Dec. 9, 2024

Professor David Gamage presents at Penn conference

Professor David Gamage presented at the University of Pennsylvania Tax Discrimination Conference on Dec. 6-7.

Dec. 9, 2024

Veterans Clinic Attorney Quoted in Bloomberg Law

Katie Becker, a staff attorney with the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic, authored the brief. Katie Becker, a staff attorney in the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic, was quoted last week in an article in Bloomberg Law about a current U.S. Supreme Court case regarding veterans benefits. Becker authored an amicus brief submitted by the clinic in the case Feliciano vs. Department of Transportation. . This landmark case addresses the entitlement of federal employee reservists to differential pay during active-duty service in a national emergency. To read Becker’s quote and the full Bloomberg Law article, visit: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/reservists-pay-case-puts-spotlight-on-financial-cost-of-service.

Dec. 6, 2024

Professor Boyack’s research featured on podcast

Professor Andrea Boyack was recently a guest on a podcast discussing her forthcoming article, “Abuse of Contract: Boilerplate Erasure of Consumer Counterparty Rights.” The Consumer Finance Monitor podcast episode examines Professor Boyack’s research and discusses two separate consumer contract initiatives. To listen to the episode, visit: https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/blogs/2024/11/podcast-an-empirical-study-of-boilerplate-in-consumer-contracts…

Nov. 25, 2024

Dean Sperino provides employment law training this fall

In October, Sandra Sperino, associate dean for research and faculty development, traveled to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland to provide training about employment discrimination law at the Titus Employment Law Seminar. In November, Sandra Sperino provided CLE at the Boone County Bar Association’s monthly meeting. She discussed new issues in employment discrimination law.

Nov. 22, 2024

Mizzou Law alumna is first Black female prosecutor elected in Jackson County

Melesa Johnson, ’14, made history by becoming the first Black woman to be elected as Jackson County, Mo. prosecutor. To read more, visit: https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/melesa-johnson-makes-history-as-1st-black-woman-elected-jackson-county-prosecutor…

Nov. 21, 2024

Dean Sperino publishes article in the Texas Law Review

Sandra Sperino, associate dean for research and faculty development and the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, this fall published an article, “Bostock and the Forgotten EEOC” in the Texas Law Review. On June 15, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a historic opinion. In Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, the SCOTUS formally recognized that federal discrimination law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Supreme Court barely mentioned the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency charged with enforcing federal discrimination law. In her article, Dean Sperino argues that…

Nov. 20, 2024

Students Play Key Role in Briefing in Federal Courts 

This semester, students in the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic have played key roles in advocating for veterans before major courts. Two of the Clinic’s students, Rachel Elliott, 3L, and Brady Hays, 2L, worked on cases in United States federal courts.  Rachel Elliot, who is part of the Advanced Veterans Clinic, recently authored and submitted a brief to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. After completing the necessary paperwork for admission to the Court as a law student and with the approval of the dean, Rachel was able to fully brief the case. Rachel drew on her prior experience…

Nov. 19, 2024

Following family footsteps for child and family justice

By Anna Sago Chuck and Hope Adamson have made the Child and Family Justice Clinic a family affair. Growing up, Hope Adamson has always had a close relationship with her dad, Chuck. It’s a relationship that only deepened after Hope, then a political science major at the University of Missouri, asked to shadow the elder Adamson, who heads the employment trial division at the Missouri Attorney General’s office, during a trial. “She comes out to this trial that ran six, seven days … so this was a long civil trial,” he said. “She saw everything … and at the end…

Nov. 18, 2024

Professor Ryan Vacca presents at University of Iowa conference

On Nov. 15, Professor Ryan Vacca presented on the costs associated with trade secret investigations at the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association’s annual meeting. The meeting was held at the University of Iowa.

Nov. 15, 2024

David Gamage’s article profiled in Jotwell

Professor David Gamage, along with coauthors Brian Galle and Darien Shanske, had their article, Money Moves: Taxing the Wealthy at the State Level, profiled in the JOTWELL law blog by Kent Schenkel in a piece titled Practical Considerations for State Taxation of Wealth. To view the full profile, visit: https://trustest.jotwell.com/practical-considerations-for-state-taxation-of-wealth/…