St.-Thomas-Law---Faculty-Scholarship-and-Academic-Impact

UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS SCHOOL OF LAW MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA FACULTY/ACADEMIC IMPACT RACIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE RECENT SYMPOSIA The University of St Thomas formed the Racial Justice Initiative in 2020 The initiative is directed by Dr Yohuru Williams, who is a noted scholar of the civil rights and black power movements, an education activist and frequent public commentator Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Learning from the Past and the Present (2021) A NATIONAL EXPERT ON CLEMENCY Osler Tyner Professor Mark Osler is a nationally-known expert on criminal justice and clemency reform This past year he led an independent panel of legal experts in a review of the conviction of Myon Burrell, a clemency case that received national attention Alternate Realities, Conspiracy Theory, and the Constitutional and Democratic Order (2021) Protests & Reform: How Lawmakers and the Legal Community are Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (2020) RACE, LEADERSHIP & SOCIAL JUSTICE Neuroscience & the Law (2020) The St Thomas Center on Race, Leadership and Social Justice, led by Dr Artika Tyner, trains our law students to be leaders in criminal justice reform, civil rights and human rights In 2021, Dr Tyner published "The Inclusive Leader: Taking Intentional Action For Justice and Equity" (ABA Book Publishing) Innovative Strategies for Conflict Management: Improving Investor State Relations to Propel Global Growth (2020) UNDEFEATED IN THE NINTH CIRCUIT Sovereignty in a Fragmenting, Globalizing World (2020) For six consecutive years (2014-2019), students working in St Thomas Law's Appellate Clinic, led by Professor Gregory Sisk, won a civil rights appeal on behalf of a prisoner in the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Inequality of Wealth Race & Class; Equality of Opportunity ( 2020) SUPREME COURT ADVOCACY Collett This summer, Professor Teresa Collett filed three amicus curiae briefs with the U.S Supreme Court in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INITIATIVE Griffith St Thomas Law launched a new Initiative on Restorative Justice and Healing this fall to educate law students about restorative justice practices and foster dialogue around racial injustice, clergy sexual abuse and societal polarization POLITICALLY BALANCED FACULTY The St Thomas Law faculty is one of the most politically balanced in the country, according to a 2018 study from Harvard and the University of Chicago We have been recognized as one of only six law schools nationwide with a nearly perfectly balanced conservative and liberal faculty, allowing for lively and respectful debate UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS SCHOOL OF LAW MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARLY ARTICLES PUBLICATIONS Mark Osler and Leslie E Redmond, The Seven (at least) Lessons of the Myon Burrell Case, Minnesota Law Review (2021) Gregory Sisk, Holding the Federal Government Accountable for Sexual Assault, Iowa Law Review (2019) Mariana H.C Gonstead, Remedy Without Diagnosis: How to Optimize Results by Leveraging the Appropriate Dispute Resolution and Shared Decision-Making Process, Fordham Law Review (2019) Rachel Moran, Doing Away With Disorderly Conduct, Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2022) Rachel Moran and Dr Jessica Hodge, Law Enforcement Perspectives on Public Access to Misconduct Records, Cardozo Law Review (2021) Gregory Sisk, The Peculiar Obstacles to Justice Facing Federal Employees Who Survive Sexual Violence, University of Illinois Law Review (2019) SCHOLARLY IMPACT The 2021 Leiter-Sisk study ranked St Thomas Law No 23 for scholarly impact among the top 70 law school faculties The report looked at mean and median citations to tenured faculty scholarship from 2016-2020 21 Washington University, St Louis 22 University of California, Davis 23 University of St Thomas 23 George Mason University 23 Fordham University 23 Boston University 23 # SCHOLARLY IMPACT # NEW SSRN DOWNLOADS PER AUTHOR In April 2019, St Thomas Law was the top U.S law school for new downloads per author within the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) In October 2021, St Thomas was #7 for new downloads per author Thomas Berg (with Roman Cholij and Simon Ravenscroft), Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property, Cambridge University Press (2019) Neil Hamilton and Gregory Sisk (with Susan Fortney, Charles Geyh, William Henderson, Vincent Johnson and Katherine Kruse), Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, and the Legal Profession (Hornbook), West Academic (2018) Mark Osler Contemporary Criminal Law, West Academic (2018) Wulf Kaal (with Craig Calcaterra) Decentralization: Technology's Impact on Organizational and Societal Structure, De Gruyter (2021)