Commission on official in a new Kenyan government—traveled to Human Rights in Geneva. They have been co-directors of Minnesota to thank Weissbrodt for saving his life. the HRC for 25 years and co-directors of the Law School’s Humphrey Fellowship Program for 11 years. “David HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY IS A SISYPHEAN develops relationships around improving the conditions for endeavor. New abuses come to light even as intractable individuals and communities by looking for areas of mutual violators refuse to desist. These days, Guantánamo keeps interest and potential collaboration,” she says. “David rarely Weissbrodt awake at night. He has worked on several shoots down an idea. Instead, he helps people breathe life detainees’ cases, enlisted students and lawyers to help, and and possibility into creative responses to human rights written books on the subject. violations and prevention strategies.” Weissbrodt works on all fronts: representing clients, Weissbrodt’s diplomatic and intellectual imprint is on incorporating the practical lessons of advocacy into the such key U.N. documents as the Declaration on the Rights theory and canon of human rights law through his scholar- of Indigenous Peoples (2007); Committee on the ship, and using his experiences and the textbook he wrote Elimination of Racial Discrimination, General to teach and mentor the next generation of professional and Recommendation 30, Discrimination against Non-citizens volunteer advocates. (2004); Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational In Weissbrodt’s International Human Rights Law course, Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard students complete a project for a client. “The result,” to Human Rights (2003); and Declaration on the Rudelius-Palmer observes, “is that students have not only Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance learned in detail about international human rights law, they (1992). have worked on a concrete project that serves the field.” “We’ve now seen quite a lot of success in the developing And if they choose to go into the field, the establishment of standards and their involvement in creating treaties, and of thousands of human rights organizations since the 1980s those treaties being broadly accepted by governments,” he has created myriad opportunities for them to use their skills says. As for implementation of those treaties, he adds, “We’ve to protect the rights of their fellow citizens and others. been less successful, but we’re still working on techniques.” In addition to the satisfaction of helping launch stu- Of all the roles he’s played, Weissbrodt likes fact-finding dents—such as Karen Curtis (’87) at the International best. He has participated in Amnesty International visits in Labour Organization and Lucie Viersma (’98) at the United Canada, Congo, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Kenya, Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Malaysia, Qatar, and Rwanda. Rights, both in Geneva—Weissbrodt is pleased to have 11 Because human rights abuses are emergencies for fellow Law School professors and Dean David Wippman all individuals who are being tortured and imprisoned, doing human rights work. “When I started,” he says, “there Weissbrodt drafts his reports while flying home. “You have was just me.” to learn enough to get a report done quickly in order to Weissbrodt has devoted his career to “navigating human have much effect,” he says. rights turbulence,” in Rudelius-Palmer’s apt phrase. “David In 1986 in Kenya, then led by President Daniel arap Moi, set the course,” she says, “and before he realized it, he had Weissbrodt met Gibson Kamau Kuria, an attorney who was thousands of birds flying behind him.” representing students and other political activists. Weissbrodt told Kuria, “If you keep on doing what you’re doing, you’re By Karen K. Hansen, a freelance writer and clarinetist going to get yourself arrested.” based in the Twin Cities

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FACULTY AWARDS, GRANTS AND NEWS

Eugene no more than to resolve an Eighth Circuit and Borgida, eight University Third Circuit disagreement affiliated faculty of Minnesota in Mellouli v. Holder. member, was professors each elected a fellow year, recognizes Barry Feld’s of the American outstanding (’69) book Association for contributions to Kids, Cops, the Advancement of Science. Borgida post-baccalaureate, graduate, and and Confessions: was elected in psychology “for professional education. Inside the distinguished contributions tackling Interrogation Room flawed decision-making in conse- Ben Casper was highlighted quential contexts, especially law and (’97), through the in research sponsored by the National politics, and for defining social Federal Science Foundation. psychology in law through research, Immigration reviews, and courtroom expertise.” Litigation Clinic Richard Frase and a collabora- has been named Dale Carpenter was named a 2013 tive litigation co-director, with Attorney of the Year by Minnesota effort with Center for New Kevin Reitz, of Lawyer. Carpenter was also chosen to Americans partners Faegre Baker the Robina receive a 2014 University of Daniels and the Immigrant Law Institute of Minnesota Graduate and Professional Center of Minnesota, filed a petition Criminal Law Teaching Award. This award, given to to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it and Criminal Justice.

26 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu 4 Left to right: Professor Antony Duff, 1 Left to right: Professors Robina Visiting Scholar Carol Chomsky, Perry Vincent Chiao and Moriearty, Laura Thomas, 2 Professor Barbara Welke 3 Professor Jill Hasday Professor Francis Shen 5 Professor June Carbone Jean Sanderson and Ann introducing the Erickson Legal with her parents and at Robert Stein’s (’61) and Dean Wippman at the Burkhart catch up after Oren History Lecture speaker, Dean Wippman following reappointment lecture reception following her Gross’s reappointment lecture Cynthia Brilliant Herrup her appointment lecture reception appointment lecture

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Jennifer Green District Court for the District of improve the law. The ALI drafts, served as counsel Massachusetts in the case of Patel v. discusses, revises and publishes of record on an Johnson. Hickman also filed an amicus Restatements of the Law: model statutes amicus brief brief before the U.S. Supreme Court and principles of law that are enor- discussed in an in United States v. Quality Stores, Inc. mously influential in the courts and oral argument legislatures, as well as in legal scholar- heard by the U.S. John Matheson ship and education. Court of Appeals for the Ninth testified before District in the case of Doe v. Nestle, the Minnesota Perry Moriearty brought on behalf of three children House and Senate testified before allegedly forced to perform slave labor Judiciary the Minnesota on cocoa plantations in the Ivory Committees in Senate Judiciary Coast. The brief argued that the support of a bill Committee in precedents set during the Nuremberg to amend the Minnesota Business support of a bill trials regarding corporations’ responsi- Corporation Act. Matheson serves as that would bility for criminal acts should be the official reporter for the Minnesota abolish life imprisonment without adhered to in Doe v. Nestle as well. Business Corporation Act. parole for juveniles convicted of homicide. Kristin Amy Monahan Hickman’s work has been elected Myron Orfield, on the Skidmore to the American director of the doctrine of Law Institute Institute on judicial deference (ALI), the leading Metropolitan to agency legal independent Opportunity, and interpretations organization in Tom Luce, was cited in an opinion issued by the United States producing scholarly research director, Judge William Young of the U.S. work to clarify, modernize and released a new report, “Reforming CONT >

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< CONT Subsidized Housing Policy in the Oversight Kevin Reitz has Twin Cities to Cut Costs and Committee been named Reduce Segregation,” which shows on the ongoing co-director, with that a disproportionate share of the Department Richard Frase, of Twin Cities’ publicly subsidized of Justice (DOJ) the Robina affordable housing is built in the two investigation Institute of central cities, at high cost and with into allegations Criminal Law few quantifiable benefits for the that the Internal Revenue Service and Criminal Justice. region. The New Jersey Supreme singled out conservative groups for Court agreed with Orfield’s position additional tax scrutiny. Painter Daniel in an amicus curiae brief he filed discussed a range of issues, including Schwarcz arguing against Gov. Chris Christie’s whether the IRS is an appropriate testified to the allocation formula in the New Jersey gatekeeper for the nation’s campaign U.S. Senate Fair Housing Act. finance system and whether the DOJ Subcommittee should have taken additional steps to on Financial Richard Painter testified before a assign leadership of the investigation Institutions and hearing of the U.S. House of to a lawyer without ties to either Consumer Protection regarding Representatives Government political party. appropriate capital standards for

Prof. Oren Gross Delivers Irving Younger Professorship in Law Reappointment Lecture

but observed that they also have been and national security law, the Middle used by others (e.g., the CIA, State East, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Department, border patrols) and raise He holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv difficult moral, legal, constitutional, University and LL.M. and S.J.D. humane, and international questions: degrees from Harvard Law School. Do the laws of armed conflict apply? He was a senior legal advisory officer Are targeted killings legal? How can in the international law branch of the accountability without transparency, Israeli Defense Forces’ Judge authorization, and investigation be Advocate General’s Corps (1986-91), ensured? Debate has focused largely served on the faculty of Tel Aviv on a state’s right to use drones, but University Law School (1996-2002), “little attention, if any, has been and has held numerous visiting given as to whether states have a professorships. His extensive writings legal or moral obligation” to use include the co-authored Law in Times them, Gross noted. of Crisis, which received the 2007 Under international law, the American Society of International ON FEB. 11, 2014, PROF. OREN overarching requirement of weapons Law’s Certificate of Merit for creative Gross, director of the Law School’s systems is “prohibition of superfluous scholarship. Institute for International Legal & injury or unnecessary suffering.” The Irving Younger Professorship Security Studies and its Irving Since drones’ improved reconnais- of Law was established through the Younger Professor of Law since 2005, sance and precise targeting may generosity of colleagues, friends, and celebrated his reappointment to the reduce civilian involvement and admirers of the late Irving Younger, chair with the lecture “The New Way collateral damage, do states with the Law School’s first Marvin J. of War: Is There a Duty to Use access to drones have an obligation to Sonosky Professor of Law and one of Drones?” In today’s “technologically use them? The question must be the best-known law teachers in the centric” war, he said, U.S. forces are addressed, he said, “if we want to nation. Younger’s love of language and expected to deliver military power think about making armed conflict the law inspired a generation of law “quickly, decisively, and with minimal more humane, both to combatants students and lawyers. risk of casualties.” and to civilians.” —By Corrine Charais, a freelance Gross focused on the use of drones Gross is an internationally writer and editor based in by military forces in combat zones recognized expert in international Bloomington, Minn.

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certain insurers under the Dodd- Academy Brocher Centre in Switzerland on Frank Wall Street Reform and of Sciences, return of results and incidental Consumer Protection Act. American findings. NIH-funded and National College of Science Foundation-funded work led Francis X. Medical Genetics by Wolf was heavily cited in new Shen has been and Genomics reports by the Presidential named a 2014- annual meeting, Commission on Bioethics on 2016 McKnight and American Association of Law incidental findings and an Institute Land-Grant Schools annual meeting, and was of Medicine committee on oversight Professor by the elected to the American Law of gene therapy. Office of the Institute. She was also appointed to Senior Vice President for Academic an expert panel, in an effort by the Affairs and Provost. Shen is one of Association of Schools and Programs Our faculty are frequently quoted in the just eight University of Minnesota of Public Health to re-envision public media and called upon for their exper- faculty members to be so honored. health education. With funding from tise. There are too many to include here, the National Institutes of Health due to space constraints. To see more Susan Wolf spoke at the (NIH) and others, she co-directed an faculty news, go to our Web site, Smithsonian Institution, National international workshop at the www.law.umn.edu/news/faculty.html.

