Len Biernat
ProfessorEmail: lbiernat@gw.hamline.edu
Phone: 651 523-2444
B.S., Mankato State University
M.A., St. Thomas University
J.D., Hamline University School of Law
LL.M., New York University School of Law
"By studying family law, students address the role our government plays in creating policy that balances the rights of the individuals and families with the rights of society."
As a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Professor Biernat links the legal curriculum he teaches with actual law making. He is committed to giving students exposure to the impact the law and law making has on individual lives. He has served as a member of the Supreme Court Task Force on Visitation and Support and is currently a member of a Task Force on Parental Cooperation. Professor Biernat also served as a member of the Minneapolis Board of Education from 1990-97
He has authored several major bills that have become Minnesota laws. He has served on the ad hoc committee of ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and has chaired continuing legal education programs in family law, school law, legal education, and lawyer competency. Professor Biernat is coauthor of Legal Ethics for Management and Their Counsel, published by Lexis Law Publishing, and he wrote a chapter on the federal role in education in Federal Administrative Practice published by West Law Publishing.
Biernat teaches in the areas of Family Law, Professional Responsibility, Remedies, Property, Children and the Law, and Education Law.
Biernat was a member of the first graduating class of Hamline University School of Law.
Publications
- The Federal Role in Education Aid and Assistance, in WEST'S FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE (2008 Update).
- Increasing the School Year for Some, But Not All Children, in OUR PROMISE: ACHIEVING EDUCATIONAL EQUITY FOR AMERICA’S CHILDREN (2008).
- Federal Intent for State Child Support Guidelines: Income Shares, Cost Shares, and the Realities of Shared Parenting,
37 FAM. L.Q. 165 (2003) (with Jo Michelle Beld).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Forces Changing Family Law in Minnesota,
28 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. 873 (2001).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Aid to Education, in West’s Federal Administrative Practice (Charles McManis, et al., eds., 3rd ed. 1999; 2000-2006 supplements).
- Limiting Mobility and Improving Student Achievement,
23 HAMLINE L. REV. 1 (1999).
Lexis Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - LEGAL ETHICS FOR MANAGEMENT AND THEIR COUNSEL (1995-1998) (ed., with R. Hunter Manson).
- Corporate Practice: From the Model Code to the Model Rules to the States,
34 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 27 (1989).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Subjective Criteria in Faculty Employment Decisions Under Title VII: A Camouflage for Discrimination and Sexual Harassment,
20 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 501 (1986-1987).
Westlaw HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF - Why Not Model Rules of Conduct for Law Students?,
12 FLA. ST. U.L. REV. 781, 786 (1985).
HeinOnline (Hamline Users) HeinOnline PDF