SOL Lawyer Magazine_Summer 2021

SCHOOL OF LAW NEWS

LAW SCHOOL ADDS COURSES THAT ADDRESS CURRENT LEGAL TOPICS

St. Thomas School of Law has added new courses that focus on race, policing, social justice and the law. This spring, Dr. Artika Tyner ‘06 J.D., ‘10 MA, ‘12 EdD taught Leadership and Social Change, which examines leadership from diverse perspectives and provides students with advocacy tools to influence the law and policy. Tyner will teach the course again during the 2021-22 academic year. Also this spring, Associate Professor Rachel Moran taught the new course Controversies in Policing. The course focuses on the intersection of law and policing, including the historical and current role of law enforcement in our society, unions, use of force, immunity and liability, accountability and discipline structures, and movements to defund, abolish or reimagine departments. Adjunct Professor Reid LeBeau will teach Native American Law this fall semester, which will explore the complex legal and political relationship between the United States government and Native American tribes. Students will examine the history of federal Indian law and policy, tribal sovereignty and property rights, congressional plenary power and the trust doctrine. LeBeau is a shareholder with the Jacobson Law Group in St. Paul. He is also an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

Artika Tyner

Rachel Moran

Reid LeBeau

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