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September 26, 2025
Professor Gouzoules presents at two Midwestern conferences
Earlier this month, Professor Alexander Gouzoules presented at the Chicago-Wharton-Harvard Insolvency & Restructuring Conference, a bankruptcy-focused conference at the University of Chicago. Later in the month, he was invited to give a Constitution Day lecture at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
September 19, 2025
Mizzou Tax Law Colloquium hosts Yale and Columbia Law professors
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Sep. 17, 2025
Professor Gamage presents at economic symposium
On Sept. 16, Professor David Gamage presented at the Anthropic Economic Futures Symposium in Washington DC, along with the CEO of Anthropic: Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic: Jack Clark, and a number of others. Anthropic is one of the leading AI companies, the maker and owner of Claude AI. The symposium featured policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders examining artificial intelligence’s profound impact on economic futures. It included presentations from awardees selected through our symposium application process, alongside insights from leading voices in academia, the policy community, and technology. The symposium was co-hosted with the McCourt School of Public Policy at…
Sep. 16, 2025
Mizzou Law faculty member named Curator’s Distinguished Teaching Professor
Anne Alexander, a teaching professor of law at Mizzou Law was just named a Curator’s Distinguished Teaching Professor by the University of Missouri Board of Curators. Professor Alexander is one of 10 Mizzou faculty members across campus elevated to this title in 2025. The designation is the highest and most prestigious academic rank the Board of Curators awards. It is awarded to a select few outstanding scholars with established reputations. Professor Alexander is known for her innovative approach to teaching and her deep commitment to student learning. Since joining Mizzou in 2012, she has taught courses in…
Sep. 15, 2025
Professor Hintz presents paper at AALS conference
Professor C. Eric Hintz presented his forthcoming paper, “The Plain Solution to Federal Habeas,” at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Criminal Procedure Section Junior Scholars Conference. Professor Hintz’s paper has been accepted for publication in the Utah Law Review some time in early 2026. The article argues that the current federal habeas system is broken and fails to serve any of its core purposes due to a myopic focus on limiting review through excessive procedure. To fix the problem, the paper proposes that much of the existing habeas structure be scrapped and replaced with a more…
Sep. 12, 2025
Mizzou Tax Law Colloquium hosts Loyola professor
On Sep. 17 (Wednesday), Ellen Aprill (Loyola) will present the draft paper, “Revoking Tax-Exemption for Pursuit of DEI and Other Alleged Forms of Discrimination”, at the Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. The Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium is convened by Professor David Gamage of Mizzou Law. Most sessions will be open to guest participants via zoom, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. This session will be open to guest participants via zoom. Anyone who would like to join as a guest participant should e-mail Professor Gamage directly at dgamage@missouri.edu for details, the zoom login, and…
Sep. 11, 2025
Professor Emeritus Esbeck Quoted in Christianity Today
Carl Esbeck, the R.B. Price Professor Emeritus of Law and the Isabella Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor Emeritus of Law, was quoted in a recent article in Christianity Today. The article addressed potential legal issues with the Trump White House issuing a suggestion that all Americans pray for at least one hour a week. Carl Esbeck teaches constitutional law at the University of Missouri School of Law and has authored Supreme Court briefs on many religious liberty cases over the years. He recently published an essay about some of the recent state laws requiring the display of…
Sep. 11, 2025
Faculty Spotlight – Meet Bailey Barnes
by Tanner O’Neal Riley When it comes to underdog stories, people often think of mismatches: the tortoise versus the hare, Rocky versus Apollo Creed, or Mizzou versus Kansas basketball this past December. These are the stories where the odds lean heavily in one direction until the right person, with the right amount of determination, changes everything. Bailey Barnes, a first-year law professor at Mizzou Law and a civil rights scholar, is one of those people. “I don’t like bullies. That probably comes from being from small-town Appalachia—scrappy,” Barnes said. “When it’s government agents harming people in the government’s name,…
Sep. 10, 2025
Professor Gamage publishes article on how states should respond to corporate profit shifting
Professor David Gamage, along with co-author Darien Shanske of the University of California-Davis School of Law, published an article in the September issue of Tax Notes State. In their article, Gamage and Shanske explore how states should respond to the persistent challenge of corporate profit shifting. To read the full article, click here.