Feb. 10, 2023

Mizzou Law Announces New Faculty Hire for Winter 2023

Officials at the University of Missouri School of Law are thrilled to announce the exciting new hire of Ryan Snyder to join the nationally renowned faculty scholars and teachers at Mizzou Law. Professor Snyder has joined the faculty at Mizzou Law this winter. “We are thrilled to welcome Professor Snyder to our faculty,” said Paul Litton, interim dean and R.B. Price Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law. “He brings a wealth of fascinating and high-level legal experience, having worked at the United States Supreme Court, a multinational law firm, and the Department of Justice.

Feb. 8, 2023

Faculty Spotlight — Meet Haley Proctor

Some might find Columbia’s fall and winter weather to be a bit of an adjustment, but if you’ve lived in the Northeast before, you’d be familiar with cold, wet and windy weather. Haley Proctor joined Mizzou’s faculty this August as a joint faculty fellow at both Mizzou Law and the Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy and is settling in well. Originally hailing from Raleigh, North Carolina, Proctor is a two-time graduate of Yale University, where she received her bachelor’s as well as her law degree. “I’ve known since middle school that I wanted to be a lawyer,” said Proctor. “However,…

Jan. 25, 2023

Professor Emeritus Bob Jerry Discusses Collision Insurance with WalletHub

Robert Jerry, the Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law-Emeritus at Mizzou Law spoke with WalletHub to give consumers advice on when and how much collision insurance they should buy. To read the full article, visit: https://wallethub.com/edu/ci/collision-insurance/7292#expert=Robert_H._Jerry,_II

Dec. 26, 2022

LLM Alumni Spotlight — Flavia Fragale

In the United States, it’s nearly impossible to imagine becoming a judge before turning 25 years old. In Brazil, moving from law school directly to a judgeship is fairly common. For Flavia Fragale, LLM ‘05, ‘19, she became a judge at just 24. After growing up in Vitória, Brazil, she was admitted to a law program at the University of São Paulo, the oldest and most recognized law school in Brazil. “Law school in Brazil is a graduate course that lasts five years,” Fragale said. “There is no college before it— you finish high school and apply directly to law…

Dec. 13, 2022

Faculty Fellow Haley Proctor Publishes Paper in Yale Law Journal Forum

After U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement this summer, legal experts and analysts across the country have reflected on Breyer’s legacy of pragmatic and thoughtful leadership. Haley Proctor, a faculty fellow at Mizzou Law and the MU Kinder Institute for Constitutional Democracy, had the opportunity to collaborate with long-time mentor and retired federal circuit judge Thomas Griffith on an article for the Yale Law Journal Forum. The article, which was published in late November, tracks the past, present and future of the Major Questions Doctrine and its relationship to Justice Breyer’s jurisprudence. “The Major Questions Doctrine first emerged…

Dec. 9, 2022

Professor Oliveri participates in NAACP public housing forum

On Dec. 7, Rigel Oliveri, the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, participated in a forum hosted by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute on Protecting and Expanding Public Housing. The invitation-only forum was held at the NAACP’s offices in New York and Washington, DC. The forum, which included former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, brought together scholars, advocates, and other experts to discuss ways to reimagine public housing to better provide for the…

Dec. 8, 2022

Associate Dean Sperino Provides Training to Federal Judges

Sandra Sperino, the associate dean for research and faculty development and the Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor at Mizzou Law serves as a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center. The Federal Judicial Center is the research and education agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. government. On Dec. 5, Professor Sperino gave a 90-minute presentation at the Phase II Orientation Seminar for U.S. District Judges in Washington D.C. She discussed cutting edge issues in discrimination law and the recently enacted Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act. In late October, Dean Sperino conducted…

Dec. 6, 2022

Faculty Spotlight — Meet Yunsieg Kim

Yunsieg Kim was a self-proclaimed terrible law student. “I studied more coding and computer science than law. It’s a wonder I never failed my law courses,” Kim recalled of his time at Yale University, where he got his law degree. “The law seemed to be either outdated or just fundamentally incompatible with a lot of technological developments,” Kim said. “This was my impression going in, and that held up.” Having grown up in South Korea, Kim completed his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth before collecting what he calls his “basket of graduate degrees” in fields ranging from a doctorate in…

Dec. 1, 2022

Professor Emeritus Esbeck Publishes Op-Ed on Respect for Marriage Act

Carl Esbeck, the R.B. Price Professor Emeritus and Isabelle Wade & Paul C. Lyda Professor Emeritus of Law, has published an op-ed in Christianity Today in favor of the bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act, which recently passed in Congress. Additionally, prior to the vote on the bill, Professor Emertus Esbeck co-authored a letter to Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Tammy Baldwin. In the letter, Esbeck, along with fellow constitutional law experts Douglas Laycock from the University of Virginia, Thomas Berg from the University of St. Thomas, and Robin Fretwell Wilson from the University of Illinois, urged the senators…

Nov. 29, 2022

Legal Lion

By Marcus Wilkins At first, Zarifullah Darkhily assumed the explosions echoing through the halls of Kabul University were automobile backfire in the streets of Afghanistan’s capital city. In reality, terrorists had breached the building on Nov. 2, 2020. For the young professor and his contemporaries, it was their darkest day “I thought of my family and my friends,” said Darkhily, who was head of the institution’s public policy and administration department at the time. “I thought briefly of how I was at this university trying to be useful to my people. But mostly I thought about getting to safety.” Darkhily…