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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
June 2, 2026
Professor Rana speaks at Global Law & Political Economy Workshop
In late May, Professor Shruti Rana spoke at the 2026 Global Law & Political Economy Workshop on “Reconstructing State Capacity” at the UC Berkeley School of Law. She presented her paper, “Weaponizing State Inaction: Theorizing the Care Crisis in International Law from the Pandemic to the Present,” and was featured on the Plenary Panel on Building Capacity, Constraining Contradiction: Legal Architecture of Governance. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Law and Political Economy Collective and the UC Berkeley School of Law.
June 1, 2026
Professor Gouzoules publishes article in Minnesota Law Review
Professor Alexander Gouzoules published an article on non-Article III adjudication in the Minnesota Law Review. The article challenges modern assumptions about judicial independence and constitutional structure by recovering the historical role of judges appointed during Senate recesses, many of whom exercised judicial power before receiving Senate confirmation. The article examines the implications of this historical record for non-Article III courts, such as bankruptcy courts.
May 28, 2026
Professor Oliveri speaks at UN women’s panel
Professor Rigel Oliveri of the University of Missouri School of Law participated in a joint UN Women panel on women’s empowerment and safe housing, held at the World Urban Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan, alongside global human rights advocates, municipal officials, and academics. She discussed how the sexual harassment of low-income women by their housing providers is a product of a chronic shortage of affordable housing and leads to further instability for affected households. The panel, titled “ONE UN – Beyond shelter: adequate, safe, resilient housing for gender equality and women’s empowerment,” explored how women—particularly in developing and transition states—are affected by…