February 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… Read More

February 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.

January 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… Read More

January 30, 2024

Prof. Gary Myers Publishes on AI and Transformative Use

Gary Myers, the Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, has published a new article on Artificial Intelligence. His paper, “Artificial Intelligence and Transformative Use After Warhol,” was published in Washington & Lee Law Review. Prof. Myers’ article evaluates the interaction between copyright law’s fair use doctrine… Read More

January 19, 2024

Professor David Gamage Joins Mizzou Law Faculty

Officials at the University of Missouri School of Law are excited to announce Professor David Gamage has joined Mizzou Law, starting this January as the Law School Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tax Law & Policy. Professor Gamage joins Mizzou Law from Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law, where he… Read More

January 11, 2024

Dean Sperino Cited in Eleventh Circuit Opinion

Associate Dean Sandra Sperino’s article, Rethinking Discrimination Law, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 69 (2011), was cited in a concurring opinion by Judge Newsom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The case is Tynes v. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, 88… Read More

January 3, 2024

Prof. Andrea Boyack writes in Bloomberg Law about her forthcoming publication

In a newly published piece in Bloomberg Law, Mizzou Law’s Andrea Boyack suggests a new framework for consumer contracts that prioritizes consumers’ agency over a blind agreement to a company’s boilerplate terms. “Companies have long claimed that their online boilerplates must be afforded contractual status, or else the world of… Read More

December 6, 2023

Dean Sperino Quoted in Bloomberg Law

Sandra Sperino, associate dean and Elwood L. Thomas Endowed Professor of Law, was quoted in Bloomberg Law about oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court on a work discrimination case. Narrowing the issue leaves out biased employer decisions on topics like when and where employees work, which job functions… Read More

November 27, 2023

MU law professor pushes to redefine modern contracts, advocate for consumer protections

By Courtney Perrett, Show Me Mizzou Whether you’re subscribing to a dating app, getting a gym membership, visiting a website or purchasing a product, you’re probably entering into a consumer contract. As widely used as these agreements are, people rarely read, understand, or know the content of them. Although there… Read More

November 17, 2023

Mizzou Law Professors Quoted in ABA Journal

Mizzou Law professors Ben Trachtenberg and Richard Reuben were recently quoted in an ABA Journal article covering a recently disbarred Missouri attorney. Their quotes address ethical and legal questions surrounding the case of an attorney who broke local statute by remaining on a city council while no longer… Read More