Prof. June Carbone Delivers Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology Appointment Lecture

ON MARCH 4, 2014, PROF. JUNE divorce, more secure and flexible Carbone delivered the lecture “Are workplace situations, higher incomes, Women About to Become a Lot and often, more time to spend with More Like Men?” to mark her their children, women in their 30s appointment as the inaugural holder and 40s also have higher miscarriage of the Robina Chair in Law, Science rates and more problems with fertility. and Technology. Carbone joined the Women may be able to achieve Law School faculty in June 2013 the best of both worlds, Carbone from the University of Missouri at said, by freezing their eggs in their Kansas City, where she was the younger years, preferably their early Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of 20s. This practice would raise certain Law, the Constitution and Society. bioethical questions, including how Carbone is an expert in law, medicine to determine whether the procedure and bioethics; family law; and assisted is safe and the future of extra eggs. reproduction and writes prolifically For example, could unused eggs on law and the family, marriage, be offered to research facilities? divorce, and domestic obligations, Could eggs be donated or sold to including changes brought about by infertile couples? observed, “I think the choice we the biotechnology revolution. Her Egg freezing as a routine part face today is rethinking how we are most recent book, Marriage Markets: of future planning would ease the going to deal with a new era that How Inequality is Remaking the pressure on women to accommodate requires an enormous investment American Family (co-authored with both family and career needs during with enormous payoff.” Naomi Cahn), is due for release by the small window of time when The Robina Chair in Law, Science Oxford University Press in 2014. fertility and career growth are both and Technology was established Carbone’s lecture examined how at their peak, making women’s lives through a generous grant by the today’s changes in marriage, family, truly a lot more like men’s, Carbone Robina Foundation to launch and and career opportunities for women said. In considering changes that support the Law School’s Program conflict with the realities of fertility would theoretically involve a on Law, Public Policy and Society. and childbearing. While women who remaking of women’s roles and a It is one of several chairs supported wait until their 30s to marry and have reorganization of society for the by generous gifts from the Robina children have a lower likelihood of development of children, she Foundation. —C.C.

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Prof. Jill Hasday Commemorates Appointment to Centennial Professorship in Law

and far-reaching roles is to govern authorities pursue. The book demon- family life and family members. Yet strates, Hasday said, how much of the despite its significance, family law “common sense” that decision-mak- remains remarkably understudied and ers expound about family law actually poorly understood, Hasday said. makes little sense. “We need to Family Law Reimagined is the first challenge the answers that the canon book to explore the canonical stories assumes and ask questions that the that decision-makers repeatedly canon never considers. We need to invoke to explain family law and its reimagine family law,” she concluded. governing principles. These stories Hasday teaches and writes prolifi- contend that family law is exclusively cally in the fields of family law, local, that it repudiates market constitutional law, antidiscrimination principles, that it has eradicated the law, and legal history. After graduating imprint of common law doctrines from Yale Law School, she clerked for that subordinated married women, Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. that it is dominated by contract rules Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. permitting individuals to structure Hasday joined the University of their relationships as they choose, and Minnesota Law School as a tenured PROF. JILL HASDAY PRESENTED that it prioritizes children’s interests faculty member in 2005. “Family Law Reimagined” on March over parents’ rights. The Centennial Professorship 25, 2014, in celebration of her Hasday outlined findings revealed in Law was established through appointment to the Centennial in Family Law Reimagined, explaining the generous gifts of many Law Professorship in Law. The lecture was how family law’s canon misdescribes School alumni and friends during based on her book, Family Law the reality of family law, misdirects the 1986-89 Endowment for Reimagined, which will be published attention away from the actual Excellence campaign for the purpose by Harvard University Press in June. problems that family law confronts, of attracting and retaining a scholar One of the law’s most important and misshapes the policies that legal of national rank. —C.C.

SPRING 2014 FACULTY WORKS IN PROGRESS

Lectures on works in progress at the Law School and other institutions are held on Thursdays from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in Room 385. For more information, contact Delanie Skahen at 612-624-6892 or [email protected].

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Prof. Robert Stein (’61) Presents Everett Fraser Chair in Law Reappointment Lecture

ON APRIL 9, 2014, PROF. ROBERT subjects as to which uniformity is A. Stein (’61) celebrated his reap- desirable and practicable, uniformity pointment to the Everett Fraser Chair among states is essential, but it has in Law with the lecture “Strengthen- been a challenge from the nation’s ing Federalism: The Uniform State earliest days. In 1892, to meet this Law Movement in the United States.” challenge, states formed the ULC Stein has held the chair since rejoin- to draft and support enactment of ing the faculty in 2006 from his uniform state statutes on appropriate 12-year service as executive director subjects. and COO of the ABA. He first A major impetus to uniformity joined the faculty in 1964, was dean was the 1938 U.S. Supreme Court of the Law School from 1979-94, decision in Erie Railroad v. Tomkins and was its first William S. Pattee that there is no federal common law. Professor of Law from 1990-94. He That decision led to creation of the The Everett Fraser Chair in Law is a commissioner from Minnesota to Uniform Commercial Code, which was established through the generos- the Uniform Law Commission now governs virtually all U.S. ity of James H. Binger (’41), a former (ULC) and was president of the commerce. Other areas receiving CEO of Honeywell Inc., Broadway organization from 2009-11. attention have included business theater owner, and widely recognized Stein reviewed the development of entity statutes and trust and estate philanthropist. The chair honors uniform state laws and how they statutes. The newest challenge for the Everett Fraser, the third dean of combine with federal laws to main- ULC is to address international issues the Law School (1920-48), who tain and strengthen federalism. The in uniform state legislation, Stein said. led it to academic excellence and government system established by the “In our increasingly global practice national leadership. Many of the U.S. Constitution depends on an of law, state law, in order to be most innovative programs established appropriate balance of federal and effective, must connect across inter- under Fraser’s long service fostered state law, he said. For state law to be a national borders as well as across state curricular change in legal education viable alternative to federal law on borders.” nationwide. —C.C.

>>> >>> MARCH APRIL 6 Richard Frase 3 Michele Goodwin University of Minnesota University of Minnesota Law School Law School Researching and Reforming The New Jane Crow: Sentencing Enhancements Pregnancy Penalties and FACULTY Based on Prior Convictions Status Based Punishment 13 Danielle Citron 10 Jill Horwitz BOOK University of Maryland Francis UCLA School of Law PUBLICATION King Carey School of Law Challenges to Regulatory Criminalizing Revenge Porn Decentralization: Lessons BRIAN BIX 27 Osagie Obasogie from State Health Technology Family Law (The Oxford University of California Hastings Regulation Introductions to U.S. Law) College of the Law 17 Eugene Volokh (Oxford University Press, 2013) Race as a Risk Factor UCLA School of Law Bad Intentions For additional faculty-published 24 Carol Steiker and -edited casebooks, chapters, Harvard Law School and articles, go to www.law.umn.edu/ Lessons for Law Reform from faculty/recent-publications.html. the American Experiment with Capital Punishment

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RECENT IMO STUDIES QUESTION HOUSING ASSUMPTIONS AND MORTGAGE PRACTICES

THIS SPRING, THE LAW SCHOOL’S cities. While Minneapolis Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity and St. Paul contain only (IMO), whose director is Professor 25% of the region’s total Myron Orfield, released widely housing, they are home discussed reports on two key aspects to 59% of its subsidized of housing in the Minneapolis/St. units. These units are Paul area. The first, issued in January, concentrated in racially showed that a disproportionate share segregated, low-income of the Twin Cities’ publicly subsidized areas. And while housing develop- finding that, while subprime lending affordable housing is built in the two ment in urban areas is frequently is much less common today, access to central cities, at high cost and with justified as necessary to jump-starting credit for communities of color still few quantifiable benefits for the economic growth in struggling lags significantly behind the access region. The second, released in April, neighborhoods, the IMO study available to those in predominantly found that communities of color in found no evidence of improved white areas. Even high-income black the Twin Cities receive unequal growth or revitalization in the Twin loan applicants are more likely to be treatment from mortgage lenders. Cities’ largest housing development. denied a mortgage than low-income whites. In short, high subprime Subsidized housing: higher Mortgage lending still lending rates fed subsequent high costs don’t buy better skewed against non-white, foreclosure rates that, in turn, created outcomes low-income people the economic woes now used to An analysis by the IMO of more A 2009 IMO study showed that, justify exaggeratedly low lending rates than 160 subsidized housing projects before the housing crisis, toxic in the very same neighborhoods. in the metropolitan area revealed subprime loans were deeply embed- “The banking system has not striking cost differences between ded in the Twin Cities mortgage served the region’s racially diverse the central cities and suburbs. market and were highly targeted neighborhoods at all equitably,” said Units of subsidized housing built in toward communities of color. These Orfield. “High-cost loans and poor Minneapolis cost, on average, $30,000 loans contributed to the foreclosure access to prime finance exacerbated more than units with similar charac- crisis and the staggering drops in the housing crisis in these areas. More teristics built elsewhere in the region. housing values that disproportionately equitable treatment now could make In St. Paul, such units cost $37,900 affected people of color, stripping an enormous contribution to rejuve- more than their suburban equivalents. many moderate- and low-income nating housing markets decimated by Yet despite the added expense, a very communities of enormous amounts the foreclosure crisis.” large share of subsidized housing of housing wealth. The IMO’s new Both reports can be read in their construction is focused in the two study updates the 2009 report, entirety at law.umn.edu/metro.

NEW FACULTY

Linus Chan States. Prior to coming to the Law Law. Before teaching at DePaul, he joined the faculty School, he taught at the DePaul clerked for Judge Pasco M. Bowman at the end of College of Law in Chicago and at the II of the U.S. Court of Appeals for 2013 as a visiting DePaul Asylum and Immigration Law the Eighth Circuit, worked as a associate profes- Clinic. He has practiced immigration criminal defense attorney with the sor of clinical law law for more than 10 years with a Chicago firm Genson and Gillespie, in the Center for focus on representing people who are and served as a senior staff attorney at New Americans. He teaches the detained by Immigration and the National Immigrant Justice newly formed Detainee Rights Customs Enforcement. Center. His article “The Right to Clinic, which provides representation Chan received his A.B. in econom- Travel: Breaking Down the Thousand and support for indigent noncitizens ics from the University of Chicago Petty Fortresses of State Self- in the Twin Cities area who are and his J.D., cum laude, from Deportation Laws” is forthcoming facing removal from the United Northwestern University School of this year in Pace Law Review.

