The University of St. Thomas

St. Thomas Lawyer

The magazine of the School of Law WINTER 2008 · VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1

Featured Articles

 Finding Refuge in the Truth Sometimes the truth lies buried in people’s memories until it’s safe to be shared. In 1990, government soldiers in Liberia, Africa, shot and killed more than 500 men,  women and children who had fled to a local church to seek refuge. Last summer, some  witnesses found it safe to share the details with third-year law student Katie Jauert. More...
 The One-Year Partnership By the end of Andrea Specht’s clerkship with Associate Justice Paul H. Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court, it was hard to believe they had been working together only a year. Specht and Anderson finished each other’s thoughts, ribbed each other playfully, and corrected and cajoled each other in a way that suggested a longtime partnership. More...