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.

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 30, 2025

Mizzou Law student research earns third place at graduate/professional council forum

Mizzou Law 3L Georgia Bronson, an executive member of the Business, Entrepreneurship, and Tax Law Review, presented her research: “Hey Girlie, Want to Sell Your Soul?” How the U.S. Can Counteract Predatory Cult Activities Through the Lens of Fraudulent Business Schemes at the 41st Research & Creative Activities Forum (RCAF) 2025. Her research article was published in the most recent issue of BETR, which can be read here. Bronson earned third place for her research in the humanities, socials, and liberal arts division. She was the only law student to be accepted and able to present within the whole forum as they focused…

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

Student Bar Association wins Mizzou award

The Student Bar Association was awarded Large Group of the Year at Mizzou’s Student Involvement Awards. The award is given to the recognized student organization (with membership over 120 individuals) that is recognized as best exhibiting an overall commitment to serving the members within the organization, the University of Missouri and surrounding Columbia community.  Receiving the award was SBA President Sophia Marcolla and Treasurer Adam Thomas.

April 17, 2025

Professor Lietzan wins Women’s Justice Award

Professor Erika Lietzan, the William H. Pittman and Timothy J. Heinsz Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, was honored this month with a 2025 Women’s Justice Award in the Public Service category. The Women’s Justice Awards are presented by Missouri Lawyers Media. They recognize women across Missouri who have demonstrated leadership, integrity, service, sacrifice and accomplishment in improving the quality of justice and exemplifying the highest ideals of the legal profession. The awards reach out to women in various segments of the legal community, including the bar, the bench, public office, business, academia, nonprofits and the state…

April 17, 2025

Remembering Zack

By Anna Sago When Andy Kasnetz’s son Zack Kasnetz, ’16, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, in 2023, he and his family knew they wanted to use the tragedy to support a place that served as a launching point for their son: his alma mater Mizzou Law. “This became a really important starting point for him as an adult, both personally and professionally,” Andy said. “So, in that regard, it has a really special place in our lives.” Zack Kasnetz’s journey to law school wasn’t always linear, Andy explained. After growing up in St. Louis and attending school at the University…

April 16, 2025

Professor Renee Henson publishes blog on AI in the classroom

Professor Henson published a guest blog for the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE) website, discussing the integration of artificial intelligence into classroom instruction. “While AI is not without its concerns, it is a powerful tool that can enrich legal education and the practice of law. Rather than replacing analytical work, AI should be used to enhance students’ skills and understanding. A well-rounded attorney must not only comprehend AI’s capabilities but also recognize its limitations. As AI continues to evolve, so must our approach to legal education. By integrating AI tools like Toby, we are not just keeping up…