Faculty & Research

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.

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 Speaker Series

Professor Crouch Presents at IPO Conference

Dennis Crouch, the Judge C.A. Leedy Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, presented twice at the annual meeting of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) in Chicago. His first presentation was delivered to a specially convened group of chief intellectual property counsel. The talk was derived from an ongoing research project on the role of myth and legend within intellectual property law. This talk used a Jungian frame to highlight a key shadow many attorneys face – that of perfection – and how it limits both our creativity and power. In the talk, Professor Crouch relied on the Greek…

Mizzou Law to host preeminent scholar at Health Law Colloquium

Professor Barak Richman of the George Washington University School of Law and of Duke University, will present his new draft paper, “Hiding in Plain Sight: ERISA’s Cure for the $1.5 Trillion Health Benefits Market”, co-authored with Amy Monahan, as part of the Mizzou Law Health Law Colloquium, on October 9th, from 4:20 to 5:20 pm Central Time. The Mizzou Law Health Law Colloquium is convened by Professor David Gamage of Mizzou Law. Some of the speaker sessions will be closed to only Professor Gamage and his Mizzou health law students. Other sessions will be open to guest participants via…

Professor Lietzan Presents at NYU symposium

On Sept. 26-27, Professor Erika Lietzan participated in a symposium at New York University Law School Engelberg Center entitled “Health Care at Reasonable Cost: The Hatch-Waxman Act at 40 and Beyond.” Sept. 24 marked the 40th anniversary of this statute, which established the modern generic drug approval framework and also amended the Patent Act to give brand drug companies back a portion of the patent term that is lost while they conduct premarket testing. This symposium convened academic and industry experts to consider whether this transformational statute has achieved its twin goals of facilitating drug competition and encouraging…

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