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Difficulties of pandemic should be acknowledged in law school transcript, students say
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on many student population groups, and law students at the University of Minnesota Law School are asking that it be mentioned in the transcript for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Shantal Pai, a third-year law student, drafted a petition for the notation in November, the Minnesota Daily reports.
“Being a person of color in law is already difficult, but then to add a pandemic that makes it harder to be a person of color is a challenge that we need to reckon with as a profession and part of [this process] was to force a conversation about that,” she told the campus newspaper.
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Lawfare Live: Restoring Federal Government Ethics and the Rule of Law
In a new report titled “If It’s Broke, Fix It: Restoring Federal Government Ethics and Rule of Law,” seven ethics and good-government experts analyze the weaknesses in the federal government’s ethics and rule of law framework and propose solutions to fix the issues, which have come to head in the past four years.
On Tuesday, March 2, at 10:30 a.m.,
Lawfare and Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution will cohost a webinar to discuss the problems described by the report and the solutions the authors propose. Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Rep. Suzan DelBene; Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.), senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution; Rep. Mondaire Jones; Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota Law School; Rep. John Sarbanes and Claudine Schneider, former congresswoman and founder of Republicans for Integrity, to tal
Veteran federal prosecutor, Minnesota native named state s interim U.S. attorney Anders Folk, a graduate from Hopkins High School and University of Minnesota, will be sworn in Monday. February 25, 2021 1:28pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Veteran federal prosecutor Anders Folk will be sworn in as Minnesota s interim U.S. attorney on Monday, taking over for Trump-appointee Erica MacDonald while a search committee finds a long-term replacement nominee.
Folk has served as the No. 2 prosecutor in MacDonald s office since 2018 and worked another five-year stint as assistant U.S. attorney ending in 2010. In between, Folk spent eight years in the private sector as a partner for Stinson LLP, where he specialized in white-collar, securities and cyber law cases.