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Mizzou Law faculty are composed of outstanding teachers and scholars with national and international reputations.
- Scholarship by Mizzou Law Faculty has been cited by all levels of the federal courts – including the United States Supreme Court – as well as by the legislatures and supreme courts of several states. The faculty ranks consistently high in studies measuring scholarly productivity and impact. More than a dozen casebooks authored by Mizzou Law faculty members are used in law schools throughout the United States.
- Mizzou Law faculty are committed to educating students and preparing them for the practice of law and boasts a number of award-winning teachers.
- Mizzou Law faculty contribute to the profession in a number of ways. Faculty serve as Commissioners of the National Conference on Uniform State Law, as officers of the Association of American Law Schools, as State Supreme Court Fellows, as Fulbright Scholars, and as members of the American Law Institute.
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Mizzou Law faculty have been published in national academic journals, called upon by media outlets around the country, and have presented around the world on a variety of legal issues.
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The Mizzou Law Faculty Speaker Series explores new scholarship by Mizzou law faculty, professors from other law schools, and University of Missouri scholars whose work intersects with law.
Faculty News
Nov. 18, 2024
Professor Ryan Vacca presents at University of Iowa conference
On Nov. 15, Professor Ryan Vacca presented on the costs associated with trade secret investigations at the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association’s annual meeting. The meeting was held at the University of Iowa.
Nov. 15, 2024
David Gamage’s article profiled in Jotwell
Professor David Gamage, along with coauthors Brian Galle and Darien Shanske, had their article, Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level, profiled in the JOTWELL law blog by Kent Schenkel in a piece titled Practical Considerations for State Taxation of Wealth. To view the full profile, visit: https://trustest.jotwell.com/practical-considerations-for-state-taxation-of-wealth/…
Nov. 14, 2024
IP Rights and AI Regulation: Finding the Right Balance
by Dennis Crouch, Judge C.A. Leedy Professor of Law I’m excited to share a new article I recently published examining the relationship between intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence regulation, recently published in Volume 89, Issue 3 of the Missouri Law Review. Before diving into the substance, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the Missouri Law Review editors and staff, not only for their exceptional editorial work on this article but also for their tremendous efforts in organizing our March 2024 symposium that I co-organized on “AI and Society: Government, Policy, and the Law.” The symposium…