standing work of the project and Murray as its director. Moriearty, along with Dan Guerrero ’89 of Meshbesher & Spence, was recognized for effectuating the release of Myon Burrell after 18 years in prison in a case that made headlines throughout the country. Burrell had been a juvenile when he was incarcerated with a lengthy sentence. The work was done through Minnesota Law’s Child Advocacy and Juvenile Justice Clinic.
Prof. June Carbone Elected to ALI Membership Professor June Carbone, the Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology, was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. The ALI drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Model Codes, and Principles of Law that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. Carbone joins more than 20 current faculty members who have been elected to ALI membership.
Professors Larry McDonough and Monica Bogucki
Minnesota Law’s Poverty Law Course Marks 25th Year THERE IS A WAITING LIST TO enroll in Minnesota Law’s Poverty Law
class, currently celebrating its 25th year at the Law School. The fact that students are still literally lining up for the long-offered course is a testament to the staying power of interest in learning about the many legal and social areas that the course covers. Throughout its quarter century run, the class has been taught by the same two adjunct professors—Monica Bogucki and Larry McDonough. But this year, the class’s silver anniversary, will be Bogucki’s last. She plans to retire at the end of the semester. Reflecting on the popularity of the class, McDonough said that students are hungry for social justice content. They get it through the class’s curriculum, which approaches the social topics with a legal perspective. Bogucki and McDonough were both legal aid lawyers when they proposed the class 25 years ago. Since then, they have shared their collective years of experience with generations of appreciative students, many of whom have gone on to careers in public service. One of those students was Julia Zwak ’15. “I came to law school knowing I wanted to work in civil legal services, and this class helped me to gain exposure to different areas of law in this sector,” she recalled. “I now practice as a housing staff attorney at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid in Minneapolis, building on knowledge I gained in Poverty Law, as well as the Housing Law Clinic.” (McDonough also founded the Housing Law Clinic 25 years ago when he was a visiting clinical professor.) Zwak said that practicing lawyers she encountered through the class, including Bogucki and McDonough, offered her “invaluable career advice” in thinking about and charting her own professional path. Next fall, Meghan Scully, a staff attorney at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, will co-teach the class with McDonough. Bogucki, who has put her heart and soul into the course for 25 years, will be missed. “It’s been an incredible journey,” she said. Barbara L. Jones (A longer version of this story is available online at z.umn.edu/povertylaw)
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