Mizzou Law Announces Another Exciting Faculty Hire

Officials at the University of Missouri School of Law are excited to announce another exciting hire to bolster the Mizzou Law faculty this summer. Professor Alexander Gouzoules will join Mizzou Law as an associate professor of law. He will begin work in Hulston Hall on July 1. Professor Gouzoules arrives at Mizzou Law from Loyola University-New Orleans College of Law, where he served as a Westerfield Fellow. His recent scholarship focuses on public policy issues that arise from private law systems, including corporate law and bankruptcy. He has also published in the field of constitutional law, including on the subject…

Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic Names New Director

Officials at the University of Missouri School of Law are pleased to announce the hiring of Brent Filbert to join the faculty as the new director of the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic and associate clinical professor. Professor Filbert rejoins Mizzou Law after spending several years as a supervising attorney within the MU Veterans Clinic. In recent years, Professor Filbert has served as the director of Military Law at the Veteran Advocacy Project. As the new director, he is replacing Clinic founder Angela Drake, who is retiring in December. Professor Drake will remain on the faculty until the end of…

Mizzou Law Names Andrea Boyack the New Floyd R. Gibson Endowed Professor

Officials at the University of Missouri School of Law are excited to announce a nationally recognized professor will be joining the Mizzou Law faculty this summer. Professor Andrea J. Boyack is joining the faculty as the new Floyd R. Gibson Endowed Professor of Law. She will begin work in Hulston Hall on July 1. Professor Andrea Boyack joins Mizzou Law from Washburn University School of Law where she was the Norman R. Pozez Chair of Business & Transactional Law and co-director of the school’s Business and Transactional Law Center. Professor Boyack has written and published extensively in the areas of…

Prof. Jayne Woods Joins Podcast to Talk ChatGPT

Jayne Woods, an associate teaching professor of law at Mizzou Law, joined the California Appellate Law Podcast this week to discuss how ChatGPT can be used to draft oral argument outlines. To listen, click here.

Prof. Rigel Oliveri Speaks at Columbia Fair Housing Event

Rigel Oliveri, the Mizzou Law Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law, will speak at the Columbia Housing Authority fair housing event titled “Creating & Preserving Affordable Housing in Existing Neighborhoods on April 13. Read more about the event here.

Professor David Mitchell awarded the 2023 Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence

Latha Ramchand, University of Missouri provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Steve Sowers, CEO Missouri Community Markets today awarded a 2023 William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence to S. David Mitchell. Mitchell is the Ruth L. Hulston Professor of Law and co-director of the Michael A. Middleton Center for Race, Citizenship and Justice. Interim Dean of the School of Law Paul Litton today joined other administrators surprising Mitchell by honoring him with the fellowship, which includes a $15,000 check. Kemper Fellowships are awarded to five outstanding teachers at the University of Missouri each year. The…

Three Mizzou Law Alumnae Now on Faculty

The University of Missouri School of Law has a 150-year history of producing top-notch lawyers and legal professionals. We can now add top-notch teachers and scholars to the list of impressive accomplishments our alumni have achieved. Even more, several Mizzou Law alumni are now on faculty at Mizzou Law, sharing knowledge and paying forward to future students the great legal education they received in their time at Mizzou. In the past year, Mizzou Law has hired three new faculty members who are Mizzou Law graduates. Here is a little bit about each of them and why they chose to return…

Mizzou Law Announces New Faculty Hire for Winter 2023

Officials at the University of Missouri School of Law are thrilled to announce the exciting new hire of Ryan Snyder to join the nationally renowned faculty scholars and teachers at Mizzou Law. Professor Snyder has joined the faculty at Mizzou Law this winter. “We are thrilled to welcome Professor Snyder to our faculty,” said Paul Litton, interim dean and R.B. Price Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. “He brings a wealth of fascinating and high-level legal experience, having worked at the United States Supreme Court, a multinational law firm, and the Department of Justice.

Faculty Spotlight — Meet Haley Proctor

Some might find Columbia’s fall and winter weather to be a bit of an adjustment, but if you’ve lived in the Northeast before, you’d be familiar with cold, wet and windy weather. Haley Proctor joined Mizzou’s faculty this August as a joint faculty fellow at both Mizzou Law and the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy and is settling in well. Originally hailing from Raleigh, North Carolina, Proctor is a two-time graduate of Yale University, where she received her bachelor’s as well as her law degree. “I’ve known since middle school that I wanted to be a lawyer,” said Proctor. “However,…

Faculty Fellow Haley Proctor Publishes Paper in Yale Law Journal Forum

After U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement this summer, legal experts and analysts across the country have reflected on Breyer’s legacy of pragmatic and thoughtful leadership. Haley Proctor, a faculty fellow at Mizzou Law and the MU Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy, had the opportunity to collaborate with long-time mentor and retired federal circuit judge Thomas Griffith on an article for the Yale Law Journal Forum. The article, which was published in late November, tracks the past, present and future of the Major Questions Doctrine and its relationship to Justice Breyer’s jurisprudence. “The Major Questions Doctrine first emerged…