In the second installment of the Minnesota Journal of International Law's Scholar Interview Series, Sofia Reed, MJIL Staffer, sits down with Professor Donald Clarke, David Weaver Research Professor Emeritus of Law at George Washington University Law School, to discuss his research regarding Chinese legal institutions, including how he developed the Anti-Anti-Orientalism approach. You can watch the interview on the Minnesota Law YouTube Channel. (https://youtu.be/dvsBHXYZf2M?si=WzRBwHkW-sopC1uT) ...
Jun 27, 2025•53 min
This episode, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome discusses the impacts and realities of imposter syndrome in the legal profession. This discussion also features practical strategies in recognizing, managing and supporting yourself and colleagues against imposter syndrome. The featured panelists are: Ra’Shya Ghee ‘13 - Visiting Assistant Professor at Minnesota Law whose research focuses on the First Amendment, US democracy, and race. Melba Melton ‘14 - Assistant Counsel at the Ethics Law & Policy B...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Welcome to the first featured interview of Minnesota Journal of International Law's Scholar Interview Series. Through this program, MJIL members have the opportunity to interview professors about their research and publications in the field of international law. Megan Marvin, MJIL Staffer, spoke with Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin about what brought her to the University of Minnesota, her time as a United Nations Special Rapporteur, and the path forward for lawyers working in the human rights spa...
Jun 13, 2025•38 min
This episode, Navigating the Digital Frontier: Regulation and limitations on Social Media features an expert panel that delve into the critical areas of law impacting social media platforms and users, including content moderation and platform liability, data privacy and security, free speech, and online expression The panel features: Alan Rozenshtein - Associate Professor of Law at Minnesota Law and senior editor and research director at Lawfare, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Ins...
Jun 06, 2025•59 min
This episode, Operationalizing Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains features Jeff Vockrodt ‘05, President and CEO of the Fair Labor Association, as he explores the practical implementation of human rights due diligence in today’s evolving regulatory landscape, drawing on the Fair Labor Association’s projects and programs as illustrative examples. Executive Director of the Human Rights Center Amanda Lyons moderates a discussion following Jeff’s presentation. This event was recorded on Apri...
May 24, 2025•1 hr 17 min
This episode, The Pervasive Method: Jews in American Legal Education, features Professor Noah Feldman as the speaker of the inaugural Charles Rubenstein Lecture. Professor Feldman’s topic speaks directly to the creation and purpose of the Rubenstein Lecture: To focus on Jewish contributions to the American legal system Professor Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Chair of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Ha...
May 01, 2025•1 hr 11 min
This episode, A Discussion and Q&A with Professor Jill Hasday, features an in-depth review of her latest book, We The Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. This event was recorded on April 1, 2025. You can watch the entire event recording on the Minnesota Law YouTube channel. (https://youtu.be/XKkLDoKL0jg) Visit www.jillhasday.com for a preview of the book and schedule of upcoming book talks. A transcript of this episode is available here: z.umn.edu/Ep49T...
Apr 08, 2025•50 min
This episode, State Constitutions and Racial Segregation: Minnesota in 2025 features professor and director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, Myron Orfield, as he discusses how states like Minnesota can protect lost civil rights under their state constitutions and statutes. This event was recorded on February 27, 2025 as part of the Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Appointment Lecture. You can watch the entire event recording on the Minnesota Law YouTu...
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr
This episode Realizing Dr. King’s Dream: The Role of Justice and Public Service in Advancing Equality and Access features Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, Natalie E. Hudson '82, as the featured guest of Minnesota Law’s 10th Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation. Professor Christopher Roberts facilitates the conversation with Chief Justice Hudson which focuses on the obligation of lawyers and courts to ensure equal access to justice, while pulling inspiration from Dr. King's words: "Lif...
Feb 24, 2025•59 min
This episode,The Road to Qamishli: Chasing Law in a Time of Counter-Terrorism features Professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain, former UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (2017-2023) sharing excerpts from her forthcoming book that draws on her work during her UN mandate, with a particular focus on the conflict in Syria, and the counter-terrorism practices of state and non-state actors in North East Syria and their human rights consequences. The presentation will particularly draw o...