32 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu FACULTY PERSPECTIVE Faculty Profile

KRISTIN E. HICKMAN Harlan Albert Rogers Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Corporate Institute

Kristin E. Hickman joined the Law School faculty in 2004 and became professor of law in 2011. She was the 2010 Julius E. Davis Professor of Law. Hickman practiced as a CPA for five years before earning her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, then clerked for the D.C. Circuit and spent three years in tax-related law practice in Chicago.

FOLLOWING IN HER MOTHER’S students, because these days they want Quality Stores, Inc.; United States v. footsteps as a CPA was a natural path to be involved with their kids, too.” Home Concrete & Supply, LLC; Mayo for Kristin Hickman, whose family Hickman is looking forward to Foundation for Medical Education and also includes two generations of reaching beyond the classrooms in Research v. United States), and one en bankers. As an undergraduate at Mondale Hall this summer, when she banc amicus brief for the D.C. Circuit Trinity University in San Antonio, will be one of seven professors from (Cohen v. United States). One ruling is Texas, she pragmatically chose a different law schools who will teach pending, and she is “three for three” business administration major with a courses live via webcam to law on the others, with two decisions concentration in accounting. But her students around the country. “I view tracking her arguments directly and second major, a proverbially impracti- this as a bit of a precursor to figuring the third reaching the outcome for cal one in history, also twines through out how to make online teaching which she advocated. her career. work at the U of M Law School,” The recognition that resonates Little is easy or familiar about the she says. most profoundly with Hickman is articles and briefs that Hickman However keen one’s interest in tax less visible than briefs written for writes or the classes she teaches in tax law, only a historian at heart would the courts. In her office, the pristine law, administrative law, and statutory study the annals of federal tax blue, red, and gold volumes of the interpretation. It is a measure of her administration as avidly as Hickman Administrative Law Treatise stand a bit professorial prowess that she can has. Her close reading of scholarship apart on the shelf nearest her desk. succinctly clarify the arcana of her written during and about the 1920s The late Kenneth Culp Davis, who specialties without causing listeners’ through 1950s, combined with her taught at the Law School, originated eyes to glaze over. study of tax law trends, undergirds the first edition in 1958. His photo “I do my best to make the material her own scholarship in administrative hangs in the hallway just down from comprehensible to students and to law and tax law. The articles Hickman Hickman’s office. “I genuflect in front make myself available to them,” she has published—especially those that of it regularly,” she deadpans. “Ken says. “They seem to learn the mate- address the legal vulnerabilities Davis in his era was the administrative rial.” resulting from the divergence of law scholar.” Hickman eschews pedagogical Treasury and IRS practices from Richard J. Pierce Jr., “the single jargon; “I just teach my classes,” she general administrative law norms over most cited administrative law scholar says. The fact that she was invited to the last 30 to 40 years—have been in the country,” co-authored the third teach at Harvard Law School in cited dozens of times in judicial edition, then succeeded Davis as 2012-13 belies the “just” in that opinions and court briefs. Among her author. Pierce in turn selected assertion, and she does allow as how most influential works are “Chevron’s Hickman to co-author the sixth teaching at Harvard “definitely ranks Domain” (co-authored with Thomas edition. Edition seven will bear among the cooler things” she’s gotten W. Merrill, 2001) and “The Need for Hickman’s name alone. to do. Mead: Rejecting Tax Exceptionalism “Following in the footsteps of Ken In class Hickman refers occasion- in Judicial Deference” (2006). Davis and Dick Pierce may mean ally and with judicious intent to the Hickman’s writing has kept her more to me than just about anything lost sleep and juggled schedules that name in the forefront of her field else I have accomplished as a scholar,” are the realities of her life as a and her opinions present in the she says. “The historian in me says, professional and the mother of arguments, citations, and decisions ‘Isn’t that cool?’” Charles, 10, and Jack, 5. “It’s particu- of the U.S. Supreme Court and larly important for my women appellate courts. Since 2010, she has By Karen K. Hansen, a freelance students to see that you can do both, written three amicus briefs for the writer and clarinetist based in the but it’s also important for my men Supreme Court (United States v. Twin Cities

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A refugee is a wife, a mother, a child, says. “It widened my perspective.” a fighter,” says Liva Sreedharan, a After earning a bachelor’s degree in human rights activist from Malaysia. psychology and mass communication, “A refugee is someone with dreams, she took a job teaching English in someone with hopes.” China, saved money and traveled That’s something Sreedharan throughout the region. After winning learned firsthand while helping acceptance to London’s Middlesex refugees escape prostitution and labor University to study for her master’s, abuse in her home country. She Sreedharan volunteered at Tenaganita. works with Tenaganita, a Kuala She liked it so much that after Lumpur-based nonprofit dedicated to completing master’s degrees in advocacy and protection for women criminology and forensic psychology, and migrant workers. As a program she started working for the group LIVA SREEDHARAN officer in Tenaganita’s anti-trafficking full-time. 2013-14 Humphrey Fellow in persons unit, Sreedharan has While in Minnesota, Sreedharan is Every day, people flee their home rescued more than 100 people. volunteering at the American countries due to war, hunger and a “I wanted to do something to serve Refugee Committee and interning at multitude of other reasons. When humanity,” she says. Catholic Charities. The focus at the they arrive in a new nation, they’re When Sreedharan was growing up, latter organization is on labor often seen as tattered and unkempt. her parents often hosted visitors from trafficking, which is also a problem in But that viewpoint ignores human other countries on behalf of their Malaysia. Middle- and upper-income potential. church. “People from all over the families there (as here) often hire “A refugee is not just a victim. world came and stayed with us,” she domestic help from other countries,

34 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu 4 TORT musicians amaze at this year’s show, Clue: A Murder Mystery in Mondale 5 Asylum Law Project 3 Caitlinrose Fisher (’15) members take a trip to Wash- speaks with Judge Mary ington, D.C., in January. From 2 2Ls Mariam Mahmood, Vasaly (’83) at the Women’s left to right, Luke Gagnon (’16), 1 LL.M. and exchange Angelica Ramirez and Tenzin Law Student Association’s James Meinert (’16), Senator 6 LL.M. and exchange students and staff go Pelkyi speak at the Diversity annual women’s judicial Al Franken, Allison Rochford students and staff go bowling in January Week kickoff event in March luncheon in February (’16), and Jeff Bruno (’16) ice skating in February

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but fail to give them days off or pay at the head of his class, he rarely them adequate wages. When stopped working. “I’m not number Sreedharan learns of such abuses, she one or number two, but I study confronts the employer face-to-face. hard, I try my best,” he says. “I don’t Police officers accompany her, but give up.” they wait nearby, often out of sight. That quality of perseverance has So far Sreedharan’s enforcement visits enabled Yu to receive ever-greater haven’t resulted in violence. “I have levels of responsibility in his law not gotten hit before, but there is a career. Yu’s first job as an attorney was very real possibility,” she says. for a Chinese intellectual property Sreedharan also has been studying a firm, where he focused on trademark St. Paul-based nonprofit called protection for pharmaceutical Breaking Free—particularly its companies. After three-plus years, he Offenders Prostitution Program, also remembered tough times, which is took a position with a U.K.-based known as “John School,” a restorative why his mother reminded him to firm and worked to protect brands justice project that aims to stop men finish every meal. such as Dove Chocolate and from buying women for sex. “You need to eat what you have Motorola from local copycats. “[At home] we rescue the women, in your bowl,” she said. At both law firms, he led dozens but the men go scot-free,” she says. “I At 17, Yu left his village for of raids on Chinese companies that want to see if I can start something Xinyang Teachers College to study were manufacturing lookalike like this in Malaysia.” politics. The typical career path for products to be sold under the names such a graduate is high school of successful Western brands. Such HUI YU instructor, but Yu yearned for more. actions sometimes resulted in threats LL.M. Class of 2014 “I didn’t want to be that hometown from angry businessmen, but Yu Hui Yu grew up in the Henan teacher,” he says. didn’t back down. Province of China, a rural area far So he headed to Beijing, where “I am not wrong,” he says. “I am from the country’s power centers he earned a law degree at Renmin protecting my client.” in Beijing and Shanghai. Although University, the nation’s top-ranked Yu’s tenaciousness landed him a job his parents weren’t poor, they school. While he may not have been at Bayer, the German pharmaceutical CONT >

