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Dec. 26, 2022
LLM Alumni Spotlight — Flavia Fragale
In the United States, it’s nearly impossible to imagine becoming a judge before turning 25 years old. In Brazil, moving from law school directly to a judgeship is fairly common. For Flavia Fragale, LLM ‘05, ‘19, she became a judge at just 24. After growing up in Vitória, Brazil, she was admitted to a law program at the University of São Paulo, the oldest and most recognized law school in Brazil. “Law school in Brazil is a graduate course that lasts five years,” Fragale said. “There is no college before it— you finish high school and apply directly to law…
Sep. 7, 2022
Law School Foundation Issues Notice of Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the University of Missouri Law School Foundation will be held in person on Friday, September 23 at 2:45 PM in Hulston Hall, Classroom 3.. The order of business will consist of the election of trustees and presentation of the annual financial report. The membership of the Law School Foundation consists of any person who has graduated in the past five years, the faculty of the school of law, anyone who has contributed $100 or more in the past year or anyone who has contributed an aggregate sum of $1,000 or more. We hope you can attend as…
April 20, 2022
Mizzou Law Announces Additional New Faculty Hires for Fall 2022
Officials at the University of Missouri School of Law are continuing the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the school by announcing two exciting new faculty hires joining the ranks of the nationally renowned faculty scholars and teachers at Mizzou Law. Lauren Shores Pelikan, a senior manager of global tax planning at Emerson in St. Louis and Yunsieg P. Kim, a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, will be joining the faculty at Mizzou Law in time to begin teaching classes in the Fall 2022 semester. “We are thrilled to welcome these accomplished…
April 14, 2022
2021-2022 CALI Awards
CALI Excellence for the Future Award Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction Highest grade in courses SPRING 2021 ADVANCED TRIAL PRACTICE Luke Hawley ADVOCACY & RESEARCH § 1A Jessica Davis ADVOCACY & RESEARCH § 1B Noelle Mack ADVOCACY & RESEARCH § 2A Matthew Thomas ADVOCACY & RESEARCH § 2 Jaycob Simsheuser ADVOCACY & RESEARCH § 3A Jessica Hylton Rachel Taylor ADVOCACY & RESEARCH § 3B Peyton Rosencrants Elizabeth Smith ANTITRUST Jarred Boyer ARBITRATION Lauren Rundall CIVIL…
Oct. 28, 2021
LLM Alumni Spotlight — Md. Harun-Or-Rashid
Serving as a sitting judge in his native Bangladesh for more than 13 years, Hon. Md. Harun-Or-Rashid, LLM ’19, knew he needed to gain knowledge and skills in dispute resolution to best perform his role and serve his community. After completing his LLM in dispute resolution from Mizzou Law, Judge Rashid says he is even better positioned to fulfill his role. “My duties and responsibilities are to settle disputes and perform any other job assigned by the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, or the Bangladesh Supreme Court, by using various methods of dispute resolution,” Rashid said. “Gaining an…
Oct. 28, 2021
LLM Alumni Spotlight — Rev. Philip Bené
LLM students come to Mizzou for reasons ranging from its high ranking to its knowledgeable professors. But Philip J. Bené, LLM ’14, may have received a higher calling to learn about alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Before coming to Mizzou, Bené, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, served stints as legal attaché of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations and at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Rome. After hearing about the LLM program from a law professor in St. Louis, Bené knew he wanted to expand his knowledge in…
Sep. 1, 2021
Dean Lidsky to Speak at Yale
Mizzou Law Dean Lyrissa Lidsky is due to speak at the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic symposium Access & Accountability 2021: Time to Seize the Day? at Yale University on Oct. 1. Dean Lidsky will participate in a panel titled “Defamation as an Accountability Tool.” This panel will: “explore the extent to which the problem of disinformation is exacerbated in the age of social media by First Amendment doctrine that relies primarily on counter-speech as the cure for false speech, whether libel litigation provides a useful tool for addressing political disinformation, and other steps that might help restore some…
June 29, 2021
Professor Bennett’s scholarship cited in U.S. Supreme Court decision
Professor Thomas Bennett’s scholarship recently was cited by Justice Clarence Thomas in a U.S. Supreme Court decision in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez. “By declaring that federal courts lack jurisdiction, the Court has thus ensured that state courts will exercise exclusive jurisdiction over these sorts of class actions,” Justice Thomas wrote in his dissent. As noted in an article in The Wall Street Journal, “Supreme Court Pares Back Class-Action Suits,” and in Reuters, “State court will be next frontier for consumer class actions under federal law,” Justice Thomas’ dissent cited Professor Bennett’s paper “The Paradox of Exclusive…
March 23, 2021
Veterans Clinic announces new Military Lawyer Transition Program
With generous donations from Susan Combs of Combs and Co. and Diana Pendleton, through her friend Dorothy Connell Berry, the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic recently announced the creation of the Military Lawyer Transition Program (MLTP). This new program is designed for Mizzou Law students who will be entering a Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG) program in one of America’s armed forces. There is a period of time between when law students who will work in the JAG program graduate, typically 6-8 months, and when they first report for active duty. During this time, the military does not provide pay to…
Sep. 18, 2020
Featured LLM Alumnus: Brian Jarrett
After practicing law in British Columbia for eight years, Brian Jarrett, PhD, became interested in the fields of mediation and arbitration. Wanting to learn more about dispute resolution, Jarrett enrolled in the LLM in Dispute Resolution degree program at Mizzou Law. “I chose Mizzou Law for the professors in the LLM program,” Jarrett said. “The professors were both researchers and practitioners. That combination really works well.” After completing his LLM, he went on to obtain a doctorate in sociology with a concentration on conflict analysis and resolution from the University of Hawaii. Although he still maintains memberships in both the…
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