July 30, 2026

Mizzou law professor offers new solution to strengthen the childcare workforce

A University of Missouri School of Law professor is reframing the national conversation about childcare, encouraging policymakers to invest in those who make the industry possible. In a new study, Lauren Shores Pelikan proposes directing tax benefits to childcare workers as a way to attract and retain the workforce needed to expand access to care. “My proposal is to shift some tax incentives to the provider side — not just to childcare businesses, but directly to childcare workers themselves,” Shores Pelikan said. “The goal is to get resources into the hands of the people providing care…

July 27, 2026

Professor Gamage quoted in KOMU story on Missouri income tax

Professor David Gamage was interviewed in a recent KOMU-TV story regarding the Missouri state income tax and the constitutional amendment on the upcoming ballot to remove it. “All of them [other states] have other ways of generating large revenues that Missouri is not currently contemplating. There are states that have large natural resource revenues: Alaska, Wyoming, to some extent Texas. There are states that have large tourism revenues, Nevada and Florida.”  See the full story here.

July 24, 2026

Professor Henson presents at Energy, AI, and Space workshop

Professor Renee Henson recently presented her work-in-progress paper, “The Algorithmic Playground and the Jurisprudence of Irresistibility,” at the Columbia, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt Virtual Workshop on Energy, AI, and Space.

July 24, 2026

Professor Henson appears on Rule of Law podcast

Professor Chuck Henson recently appeared on the Rule of Law: The Academy Speaks podcast in an episode on how implicit bias affects judgment, cedibility, decision-making, hiring, mentoring, leadership and the legal profession as a whole. You can listen to the podcast here.

July 22, 2026

Mizzou Law faculty to speak at annual SEALS conference

Multiple Mizzou Law faculty members will be presenting at this year’s annual Southeastern Association of American Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Jacksonville, Florida at the end of July. On top of faculty presentations, Professor Gary Myers serves as President of SEALS while Professor Charles “Rocky” Rhodes serves as Secretary. Faculty participation in the conference is as follows: Rocky Rhodes David Gamage Rachel Wechsler Shruti Rana Eric Hintz Renee Henson Bailey Barnes…

July 21, 2026

Professor Gamage quoted in CNBC

Professor David Gamage was quoted extensively in a recent CNBC story about the impending California billionaire tax ballot initiative. An initiative in which Gamage was instrumental in drafting. “California will, I think, more likely be better off if this is passed than not. Businesses thrive in places and states where people want to live, and being a place where people want to live requires health systems working for the people in California.” Read the full article here.

July 20, 2026

Professor Rhodes Analyzes Supreme Court’s Term in Textbook Supplement and Media Interviews

Professor Charles “Rocky” Rhodes, alongside his co-author Professor Renee Knake Jefferson, completed the 2026 Supplement to their textbook, Constitutional Law: Foundations, Interpretations, and Commentaries. The update evaluates all the major decisions from the Supreme Court’s 2025-26 term, including the decisions on presidential removal authority over executive officers, presidential tariff authority, birthright citizenship, sex-based athletic classifications, firearm regulation and congressional spending authority. Several media outlets also tapped Professor Rhodes to provide his insights and analysis regarding the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence on the following topics:…

July 8, 2026

Professor Oliveri quoted in New York Times story on housing discrimination

Professor Rigel Oliver was recently quoted in a New York Times story about a program in Washington state to compensate victims of redlining and other forms of government-sanctioned housing discrimination, and the legal challenges to this program (arguing that the program itself amounts to “reverse discrimination”).  Read the full story here.

July 7, 2026

Professor Conklin quoted in BBC

Professor Carli Conklin was recently quoted in a story by BBC on the American Constitution: “The document was both political and philosophical, asserting the ‘separate and equal station’ of the new United States among the nations of the Earth, while also laying out the philosophical underpinnings for that assertion. As both Thomas Jefferson and fellow drafter John Adams stated, the Declaration was not asserting anything new. It was not intended to do so. These ideas were commonplace in Enlightenment Era discussions about politics and law, with many of these ideas stretching back millennia. What was new was…

July 6, 2026

Professor Gamage quoted in New York Times

Professor David Gamage was recently quoted in the New York Times regarding the “Billionaire Tax” bill currently on the ballot in California. Professor Gamage was instrumental in helping draf the legislation. “They could have written language that would have clearly overruled the billionaire wealth tax if their language passed and got more votes, but they didn’t. So the question is whether their roundabout attempts to have that effect will be successful.” Read the full story here.