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< CONT giant. He’s worked at the company’s change by drafting legislation, offices in Beijing and Shanghai for lobbying and casting votes. “I saw a the past six years. He still raids lot of lawyers doing it, and I wanted intellectual property rustlers, but he’s to be a part of it,” he says. also gained courtroom experience in That’s when pursuing a legal trademark infringement cases. education became foremost in his As a college student and a practic- mind. Previously, Ready had consid- ing lawyer, Yu has worked hard to ered a career in the military. He improve his English skills. After joined the Air Force (the branch in completing his LL.M. degree, which his father had served) while however, he won’t seek a job in the still in high school, and he later United States. Yu’s wife and four- worked in military intelligence, year-old son are home in Beijing, and analyzing threat assessments to his goal is to return there and work as American forces in combat zones. neering, her undergraduate major in-house legal counsel for a multina- He also learned to fly planes at at the University of St. Thomas in tional firm, preferably a U.S.-based civilian flight schools in the South. St. Paul. one. “I want to experience the At one point Ready had wanted After all, mechanical engineering is culture of an American company and to become an Air Force pilot, but about inventing stuff that works, continue to learn about the American less-than-perfect vision put an end which is helpful to the litigator who legal system,” he says. to that dream. “It was a big disap- is defending a client’s patent or pointment,” he says. challenging unsubstantiated claims by Still, for all its allure, flying lacked a competitor. Either way, Motl is intellectual heft, something Ready drawn to this detailed, nuanced world. had always craved. Which is why That’s evidenced by the title of a studying the law—and applying it in 45-page article she hopes to publish the real world—seems like the perfect in the Minnesota Law Review: “Inter fit for the restless Ready. He studied Parties Review: Ensuring Effective environmental law with Professor Patent Litigation Through Estoppel.” Bradley C. Karkkainen at the Law Motl grew up on a dairy farm near School and found his passion for the Staples, Minn., where her parents outdoors rekindled. As a teenager in milked a herd of 80 cows every St. Charles, Minn., Ready partici- morning and evening. Her mother pated in 4-H, raising sheep. While was a veterinarian who encouraged attending the Law School, he her to explore science. She did just DESMOND READY returned to southern Minnesota to that, mostly through 4-H. Her final Class of 2014 help citizens fight proposed silica sand project featured 3-D modeling. Although he’s not a rock climber or mines near his hometown. A few years later, her senior project rugged outdoor adventurer, Desmond Says Ready, “When citizens are able at St. Thomas involved the design and Ready has always gotten a kick out of to access the legal system, the positive assembly of a device that measured visiting America’s great parks. While change that can result is amazing.” the viscosity of hydraulic fracturing living in the Southwest, Ready often fluids used in the oil and natural gas made day trips to see the giant cacti ANN MOTL industry. After completing her at Saguaro National Park in Arizona Class of 2015 undergraduate degree, Motl worked or the dunes at White Sands National When she entered the Law School, as a public policy associate at the Monument in New Mexico. Ann Motl had no desire to become a American Society of Mechanical Soon he’ll be taking a job that may litigator. “I thought they were jerks Engineers in Washington, D.C. have him defending such national that yelled at people,” she says. These days, Motl is steering her treasures against environmental threats. Two things changed her mind. career away from policy and toward After graduating from the Law School The first was a civil litigation class patent litigation. During spring this spring, Ready begins work at the taught by Professor Bradley G. Clary semester, she tackled courses in U.S. Department of Justice’s Environ- (’75), a seasoned litigator who Patents, Biotechnology Patents and mental and Natural Resources brought real-world experience into Winning Patent Litigation. In May, Division in Washington, D.C. the classroom. Without yelling. “He’s she returns to the Minneapolis office “If lands are threatened, it’s lawyers the coolest ever,” Motl says. of Fish & Richardson, a global that can protect them,” Ready says. The second was her discovery intellectual property, litigation, and Working as a legislative aide at the of patent litigation, an intellectual technology firm, to work as a Colorado State Senate, Ready saw property specialty that leverages her summer associate for the second year firsthand how attorneys fought for understanding of mechanical engi- in a row.

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style of folk dancing that originated chatting with his Mexican-American in the Punjab region of India, Olson’s clients in Spanish. In fact, he might mother’s home. have been a tad too comfortable in “I like to do a lot of things,” he the language. One day in court, he deadpans. asked his client a question without As a college freshman, Olson waiting for the interpreter to tell the thought he might follow his father’s rest of the courtroom what was being career path into engineering. But it discussed. wasn’t a structurally sound fit for him. As his first year at the Law School “I realized I didn’t want to be an draws to a close, Olson is looking engineer,” he says. “I want to work forward to working as a summer more with people. I want to think associate at the Minneapolis office different ways, not just solve equations.” of Norton Rose Fulbright, a law RAJIN OLSON So the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, native firm that employs more than 3,800 Class of 2016 immersed himself in the world’s lawyers in 50 cities around the world. As an undergraduate at Iowa State cultures, mostly by mastering Spanish, The position will include a stint at University, Rajin Olson studied civil dabbling in Punjabi, and diving into the corporate headquarters of engineering and Spanish. One day, he classes on international relations. He’s General Mills. decided he could do more. So the studied in Valencia, Spain, and Despite a hectic schedule, Olson double major added an emphasis in recently volunteered for a nonprofit is immersing himself in the local international studies and became a organization in Guatemala. bhangra scene, dancing and choreo- triple major. Those experiences pushed his graphing moves for Twin Cities He also kept busy outside the fluency to new levels. Bhangra, a University of Minnesota classroom, participating in student During this year’s winter break, student group. “It’s so energetic,” he government, serving on the board of Olson traveled to El Paso, Texas, to do says. “I feel alive when I’m doing it.” the university’s Memorial Union, and volunteer work with the Asylum Law singing in a men’s a cappella group. Project (a Law School student By Todd Melby, a freelance Oh, and he danced on a bhangra organization of which he is also the writer and radio producer based in team—bhangra being a high-energy president). The assignment had him Minneapolis

NEW JOURNAL EDITORS > ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law (Vol. 30) Editor in Chief: Brittany Mitchell Lead Managing Editor: Drew Kuettel > Minnesota Law Review (Vol. 99) Editor in Chief: Karianne Jones Symposium Editor: Carla Virlee Lead Articles Editor: Caitlinrose Fisher Left to right: Judge Ann O’Reilly (’96), Judge Pamela Alexander (’77), Judge Heidi Schellhas, Judge > Minnesota Journal of International Law Kristin Siegesmund (’80), Judge Louise Bjorkman (’85), Judge Renee Worke, Judge Mary Vasaly (’83), (Vol. 24) Judge Elizabeth Cutter, Judge Janet Poston (’83), Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, Judge Carol Hooten, Editor in Chief: Allison Don Judge Natalie Hudson (’82), Judge Kathleen Sanberg (’82), Judge Laurie Miller, Judge Margaret Symposium Editor: David Plabian Chutich, Judge Kathleen Sheehy (’84), and Judge Kathryn Quaintance. Lead Articles Editor: Brian Kennedy Executive Editor: Leah Leyendecker > Law & Inequality: A Journal of Learning OVER Lunch Theory and Practice (Vol. 33) On February 25, the Women’s Law Student Association hosted its annual Editor in Chief: Evan Gelles women’s judicial luncheon, which gives female law students an opportu- Executive Editor: Bethany Hurd nity to speak with and learn from prominent female judges in Minnesota. Symposium Editor: Mike Petre Approximately 25 students and 17 judges attended, including Minnesota’s > Minnesota Journal of Law, Science Chief Justice, Lorie Gildea, who attends every year. Associate Dean Sharon & Technology (Vol. 16) Reich Paulsen welcomed the women, and after the judges introduced Editor in Chief: Alison Key themselves, the students and judges dispersed at tables and had a Symposium Editor: Alex Vlisides discussion over lunch. Lead Articles Editor: Ke Huang

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Matthew Hu (’14) Wins claims are ignored or handled slug- Federal Bar Association gishly by the IRS. Some commen- Award for Tax Law Writing tators have argued for reinforcing whistleblowers’ rights by adopting qui tam provisions”—which allow a private person to sue a tax code violator on behalf of the U.S. gov- ernment. “However, I have critiqued this argument and offered an alter- native solution, by reinforcing the Helen Winder, Christie Sullivan (’15) and Dan Hegg (’16) existing tax court appeal right and by permitting use—albeit limited—of National Negotiation Competition. taxpayers’ confidential information.” The final round of the event was Hu has been a student attorney lively, suspenseful, and very close, at the Law School’s Insurance Law with the second-, third-, and Clinic since September 2013, and he fourth-place finishers each sepa- Matthew Hu (’14) is a staff member of the Minnesota rated by a single point. Law Review. He has served as a judi- The annual competition begins In February, Matthew S. Hu (’14) was cial intern with U.S. District Court in November with more than 200 awarded first place in the Federal judge Ronald A. Guzman in Illinois teams from law schools across Bar Association’s annual Donald C. and Minnesota District Court judge North America participating. Alexander Writing Competition for William H. Koch in Minneapolis. He Twenty-four teams that have won his article “Fine-Tuning the Tax earned his LL.B. at Seoul National first or second place in regional Whistleblower Statute: Why Qui University College of Law in 2010. matchups then travel to the national Tam Is Not a Solution.” As the After completing his second year finals in February. On the first day winning author, Hu received $2,000 at the University of Minnesota of finals there are two rounds of and a trip to the FBA Section on Law School, Hu worked during the negotiation, reducing the field to 16 Taxation’s annual tax law conference summer in Seoul as a law clerk at teams. On the second day there are in Washington, D.C. His article will Kim & Chang, Korea’s largest law also two rounds; the first reduces be considered for publication in the firm, and as a research assistant for the field to 8 teams, which then FBA magazine, The Federal Lawyer, the Strategy & Operations Group at compete for the championship. Only or the Section on Taxation’s news- Deloitte Consulting. the top four places are announced. letter, Inside Basis. “I was both honored and greatly This year’s order of finish was: The Alexander competition is surprised by the news [of the • 1st—Lewis & Clark Law School open to any full- or part-time J.D. award],” Hu said. “Although I • 2nd—University of Houston or LL.M. student who submits an enjoyed the writing process, I never Law Center original paper concerning fed- could have imagined that the paper • 3rd—University of Minnesota eral taxation. “I was delighted to would actually bring me a prize. I Law School Corporate Institute hear of Matthew’s achievement,” thank Professor Hickman for sug- • 4th—Washington & Lee said Professor Kristin Hickman, a gesting the topic, for her guidance University School of Law federal tax expert who, along with and inspiration on the project, and The Sullivan-Hegg team’s road Professor Stephen Cribari, advised for sharing her passion for tax law. to the top four was complicated Hu as he worked on the article. “He I also thank Professor Cribari, who by the fact that its coach, adjunct deserves recognition both for writ- helped me come up with creative associate professor Helen Winder, ing the piece and for showing the solutions to the problem.” was unable to be in Chicago, due initiative to enter it. Don Alexander to a leg injury that prevented her was admired by tax attorneys Law School Team Shines at from traveling. All the same, said nationwide. By winning the com- ABA National Negotiation Winder, “we were in constant con- petition established in Alexander’s Competition tact during nationals. I coached honor, Matthew shines a positive On Feb. 8, at the ABA Midyear the team remotely by phone, text, light on his own abilities and on the Meeting in Chicago, the University email, and Skype. They put in an Law School.” of Minnesota Law School Corporate extraordinary effort, with four In summarizing his article, Hu Institute student team of Christie intense negotiation sessions over said, “Current tax law offers little Sullivan (’15) and Dan Hegg (’16) two days. I am very proud of their protection for whistleblowers whose placed third overall in the ABA hard work and accomplishment.”