Dec 29, 2024•41 min
This episode, Citizenship Exceptionalism: How the Deportation Power Has Reduced Constitutional Protection for Everyone features associate professor of clinical law and the director of the Detainee Rights Clinic Linus Chan and his lecture on how the growing reality of immigration detention and deportation has transformed our understanding of constitutional due process and equal protection away from "personhood" into something where citizenship becomes all too relevant. He also discusses how cente...
Oct 22, 2024•58 min
This episode, U.S. Supreme Court Preview Panel – 2024-25 Term, features three of Minnesota Law’s distinguished faculty experts and The Honorable Elizabeth G. Bentley, former visiting assistant professor, in previewing the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming term. The panelists offered their insights into some of the major cases on the upcoming year’s docket. The featured panelists are: Nadia Anguiano ’17 - Associate Clinical Professor of Law The Honorable Elizabeth G. Bentley with the Minnesota Court ...
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min
This episode, To Speak or Not to Speak: Balancing Corporate Interests and Pressures in External Communications features Minnesota Law alumnus and former Vice President, Chief Counsel, Employment Law at Medtronic, Michelle Miller ‘86. Miller’s lecture is on the corporate decision making process regarding public statements in an age of influence by, and expectations of, social media, employees, customers and institutional investors. This event was recorded on September 30, 2024, as part of Minneso...
Oct 10, 2024•55 min
The Student Note Writing Process: Exploring One of the Biggest Parts of Law Review that You Didn't Know Existed (Part II) In the second part of this series, Lucy Chin (Lead Online Editor, Volume 108) talks with three Minnesota Law Review Editors whose Student Notes were published in this year's volume of Minnesota Law Review. Discussing both the substantive areas of law that each student wrote about and the process that makes up the note writing process, these episodes provides insight and persp...
Jun 21, 2024•55 min
The Student Note Writing Process: Exploring One of the Biggest Parts of Law Review that You Didn't Know Existed (Part I) In part one of this two part series, Lucy Chin (Lead Online Editor, Volume 108) talks with three Minnesota Law Review Editors whose Student Notes were published in this year's volume of Minnesota Law Review. Discussing both the substantive areas of law that each student wrote about and the process that makes up the note writing process, these episodes provides insight and pers...
Jun 21, 2024•54 min
This episode, What's in the Works? Developments from the Frontlines of American Labor Law, features Professors Charlotte Garden and Matthew Bodie as they discuss the growth of the US labor movement in the last few years and what that means for American workers, unions, and employers. This event was recorded on April 15, 2024, as part of Minnesota Law’s 2024 Spring Alumni Week. You can watch this episode on the Minnesota Law YouTube channel. (https://youtu.be/YavEmbXCkbo) A transcript of this epi...
May 07, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Welcome to LawTalk, a podcast series produced by the University of Minnesota Law School featuring events, webinars, and panel discussions about diverse topics at the intersection of law, policy, and education. This episode, The Case for Crisis Communication: What Lawyers Need to Know - features a conversation about why today’s lawyers need crisis communications skills and practical tips and tools on how to build this skill. Prof. David Cleveland moderates a Minnesota Law alumni panel featuring: ...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
On this bonus episode, Minnesota Supreme Court Q&A 2024, Minnesota Law annually hosts a Minnesota Supreme Court oral argument with the 1L class in attendance. Following the hearing, Minnesota Law students posed questions to the members of the Minnesota Supreme Court, gaining insights into serving on the highest bench of the state. This LawTalk bonus episode will highlight that Q&A. This event was recorded on April 10, 2024. Subscribe to the Minnesota Law podcast feed on Apple Podcast, Sp...
Apr 25, 2024•22 min
This episode, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Book Talk with Kashmir Hill, features a discussion with New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill about her book Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy As We Know It. Interim Dean Bill McGeveran facilitates the conversation with Kashmir Hill about how the AI company central to Hill’s book provided facial recognition technology to law enforcement, billionaires and businesses, and the legal ramifications of ending privacy. This ...
Apr 03, 2024•53 min
This episode, Proposed Guidelines for Arbitral Disclosure of Social Media Activity looks at the existing conflict-of-interest disclosure laws and regulations, as well as research on social media categorization and usage, to propose the first comprehensive set of guidelines for the disclosure of arbitral social media activity. This event is part of the The J. Stewart and Mario Thomas McClendon Professor in Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution Appointment Lecture featuring Assistant Dean of Expe...
