Christina E. Wells

Christina E. Wells
  • Freedom of speech
  • Gender and the law
  • Administrative law
  • Government secrecy
  • Executive and judicial action in wartime and times of crisis
  • Freedom of Information Act
  • Control of information
Enoch H. Crowder Professor of Law

BA cum laude (1985), University of Kansas Phi Beta Kappa
JD with honors (1988), University of Chicago Law School

  • Phone Number: (573) 882-8375
  • Room Number: 310 Hulston Hall
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  • Web Address: http://law.missouri.edu/wells/
  • Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Professor Wells joined the faculty in 1993 after having been an associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in Chicago and Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe in Los Angeles, primarily in the area of business litigation. While in school, she was Comment Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.

In 2001, Professor Wells was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic, studying and lecturing on constitutional rights at Masaryk & Palacky Universities. In 2002, she was invited back to present a series of lectures on American constitutional decision making. In 2003, Professor Wells received the Sustained Outstanding Achievement Award presented by the University of Missouri Law School Foundation.

Professor Wells focuses her research on issues involving free expression and access to government information and teaches Freedom of Speech, Gender and the Law, Remedies and Administrative Law.

Recent Publications

Academic Journals

Lies, Honor, and the Government’s Good Name: Seditious Libel and the Stolen Valor Act, 59 UCLA LAW REVIEW DISCOURSE (2012).
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Regulating Offensiveness: Snyder v. Phelps, Emotion, and the First Amendment, 1 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW CIRCUIT 71 (2010).
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