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TORT GETS A CLUE

THE LAW SCHOOL’S THEATRE OF Keyes (’00). Minnesota Supreme the action, and Sarvesh Desai (’14) the Relatively Talentless (TORT) Court Justice G. and Leon P. Wells IV (’15) put it all exhibited mischief, madness, (’79), Judges John R. Tunheim together. murder, and mayhem in its 12th (’80) and Mary R. Vasaly (’83), and The Law School gratefully annual musical parody, Clue: University President Eric Kaler made acknowledges 2014 corporate A Murder Mystery in Mondale, the cameo appearances that have sponsors Stinson Leonard Street; presented March 7 and 8 at the become a favorite TORT tradition. Briggs and Morgan; Dorsey & Pantages Theatre in downtown Like all TORT productions, Clue: Whitney; Faegre Baker Daniels; Minneapolis. A Murder Mystery in Mondale was Shumaker & Sieffert; Fredrikson As “Wadsworth,” 3L Phil Black written, performed, and pro- & Byron; Robins, Kaplan, Miller solved the mystery (in three dif- duced entirely by Law School & Ciresi; Thompson Reuters; ferent ways) with the help of eight students. Dan Weber (’14) headed Themis Bar Review; BARBRI; additional cast members. Sixteen the 13-writer team that created and LexisNexis. Special thanks talented song-and-dance perform- the script, choreographer Kelsey for continued support also go ers, 40 chorus members and 13 pit Thorkelson (’14) masterminded the to the Law School’s Admissions musicians added to the showbiz dances, and music director Glenn Office, Advancement Office, atmosphere. Greenberg (’14) conducted the Communications Office, Student Professor Judith T. Younger beautiful music. Organizations Office, Career continued her record of appearing Critical behind-the-scenes Center, Educational Technology, in every production since TORT’s contributors included costumer Law Council, and the University’s inception. Other scholarly partici- Courtney West (’14) and technical Graduate and Professional Schools pants were Professors Brad Clary director Kirsten Selvig (’14), who Assembly. (’75) and John Matheson and headed the set-construction crew. Deans David Wippman and Erin Mathew Morrison (’15) directed By Sarvesh Desai (’14)

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After a long stint as a business trial not a potted plant in Family Court.” lawyer with Mackall, Crounse & The system, however, was flawed. Moore, Swenson joined the bench “Every case I saw was already 15 to in 1995. But presiding over criminal 18 months old and terribly acrimoni- courts did not resonate with him, and ous. Trials were just awful. People opportunities for a civil block were hired the meanest pit bull they could far off. He jumped at the chance to find on the street, and the other side join Family Court, which presented reciprocated. Every issue was litigated some of the challenging issues he had to the nth degree,” he said. enjoyed as a civil litigator, such as He implemented changes in his complex business evaluations and courtroom, including nontraditional property appraisals that required methods for handling expert opinions JAMES SWENSON detailed, well-written opinions. he’d learned as an arbitrator, then Class of 1976 “As a judge presiding over criminal developed systemic innovations. “Family law was never on my radar,” trials, you often need to be kind of a Among these was the Initial Case admits Judge James Swenson, who potted plant. You can respond to Management Conference (ICMC), nevertheless became a beacon of objections but you can’t intervene,” which allows judges to set a family- innovation in Hennepin County’s he said. “Putting aside the subject friendly tone and broker deals. In Family Justice Center, where he matter”—families in crisis—“and a the first year, ICMCs reduced his joined Family Court in 1997 and system that really didn’t treat families filing-to-disposition time by 45% has since earned numerous service, well, some of the issues were intellec- and trial days by 35%. professionalism and judicial improve- tually very challenging. I liked Social Issue Early Neutral ment accolades. writing about them. I was definitely Evaluations (SENEs), conducted by

40 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu 4 Arne Sorenson (’83) speaking to the students in the Leadership Foundations Program in January 2 Washington, D.C. Alumni Breakfast, 3 Nearly 200 alumni and students March 13, 2014: Maisa Jean Frank (’10), gathered at Kieran’s Irish Pub in 5 Chicago-Area Alumni Reception, 1 David Potter (’80) was a Joseph Cappola (’09), Patrick Hedren Minneapolis for a happy hour November 19, 2013: Jean Janes (’93), guest speaker in the Corporate (’10), Bianca Blomquist (CLA, ’09), before the TORT performance on Erin McDonald (’13), David Hanna (’13), Counsel Law class. Congressman (’90) March 8, 2014. Matthew Ebert (’06)

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3 5 a male/female team to eliminate for building strong teams and gender bias, drastically shortened nurturing long-term relationships child custody/family issue evaluation with well-known companies such as sessions and nearly tripled settlements. Buffalo Wild Wings, her client since They were so popular that key family 1994. She enjoys the variety her job bar members applied similar strategies provides, despite its boring parts. to financial issues. That several states “Reading leases is not very and Canadian provinces have adopted exciting,” she chuckles. “But you these processes “has been very can’t negotiate if you haven’t read rewarding,” says Swenson. “I was the document. I love to negotiate. not enamored with the idea of I like the process of give and take, of refereeing disputes between parents finding creative solutions that achieve who would rather scratch each other’s her in 1984 that the firm’s real estate the goals of both sides. I like reflect- eyeballs out.” group needed an associate, she met ing a complex agreement in words with them. “Those five guys were that are clear and cover all possible MARY RANUM great,” she says. So real estate it was, nuances.” Class of 1983 and a pioneer she became. She currently chairs the board Self-dubbed “the Queen of “At that time it was unusual for of directors at her firm, whose history, Indecision,” Mary Ranum wasn’t women to be in law firms, and even culture and approach to practice sure where her law degree would more so in real estate and develop- she admires. “We’re leaders among lead her. Her year’s clerkship with the ment,” she says. “It has dramatically equals,” she says of the non-hierarchi- Minnesota Supreme Court pointed improved, but it was definitely a cal structure that nurtures longevity toward transactional law, and the two male-dominated industry and to a such as hers. years she spent as a banker between great extent still is. Construction is Yet family, she explains, has been college and law school suggested not a business women flock to.” even more essential to her career business law. Otherwise, her career Clearly it was a good fit. A member success. She attended law school was up for grabs. of Fredrikson & Byron’s Real Estate with her brother, Arne Sorenson “Everything I touched, I enjoyed and Bank & Finance Practice Groups (’83), now president and CEO of doing,” she recalls. So when a and the recipient of numerous Marriott International, and brother- Fredrikson & Byron recruiter told industry honors, Ranum is known in-law Robert Ranum (’83), now CONT >

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< CONT her partner at Fredrikson & Byron. the DVD format wars, plus his for the first time, that immigration Most proud of her two daughters in-house work on copy protection status is not an appropriate basis for a and supportive husband, she says it technology, Fox chose him to lead the child custody determination. “But was “critically important to have a battle against Internet-based piracy, important cases require enormous family structure that was solid and launching his four-person department time and resources,” he says. “It’s wonderful.” in 2001. difficult to balance them in a firm “We kept our fingers in the dikes setting, where you have mandatory as best we could,” he says. “Thank- billable hour requirements.” fully, with great company support, Instead of a traditional practice we’ve been adding people ever since. model, Melewski envisions one that We’re up to 19 now.” eliminates “an office, views, board- Technology expansion remains rooms and 200 associates,” that meets rapid. Although some developments clients where they are and thrives on are positive, such as the ability to litigation disputes that don’t require fingerprint copyrighted work, “most massive discovery or resources. And are not so beneficial,” he says. “It while such law-practice basics as keeps us in full employment. Every maintaining a good reputation and day I get up to a different challenge, generating business are the same, a different set of problems with a other aspects—technology, for RONALD C. WHEELER different set of solutions. It’s never one—have changed dramatically in Class of 1984 dull.” the past five years. “Life is full of surprises,” muses “So many of my peers, from New Melewski cites another: “The value Ron Wheeler, “and mine have mostly York firms in particular, did not enjoy proposition. When the market started been pleasant ones.” The senior vice law school and very commonly went to tank, there wasn’t as much focus president for content protection with on to not enjoy being lawyers,” he on legal expenditures as a cost of Fox Entertainment Group never set adds. “I really did enjoy my law doing business, but now it’s easier to out to fight pirates, but he embraced school experience at the U. And it’s convince executives and corporate whatever swashbuckling adventures hard for me to think of something in counsel that they can get the same came his way. the legal world that has more appeal quality for far less money. At the end When he applied to the than solving the fiendishly difficult of the day, we’re service providers. We Department of Justice’s Antitrust puzzle of copyright infringement.” like to think of ourselves as more, but Division for a second-year law school from a business standpoint, we’re just internship, he didn’t make the first another division with a budget.” cut. He wasn’t even first on the Armed with a laptop, an online waiting list. But when, in those library, and a sophisticated cloud- pre-email days, the leading candidate based filing and billing system, he dropped out, Wheeler was the first focuses on state and federal court one who happened to be at home to litigation and environmental law. pick up the phone and accept the Clients range from national and post. international industry groups to a pro “It was a tremendous experience sports team and a Guantanamo for me,” he recalls, and it led to detainee. He has already added one corporate antitrust positions at New attorney and hopes for more, licensed York firms Shearman & Sterling and to practice in different jurisdictions Weil, Gotshal & Manges. He became MATTHEW MELEWSKI and able to accomplish from a laptop a specialist—one of very few—in a Class of 2008 what they could from a big-city Depression-era statute, the Robinson- Matthew Melewski wants to pursue building. Patman Act, and that expertise landed cases that make a difference, and in a “I’ve been lucky so far,” he says, him, in 1994, at 20th Century Fox’s way that portends the future: via the hopping recently from Dallas to D.C. home video division in Los Angeles, cloud. That’s why he established The to Ottawa and Albany. “Basically, where more surprises waited. Boutique Firm last November, after every aspect of my office is available Hollywood wasn’t the shark- six years of large-firm experience at wherever I am. I’m looking forward infested pool he expected. Instead, Hunton & Williams in Washington, to more cases with significant impacts he discovered big-studio camaraderie, D.C., and Leonard, Street and on civil liberties and vulnerable loyalty, opportunity, and a new Deinard in Minneapolis. communities.” specialty: copyright protection. Both firms allowed him to do pro Thanks to his experience represent- bono work, such as a Minnesota By Cathy Madison, a freelance writer ing such companies as Panasonic in Court of Appeals case that established, and editor based in the Twin Cities

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TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014 A Primer in Data Privacy Law Recent Developments in Immigration Law: Asylum, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor William McGeveran Detention and Immigration Reform 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor Steve Meili WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014 Hot Topics at the Energy-Environment Interface THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. with Professor Hari M. Osofsky Ethics Issues in Representing Business and in Managing Law Firms THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor Richard W. Painter Selected Topics in Unfair Competition and Business Torts 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor Thomas F. Cotter FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2014 Chevron and Beyond: Administrative Law Review and FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2014 Update Accounting and Finance for Lawyers 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor Kristin Hickman 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor Edward S. Adams SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 SATURDAY, MAY 31, 2014 (a.m.) Ethics Update and Dealing with Bias as a Matter The Constitution in a Conservative Court of Ethics 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor Dale Carpenter (p.m.) Dealing with Differences: Serving Immigrant Communities MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. with Professor Carl M. Warren (’75) Hot Topics in Contract and Commercial Law 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor Brian Bix

TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014 Hot Topics in Corporate Law For more information about Summer CLE and 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. with Professor Claire A. Hill other CLE events, visit: www.law.umn.edu/cle/index.html

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David Etzwiler (’90) to Lead dent of corporate communications nonprofit management. the Siemens Foundation for Siemens Corp., said, “David’s “I really couldn’t be more excited extensive experience in corporate to be joining the Siemens team,” philanthropy and his unique under- Etzwiler said. “Siemens has such a standing of the intersection of rich history of creating products to business and society will enable the improve individual lives and society, foundation to explore new ways to and the foundation is already a bring people, products, and pro- recognized leader in STEM educa- grams together. At a time when tion. The opportunity to further STEM jobs are growing three times advance the full spectrum of assets faster than non-STEM jobs, the at the Siemens Foundation is an Siemens Foundation is committed amazing opportunity.” to supporting the development of the inventors and innovators of Nicole A. Engisch (’90) David Etzwiler (’90) was named tomorrow.” and Carolina A. Lamas (’03) CEO of the Siemens Foundation Etzwiler came to the Siemens Appointed to Hennepin on October 22, 2013. In the newly Foundation with more than 15 years County Bench created position, Etzwiler is respon- of experience in both corporate sible for overseeing day-to-day and healthcare foundations. Most operations while implementing a recently, he served as executive strategic vision that expands the director of Decade of Discovery in foundation’s reach and impact. The Diabetes, a partnership between foundation’s mission is to support the Mayo Clinic, the University of innovation, research, and educa- Minnesota, and the state of tional initiatives in science, technol- Minnesota. Before that, he was ogy, engineering, and mathematics vice president of community (STEM); it provides more than $7 affairs and executive director of the million annually to enhance STEM Medtronic Foundation. In addition education in the United States. to working in leadership capacities In making the announcement, Jim at nonprofits and foundations in In December 2013, Governor Mark Whaley, chairman of the Siemens Minneapolis, Etzwiler practiced law Dayton named five new judges to Foundation and senior vice presi- in the areas of charitable giving and Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District

RECENT REGIONAL EVENTS ALUMNI CONNECT NATIONWIDE

Alumni across the country joined Dean David Wippman and regional alumni ambassadors at receptions in honor of the Law School’s 125th anniversary. Dean Wippman shared updates on curricular innovations and future plans while alumni enjoyed socializing and networking.

1 Kirkland & Ellis hosted a Chicago-area reception for alumni, friends and Dean Wippman. 2 Sitso Bediako (’08) and Lindsay Moilanen (’09) welcome alumni to a New York-area alumni reception at Alston & Bird. 3 Elizabeth Karan (’12), Katie Evans, Chris Walker (’11), Stuart Gibson (’76), Congressman Keith Ellison (’90) and Joseph Russell (’95) gather at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. 4 Regional alumni ambassador Maisa Jean Frank (’10) welcomes attendees to the alumni breakfast in Washington, D.C. 1 Chicago, November 19, 2013 2 New York City, January 6, 2014

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bench, two of whom are Law School worked for four years at the Ramsey alumni. The Fourth District encom- County (Minn.) public defender’s passes Hennepin County and carries office. Lamas is a former vice the highest caseload in the state. president of the American Civil At the time of her appointment, Liberties Union of Minnesota and a Nicole A. Engisch (’90) was serving former president of the Minnesota as an assistant U.S. attorney and the Hispanic Bar Association. She chief of the criminal division at the serves on the board of directors of Office of the United States Attorney Tempo of the Minnesota Opera. for the District of Minnesota, where In announcing the judgeships, her duties included criminal prose- Gov. Dayton said, “These five new cution and staff management. judges were selected from over 70 about the Affordable Care Act. In Previously she litigated commercial well-qualified applicants. [They] are her video, McDonald performed a and intellectual property cases at all highly accomplished legal song called “Forget About the Price Minneapolis-based Leonard, Street professionals. I am confident that Tag” (a parody of “Price Tag” by the and Deinard, where she was a share- they will serve very well the citizens popular singer/songwriter Jessie J). holder and a member of the board in the Fourth Judicial District.” To watch the video, go to www. of directors. Engisch is a former WhiteHouse.gov and enter “Erin board member of the Volunteer Erin McDonald (’13) Wins McDonald” in the search box. Lawyers Network and the Harriet Healthy Young America Since graduating from the Law Tubman Center, and she volunteers Video Contest School, McDonald has been a post- with a branch of the Catholic The White House announced in graduate fellow at the Chicago Charities Opportunity Center. December that Erin McDonald (’13) Law Department, whose 270-some Prior to being named a judge, had won the overall grand prize in attorneys provide legal advice and Carolina A. Lamas (’03) devoted her the Healthy Young America Video municipal code expertise to the career to criminal defense. She Contest. The contest was launched city’s agencies and officials. She also served as the executive director and in August 2013 by Young Invincibles, works at the Illinois State Bar Associ- chief attorney for the Neighborhood an advocacy group, in partnership ation as a production coordinator Justice Center in St. Paul, represent- with the U.S. Department of Health for its CLE webcasts. In May she’ll ing low-income individuals charged and Human Services, as a means of be leaving both of those roles for a with felonies, misdemeanors, and mobilizing young people to help position as a program analyst for probation violations. She previously educate and inform one another the U.S. Department of Defense.

IT’S ALWAYS (A LAW SCHOOL) HAPPY HOUR SOMEWHERE!

Alumni socialized and networked at informal happy hours hosted by regional alumni ambassadors in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., New York, and San Francisco during the month of March. Several of the events were held in coordination with the Law School’s Office of Admissions to provide an opportunity for admitted students to talk 3 Washington, D.C., March 13, 2014 to alumni about their law school experience and career paths since graduation. In San Francisco, the happy hour was held jointly with area graduates from the University’s Carlson School of Management—a chance to network with an even broader group of Gopher alumni.

If you live in one of these regions, email [email protected] to make sure you are on our regional listserv. 4 Washington, D.C., March 13, 2014

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Class Notes NEWS ABOUT YOUR CLASSMATES AND COLLEAGUES

1947 William L. H. Lubov, a partner at Lubov & Associates in Lonny D. Thomas started his own firm, Thomas & David R. Brink, a member of the American Bar Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by Severson, with offices in Crosslake and Baxter, Minn. Association’s House of Delegates, was named a 2013 Minnesota Lawyer. His practice focuses on real estate, business law, and Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer. mediation services. 1979 1954 Peter A. Gilbertson has been named president and chief 1987 Ronald M. Mankoff was honored by the Jewish executive officer of Anacostia Rail Holdings Inc. a firm Felicia J. Boyd, a partner at Barnes & Thornburg in Federation of Greater Dallas for his dedicated support of that owns and operates freight railroads in New York, Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by Jewish education in the greater Dallas community. Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana and California. Minnesota Lawyer. 1957 1981 1988 Ron I. Meshbesher, founder and president of Kevin C. Busch was Mark D. Fiddler of Fiddler Law Office in Minneapolis was Meshbesher & Spence in Minneapolis, was named a 2013 elected to a three-year named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer. Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer. term as a member of the board of directors of Moss Toni L. Halleen was promoted to co-owner of Schaefer 1966 & Barnett in Minneapolis. Law Firm, now Schaefer Halleen, in Minneapolis. Charles H. Andresen has joined Hanft Fride in Duluth, Minn., as part of the real estate team. 1989 Elizabeth D. Moran was named vice president of legal Barbara J. Duffy was 1971 affairs for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. appointed chair of the Michael V. Ciresi, a partner at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & American Health Care Ciresi in Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the 1982 Association’s legal Year by Minnesota Lawyer. Thomas J. Conlin committee. became a fellow of 1972 the American College James C. Erickson was recognized in Best Lawyers in of Trial Lawyers. Daniel E. Gustafson of Gustafson Gluek in Minneapolis America 2014 for his work in personal injury law. He was named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by Minnesota works with his son at Erickson Bell Beckman & Quinn in Lawyer. Roseville, Minn. Molly J. McCarragher was hired as vice president, 1973 1983 personal trust manager, with Associated Bank in Judith Bevis Langevin Ken J. Erler was named senior vice president and chief Madison, Wis. joined Stinson Leonard administrative officer at Sentry Insurance. Street in Minneapolis as a 1990 shareholder working in Judge Mary R. Vasaly was named a 2013 Attorney of the Nicole A. Engisch was the firm’s labor and Year by Minnesota Lawyer for her work as co-founder and appointed a district court employment practice. past president of the Infinity Project. judge in Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District. 1974 1985 Joseph M. Goldberg, assistant general counsel/director Timothy R. Baer, of legal services at Sentry Insurance, was chosen as its executive vice president, 2013 inductee for the Sentry Wall of Fame. general counsel and David D. Etzwiler was corporate secretary for named the CEO of Michael O. Freeman, Hennepin County Attorney, was Target Corp., was named a Siemens Foundation, named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer. 2013 Attorney of the Year which provides funding to by Minnesota Lawyer. support innovation, 1976 research, and educational Robert Bennett, a parter at Gaskins Bennett Birrell David W. Beehler, a parter at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & initiatives in the areas of Schupp in Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of Ciresi in Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. the Year by Minnesota Lawyer. Year by Minnesota Lawyer.

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SEND US YOUR NEWS > Your classmates and the Law School would love to know what important things are going on in your life, and we welcome your submissions for the Class Notes section of Perspectives. To be included in the next issue, your items must reach us by October 1, 2014. Submit your news via email at [email protected], or via mail to the Office of Advancement, Suite 321, University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455. We look forward to hearing from you, and thanks for keeping in touch!

Leah C. Piersol was appointed to lead the University 1994 chief health information compliance officer. of South Dakota School of Law’s enhanced experiential Matthew D. Forsgren joined Greene Espel in Minneapolis practice opportunities and will serve as the new career as a partner. He focuses on business litigation, internal 1997 services manager. investigations, and white collar criminal defense. John J. Bursch, a partner at Warner Norcross & Judd 1992 Jessica L. Jackson was awarded a Bush Fellowship to in Grand Rapids, Mich., Jeanette M. Bazis, an attorney at Greene Espel in pursue a master’s degree in pyschology and to develop was recognized by Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by a community-based program to increase engagement Michigan Lawyers Weekly Minnesota Lawyer for her leadership as president of the and well-being among African Americans in Minnesota as one of its 2014 Leaders Infinity Project. and the Dakotas. in the Law.

