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 round table 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 here.

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…

May 1, 2025

Professor Oliveri publishes article on housing sexual harassment

Professor Rigel Oliveri published an article on housing sexual harassment in the latest issue of the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Law. Her article, titled “Housing Sexual Harassment: A Department of Justice Case Study” analyzes every housing sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. To read her article in the journal, visit: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/journal_of_affordable_housing/ahv33n2-3.pdf…

April 29, 2025

Professor Oliveri speaks on fair housing law

Professor Rigel Oliveri served as keynote speaker for the Missouri Women’s Council of Realtors annual meeting where she spoke on issues in Fair Housing Law. https://thelanding.missourirealtor.org/spring/special-events/wcr-meeting…

April 24, 2025

Professor Renee Henson publishes article on insurance and AI

Professor Renee Henson recently published “Government-Backed Insurance for Artificial Intelligence Technologies” in the Georgia State University Law Review, where she examines the widening gap between rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technologies and existing insurance frameworks. Focusing on high-risk applications such as autonomous vehicles and AI-driven healthcare systems, she argues that traditional insurance models provide inadequate liability coverage. Drawing on the precedent of the Price-Anderson Act—which created a federal insurance scheme for the nuclear energy sector—Henson proposes a government-backed model to address limitations in existing liability coverage for AI-related harms. To read the full article, visit: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5226107…

April 21, 2025

Professor Oliveri speaks at Columbia housing event

Professor Rigel Oliveri served as the keynote speaker at a City of Columbia event on fair and affordable housing. Professor Oliveri is a nationally recognized expert on fair housing law and her presentation discussed recent fair housing trends.