Diversifying Writers

Mitchell Hamline School of Law (MHSL) is a rigorous practice-based law school in St. Paul, Minnesota, offering traditional full time, part time, and blended legal studies. MHSL is committed to becoming an antiracist law school. In 2021, MHSL launched a Visiting Assistant Professor program to recruit attorneys of color into two-year teaching appointments with the goal of launching diverse professors into tenure-track legal positions. The second cohort of Visiting Assistant Professors begin teaching in Fall 2023. In 2022, under the leadership of Dr. T. Anansi Wilson, MHSL established a Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law. MHSL is also the first law school in the country to admit and educate incarcerated individuals.  

Mitchell Hamline Law Review seeks to publish original, critical legal scholarship of regional, national, and international importance from diverse and underrepresented law students, academics, and practitioners. We are especially interested in working with first-time or nontraditional authors addressing critical race, social, economic, and gender topics. 

Notable recent scholarship includes:

·        Anne Haluska, Restorative Justice and the Rights of Nature: Using Indigenous Legal Traditions to Influence Cultural Change and Promote Environmental Protection, 49 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 91 (2023).

·        Monica Shaffer, Constitutionality of Reparations for Native Americans: Confronting the Boarding Schools, 49 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 403 (2023).

·        Angelique EagleWoman, The Capitalization of “Tribal Nations” and the Decolonization of Citation, Nomenclature, and Terminology in the United States, 49 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 623 (2023).

·        Daina Strub Kabitz, Engaging in Equity-Centered Policymaking: State-Level Racial Equity Impact Assessment Trends, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions, 49 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 645 (2023).

·        Marquan Robertson, Levels of Generality & Originalism: Proposing a New Way Forward as Originalism Continues to Expand, 49 Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 27 (2023).