June 5, 2025

Professor Renee Henson presents at conference on AI

In late May, Professor Renee Henson presented at the Conference on AI, Insurance Law, and Regulation at UConn School of Law. Professor Henson participated on a panel, “How can and should insurance influence the law of AI and AI itself.”

June 4, 2025

Professor Sperino teaches at Federal Judicial Center conference

Professor Sandra Sperino served as a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center’s 2025 National Conference for Appellate Staff Attorneys in Phoenix on June 3. Professor Sperino discussed new issues in federal discrimination law, including emerging circuit splits about what counts as a negative action that will lead to liability and the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act.

June 3, 2025

Professor Henson and her twin sister featured in Missouri Bar Journal

Professor Renee Henson was featured along with her twin, Naomi Buie, in the latest issue of the Journal of the Missouri Bar. Both Professor Henson and Buie are lawyers who have practiced in the Kansas City area. To read the full story, visit: https://news.mobar.org/double-vision-double-impact-twin-lawyers-unique-paths-converge/

June 3, 2025

Professor Myers presents on AI across the country

Throughout the spring, Professor Gary Myers has presented at several conferences and training programs on legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence. March 2025 – Texas Court of Appeals, Ft. Worth – Annual Training/CLE Program — Spoke on “How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence” at the invitation of Chief Justice Bonnie Sudderth May 2025 – Arizona State Law School (ASU) GETS Conference – Spoke on “How AI Can Make Government More Efficient & Responsive” – 4th consecutive year presenting at this prestigious technology conference May 2025 — Law and Society Annual Conference – Spoke on “Deploying Mindfulness in Difficult Times: Law…

May 30, 2025

Professor Lietzan appointed to ACUS administrative committee

Professor Erika Lietzan has been appointed as the chair of the Committe on Administration & Management of the Administrative Conference of the United States(ACUS).  Her service in this capacity begins on July 1, 2025. ACUS is a federal agency tasked with identifying and promoting improvements in the efficiency, adequacy and fairness of the procedures by which federal agencies conduct regulatory programs, administer grants and benefits, protect the public interest and perform other essential governmental functions. Lietzan previously was a public member of ACUS and a member of a different committee. The committee she will be chairing considers issues that affect the efficiency…

May 29, 2025

Professor Henson presents on AI in legal education

Professor Renee Henson attended the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe Conference in Dublin, Ireland, where she served as a roundtable discussion leader, facilitating a conversation on artificial intelligence in legal education.

May 29, 2025

Professor Rana presents at Law and Society Association conference

Professor and Assistant Provost Shruti Rana presented her paper, Thriving Against the Tide: Fostering Alternative Pathways to Careers in International Law, with her co-author, Professor Rana Lehr-Lehnardt, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, at the Realist Empirical Studies of Legal Education and Legal Academia panel at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on May 24, 2025. 

May 28, 2025

Professor Lietzan presents at Food and Drug Law Institute annual meeting

Professor Erika Lietzan participated on a panel at the 2025 Food and Drug Law Institute Annual Conference examining the top cases in 2024-2025 that will affect FDA. On the panel, she spoke about the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2024 Loper Bright decision on the agency. Professor Lietzen is currently completing a paper on this topic as well.

May 7, 2025

Professor Emeritus Esbeck publishes blog on First Amendment church autonomy

Carl Esbeck, the R.B. Price Professor Emeritus and the Isabella Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor Emeritus at Mizzou Law, published a new blog post regarding the First Amendment and church autonomy. The piece, titled “The Ministerial Exception’s Unrealized Promise of Early and Straightforward Resolution of Church Autonomy Matters” was posted on The Federalist Society’s website. To read the full piece, visit: https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/the-ministerial-exception-s-unrealized-promise-of-early-and-straightforward-resolution-of-church-autonomy-matters.

May 2, 2025

Professor Oliveri authors op-ed on affordable housing

Professor Rigel Oliveri, a fair housing law expert, published an op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about potential legislation interacting with local communities’ efforts to create affordable housing. Read the op-ed on the Post-Dispatch site…