Mitchell And Demand
Jennell Venier
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, located in St. Paul, Minnesota offers a rigorous, practice-based experience, preparing graduates to serve clients and communities. Our motivated students study full time or part time, on-campus or partially online in the way that fits their lives.
A burned out and isolated attorney is an unproductive employee (if they stick around at all). The reasons why wellness, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (beyond lip service) are necessary for the overall financial health and long-term stability of your organization.
Also experienced in complex litigation, employment law, non-compete disputes, and class action lawsuits, Ms. Klander regularly represents clients in both state and federal courts across the United States. She currently defends creditors and credit professionals against federal consumer statute claims, defends health care providers and professionals against liability claims, and represents businesses in a spectrum of commercial disputes. She also consults with and trains clients on compliance with state and federal regulations.
A panel of national and local constitutional scholars and experts will discuss the purpose and protections of academic freedom, free inquiry, and freedom of expression in an academic community and its impact on students, faculty, staff, and others.
Professor Snyder is a historian of education, whose work examines questions about race, national identity and the purpose of public education in a diverse, democratic society. Snyder is the author of the book, Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture and Race in the Age of Jim Crow.
Professor Berkson teaches courses in Asian religions (including the Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist and Hindu traditions), Islam, and comparative religion. Mark received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in religious studies, his M.A. from Stanford University in East Asian Studies, and his B.A. from Princeton University.
In addition to law teaching, Professor Hawkins has spent more than two decades advising and training clients in both the public and private sector on issues of workplace diversity. She has held or holds a number of professional and civic appointments, including as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Diversity, Inclusion & Community Engagement, as an advisory board member of the Public Interest Law Center, and as an inaugural member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Diversity Team.
Professor Hawkins earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned various honors including the title of national champion of the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition.
Professor Strossen is a senior fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education) and a leading expert and frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties, who has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. She serves on the advisory boards of the ACLU, Academic Freedom Alliance, Heterodox Academy, National Coalition Against Censorship, and the University of Austin.
When Professor Strossen stepped down as ACLU President, three (ideologically diverse) Supreme Court Justices participated in her farewell/tribute luncheon: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, and David Souter.
She is the author of HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018) and Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023). She is also the Host and Project Consultant for Free to Speak, a 3-hour documentary film series on free speech release on public television in fall 2023.
Professor Strossen has made thousands of public presentations before diverse audiences around the world, including on more than 500 different campuses and in many foreign countries, and she has appeared on virtually every national TV news program. Her hundreds of publications have appeared in many scholarly and general interest publications.
Professor Strossen graduated phi beta kappa from Harvard College and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Before becoming a law professor, she practiced law in Minneapolis (her hometown) and New York City. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Anthony Sanders joined the Institute for Justice in 2010. He educates the public about the proper role of judges in enforcing constitutional limits on the size and scope of government through various means, including live events, books, articles, and podcasts.
Anthony has litigated several cases concerning state constitutional protections in various state courts, as well as in federal courts on matters such as economic liberty, free speech, administrative law, and fines and fees abuse. Prior to joining the Institute for Justice, Anthony served as a law clerk to Justice W. William Leaphart on the Montana Supreme Court. Anthony also worked for several years in private practice in Chicago where he was an active member of the Chicago Bar Association and chaired its Civil Rights Committee.
An overall how-to for the expungement of criminal cases in the State of Minnesota, from case review to courtroom arguments. With special emphasis on the changes that recently went into effect, and a small overview of the coming changes in the next few years.
Landon Ascheman is a criminal law attorney, having practiced private criminal defense, served as a special assistant public defender, and a contract prosecutor. He has assisted law students with the Mitchell Hamline Self-Help clinic since its inception, and volunteers with SMRLS and other criminal expungement clinics. He has chaired the MSBA, HCBA, and RCBA Criminal Law Sections at different times, and is the Past-President of the HCBA, and current President of the Mitchell Hamline Alumni Board.
Additionally, from 2004 to 2010, Ana served as an immigration attorney for the Lutheran Social Services of New York (LSSNY) Immigration Legal Services Program where she provided direct legal services to low-income immigrant populations in New York City. As part of her work with LSSNY, Ana also served as lead attorney in the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) Special Registration Project where she represented men from Muslim majority countries placed in removal proceedings after complying with the NSEERS Special Registration Program and served as supervisor of the LSSNY Refugee Resettlement Program from 2008 to 2010. Ana is a 2004 graduate of Columbia Law School and a 2001 graduate of the University of Minnesota.
Topics will include: when and why to use the PCT; filing challenges and choices; the international search process and what to do about it; what to do when circumstances change or things go wrong; and how to optimize moving from the international to the national stage.
According to the recent American Bar Association Report from the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-being, the legal profession has reached a tipping point. The profession confronts a dwindling market share as the public turns to more accessible, affordable alternative legal service providers.
Rick Petry is the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and an adjunct professor at Mitchell Hamline. He is also an executive coach with a wealth of knowledge regarding neuroscience and human peak performance. Rick is trained by the Flow Research Collective as a Flow Trainer along with additional certifications he holds in Conversational Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence (EQ-I 2.0), Brian Health Coach, Success Principles Trainer, and Barret Values Center Certified Consultant. Rick joined Mitchell Hamline after representing individuals and companies for over 17 years in criminal defense, personal injury, commercial litigation, and real estate matters as a law firm partner and trial attorney.
Justice Margaret Chutich was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to the Minnesota Supreme Court on Mar. 17, 2016, and she was elected in 2018. Previous to her service on the Supreme Court, she was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to the Minnesota Court of Appeals on Feb. 16, 2012, and she was elected in 2014. Before being appointed to the Court of Appeals, Justice Chutich served in a number of roles spanning education, government service and private practice. Justice Chutich earned her B.A. from the University of Minnesota, and graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
Judge Sara Grewing was appointed Feb. 2, 2015, by Governor Mark Dayton, and elected in 2016 and 2022. Previous to her service on the bench, Judge Grewing held roles in government service, orked as the State Director for United States Senator Amy Klobuchar, and was an associate at Flaherty and Hood, P.A. She earned her B.M. from the University of Minnesota and graduated from William Mitchell College of Law.
Judge JaPaul Harris was appointed July 11, 2018 by Governor Mark Dayton, and he was elected in 2020. Previous to his service on the bench, he was a referee in the Fourth Judicial District. He also previously worked for Mid Minnesota Legal Aid, Minneapolis Public Schools, and Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services. He earned his B.A. from Syracuse University and graduated from Hamline University School of Law.
A panel discussion of the post-Dobbs implications of rational basis review and what state interests will justify further abortion regulations. Where are we in abortion law, how did we get here, and where do we go from here?
Courses taught include Torts: The Common Law Process; Health Law: Organization and Finance; Seminar: Reproductive Rights; Community Health and Vulnerable Populations; Seminar: Current Topics in Bioethics; and Public Health under the Trump Administration. Recent invited and colloquium articles include Covid-19, Abortion, and Public Health in the Culture Wars (an invited article for the Mitchell Hamline Law Review); Skirting the Law: Medicaid Block Grants and Per Capita Caps in a Pandemic (a colloquium article for the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law and Policy); and The Means and Ends of Wellness Programs (a colloquium article for the Journal of Health Law and Policy).