News Archive
May 5, 2025
3L earns prestigious national trial advocacy award
Ethan Deimeke, a 3L at Mizzou Law, has been selected as an Academic All-American Trial Advocate by the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators (NALAE). This prestigious award is based on several factors, including competition success, academic achievement, and leadership in one’s law school and community. Only 20 of these awards were given to law students across the country in 2025.
May 2, 2025
Professor Oliveri authors op-ed on affordable housing
Professor Rigel Oliveri, a fair housing law expert, published an op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about potential legislation interacting with local communities’ efforts to create affordable housing. Read the op-ed on the Post-Dispatch site…
May 1, 2025
Professor Oliveri publishes article on housing sexual harassment
Professor Rigel Oliveri published an article on housing sexual harassment in the latest issue of the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Law. Her article, titled “Housing Sexual Harassment: A Department of Justice Case Study” analyzes every housing sexual harassment case filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. To read her article in the journal, visit: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/journal_of_affordable_housing/ahv33n2-3.pdf…
April 30, 2025
Mizzou Law student research earns third place at graduate/professional council forum
Mizzou Law 3L Georgia Bronson, an executive member of the Business, Entrepreneurship, and Tax Law Review, presented her research: “Hey Girlie, Want to Sell Your Soul?” How the U.S. Can Counteract Predatory Cult Activities Through the Lens of Fraudulent Business Schemes at the 41st Research & Creative Activities Forum (RCAF) 2025. Her research article was published in the most recent issue of BETR, which can be read here. Bronson earned third place for her research in the humanities, socials, and liberal arts division. She was the only law student to be accepted and able to present within the whole forum as they focused…
April 29, 2025
Professor Oliveri speaks on fair housing law
Professor Rigel Oliveri served as keynote speaker for the Missouri Women’s Council of Realtors annual meeting where she spoke on issues in Fair Housing Law. https://thelanding.missourirealtor.org/spring/special-events/wcr-meeting…
April 28, 2025
Mizzou Law adjunct professor quoted on immigration law case
Mizzou law adjunct professor Richard Middleton was quoted by KMOV-TV in St. Louis regarding a hotly contested immigration case in St. Louis County. “‘They sent him out of the United States under their argument based on a completely different color of law, and that is this notion that he was a terrorist,’ Middleton said, detailing the government’s argument.” To read the full story, visit: https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/04/11/trump-tackles-immigration-st-louis-county-man-plays-crucial-role-consequential-court-cases/…
April 25, 2025
NYU professor to present in tax law colloquium
On Wednesday, April 30, Daniel Hemel (NYU Law) will present his draft paper – “Formalism, Functionalism, and Nonfunctionalism in the Constitutional Law of Tax” – 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…
April 24, 2025
Professor Renee Henson publishes article on insurance and AI
Professor Renee Henson recently published “Government-Backed Insurance for Artificial Intelligence Technologies” in the Georgia State University Law Review, where she examines the widening gap between rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technologies and existing insurance frameworks. Focusing on high-risk applications such as autonomous vehicles and AI-driven healthcare systems, she argues that traditional insurance models provide inadequate liability coverage. Drawing on the precedent of the Price-Anderson Act—which created a federal insurance scheme for the nuclear energy sector—Henson proposes a government-backed model to address limitations in existing liability coverage for AI-related harms. To read the full article, visit: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5226107…
April 21, 2025
Student Bar Association wins Mizzou award
The Student Bar Association was awarded Large Group of the Year at Mizzou’s Student Involvement Awards. The award is given to the recognized student organization (with membership over 120 individuals) that is recognized as best exhibiting an overall commitment to serving the members within the organization, the University of Missouri and surrounding Columbia community. Receiving the award was SBA President Sophia Marcolla and Treasurer Adam Thomas.
April 21, 2025
Professor Oliveri speaks at Columbia housing event
Professor Rigel Oliveri served as the keynote speaker at a City of Columbia event on fair and affordable housing. Professor Oliveri is a nationally recognized expert on fair housing law and her presentation discussed recent fair housing trends.