Visiting Prof. Nadia Anguiano ’17 Named Associate Clinical Professor

was named associate clinical professor of law and director of the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic starting in May. 

Currently a visiting assistant clinical professor, Anguiano has been serving as director of Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic on an interim basis. With this appointment, she is now a member of the Law School’s permanent, full-time faculty. 

Anguiano has served as visiting assistant clinical professor since 2022, and as a fellow in the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic since 2019. She previously served as a law clerk for Judge Jane Kelly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Judge Susan Richard Nelson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. 

Prof. Jonathan Choi Named McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Awarded Honorable Mention in AALS Scholarly Paper Competition

Professor Jonathan H. Choi was named a McKnight-Land Grant Professor by the University’s Office of the Provost. 

The McKnight Land-Grant Professorship program at the University “is designed to advance the careers of the most promising junior faculty members who are at the beginning stages of their professional careers, and who have the potential to make significant contributions to their departments and to their scholarly fields.” Recipients are chosen based on significance of the research, past and present achievements, professional promise, potential for attracting and supporting outstanding students, and contributions to the university’s efforts to advance equity and diversity in the service of excellence in teaching, research, and/or service. This University award comes with the use of the title from July 1, 2023-June 30, 2025, as well as enhanced research funding for the two-year period. 

The Association of American Law Schools awarded Choi an honorable mention in the AALS Scholarly Papers Competition for his paper “Computational Corpus Linguistics.” 

Choi, who specializes in tax law, statutory interpretation, and computational analysis of law, is the first Minnesota Law scholar to receive the award in two decades. 

Professor David Cleveland is President-Elect of the Association of Legal Writing Directors 

Professor David Cleveland has been elected president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD). With more than 400 members representing over 130 law schools, ALWD is the leading academic legal writing organization in the United States. ALWD is the ABA affiliate group for legal writing and engages with the ABA’s Council of Legal Education and Standards Review Committee on behalf of the legal writing community. 

Cleveland is an experienced litigator and accomplished scholar, specializing in legal writing, legal ethics, and federal court reform issues. His widely cited scholarship includes works on federal court reform, legal writing pedagogy and history, and discrimination law. He has served in a variety of leadership roles in the legal writing community. In 2020 he was selected for the Legal Writing Institute’s rarely given Terri LeClercq Courage Award. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from the College of Education at Western Michigan University. 

Prof. Emeritus Barbara Frey Named a ‘Minnesota Icon’

Barbara Frey, director emeritus of the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Program, was recognized as a “Minnesota Icon” by Finance and Commerce and Minnesota Lawyer.

Frey, an affiliated faculty member at the Law School, headed the Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota since it was founded in 2001. She took on emeritus status last July. 

Frey speaks and publishes regularly on human rights topics including forms of international human rights advocacy, migration and human rights, and firearms and human rights. 

Prof. Jill Hasday Testifies on Bill that Bars Employers from Asking About Salary History

Professor Jill Hasday testified before the Minnesota Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of legislation to prohibit employers from asking job applicants about their pay history. 

S.F. 1885 seeks to address disparities that in pay that impact woman and other historically discriminated against groups by removing past pay as a factor in determining starting pay at a new job. Statistics show that white women in Minnesota make on average 78 cents of the pay that white men do for the same work, according to Senator Robert Kupec (04, DFL), the sponsor of the bill. For Black and Latina women, the discrepancy is significantly higher, he noted. 

“One important reason for these persistent wage gaps is that employers frequently ask job applicants about their prior salary before determining what salary to offer in a new job,” Hasday testified.“This widespread practice means that workers often cannot ask pay discrimination by securing a new job. If a woman’s first boss pays her less than men earn for the same work, the consequences can reverberate for a lifetime.” 

Prof. Myron Orfield Testifies on Met Council Reform Proposal

Professo Myron Orfield testified before the Minnesota Senate Transportation Committee on a proposal to make sweeping changes to the state’s Metropolitan Council. 

The proposal would create 17 new districts across the seven-county Twin Cities metro area, with elections the Met Council beginning in 2024. Currently, the governor appoints all the members of the powerful regional council. 

“I can tell you ... there’s nothing like this in the United States that has this much broad discretionary authority and taxing power,” Orfield testified in advocating for the changes to increase accountability. “There’s nothing even close to it anywhere in the United States.” 

Faculty in Print

Professor emeritus Michael Tonry co-edited a book, Prisons and Prisoners, that was published by the University of Chicago Pressin 2022. Co-edited by Sandra Bucerius, a professor of sociology and criminology at of the University of Alberta, the essays featured in this volume delineate where we are with incarceration and incarcerated individuals in 2022 and offer informed insights into where we might be heading. 

Garry W. Jenkins, dean and William S. PatteeProfessor of Law, was one of 14 law deans who contributed to Beyond Imagination?: The January 6 Insurrection, published by West Academic in 2022. The book examines the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and how the nation got there, from a legal perspective, in hopes of moving the nation forward towards healing and a recommitment to the rule of law and the Constitution.