Professor S.I. Strong recently wrote a book chapter discussing whether the United States would join the growing international trend towards the creation of specialized international commercial courts in national legal systems. The analysis, “International Commercial Courts and the United States: An Outlier by Choice and by Constitutional Design?”, appears in International Business Courts – A European and Global Perspective 255 (Eleven…
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New Course this spring Mizzou Law: Innovation and Technology in the Practice of Law
Beginning in the Spring 2020 semester, Mizzou Law will be offering a new seminar on Innovation and Technology in the Practice of Law. Professor Randy J. Diamond says the course will have two primary focuses: to develop tech skills and competencies in the delivery of legal services and to address legal issues in a tech-saturated world, where the law is rapidly…
2L Brionna Pratt Selected for JCBA Judge Kit Carson Roque, Jr. Scholarship
Brionna Pratt, a J.D. candidate in the Mizzou Law class of 2021, has recently been selected as a recipient for the Jackson County Bar Association (JCBA) Judge Kit Carson Roque, Jr. Scholarship. The JCBA Judge Kit Carson Roque, Jr. The scholarship is given in honor of the late Judge Kit Carson Roque, Jr. Judge Roque was an African-American graduate of…
Mizzou Law Wins Gold MarCom Award
Mizzou Law is the proud recipient of the 2019 MarCom Awards, an international competition administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The awards represent work across public relations, website design, mobile development and video. Mizzou Law won a Gold Award in website redesign for the summer 2019 redesign of law.missouri.edu. Thank you to the Mizzou Law team that…
Mizzou Law leads the way nationally to create a more sustainable planet by signing the pledge to reduce academic marketing waste
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 24, 2019 Aurora Meyer 573-884-7833 meyerad@missouri.edu THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF LAW LEADS EFFORT TO REDUCE ACADEMIC MARKETING WASTE Mizzou Law leads the way nationally to create a more sustainable planet by signing the pledge to reduce academic marketing waste COLUMBIA, MO. – In honor of the International Day of Climate Action today, the University…
Mizzou SBA Raises More Than $1,500 for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
This weekend, the Mizzou Law Student Bar Association (SBA) hosted a sand volleyball tournament in memory of Steven Bailot, a Mizzou Law student who passed away last April. Students, faculty, friends and family gathered together to remember and celebrate Steven’s life in a way that reflected his bright and witty personality. The celebration and remembrance continued to the next day,…
Student Observations from What Hillbilly Elegy Teaches about Race in 21st Century America
At the keynote address for Mizzou Law’s One Read series on October 14, Professor Lisa Pruitt, through a discussion of J.D. Vance’s work Hillbilly Elegy, invited students to contemplate an issue frequently ignored in the modern media landscape: the widespread poverty of rural, white America. Specifically, Professor Pruitt discussed how she is grateful for the critical success of Vance’s book…
Tim Heinsz Bow Tie Day 2019
Mizzou Law celebrated the annual Tim Heinsz Bow Tie Day on Wednesday, September 25. Heinsz, a former MU Law Dean and Earl F. Nelson Professor of Law, died suddenly while jogging on the MKT Trail in July of 2004. Each year since his passing, colleagues, friends and students have celebrated Heinsz’s memory by wearing bow ties, his signature accessory. Heinz…
Mizzou Law July 2019 Examination Results
The Supreme Court of Missouri just released the results of the July 2019 Missouri bar exam. University of Missouri School of Law’s 93.3 percent passage rate for our first-time bar takers is above the overall state passage rate of 85.3 percent and is the second-highest out of seven regional law schools. The passage rate for the Mizzou Law graduating class…
New partnership will improve mental health services for veterans and their families
The Mizzou Veterans Wellness Center, a collaboration between the MU School of Law Veterans Clinic and Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital, will be located in the heart of campus COLUMBIA, Mo. – Kevin Owens knows the pain of being a student veteran struggling with mental health issues. After Owens completed six years with the U.S. Air Force, he…