Mar 12, 2024•56 min
This episode,The 9th Annual MLK Convocation - Dr. King and the Long Arc Toward Reproductive Freedom and Justice, features a conversation between Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin with Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Ra’Shya Ghee ’13 on the topic of Dr. King’s 1966 Planned Parenthood award acceptance speech titled Family Planning - A Special and Urgent Concern Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin is the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Globa...
Mar 05, 2024•54 min
This episode, The Rule of Law and the Universality of Rights: International Law and the Death Penalty's Denial of Universal Human Rights, features University of Baltimore School of Law Professor John Bessler, as he premiers the release of his book, Death Penalty's Denial of Universal Human Rights: International Law, State Practice, and the Emerging Abolitionist Norm. The Advocates for Human Rights’ Amy Bergquist and Minnesota Law Professor Ryan Greenwood join Professor Bessler to discuss the sub...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 6 min
This episode, Section 3, Insurrection, and the 2024 Election: The Argument, features an interview with Michael Paulsen, a distinguished university chair and professor at University of St. Thomas School of Law,about his article The Sweep and Force of Section Three, in which asks the question: Does the Fourteenth Amendment Bar Donald Trump from the Presidency? Professor Alan Rozenshtein conducts the interview as well as hosts the day long event, Section 3, Insurrection, and the 2024 Election, that...
Nov 30, 2023•1 hr 3 min
This episode, The U.S. Supreme Court Preview Panel for the 2023-24 Term features an expert panel of Minnesota Law faculty who offer their insights into some of the major cases on the 2023-24 docket. Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Elizabeth Bentley, moderated the discussion and introduced the featured panelists, including: Nadia Anguiano ’17 - Associate Clinical Professor of Law Sapna Kumar - Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law Alan Rozenshtein - Associate Professor of Law This event was rec...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min
This episode, Corporate Accountability and Human Rights: The Legacy of Professor David Weissbrodt features Professor Anita Ramasastry as she explores the history of the corporate accountability movement and the singular contributions of Minnesota Law School Professor David Weissbrodt. Professor Anita Ramasastry is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law. This event was the keynote lecture for the Minnesota Law’s Human Rights Center Day. It was recorded...
Jun 30, 2023•44 min
This episode, The UN “George Floyd” Mechanism: Local to Global Human Rights Advocacy on Racial Justice and Law Enforcement, discusses the new UN Expert Mechanism established in 2021 to advance systemic change “for racial justice and equality in the context of law enforcement globally.” The guest expert panelists will discuss the origins and mandate of this unique body and its place in the history of anti-racism struggles at the UN. The expert panelists for this event are: Salimah Hankins - The d...
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min
This episode, Working as an In-House Corporate Counsel: Global Perspectives and Insight, we hear from a panel of Minnesota Law alumni working as in-house corporate counsel from around the globe. They share their personal experiences and challenges in this role as well as the benefits and unique skill sets essential to thrive in these positions. Kiri Somermeyer, Executive Director of the Law School’s Corporate Institute moderates a conversation between panelists: Cassie Fortin ‘08 with the Volvo ...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr
This episode, Generative AI and the Law: Ethical and other Implications examines Generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and the implications for education and the use of these technologies in the classroom and throughout the legal profession. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Oren Gross moderates the conversation between: Professor Jon Choi Steven Helland; The Department Chair of Technology and Data at Fredrikson & Byron Judge John Tunheim '80 This event was recorded on April 12th, 2023. ...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 2 min
On this bonus episode, Minnesota Supreme Court Q&A 2023, Minnesota Law annually hosts a Minnesota Supreme Court oral argument with students in attendance. Following the hearing, Minnesota Law students posed questions to the members of the Minnesota Supreme Court, gaining insights into serving on the highest bench of the state. This LawTalk bonus episode will highlight that Q&A. This event was recorded on April 12, 2023. Subscribe to the Minnesota Law podcast feed on Apple Podcast, Spotif...
May 08, 2023•24 min
The guest for this episode is Jackie Cuellar, Note and Comment Editor of the Minnesota Law Review Volume 107. Jackie joins today's podcast to discuss her Note titled "Gruel and Unusual Punishment: Prison Punishment Diets and the Eighth Amendment." Her Note applies Eighth Amendment jurisprudence to current prison punishment diets, specially the so-called "Nutraloaf diet." Jackie's background in health and nutritional studies helps inform her analysis of such diets and their negative impacts on pr...
Apr 28, 2023•13 min
