Earlier in 2020, Professor John Lande published Litigation Interest and Risk Assessment: Help Your Clients Make Good Litigation Decisions with co-authors Michaela Keet and Heather D. Heavin. He made several presentations on this topic this year, mostly by Zoom: “Teaching Mediation with LIRA,” Monday Clinical New Normal Think Tank “Mediating with LIRA,” Association of Missouri Mediators “Wednesday Lunch Series: Conversation…
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Professor Crouch publishes post #7,000 on Patently-O
This month Professor Dennis Crouch published his 7,000th post on Patently-O. The academic blog is a daily read for most U.S. patent law professionals and has been cited in over 1,000 law review…
Professors Trachtenberg and Alexander Publish Free Criminal Procedure Casebook
Professors Ben Trachtenberg and Anne Alexander have published “Criminal Procedure: A Free Law School Casebook” with the CALI eLangdell series. The series includes casebooks made available at no charge for digital files, and at the cost of printing for paper books. Authors include faculty from law schools such as Yale, Texas A&M, and the University of Washington. The book is available now for…
Mizzou Law Welcomes Emily Danker-Feldman as Director of the Innocence Clinic
We are incredibly excited to welcome Emily Danker-Feldman to the Mizzou Law faculty this year as the new director of the Innocence Clinic. She has dedicated her career to assisting incarcerated people, working as an attorney at Rosenblum, Schwartz & Fry with a focus on state appeals and post-conviction cases and federal motions, sentencing and appellate practice before becoming a…
Featured Alumna: Lucinda Luetkemeyer
Lucinda Luetkemeyer entered the University of Missouri with a passion for storytelling and public policy, set on a career as a news reporter. She graduated in 2008 with a degree in news-editorial journalism and political science, and during undergrad, she wrote for the Columbia Missourian and interned at the state capitol. “Though I loved writing and storytelling, I felt…
Romanian Law Journal Publishes Professor Abrams’ Article
Professor Douglas E. Abrams’ article, “Generalist Judges and Advocates’ Jargon,” appears in the current issue of the Romanian Judges’ Forum Review. The review is a multilingual journal published in Bucharest by the nation’s judges. Professor Abrams’ article originally appeared in the Journal of the Missouri Bar in early…
Professor Oliveri Receives UM System President’s Award for Community Engagement
Professor Rigel Oliveri is among the faculty members across the universities of the University of Missouri System to receive the UM System President’s Award for 2020. President Mun Choi presents these highly competitive annual awards to recognize faculty who have made exceptional contributions in advancing the mission of the University. President’s Award recipients will be recognized at a Board of…
Congrats to the 2020 WLA Scholarship Recipients
3l Bar Review Award Laura Weiss Outstanding 2L Award Tori Schafer & Katie Walker-Williams Outstanding 1L Award Scott…
Women’s Law Association Announces 2020-2021 Executive Board
Please join the Mizzou Law WLA in congratulating the 2020-2021 Executive Board! President Katie Walker-Williams Vice President Carley Johansson Treasurer Samantha…
Family Violence Clinic students successfully represent juvenile in court
On June 16, Rule 13 certified law students Carley Johansson and ‘Katie’ Walker-Williams appeared in Miller County Court for a Family Violence Clinic client. They sought third-party custody of a child who had been raped repeatedly by her father and had no other parent. The attention of all 35 people in the courtroom was riveted on Katie shortly after she…