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September 17, 2025
Professor Gamage presents at economic symposium
On Sept. 16, Professor David Gamage presented at the Anthropic Economic Futures Symposium in Washington DC, along with the CEO of Anthropic: Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic: Jack Clark, and a number of others. Anthropic is one of the leading AI companies, the maker and owner of Claude AI. The… Read More
September 16, 2025
Mizzou Law faculty member named Curator’s Distinguished Teaching Professor
September 15, 2025
Professor Hintz presents paper at AALS conference
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Sep. 12, 2025
Mizzou Tax Law Colloquium hosts Loyola professor
On Sep. 17 (Wednesday), Ellen Aprill (Loyola) will present the draft paper, “Revoking Tax-Exemption for Pursuit of DEI and Other Alleged Forms of Discrimination”, at the Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. The Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium is convened by Professor David Gamage of Mizzou Law. Most sessions will be open to guest participants via zoom, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. This session will be open to guest participants via zoom. Anyone who would like to join as a guest participant should e-mail Professor Gamage directly at dgamage@missouri.edu for details, the zoom login, and…
Sep. 11, 2025
Professor Emeritus Esbeck Quoted in Christianity Today
Carl Esbeck, the R.B. Price Professor Emeritus of Law and the Isabella Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor Emeritus of Law, was quoted in a recent article in Christianity Today. The article addressed potential legal issues with the Trump White House issuing a suggestion that all Americans pray for at least one hour a week. Carl Esbeck teaches constitutional law at the University of Missouri School of Law and has authored Supreme Court briefs on many religious liberty cases over the years. He recently published an essay about some of the recent state laws requiring the display of…
Sep. 11, 2025
Faculty Spotlight – Meet Bailey Barnes
by Tanner O’Neal Riley When it comes to underdog stories, people often think of mismatches: the tortoise versus the hare, Rocky versus Apollo Creed, or Mizzou versus Kansas basketball this past December. These are the stories where the odds lean heavily in one direction until the right person, with the right amount of determination, changes everything. Bailey Barnes, a first-year law professor at Mizzou Law and a civil rights scholar, is one of those people. “I don’t like bullies. That probably comes from being from small-town Appalachia—scrappy,” Barnes said. “When it’s government agents harming people in the government’s name,…
Sep. 10, 2025
Professor Gamage publishes article on how states should respond to corporate profit shifting
Professor David Gamage, along with co-author Darien Shanske of the University of California-Davis School of Law, published an article in the September issue of Tax Notes State. In their article, Gamage and Shanske explore how states should respond to the persistent challenge of corporate profit shifting. To read the full article, click here.
Sep. 9, 2025
Professor Sperino publishes new article on employment discrimination
Sandra Sperino, the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, recently published a new article in the Washington University Law Review titled “When Is Discrimination Harmful?” The article discusses the wide-ranging effects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Muldrow v. St. Louis. The decision likely restructures employment discrimination law, including potentially collapsing the distinctions between harassment and non-harassment discrimination. Read the article here.
Sep. 9, 2025
Mizzou Tax Law Colloquium hosts UCI and UNC professors
On Sep. 10, Josh Blank (UCI) and Leigh Osofsky (UNC), will present the draft paper, “Audit Guides and the Administrative State”, at the Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. The Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium is convened by Professor David Gamage of Mizzou Law. Most sessions will be open to guest participants via zoom, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. This session will be open to guest participants via zoom. Anyone who would like to join as a guest participant should e-mail Professor Gamage directly at dgamage@missouri.edu for details, the zoom login, and to be sent…
Sep. 8, 2025
Professor Bailey Barnes publishes op-ed in KC Star
Professor Bailey Barnes published an op-ed article in the KC Star discussing constitutional concerns with President Trump’s use of the National Guard as a police force in urban areas. Professor Barnes argues that those forces are not accountable to lawsuits if they violate citizens’ civil rights. Read the full article here.