Lawyer Magazine_Winter 2020

admissible hearsay Overheard in and around the University of St. Thomas School of Law

“The War on Drugs is effectively over. Drugs won.” – PROFESSOR MARK OSLER IN THE JOURNAL ARTICLE, “WHAT WE GOT WRONG IN THE WAR ON DRUGS,” THAT HE AUTHORED FOR A FORTHCOMING ISSUE OF THE ST. THOMAS LAW JOURNAL.

“This is an opportunity to engage people and to have a conversation on, What does that mean to you? instead of shutting down on lines of partisanship or not understanding.” – DR. ARTIKA TYNER IN MPLS.ST.PAUL MAGAZINE ARTICLE, “DEFUND THE POLICE?”

“If white evangelicals respond to George Floyd’s killing with a deeper dive into the painful history of this fallen world we share, we won’t all embrace a single worldview, but we will share a much firmer grasp of the problem. And that’s not a bad place to start.” – DEAN ROBERT VISCHER IN AN OP-ED FOR THE RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE, “WILL THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD SWAY WHITE EVANGELICALS ON RACE?”

“I use music at work by writing and singing lyrics for constitutional law class. As an example, for the growth of presidential power, the song is ‘Truman Reagan Bush Obama Power Concentration.’ (To the tune of ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.’)” – PROFESSOR TOM BERG , WHO SINGS WITH THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN VERY LIGHT OPERA COMPANY AND TWIN CITIES COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR, IN A Q & A FOR MINNESOTA LAWYER NEWSPAPER’S REGULAR COLUMN “BREAKING THE ICE.”

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