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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
Feb. 9, 2026
Professor Wechsler publishes article in Penn Law Review
Professor Rachel Wechsler recently published a new article in the Penn Law Review title, “The Non-Punishment Principle and Restorative Justice.” In the article, Professor Wechsler examines state and federal laws protecting human trafficking victims from criminal liability for offenses they commit as a consequence of being trafficked. She highlights the gaps within these legal frameworks and argues that the U.S. should employ restorative justice as a non-punitive response to harm resulting from trafficking victim-defendants’ unlawful conduct to better realize its international legal obligations regarding the “non-punishment principle.” To read the full article, click here. …
Feb. 5, 2026
Professor Wechsler’s article highlighted in JOTWELL
Professor Rachel Wechsler’s article, “Intimate Partner Violence: Access to Protection Beyond the Pandemic,” was recently highlighted in JOTWELL as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to Dispute Resolution Law. In the JOTWELL piece, Cynthia Alkon writes: “Professor Wechsler’s article is a wonderful example of looking at one specific area, civil protection hearings for survivors of intimate partner violence, and examining COVID-19-generated lessons that could improve the process moving forward. The article is grounded in original empirical research with survivors and legal services providers and focuses on procedural justice, empowerment, and access. Although civil protection orders…
Feb. 4, 2026
Professor Hintz presents at distinguished faculty workshop
Professor Charles Eric Hintz presented at the Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He presented his paper, “Mistaking Good Faith,” which argues that we should use the criminal law doctrine of mistake as an organizing principle to explain the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule and constrain it from transforming into a version of legal deference akin to qualified immunity or Chevron for police. …