June 10, 2025

Melissa Cullman Cosgrove ,’13, named U.S. Supreme Court Fellow

Melissa Cullman Cosgrove, ’13, was named a 2025-2026 U.S. Supreme Court Fellow assigned to the Federal Judicial Center, the education and research agency for the federal courts. Cosgrove joins the Supreme Court Fellows Program from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, where she was a career law clerk for the Honorable Stephen R. Welby. She previously clerked for the Honorable Stephen R. Clark and the Honorable E. Richard Webber of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. She was also an Assistant Attorney General in the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. Cosgrove…

June 10, 2025

Child and Family Justice Clinic welcomes new staff attorney

The Mizzou Law Child and Family Justice Clinic welcomes Erika LeFauve, ’25, as a new staff attorney. LeFauve just graduated from Mizzou Law in May and has begun work with the clinic in a limited capacity while she studies for the Missouri Bar Exam. Once she passes the exam, she will begin full-time work as an attorney for the clinic in it’s new Roots of Resilience program. The Roots of Resilience: Rural Families Initiative is the new program the clinic is starting in August, which will expand the CFJC’s service area to include Audrain, Cole, and Moniteau counties.

June 9, 2025

Professor Oliveri publishes essay on sexual harassment in housing

Professor Rigel Oliveri recently published an essay, “Legal and Policy Responses to Sexual Harassment in Housing,” in the Connecticut Law Review. Her piece was part of a symposium put on by the Connecticut Law Review on the subject of Fair Housing in the 21st Century. To read the full essay, visit: https://connecticutlawreview.law.uconn.edu/2025/06/03/legal-and-policy-responses-to-sexual-harassment-in-housing/

June 5, 2025

Rising 3L speaks at KC Student Law Academy

Myuah Hamilton, a rising 3L at Mizzou Law, presented this summer at the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation Student Law Academy for high school students. Hamilton spoke about her my journey through undergraduate and into law school to the newest cohort of the academy, which consists of 25 high school students from KC Metro schools who are considering a profession in the law. This was full circle moment for Hamilton, considering that she sat in the same seats as the scholars six years ago as an attendee of the Student Law Academy herself. “Being on the other side of…

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

ELC Director Don Seitz presents to veterans

Don Seitz, professor and director of the Mizzou Law Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic presented to veterans from across the nation as a part of the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans. In his presentation, Professor Seitz discussed legal issues for new entrepreneurs to be aware of and address when starting their new businesses. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans (EBV) national program is a novel, one-of-a-kind initiative designed to leverage the skills, resources and infrastructure of higher education to offer cutting-edge, experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 veterans with a passion for entrepreneurship. The aim of the program is…

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…