April 22, 2024

Associate Dean Sperino Quoted in Forbes

Sandra Sperino, associate dean for research and faculty development, was quoted last week in Forbes on a story about Supreme Court expansion of employer risk of discrimination. To read her quotes and the full story, visit here.

April 22, 2024

Professor Gamage presents two papers at UCI Tax Symposium

Professor David Gamage presented two papers he coauthored at the 6th Annual UCI Law – Taylor Nelson Amitrano, LLP Tax Symposium on April 18. Prof. Gamage’s papers, “What is Income Under the Constitution?” and “Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level” look at the constitutional definition of income and outline frameworks for state-level wealth taxes.

April 15, 2024

Professor Emeritus John Lande wins ABA award for scholarly work

On April 13, John Lande, the Isidor Loeb Professor Emeritus and former director of the LLM Program in Dispute Resolution at Mizzou Law, was awarded the American Bar Association Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Dispute Resolution. Professor Lande was given the award for his lifetime of scholarship which has contributed significantly to the dispute resolution field. Professor Lande’s scholarship focuses on dispute system design including practitioners’ and courts’ real practice systems, planned early dispute resolution, improving the quality of mediation practice, designing court-connected mediation programs, negotiation theory and practice, and legal education. Professor Lande blogged about his…

March 27, 2024

Professor Renee Henson Presents on AI at North Dakota Law Review Symposium

Renee Henson, visiting assistant professor of law at Mizzou Law, presented at North Dakota Law Review’s Symposium on Technology and Innovation at the North Dakota Law School. She presented her forthcoming article, Bridging the Divide: Does the EU’s AI Act Offer Code for Regulating Emergent Technologies in America? …

March 26, 2024

Professor David Gamage publishes forthcoming article on Sixteenth Amendment

Professor David Gamage has published an article in a forthcoming issue of the Washington University Law Review. Gamage’s article, “The Original Meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment,” he argues that according to the original meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment, current approaches to constitutional tax questions are wrong. He says focus of the Sixteenth Amendment and of the Congressional income tax power is not “income” per se, but rather “taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived.” The article was co-authored by John Brooks of the Fordham University School of Law. To read the full article, click here.

March 14, 2024

Professor Andrea Boyack Publishes Article in JOTWELL

Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Endowed Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, published an article in the prestigious JOTWELL blog examining recent scholarly work related revisiting single-family zoning and property rights. To read the full article, visit: https://property.jotwell.com/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-a-reconsideration-of-single-family-zoning/. 

March 7, 2024

Professor Rachel Wechsler Speaks with Good Morning America

Mizzou Law professor and family law expert Rachel Wechsler spoke with Good Morning America about a Missouri law regarding divorce and pregnancy. Read that story here.

March 7, 2024

Professor David Gamage Publishes Article in California Law Review

David Gamage, the Law School Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law, has had a forthcoming article accepted for publication in the California Law Review. The article, “Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level,” relates to Professor Gamage’s work on state-level tax reforms for which he testified recently in front of the Vermont House Committee of Ways and Means. His article is co-written by Brian Galle of the Georgetown University Law Center and Darien Shanske of the UC-Davis School of Law. The full article is available to be read here.

Feb. 22, 2024

Professors Trachtenberg and Alexander Publish Free Criminal Procedure Casebook

Professors Ben Trachtenberg and Anne Alexander have published “Criminal Procedure: A Free Law School Casebook” with the CALI eLangdell series. The series includes casebooks made available at no charge for digital files, and at the cost of printing for paper books. Authors include faculty from law schools such as Yale, Texas A&M, and the University of Washington. The book is available now for free download here. CALI will soon make paper books available for purchase. In their book, Professors Trachtenberg and Alexander described the purpose of their project: “Universities exist to promote the search for knowledge and to transmit human knowledge to…

Feb. 20, 2024

Professor Boyack Publishes Article in Attorney at Law Magazine

Professor Andrea Boyack, the Floyd R. Gibson Professor of Law at Mizzou Law published an article in Attorney at Law Magazine where she discussed a new plan to change consumer contract law. Read the full article here.