Oct. 24, 2025

Mizzou Tax Law Colloquium hosts speakers on tariffs

On Oct. 29 (Wednesday), Susie Morse (Texas) + Shuyi Oei (Duke) + Diane Ring (Boston College) will present the draft paper, “The Constitutionality of Trump’s Tariffs: A Tax Analysis”, at the Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. The Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium is convened by Professor David Gamage of Mizzou Law. Most sessions will be open to guest participants via zoom, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time.  This session will be open to guest participants via zoom. Anyone who would like to join as a guest participant should e-mail Professor Gamage directly…

Oct. 24, 2025

Professor Woods featured on California Appellate Law podcast

Few lawyers and LRW instructors write and think more about Artificial Intelligence than Professor Jane Woods of Mizzou Law, who offers this most important AI advice: If you haven’t read the case, don’t cite the case. The Boies Schiller Cautionary Tale: That would have saved Boies Schiller’s bacon. We discuss the high-profile Scientology/Masterson appeal, and whether the Court of Appeal is going to strike plaintiff’s respondent’s brief because of the Boies Schiller attorneys hallucinated cases and otherwise wrong legal citations. AI’s Ideal Applications: Most effective AI uses include drafting standard legal sections, style polishing, fact organization, and processing large…

Oct. 23, 2025

Professor Rhodes publishes new constitutional law book

Professor Charles “Rocky” Rhodes and his co-author, Professor Renee Knake Jefferson, have published a new constitutional law book, “Constitutional Law: Foundations, Interpretations, and Commentaries,” through West Academic. Rhodes’ text melds the story of constitutional historical development with modern resulting doctrine by interspersing foundations chapters throughout the book detailing the development of constitutional law across typical doctrinal categories before thoroughly studying the resulting modern doctrine in detail. The book incorporates author commentaries and frameworks that introduce carefully selected and edited Supreme Court cases and explanatory materials. The book includes all the topics typically covered in constitutional law required courses…

Oct. 21, 2025

Professor Lietzan presents on pharmaceutical evergreening

Professor and Associate Dean Erika Lietzan spoke at a conference hosted by the EIRA Initiative and the Berkeley Policy Institute.  At the conference, entitled “Bringing Medicines to Life: How IP Impacts Innovation in the Life Sciences,” Professor Lietzan presented a new book chapter entitled “Evergreening’s Empirical Chasm.”  For more than two decades, policymakers have been told that pharmaceutical innovators companies engage in a practice that is called, disparagingly, “evergreening.” The basic idea is that companies introduce new versions of their drugs that have later expiring patents or regulatory exclusivity. This way, the claim goes, the companies effectively…

Oct. 17, 2025

Mizzou Law IT pro wins accessibility award

Mizzou Law IT Pro Scott Greathouse, along with his team of fellow IT pros from schools and colleges across campus, won the Lee Henson Access Mizzou Group Award. The IT Pros across campus play an essential role in supporting workplace accommodations for Mizzou faculty and staff. Working closely with the Office of Accessibility and ADA, these professionals help set up and maintain the assistive technologies and devices that make it possible for employees with disabilities to do their work effectively.  “Their support ranges from configuring monitors, docking stations and standing desks, to installing and updating assistive…

Oct. 17, 2025

Prof. Henson presents on AI at Midwestern law conference

Professor Renee Henson presented her forthcoming article, Artificial Intelligence, Judicial Evolution, and Insurance (Boston University Law Review), at the Central States Law Schools Association 2025 Conference hosted at the University of Kansas Law School.”…

Oct. 17, 2025

Mizzou Tax Law Colloquium hosts Georgia professor

On Oct 22 (Wednesday), Assaf Harpaz (Georgia), will present the draft paper, “Artificial Intelligence and Taxation’s Goals”, at the Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time. The Mizzou Law Tax Policy Colloquium is convened by Professor David Gamage of Mizzou Law. Most sessions will be open to guest participants via zoom, from 2:00 to 3:15 pm Central Time.  This session will be open to guest participants via zoom. Anyone who would like to join as a guest participant should e-mail Professor Gamage directly at dgamage@missouri.edu for details, the zoom login, and to be sent…

Oct. 16, 2025

Professor Lietzan presents at two French conferences

Earlier in October, Professor Erika Lietzan spoke at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France at a conference on the Regulation of Innovative Medical Therapies.  She presented an overview of U.S. regulation of cellular therapies, engineered tissue products, and gene therapy, and talked about how U.S. regulation differs from EU regulation of these products.  The next day, Professor Lietzan spoke on the same topic at a much larger conference, known as Innovative Therapies Days, which took place in Besancon, France.  Professor Lietzan writes extensively about U.S. regulation of biological products, and has published before on how U.S. and EU…

Oct. 15, 2025

Professor Sperino publishes new edition of employment discrimination book

Professor Sandra Sperino has published a new edition of her book, “The Law of Employment Discrimination, 2nd Edition) through West Academic. Sperino’s book provides comprehensive treatment of the major federal employment discrimination statutes, focusing on Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA, the PWFA and Section 1981. It discusses who is liable for discrimination and the people the statutes protect from discrimination. The book extensively explores the frameworks for analyzing discrimination, including frameworks for individual disparate treatment, pattern or practice, harassment, disparate impact, and retaliation. One chapter focuses on religious accommodation and another chapter focuses on disability and pregnancy…

Oct. 14, 2025

Professor Dennis Crouch Presents on Jungian Themes in Patent Law

Professor Dennis Crouch recently spoke at a student/faculty workshop hosted by the University of Michigan School of Law, led by renowned intellectual property scholars Professors Jessica Litman and Rebecca Eisenberg.Professor Crouch presented his work exploring how Carl Jung’s concepts of synchronicity, shadow, and archetypes can illuminate key dynamics within the modern patent system. Drawing parallels between simultaneous invention and Jung’s notion of meaningful coincidence, he discussed how a puer aeternus mindset—driven by youthful idealism and discovery—shapes innovation culture. Jung used these tools to help draw meaningful connections for individual psychology. In his work, Crouch argues…