May 6, 2026

Professor Lietzan edits book on pharmaceutical marketplace

Professor Erika Lietzan edited a new book just published in French, titled “Le marché pharmaceutique, de l’aporie à une dialectique commerce international/santé.” The book, published by European publisher Mare & Martin, discusses the pharmaceutical marketplace and a wide range of issues relating to reconciling the importance of medicine to global public health with its nature as a commodity like any other. The chapters were written from a range of academic perspectives by scholars around the world. Professor Lietzan also wrote a chapter herself on the prospects for the U.S. government to play a role in the pharmaceutical marketplace. Read more…

May 4, 2026

Professor Shores Pelikan discusses new paper on Tax Notes podcast

Professor Lauren Shores Pelikan recently appeared on the Tax Notes Talk podcast to discuss her forthcoming article, “Toddlers, investors, and Tax Policy.” Professor Shores Pelikan’s paper has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of the Southern California Law Review. You can listen to the podcast episode here.

May 1, 2026

Professor Rachel Wechsler wins Gold Chalk Award

Professor Rachel Wechlser was honored with the Gold Chalk Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding faculty who have contributed significantly to graduate and professional education. Gold Chalk awards are student-nominated and student-selected. The Gold Chalk Award is presented by the Mizzou Graduate Professional Council.

April 21, 2026

Professor Oliveri presents on fair housing at Columbia event

Professor Rigel Oliveri recently presented on fair housing for the City of Columbia. The event served as a collaborative platform to discuss critical housing issues within the Columbia community.

April 17, 2026

Professor Rhodes Presents at University of the Pacific Law Review Symposium

Professor Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes presented the closing keynote panel address, A Court Not for this Moment: Departmental Enforcement, Stare Decisis, and the Rule of Law, at the University of the Pacific Law Review Symposium on the Rule of Law under Pressure: Executive Power, the Role of the Judiciary, and Democracy’s Future. His remarks addressed the role of constitutional precedential instability in emboldening executive authority to aggressively probe the limits of enforcement authority, focusing on the executive branch’s utilization of the shadow docket and on state exclusive private enforcement schemes. 

April 16, 2026

Dean Emeritus Dessem publishes op-ed on state and federal ethics investigations

Dean Emeritus R. Lawrence Dessem published an op-ed piece in the Kansas City Star where he argues that the federal Department of Justice should stay out of state bar ethics investigations. Read the full piece here.

April 15, 2026

Professor Lambert sits on panel in Rome

Professor Thom Lambert recently participated on a panel at the International Center for Law & Economics conference titled “Substance over Slogans: Competition and the Wealth of Nations” in Rome, Italy. The panel he sat on was titled, “Gatekeepers or Guardians: Designing Platforms in the Face of Regulation” and the discussion focused on how to conceptualize platforms—as gatekeepers that require constraint or as curators that create value through governance—and how frameworks like the Digital Markets Act (DMA) shape those roles. Watch the full panel here.

April 14, 2026

Professor Conklin publishes essay in History Now

Professor Carli Conklin published the lead essay in the latest issue of History Now: The Journal. Professor Conklin’s piece, “The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day”: The Declaration of Independence and the Pursuit of Happiness,” discussed the historical origins of the Declaration of Independence and who can be attributed with the ideas included therein. History Now is aimed at getting leading history scholarship out to K-12 educators and the general reader. Read a full copy of her article here.

April 14, 2026

Professor Lietzan presents at WashU Ideas Lunch

Professor Erika Lietzan presented her paper, “Solutions Still Searching for a Problem: A Call for Relevant Data to Support ‘Evergreening’ Allegations,” at a recent “Ideas Lunch” for the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Lietzan’s paper, published in a 2023 issue of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, audited a dataset being offered to support allegations of evergreening. She also discussed ongoing work Professor Lietzan and her coauthor, Kristina Lybecker are doing in that area.

April 10, 2026

Professor Lietzan publishes op-ed on drug patents

The narrative that brand-name drugmakers manipulate the patent system to block lower-cost generics has gained traction in recent years. But the evidence doesn’t support that claim.  In a new @IPWatchdog, Inc op-ed, Professor Lietzan examines the data — and explains why developing new versions of existing products isn’t patent abuse. It’s how innovation works in every industry.  You can read the full piece here.