Missouri Law Review

Missouri Law Review launches Online Case Summaries

The Missouri Law Review has embarked on an effort to provide quick, useful, and up to date analyses of Missouri Supreme Court decisions. The case summaries viewed at the link below are concise articles meant to give a thorough understanding of the opinions covered with room for commentary from the authors. The case summary authors, in their third year of law school at the University of Missouri, both edit and write for the Missouri Law Review. We hope practitioners, academics and students alike will find these useful.

The case summaries can be viewed by clicking here.

Spring 2009 Missouri Law Review Symposium with Sandra Day O’Connor

The Spring 2009 Missouri Law Review Symposium, Mulling over the Missouri Plan: A Review of State Judicial Selection and Retention Systems, took place February 27, 2009. The Symposium featured keynote speaker Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, as well a distinguished group of nine panelists and six commentators. For more information about the Symposium, click here.

A webcast of each panel can be accessed through the Symposium home page or by clicking here.

Although a webcast of Justice O’Connor’s lecture will not be available, her remarks, in addition to articles written by the presenters and commentators, will appear in our Symposium issue, which will be printed in the fall of 2009 (Volume 74, Issue 3). Once the issue is printed, an electronic version will be posted on our website and can be accessed here.

Return to Missouri v. Holland: A Symposium on Federalism & International Law

The Missouri Law Review hosted a national gathering of scholars in its spring, 2008 symposium to explore the intersection of federalism and international law from a variety of perspectives.

In the 1920 case Missouri v. Holland, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously declared, "We must consider what this country has become in considering what [the Tenth] Amendment has reserved." The Supreme Court upheld the federal government's ability to regulate, through exercise of the Treaty Power, activity that otherwise would be reserved to the states. During the era when the Court adopted an expansive view of Congress' ability to regulate through the Commerce Clause, the import of Missouri v. Holland receded. But as the Court has increasingly cabined the scope of the Commerce Clause, and in a world where everything from the death penalty, to greenhouse gas emissions, to access to medical care has become the subject of multilateral treaty regimes, the ability of the federal government to invoke the Treaty Power in regulating the states is once again central to discussions of federalism.

To listen to pod casts from the symposium, click here.

The articles for this Symposium issue were published in Volume 73, Issue 4 and are available here.

Spring 2008 Symposium Issue: A Tribute to Professor David Fischer

The Spring 2008 issue of the Missouri Law Review is a special issue entitled Symposium: A Tribute to Professor David Fischer. You can read the articles and student notes in this special issue by clicking here.