Daniel Oberdorfer, a shareholder at Stinson Leonard 1995 1998 Street in Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the Paul A. Banker joined Sweeney & Masterson in St. Paul. Thomas W. Beimers was Year by Minnesota Lawyer. He focuses on defense of railroad and corporate clients. named a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels in Jennifer Reedstrom Bishop, a principal at Gray Plant Jennifer L. Frisch was appointed a district court judge in Minneapolis. He focuses Mooty in Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the Minnesota’s Second Judicial District. on regulatory, compliance, Year by Minnesota Lawyer. and health care fraud

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GRADUATE AND STUDENT NETWORKING RECEPTION JANUARY 15, 2014

Nearly 80 recent alumni and current and admitted 1 Phillip Kitzer (’09), Darren Sharp (’07), Peter Christian (’11) law students attended a networking reception and 2 Henry Pfutzenreuter (’10), Patrick Lofton, Stacy Kaye (’10), happy hour at Mason’s Restaurant Barre in downtown Erica Davis (’12) Minneapolis on January 15, 2014. This event was hosted by the Office of Advancement and alumni Bryan Browning (’08), Rachel Brucker (’09), and Matt Pelikan (’12).

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< CONT Christopher J. Bellini joined Cozen O’Connor in Minne- Philadelphia. He is an associate at Montgomery business entities in a full range of litigation matters. apolis as a member of the corporate law department. McCracken Walker & Rhoads in Philadelphia. Tony J. Odegard was hired as campaign manager for Stacey Drentlaw joined Leonard, O’Brien, Spencer, 2001 Minnesota U.S. Senate candidate Chris Dahlberg. Gale & Sayre in Minneapolis. She specializes in product Blong Yang was elected to the Minneapolis City Council, liability, railroad litigation, and regulatory compliance. representing Ward 5, in the 2013 city elections. David M. Pederson was named a shareholder at Dunlap & Seeger in Rochester, Minn., where he focuses on Danyll W. Foix was named a partner with Baker- 2002 commercial transactions. Hostetler in Washington, D.C., where he is a member of Kathy Y. Allen has joined the firm’s litigation group. Moss & Barnett in 2003 Minneapolis as an Carolina A. Lamas has been appointed a district court Brian A. Manson joined the California Association of attorney on the real estate judge in Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District. Realtors as its managing corporate counsel in October team. 2012. Geoffrey S. Trotier joined von Briesen & Roper in Milwaukee as a shareholder in the firm’s labor and Mark A. Zitzewitz was named a 2013 Attorney of the Julie L. Fisk joined employment law section. Year by Minnesota Lawyer. Zitzewitz also started a new Quinlivan & Hughes in St. position at TCI Business Capital in Burnsville, Minn., Cloud, Minn., as an 2004 as the senior vice president of risk management and associate attorney. Jaime Driggs was general counsel. elected a shareholder at Henson Efron in 2000 Minneapolis, where he is Ralf D. Wiedemann was elected to the executive Troy J. Hutchinson started his own firm, Hutchinson, part of the family law committee of the Consular Corps Association of in Wayzata, Minn. The firm specializes in defending practice group.

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A CELEBRATION OF VOLUNTEERS FEBRUARY 19, 2014

On February 19, 2014, the Office of Advancement held 1 Michael Skoglund (’01), Ryan Vettleson (’01), Dean David Wippman a reception to recognize the Law School’s volunteers. 2 A group of alumni listen to Dean Wippman’s opening remarks The Law School has more than 200 alumni volunteers who 3 Joe Cassioppi (’07), Amber Kraemer (’16), Ashley Keedy, Melba Melton (’14) dedicate their time and talents to assist with admissions, career development, fundraising, and much more. Dean Wippman and Professor Bill McGeveran shared an inside look at recent developments and curricular innovations at the Law School.

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Steven Y. Reeves of Faegre Baker Daniels in Minneapolis Matthew R. Brodin was 2007 was chosen as a 2013 Best Lawyer Under 40 by the elected shareholder at Stuart R. Nostdahl joined Davern, McLeod & Mosher in National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Briggs and Morgan in Golden Valley, Minn., as a partner. He focuses on family Minneapolis, where he is a law, estate planning, and civil litigation. 2005 member of the firm’s Sarah J. Gorajski was named a shareholder at Littler business litigation section. Ryan J. Schildkraut was named a partner at Winthrop & Mendelson’s Minneapolis office. Weinstine in Minneapolis. Andrew W. Davis, a partner at Stinson Leonard Street in Victor P. Jonas was Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by Joseph M. Windler was named a partner at Winthrop & named a partner at Faegre Minnesota Lawyer. Weinstine in Minneapolis. Baker Daniels in Minneapolis. He focuses Meghan M. Hansen was 2008 on intellectual property named a partner at Erik J. Birkeneder joined Nixon Peabody in Palo Alto, litigation and compliance. Oppenheimer Wolff & Calif., as an associate in the intellectual property group. Donnelly in Minneapolis, Ryan R. Miske, a partner where she is a member of Bryan R. Browning joined Bassford Remele in Min- at Faegre Baker Daniels in the firm’s business neapolis as an associate focusing on product liability, Minneapolis, was elected litigation practice group. personal injury and wrongful death. to serve as president of the Minnesota Chapter of Brett Hanson was named Jennifer Ives of Stinson Leonard Street in Minneapolis the Association for a partner at Oppenheimer was named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Corporate Growth in 2015. Wolff & Donnelly in Lawyer. Minneapolis, where he is a Maribeth Mrozek Klein member of the firm’s 2009 was elected a shareholder finance and transaction Jennifer M. Bisenius at Polsinelli’s Phoenix practice group. joined the finance office, where she focuses and restructuring group on environmental and Matthew Krueger’s article “In Search of the ‘Modern’ at Faegre Baker Daniels natural resources Skidmore Standard,” co-authored with Professor Kristin in Minneapolis. litigation. Hickman, was cited in an opinion issued by Judge William Young of the U.S. District Court for the District Margaux C. Soeffker joined the practice of Terzich & Ort of Massachusetts in the case of Patel v. Johnson. The case Phillip M. Kitzer joined the employment law firm in Maple Grove, Minn., as a senior associate. concerned a challenge against a decision of the United Schaefer Halleen in Minneapolis. States Citizenship and Immigration Services Administra- Douglas G. Ujdur was tive Appeals Office to dismiss an immigrant worker visa Lindsay S. Moilanen was honored by the New York elected a shareholder at petition. Krueger and Hickman’s article was published in State Bar Association with its 2013 President’s Pro Bono Briggs and Morgan in the Columbia Law Review in 2007. Service Award in the young lawyer category. She is an Minneapolis. associate at Kaye Scholer in New York City. Jessica Hutson Polakowski was Lisa von Biela released her novel, The Janus Legacy, named a shareholder in 2013. She has a novel coming out in May 2014 and at Renihart Boerner another being released in January 2015. 2006 Van Deuren in Madison, Kathryn Ballintine moved from the Commodity Futures Wis., where she practices 2010 Trading Commission to the Board of Governors of the intellectual property Jennifer L. Cornell joined Federal Reserve System in January 2014. litigation and tax litigation. Nilan Johnson Lewis in Minneapolis, where she Geoffrey D. Biegler was named a principal at Fish & Michael D. Reif, a partner at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & works in the labor and Richardson’s San Diego office, where he will continue Ciresi in Minneapolis, was named a 2013 Attorney of the employment practice to focus on patent litigation in a variety of health Year by Minnesota Lawyer. group. care-related areas. Holly A. Stocker was named a partner at Winthrop & Julie R. Landy rejoined Faegre Baker Daniels in Minne-

Stephanie K. Bitterman was elected a partner at Maslon, Weinstine in Minneapolis. apolis as a litigator in complex financial disputes. CONT > Edelman, Borman and Brand in Minneapolis. She focuses on commercial litigation.

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< CONT 2011 Laura E. Cowan joined Michael M. Sawers joined Briggs and Morgan in Best & Flanagan in UPCOMING Minneapolis as an associate in the business litigation Minneapolis, where she ALUMNI EVENTS section and white collar crime and enforcement-related focuses on estate Keep an eye out for our civil litigation practice group. planning and wealth monthly digest email providing transfer issues. up-to-date information regard- Eva B. Stensvad joined ing volunteer opportunities Faegre Baker Daniels in Kyle R. Hardwick joined Best & Flanagan in Minneapolis and alumni events, or visit Minneapolis as an as a member of the litigation and real estate practice community.law.umn.edu. associate focusing on groups. intellectual property litigation. Ruth T. Langworthy joined Webber Law in Minneapolis as an associate practicing immigration law. > UMAA EMERGING PROFESSIONALS NETWORKING 2012 R. Lynn Parins joined von Briesen & Roper in Milwaukee EVENT—JUNE 17, 2014 Elise L. Larson joined Briggs and Morgan in Minneapolis as an associate in the banking, bankruptcy, business Save the date for the next as an associate in the business litigation section. restructuring and real estate practice groups. MOMENTUM: Emerging Professionals Networking Event, to be held at Seth A. Thompson joined Vogel Law Firm as an associate Aalok K. Sharma joined Day Block Brewing Company attorney in the Bismarck, N.D., office. Winthrop & Weinstine in in Minneapolis. Minneapolis as an > FALL SOCIAL—OCTOBER 2014 2013 associate in the real estate Stay tuned for details of our annual Allison N. Boyle was featured in the March 2014 Texas group. fall alumni social event. Bar Journal’s New Lawyer Snapshot. > WELCOME TO THE BAR BREAKFAST—OCTOBER 31, 2014 Anne M. Carroll joined Michael Best & Friedrich in Timothy J. Teicher joined Michael Best & Friedrich in Save the date for the annual Milwaukee as an associate in the employment relations Milwaukee as an associate in the intellectual property Welcome to the Bar Breakfast on practice group. practice group. Friday, October 31, 2014 at the St. Paul RiverCentre. Nicholas A. Coulson joined Macuga, Liddle & Dubin in Detroit as an associate attorney.

