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, click here. 

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…

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.

Feb. 15, 2024

Dean Sperino Publishes Article on Summary Judgments in Employment Discrimination Cases

Associate Dean Sandra Sperino has published an article on the McDonnell Douglas framework in the North Carolina Law Review. The McDonnell Douglas framework is the most important analytical structure in employment discrimination law. Scholars and judges have regularly criticized the three-part, burden-shifting test. Despite decades of criticism, a central feature of the framework remains unexamined—its second step is incompatible with the summary judgment standard. In employment discrimination cases, courts often grant summary judgment in the employer’s favor. Scholars have offered various accounts of why this happens, including docket pressures and published case law that focuses on grants…

Feb. 13, 2024

Dean Sperino Cited in JOTWELL

Associate Dean Sandra Sperino‘s article, The Causation Canon, published last year in the Iowa Law Review, was cited in JOTWELL, a blog aimed at highlighting excellent legal scholarship. In JOTWELL, Joseph Seiner writes: “In The Causation Canon, Professor Sandra Sperino performs a superb analysis of the Supreme Court’s evolving analysis of causation standards. The piece carefully synthesizes the decisions in this area, identifying a new canon of statutory interpretation now used by the Court – coined by Professor Sperino as the ‘Causation Canon.'” To read the full entry, click here.

Feb. 6, 2024

Professor David Gamage Listed As a Top 5 Most Downloaded Tax Law Professor

Professor David Gamage has been ranked the fifth-most downloaded tax law professor in the United States in 2023, as reported by TaxProf Blog. Professor Gamage’s scholarly articles received 4,259 downloads last year, ranking him in the top five of the 50 most downloaded professors in the country.

Jan. 31, 2024

Prof. David Gamage to Testify before Vermont House Committee

Professor David Gamage, the Law School Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tax Law and Policy, will testify via Zoom on Jan. 31 before the Vermont House Committee of Ways and Means on a tax reform proposal that he and coauthors Brian Galle and Darien Shanske designed. The New York Times wrote about this proposed Vermont “wealth tax” reform earlier in January: click here to read that story. This is the latest state wealth tax or mark-to-market reform proposal that Prof. Gamage and his coauthors have designed and drafted, following earlier proposals for California, Illinois, New York, and Washington State.