This summer, the governor of Louisiana signed into law House Bill No. 71, requiring all Louisiana K-12 public schools, charter schools, and state post-secondary institutions place in their classrooms a poster-size copy of the Ten Commandments (“10Cs”). Carl Esbeck, the R.B. Price Professor Emeritus and the Isabelle Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor Emeritus, wrote a blog post about the…
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Professor Boyack to publish article on abuse of boilerplates in contracts
Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Endowed Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, recently had an article, “Abuse of Contract: Boilerplate Erasure of Consumer Counterparty Rights,” accepted in the Iowa Law Review. In her article, Professor Boyack examines the potential abuse of contracts through boilerplate design as well as suggests how data from a recent study of companies’ online terms…
Professor David Gamage Cited in Supreme Court Concurrence
Professor David Gamage was cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her concurrence to the decision in the Moore case that was issued on June 20, 2024. In her opinion, Justice Brown Jackson cited the amicus brief co-authored by Professor Gamage and John R. Brooks, which pointed out that an artificial limit on Congress’s taxing power appears…
Professor Andrea Boyack develops a new framework for consumer contracts in Denver Law Review article
Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, recently published a new piece, “The Shape of Consumer Contracts,” in the Denver Law Review. In her article, Professor Boyack presents a new approach to consumer contract law that she argues would “treat a consumer’s choice to do business with a company as legally distinct from assent to…
Professor Andrea Boyack Quoted in New York Times
Professor Andrea Boyack was quoted in a New York Times article regarding “zombie mortgages.” To read the full story, visit:…
Dean Litton featured on Missouri Lawyers Media
Dean Paul Litton was featured on Missouri Lawyers Media in their Legal Limelight series. In the piece, Dean Litton answers a number of questions about his time at Mizzou Law and his plans as dean. To read the full piece, visit:…
Professor David Gamage has article reviewed on JOTWELL
Professor David Gamage recently had his article, The Original Meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment reviewed on the Jotwell blog. To read the full review, click here:…
Mizzou Law hosting alumni happy hour events across the state this summer
This summer, Mizzou Law is hosting a series of networking happy hours for our alumni around the state of Missouri and we are coming to an area near you! See the following dates and locations to determine which happy hour event is closest to you! Registration is FREE but requested for planning purposes. We hope to see you this summer!…
Professor Thom Lambert Quoted in Law.com
Thom Lambert, the Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance and Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, was quoted last week in a piece on Law.com about U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies filing complaints against companies using AI. “They want to maintain their reputations for being very aggressive,” law professor Thom Lambert said of the Federal Trade Commission and Department of…
Professor Thom Lambert Discusses Major Antitrust Case
Thom Lambert, the Wall Chair in Corporate Law and Governance and Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, last week discussed U.S. v. Apple, a major antitrust case, with other antitrust experts at the George Mason University Scalia Law School Law & Economics Center. To view the moderated panel, visit:…