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 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 16, 2025

3L Graduate Spotlight — Joseph Link

It’s graduation week at Mizzou Law, and while we are celebrating all of our amazing graduating 3Ls, we are highlighting a few students who have lined up amazing first jobs out of law school! Today, we meet Joseph Link. What will you be doing once you finish graduation and take the Bar? I will be practicing estate planning at Lewis Rice in downtown St. Louis. How do you feel Mizzou Law has prepared you to begin your career in the legal field? Mizzou Law has given me the practical experience via the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic, Board of Advocates competitions,…

May 14, 2025

3L Graduate Spotlight — Liz Eastlund

It’s graduation week at Mizzou Law, and while we are celebrating all of our amazing graduating 3Ls, we are highlighting a few students who have lined up amazing first jobs out of law school! Today, we meet Liz Eastlund. What will you be doing once you finish graduation and take the Bar? After graduating and taking the bar, I am moving to Chicago to work in Sidley Austin’s M&A and Private Equity practice group. How do you feel Mizzou Law has prepared you to begin your career in the legal field? Mizzou Law has best prepared me to begin…

May 13, 2025

3L Graduate Spotlight — Tom Langdon

It’s graduation week at Mizzou Law, and while we are celebrating all of our amazing graduating 3Ls, we are highlighting a few students who have lined up amazing first jobs out of law school! Today, we meet Tom Langdon! What will you be doing once you finish graduation and take the Bar? After graduation and the Missouri Bar Exam, I will be clerking at the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Kansas City, Missouri. Following my clerkship, I will be moving to Washington, D.C., to practice intellectual property law at Rothwell, Figg, Ernst, and Manbeck.

May 12, 2025

3L Graduate Spotlight — Jessica Esguerra

By Anna Sago Before entering law school, Jessica Esguerra knew that she wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps by serving in the military. Now a graduating 3L, Esguerra will further her service by working as a staff attorney at Mizzou Law’s Veterans Clinic and continue serving in the Missouri Air National Guard in a new role. Growing up, Esguerra knew she wanted to be a lawyer. However, after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, she wanted to serve in the military first. Though Esguerra initially planned to finish her service and go into health law after earning…

May 8, 2025

Alumni Spotlight — Meet Gretchen Myers

by Anna Sago Growing up, Gretchen Myers, ’84, always viewed her father, a trial attorney and Mizzou Law graduate, as her hero. Now, after a long and decorated legal career, Myers will return to her and her father’s alma mater to deliver this year’s Mizzou Law commencement speech. Myers always admired her dad’s career as an attorney, calling him the “real life Atticus Finch.” But it was through debate and other public speaking in grade school and high school that her path was solidified. “I loved doing it. There was something about it that I found fun and exhilarating, when…

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 6, 2025

Mizzou Law 3L wins Women’s Justice Award

Karen Crouch, 3L, won the Leaders of Tomorrow Award at the Women’s Justice Awards Banquet hosted by Missouri Lawyers Media. The Leaders of Tomorrow award is given to women law students who demonstrate leadership, professionalism and a passion for making a difference in the justice system or the legal profession. To read more about Karen, visit: https://molawyersmedia.com/2025/04/09/wja-2025-leaders-of-tomorrow-karen-crouch/…

May 5, 2025

3L earns prestigious national trial advocacy award

Ethan Deimeke, a 3L at Mizzou Law, has been selected as an Academic All-American Trial Advocate by the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators (NALAE).  This prestigious award is based on several factors, including competition success, academic achievement, and leadership in one’s law school and community. Only 20 of these awards were given to law students across the country in 2025.