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January 16, 2025

Professor Oliveri publishes first-ever casebook on fair housing

Professor Rigel Oliveri, along with coauthors Florence W. Roisman and Stacy E. Seicshnaydre, has published “The Right to Fair Housing: Cases, Statutes, and Context,” the first casebook ever published on fair housing. The new casebook presents constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and sub-regulatory legal standards in the contexts of sales and… Read More

Shruti Rana with her co-panelists Dean Brenda Dantley (SLU School of Law), Dean Patricia K. Kinney (Indiana University McKinney School of Law), Dean Carmia Caesar (GWU Law), Dean Stephanie Pearlman (University of Nebraska College of Law).
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Jan. 7, 2025

Mizzou Law launches tax colloquium course

When Mizzou Law professor David Gamage moved from Indiana University to the University of Missouri in January 2024, he knew he wanted to engage his students not just in traditional lecture-style classroom learning but also in applied discussions about real-world legal issues. “It’s beneficial for students to see cutting-edge research on applied topics and engage with that research and expertise in dialogue with a variety of leading law professors around the nation,” he said. “Colloquium style instruction is not a replacement for lecture-style courses, but brings law and application to life in a way for students to engage in…
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Jan. 6, 2025

Professor Lietzan speaks on new drug exclusivities at BRG Institute Webinar

Last month, Professor Erika Lietzan participated in a webinar hosted by the Eira Initiative, a new research initiative in biopharmaceutical innovation and entrepreneurship policy. The initiative, which is a project of the BRG Institute (founded and led by Prof. David Teece of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business), seeks to cultivate an international community of researchers committed to evidence-based approaches to assessing and developing public policies to facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship in the U.S. and global biopharmaceutical ecosystem.  The webinar — which featured a small panel of experts — presented the vision for this new initiative and discussed…
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Jan. 3, 2025

Professor Gamage ranked third all time in tax scholarship downloads

Professor David Gamage, the Law School Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tax Law & Policy, ranks third all time in the total number of SSRN downloads of his tax law scholarship. The updated rankings were released by Paul Caron’s TaxProf Blog at the end of 2024. As of Dec. 31, 2024, Professor Gamage’s total body of scholarship has been downloaded an incredible 130,870 times from SSRN. Professor Gamage also ranks 11th in total tax law scholarship downloads in the last 12 months.
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Dec. 20, 2024

Associate Dean Sperino files amicus brief with U.S. Supreme Court

Professor Sandra Sperino co-authored an amicus brief in the case of Ames v. Ohio Dep’t of Youth Services. The brief argues that the statutory text of Title VII should govern the question of whether a plaintiff can prevail on a discrimination claim. Through the McDonnell Douglas framework, some courts have required plaintiffs to prove more than the statutory text demands to proceed on a discrimination claim. The brief is available on the Supreme Court’s docket here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-1039.html…
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Dec. 19, 2024

Professor Woods publishes book review

Professor Jayne Woods, an associate teaching professor of law at Mizzou Law, has published a new book review, “Process, not Product” in the Fall 2024 Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors:  Legal Communication & Rhetoric. Professor Woods reviews John Warner’s book on writing education, “Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-ParagraphEssay and Other Necessities,” (Johns Hopkins University Press 2018). To read the full review, visit: https://www.alwd.org/lcr-archives/jalwd-blog/92-fall-2024-volume-21/782-process-not-product…
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Dec. 18, 2024

Associate Dean Sperino Quoted in Bloomberg Law

Associate Dean Sandra Sperino last week was quoted in Bloomberg Law regarding a recent ruling by the US Supreme Court. To read the full story, visit: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/circuit-courts-develop-broader-standard-for-workplace-bias-harm
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Dec. 17, 2024

Professor Wechsler’s research aims to elevate the voices of intimate partner violence survivors

By Anna Sago When Mizzou Law professor Rachel Wechsler sat down to write her latest article about how COVID-19 re-shaped access to protective orders for survivors of intimate partner violence, her first priority was to understand the facts on the ground. “In figuring out how to address intimate partner violence and how to best support people who experience it, there’s no perspective that is as valuable as that of the victims and survivors themselves,” she said. “That’s my view.”The resulting research, Intimate Partner Violence: Access to Protection Beyond the Pandemic, which appeared in the second-most recent issue of…