March 16, 2022

Professor Oliveri Named Women’s and Gender Studies Alumnae Anniversary Award

Rigel Oliver, the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at Mizzou Law, was honored March 15 with a 2022 MU Women’s and Gender Studies Alumnae Anniversary Award. The award was given by the MU Department of Women’s and Gender Studies for Prof. Oliveri’s impressive networking and advocacy work across campus. Congratulations to Prof. Oliveri!.

March 16, 2022

Dean Emeritus Dessem Publishes Op-Ed on Refuting LSAT Scores’ Relevance for Judge Appointments

R. Lawrence Dessem, Mizzou Law Dean Emeritus and Timothy J. Heinsz Professor Emeritus, published an Op-Ed piece in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In his piece, Dessem refutes attacks on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court based on her Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score decades earlier. To read Dean Dessem’s full piece, visit: https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/dessem-an-admissions-exam-has-zero-relevance-on-judge-brown-jacksons-qualifications/article_ec8920a9-8864-53ba-ad12-406db3369f9d.html…

March 11, 2022

Professor Oliveri Wins Outstanding Volunteer Service Award

Rigel Oliveri, the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law, has received the 11th Howard B. Lang, Jr. Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service to the City of Columbia. Professor Oliveri earned the award due to her involvement with fair and affordable housing programs and services, which includes her work with the Columbia Housing Authority and other agencies and programs. She currently serves on the Columbia Housing Authority Board and works on providing support services for low-income, public housing residents in Columbia in order to help them improve the quality of…

March 1, 2022

Mizzou Law teams finish first and second in national moot court competition

Mizzou Law 3Ls Andy Krokstrom, Andrew Meyer, and Jessica Schmitz won the national Global Antitrust Institute Moot Court Competition the last weekend on Feb. 27. Taking second place and edging out teams from elite law schools such as Harvard, Virginia, Duke, and Indiana, was another Mizzou Law team consisting of Tate Cooper, Andrew Guinan and Noelle Mack. The Global Antitrust Institute Invitational is the only moot court competition in the United States devoted exclusively to antitrust law and offers a unique opportunity for invited law schools.      

Feb. 15, 2022

Veterans Clinic to offer free legal consultations for veterans in Cape Girardeau County

WHAT: The University of Missouri School of Law Veterans Clinic, through its Tigers for Troops program, will offer free legal consultations to veterans in Cape Girardeau County, regarding United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability benefits, discharge upgrades and VA healthcare. This event will be held on Friday, Feb. 18, at the VFW Post 3838, 1049 N Kingshighway, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Veterans can register for an appointment here or by calling 573-882-5733. Registration will close at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 16. WHO: The Veterans Clinic is located in the University of Missouri School of Law. Under the supervision of…

Feb. 8, 2022

Faculty Spotlight — Thomas Bennett

Starting a new job in the middle of a pandemic can be challenging at best. But when that job includes teaching students without ever meeting them face-to-face, “challenging” may be an understatement. For Professor Thomas Bennett, Mizzou Law’s newest faculty member, finally getting to step foot in a classroom this fall was a vast improvement over how he spent his first year teaching at Mizzou. Bennett, an associate professor of law and a Wall Family Fellow at the University of Missouri School of Law, began teaching at Mizzou in 2020 when most Mizzou Law classes took place over Zoom. Now…

Feb. 7, 2022

Prof. Oliveri co-edits affordable housing legal guide

Prof. Rigel Oliveri, the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law, recently published a book on which she served as co-editor. This important book, The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development, Third Edition is a practitioners guide to the legal field of affordable housing development. To learn more about the book, visit: https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/420065732/.  

Feb. 7, 2022

Prof. Oliveri’s publication cited by Connecticut Supreme Court

Prof. Rigel Oliveri, the Isabella Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law, recently had her publication, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Claims Under the Fair Housing Act After Bostock v. Clayton County (Kansas Law Review, 2021) cited favorably by the Connecticut Supreme Court in Comm’n on Hum. Rts. & Opportunities v. Edge Fitness, LLC, — A.3d —, 2022 WL 222020, at *2 n.2 (Conn. Jan. 25, 2022): This appeal presents a significant question of first impression with respect to whether the Public Accommodation Act, General Statutes § 46a-64, contains an implied customer gender privacy exception to its general…

Feb. 7, 2022

Professor Lee elected as Chair-Elect, AALS Section on Law and Sports

Ilhyung Lee, the Edward W. Hinton Professor of Law and director of the MU Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, was recently named chair-elect for the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Sports. To view the full list of officers for the section, click here.

Feb. 3, 2022

Mizzou Law Announces New Faculty Hires for Fall 2022

Officials at the University of Missouri School of Law are kicking off the 150th anniversary of the school by announcing two exciting new faculty hires joining the ranks of the nationally renowned faculty scholars and teachers at Mizzou Law. Sandra Sperino, a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and Rachel Wechsler, a research fellow at the New York University School of Law, will be joining the faculty at Mizzou Law in time to begin teaching classes in the Fall 2022 semester. “We are so excited to welcome these accomplished legal experts to our faculty,” said Lyrissa Lidsky,…