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Professor Jesson Discusses What's Hot and What's Not in Health Care in Minnesota Lawyer
Friday, July 31, 2009
What's hot & what's not: Health
law
by Michelle
Lore
Every time you turn on the news these days, you hear talk about health care reform. Questions around how to ensure coverage for everyone, who’s going to pay for coverage and how it will be administered and delivered are being bandied about by both political parties, often resulting in divisive...
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Katrina Angela Pagonis to become assistant professor of law at Hamline's Health Law Institute
Hamline's Health Law Institute is gaining a new faculty member. Katrina Angela Pagonis will become an assistant professor of law at Hamline on July 1.
Cruz Reynoso Inspires Jurist Fiesta Guests
Distinguished Jurist and University of California Davis School of Law Professor Emeritus Cruz Reynoso (shown here with Dean Lewis, left, and Professor Tom Romero, right) provided an inspiring presentation on the Struggle for Social Justice (audio here) as the Juris Fiesta keynote speaker on March 14, 2009.
Professor Cruz Reynoso was the first Latino person to serve on the California Supreme Court. He served as an Associate Justice from 1982 to 1987 and is credited with helping to extend additional protections for the environment, individual liberties and civil rights. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, from President Clinton in 2000, the same year he received the Hispanic Heritage Foundation Award in Education. He served as the Vice Chair on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1994-2004 and was a professor at the UCLA School of Law from 1991-2001. Professor Reynoso also is the inaugural holder of the UC Davis School of Law's Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality, which recognizes outstanding scholarship and teaching, along with a commitment to preserving and expanding the understanding of "the virtues necessary of a great republic."
CLE Celebrates SMRLS, Advocates for Low-Income Persons
"The economic downturn is an opportunity to build connections and bonds, and to break open the anti-poor grip that has strangled this nation for three decades," said long-time advocate for the poor and professor at Northeastern University School of Law Lucy A. Williams (above right with Associate Dean Marie Failinger) during her keynote address at the 2009 Hamline Law Alumni Spring CLE Symposium, which was co-presented with Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS) on the occasion of its centennial anniversary and the Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy.
Martha Eaves, SMRLS Senior Staff Attorney, commented on the special relationship that SMRLS has shared with Hamline University School of Law over the years. "Hamline wanted to be different," she said, noting the "shared desire to serve the disadvantaged, forgotten, unrepresented, and those populations frequently most in need."
The CLE, "Justice and the Administrative Process," featured three administrative law judges and attorneys from SMRLS and other practice settings who discussed "best practices" for administrative tribunal representation. Other speakers included Dr. Augustine Romero, Director of Student Equity at Tucson University School of Law; former SMRLS board member, the Honorable Tanya Bransford, District Court Judge, and Loretta Frederick, a leading international speaker on domestic violence issues and former SMRLS attorney.
Law School to Host Chicago Alumni Reception and DRI Training
On Thursday, March 19, 2009, Hamline University School of Law and Dean Donald M. Lewis will host an alumni reception at Chicago's DoubleTree Hotel Magnificent Mile from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. The DoubleTree is located at 300 East Ohio Street, downtown Chicago. Key members of Hamline's Dispute Resolution Institute, currently ranked fourth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report among law school dispute resolution programs, will be in Chicago for the reception on Thursday night and to present a training seminar the following day.
The "Negotiation at its Best" training seminar and CLE will take place on Friday, March 20, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the DoubleTree Hotel Magnificent Mile in Chicago. This unique CLE opportunity will introduce alumni to the newest developments in the multi-disciplinary science of negotiation. Attendees will learn by doing through this highly interactive, skills-based program that will provide practical tools to resolve tough negotiation challenges, regardless of setting. Click here for more information on "Negotiation at its Best."
