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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.
Exploring New Scholarship
Faculty Speaker Series
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
March 18, 2026
Mizzou Law named to Justice & Opportunity Honor Roll
Mizzou Law has been named to the National Jurist’s preLaw Magazine Opportunity & Justice Honor Roll. Mizzou Law is one of only 41 law schools from across the country that earned at least an A- grade for their commitment to initiatives, partnerships or strategies that reflect the mission of expanding access to legal education. The Justice & Opportunity Honor Roll recognizes law schools for leadership in expanding access to legal education. National Jurist’s criteria places emphasis on the structures, policies and programs law schools support that create pathways into the legal profession. The Honor Roll reflects leadership across four primary…
March 17, 2026
Professor Shores Pelikan presents paper at Arkansas faculty exchange
Professor Lauren Shores Pelikan presented her latest paper, “Toddlers, Investors, and Tax Policy,” at a faculty exchange hosted by the University of Arkansas School of Law. The article, which is forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review, examines U.S. federal childcare tax incentives in light of private equity’s increasing investment in the childcare market. You can read the full paper on SSRN here.
March 17, 2026
Professor Crouch’s work cited in multiple Supreme Court filings
Professor Dennis Crouch, one of the foremost legal scholars in patent and intellectual propery law, has been cited in four recent patent-related petitions to the United States Supreme Court: Lynk Labs v. Samsung (25-308) Both the petition and reply brief cite Professor Crouch’s analysis of the Federal Circuit’s temporal gymnastics with “printed publications” under § 311(b), as well as his empirical findings regarding the prevalence of 102(a)(2) “secret” prior art, cited in order to counter the USPTO claim that the issue has “limited practical importance.” Unfortunately, the Supreme Court denied Certiorari earlier in March. Newman v. Moore This…