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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
July 8, 2026
Professor Oliveri quoted in New York Times story on housing discrimination
Professor Rigel Oliver was recently quoted in a New York Times story about a program in Washington state to compensate victims of redlining and other forms of government-sanctioned housing discrimination, and the legal challenges to this program (arguing that the program itself amounts to “reverse discrimination”). Read the full story here.
July 7, 2026
Professor Conklin quoted in BBC
Professor Carli Conklin was recently quoted in a story by BBC on the American Constitution: “The document was both political and philosophical, asserting the ‘separate and equal station’ of the new United States among the nations of the Earth, while also laying out the philosophical underpinnings for that assertion. As both Thomas Jefferson and fellow drafter John Adams stated, the Declaration was not asserting anything new. It was not intended to do so. These ideas were commonplace in Enlightenment Era discussions about politics and law, with many of these ideas stretching back millennia. What was new was…
July 6, 2026
Professor Gamage quoted in New York Times
Professor David Gamage was recently quoted in the New York Times regarding the “Billionaire Tax” bill currently on the ballot in California. Professor Gamage was instrumental in helping draf the legislation. “They could have written language that would have clearly overruled the billionaire wealth tax if their language passed and got more votes, but they didn’t. So the question is whether their roundabout attempts to have that effect will be successful.” Read the full story here.