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PRE-TORT HAPPY HOUR MARCH 8, 2014

A happy hour for alumni and students was held before 1 Kiel McElveen (’13), Erin Osborne (’13) the Theatre of the Relatively Talentless’s production of 2 Glenn Greenberg (’14), Tim Schmidt (’09), Molly Schmidt (’10), Clue: A Murder Mystery in Mondale on March 8. Nearly Rachel Gartner (’08) 200 alumni and students joined in the fun at Kieran’s Irish 3 Sarvesh Desai (’14), Matt Morrison (’15), Leon Wells IV (’15) Pub in downtown Minneapolis. This event was hosted by the Office of Advancement and Josh Colburn (’07), Allison Lange Garrison (’10), Rachel Gartner (’08), Brad Hammer (’12), and Paula Polasky (’13).

50 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE TRIBUTE

LAW SCHOOL COMMUNITY MOURNS THE DEATH OF JOAN MONDALE (1930-2014)

JOAN ADAMS MONDALE, WIFE OF FORMER VICE PRESIDENT WALTER F. “This is my favorite picture of Fritz Mondale (’56) and one of the nation’s foremost supporters of the arts, passed and me, walking in the garden of the away Feb. 3, 2014, at the age of 83 after a brief stay in hospice care. Mr. Mondale, ambassador’s residence in Tokyo. My their sons Ted and William (’90), and other family members were with her when suit was made from a man’s kimono I she died. bought at a shrine sale.” “Joan Mondale will be greatly missed as an artist, a champion of the arts, and a —From Letters From Japan, 1997, beloved member of the community,” said Dean David Wippman. Professor Joan by Joan Mondale Howland, who also serves as associate dean for information and technology, said, “She was known for her support of the arts, but she was also a great supporter of the law library here at the Law School. Our condolences go out to the vice An amateur potter, she continued president. She will be missed by many.” to make her own pieces, often Though she often referred to herself as a “traditional political wife,” her presenting them as gifts to Japanese passionate advocacy of art and artists, along with her own avocation as a potter, dignitaries. Her celebrity [in Japan] earned Joan Mondale the nickname Joan of Art—a moniker she clearly relished. may even have eclipsed her hus- “She is generous and straightforward,” the painter Frank Stella once said of her. band’s. Visiting an artist in Kyoto, “She relates well to artists and makes everybody feel good. She has the ability to a Mondale aide mentioned that be interested wherever she is, which is no small gift. Most of us think: If it is in he worked at the United States Des Moines, it can’t be any good. She’s different.” Embassy. “Joan Mondale’s name never appeared on a ballot,” said the Minneapolis “ ‘Oh, do you know Joan Mondale?’ Star Tribune in an editorial tribute. “But she was indeed a public servant, the artist said, his eyes lighting up,” participating with her husband in myriad ways as he served as Minnesota’s the aide told the Star Tribune in attorney general and U.S. senator and the nation’s vice president and ambassador Minneapolis in 1996. “The guy to Japan.” never asked a word about the At her funeral, held Feb. 8 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown ambassador.” Minneapolis, Mondale was remembered as a “battery of positive energy,” “the —From the New York Times needle on the compass of truth and beauty,” and a person who “truly believed that obituary for Joan Mondale, everything we do adds up to make a valuable difference.” published Feb. 4, 2014

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Class of 1938 Noah S. Rosenbloom Class of 1961 Class of 1977 Brantly P. Chappell January 15, 2014 William L. Orr Leah Manning Stetzner September 25, 2013 New Ulm, Minn. October 10, 2013 October 26, 2013 Elkhart, Minn. Edina, Minn. Englewood, Colo. Robert S. Kersch Class of 1940 October 30, 2013 Class of 1965 Class of 1981 Edward L. Murphy Jr. Grayslake, Ill. James J. Krieger Charlotte A. Striebel November 6, 2013 October 13, 2013 March 12, 2014 St. Paul, Minn. Class of 1953 Minneapolis, Minn. Richmond, Calif. Thomas A. Lang Class of 1947 December 15, 2013 Peter J. Schmitz Class of 1998 James H. Michael Santa Maria, Calif. January 29, 2014 Baba A. Odukale March 7, 2014 Northfield, Minn. June 14, 2013 St. Paul, Minn. Class of 1954 St. Cloud, Minn. Roy A. Bogen Class of 1968 Class of 1948 December 26, 2013 Winston W. Borden Class of 2006 George X. Connor Surprise, Ariz. January 20, 2014 Michael Vellon October 23, 2013 Merrifield, Minn. November 5, 2013 Minnetonka, Minn. Gerald E. Magnuson St. Louis Park, Minn. February 9, 2014 James H. Paulsen Lionel Greenberg Richfield, Minn. January 31, 2014 November 27, 2013 Sandpoint, Idaho Mendota Heights, Minn. Class of 1955 Allen H. Aaron Class of 1969 Class of 1950 November 9, 2012 John W. Jensen Robert C. Bell North Bethesda, Md. January 13, 2014 February 10, 2014 Salem, Ore. Roseville, Minn. Class of 1957 J. Richard Tuthill Steven A. Maurer Class of 1951 November 9, 2013 February 10, 2014 O. Russell Olson Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Akron, Ohio October 16, 2013 Shoreview, Minn. Charles A. Cox Class of 1972 December 8, 2013 Thomas P. Burke Allen G. Wilson Minneapolis, Minn. December 14, 2013 October 25, 2013 Fishers, Ind. Hot Springs, S.D. Jerome H. Lewis December 27, 2013 Class of 1973 Howard E. Paulson Minneapolis, Minn. Bruce A. Enstad January 1, 2014 December 9, 2013 Fargo, N.D. Class of 1959 Boulder, Colo. Owen E. Shaffer George W. Hinshaw January 19, 2014 Mark E. Haggerty February 11, 2014 Highland Park, Minn. March 2014 Marshalltown, Iowa New Hope, Minn. Class of 1960 Class of 1952 Robert E. Beck Class of 1976 James B. McKenney December 6, 2013 Kristeen L. Hulsebus February 19, 2014 Murphysboro, Ill. January 26, 2014 Novato, Calif. St. Paul, Minn.

52 Perspectives SPRING 2014 law.umn.edu DEAN BOARD OF ADVISORS David Wippman James L. Chosy (’89) Jennifer Ciresi (’07) ASSISTANT DEAN AND CHIEF OF STAFF William E. Drake (’66) Nora Klaphake John F. Hartmann (’87) Cathy F. Haukedahl (’79) DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Joan D. Humes (’90) Cynthia Huff E. Michael Johnson (’91) Jay Kim (’88) EDITOR AND WRITER Lynn S. Krominga (’74) Jeff Johnson Jeannine L. Lee (’81) (Chair) Marshall S. Lichty (’02) COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST K. Thor Lundgren (’74) Valerie Figlmiller Daniel W. McDonald (’85) Rebecca Egge Moos (’77) DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT Cyrus A. Morton (’98) Michael Tompos Dennis L. T. Nguyen (’98) David B. Potter (’80) DEAR FRIENDS AND FELLOW ALUMNI, DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Roshan N. Rajkumar (’00) AND ANNUAL GIVING Mary S. Ranum (’83) I am proud to support our Law School each year and am grateful to those of you who have joined me so Dinah C. Zebot The Honorable James M. LOCKHART CLUB — Rosenbaum (’69) far this year in supporting the Partners in Excellence JOIN TODAY! CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lisa A. Rotenberg (’85) Annual Fund. Thank you for your generosity! Corrine Charais Amy C. Seidel (’98) The Lockhart Club is the Sarvesh Desai (’14) Joseph P. Sullivan (’67) After attending my 40-year reunion in April, I was reminded of the many benefits that have accrued to me from attending the University of University of Minnesota Law Kathy Graves The Honorable John R. Tunheim (’80) Minnesota Law School—a fulfilling career and personal relationships formed School’s leadership annual giving Karen K. Hansen Kevin Warren and sustained over the years with classmates and other University of society. You can become a member Marla Holt Minnesota lawyers. of this growing group of alumni Cathy Madison and friends by contributing $2,000 Todd Melby Gratitude alone is sufficient reason to give, and is an important reason why or more each fiscal year. Your lead- I personally am a donor. More importantly, however, the Law School is at a ership and investment in the Law COVER ILLUSTRATION Perspectives is a general interest magazine published in the fall and pivotal moment in its 125-year history, and it needs our support to sustain School at the Lockhart Club level Stephen Webster spring of the academic year for the University of Minnesota Law School its long tradition of excellence. will be honored with special events celebrating your philanthropy, as community of alumni, friends, and supporters. Letters to the editor PHOTOGRAPHERS If you have not already done so, I ask that you join me by making a gift well as recognition in our printed or any other communication regarding content should be sent to Ruben Gamarra before June 30, 2014, the end of the fiscal year. materials and on our Web site. Jayme Halbritter Cynthia Huff ([email protected]), Director of Communications, Law Library Archives University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, Gifts of all sizes are needed. Pooled together, our gifts to the Partners Recent graduates can become Tony Nelson 421 Mondale Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455. in Excellence Annual Fund will help the Law School provide more scholar- Lockhart Associates by contributing Patrick O’Leary ships, recruit and retain the very best faculty, and expand clinical and $100 for each year that has passed since their graduation (up to 10 Steve Petteway, Collection of the The University of Minnesota shall provide equal access to and other innovative course offerings that prepare students for success in a years ago). Supreme Court of the United States opportunity in its programs, facilities, and employment without regard challenging job market. Our support ensures that today’s students and Tim Rummelhoff future generations have access to the same world-class legal training that to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune you and I received, and that the Law School’s reputation remains strong. For more information, please status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, sexual University of Minnesota Archives contact Courtney Poja at orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Thank you. [email protected] or 612-625-6584. DESIGNER Gary Haugen (’74) Launch Lab Creative ©2014 by University of Minnesota Law School 2013–14 Partners in Excellence National Chair

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IN THIS ISSUE In this 125th anniversary year, hundreds of alumni returned to the Law School for a variety of all-alumni events as well Two New Master’s as individual reunions for those classes celebrating milestone Degree Programs anniversaries. This year’s lineup of events included three new programs: a student and alumni networking event, Introducing the Center the Corporate Institute’s forum on accelerating business for New Americans innovation and entrepreneurship, and an alumni and faculty anniversary luncheon. Thanks to all who attended for being part of this growing Law School tradition! Theory at Work: David Weissbrodt

Faculty Profile: MORE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WEEKEND ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT Kristin E. Hickman COMMUNITY.LAW.UMN.EDU/SAW.

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