Professor Erika Lietzan has been appointed co-chair of the annual conference of the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI). FDLI is a non-profit organization focused on food and drug law, supported by members from FDA, the food and drug bar, lawyers and regulatory specialists within the regulated industries, and academics specializing in FDA law. She has been a member of…
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Professor Schmitz continues as chair of Mizzou’s Campus Mediation Service
Professor Amy J. Schmitz will continue as the chair of Campus Mediation Service at Mizzou. In this role, Prof. Schmitz will work with Prof. Paul Ladehoff, who is the director of the Campus Mediation Service. Professor Schmitz also is striving to bring in new initiatives toward use of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) to advance resolution of campus disputes in advising…
Professor Lietzan Among New Public Members of the Administrative Conference
Professor Erika Lietzan has been appointed as one of eight new public members of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). ACUS is an independent federal agency dedicated to improving the administrative process through consensus-driven applied research and providing nonpartisan expert advice and recommendations for federal agency procedures. Its public members are academics, practicing lawyers, and other experts drawn…
Professor Schmitz continues leadership role with ABA committee
Professor Amy J. Schmitz has again been named as co-chair of the American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution Technology Committee. Since 2017, Professor Schmitz has been active in developing programming to assist dispute resolution providers in moving online. In the wake of the pandemic, Professor Schmitz has provided four presentations in the past few months as part of this…
Professor Schmitz selected for project with Cyberjustice Laboratory in Montreal
Professor Amy J. Schmitz has been selected to join a prestigious research project with the Cyberjustice Laboratory in Montreal, Canada. Prof. Schmitz will join an international group working on the Autonomy Through Cyberjustice Technologies (ACT) project. This is a research partnership that is unique in the field of artificial intelligence and cyberjustice. She was selected based on her research in the…
Professor Strong Elected to International Academy of Comparative Law
Professor S.I. Strong was recently elected as an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, which was founded at The Hague on September 13, 1924, as a body of scholars that primarily aims to promote the comparative study of legal systems. IACL currently has more than 700 members from around the world and is interested in all legal…
Professor Schmitz Continues Service to National and International ODR Groups
Professor Amy J. Schmitz was renamed as a fellow of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution for 2019-2020. Fellows are chosen from among an international group of educators and innovators who have contributed to the growing field of online dispute resolution (ODR). Schmitz was first named as a fellow in 2018. She will be a panelist at the…
Professor Mitchell Becomes an American Bar Foundation Fellow
Professor S. David Mitchell, associate dean for academic affairs, was recently invited to become a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. According to the ABF, “The Fellows comprise a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of…
Professor Strong Joins CIArb Leadership Team
Professor S.I. Strong was recently appointed to the Examinations Board of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), one of the world’s foremost organizations for professional education in the area of national and international commercial arbitration. Professor Strong also coordinates the law school’s status as a CIArb Recognized Course Provider (RCP), which allow MU law students who have taken eligible classes as part of…
Professor Strong Joins Task Force on Gender Diversity in International Arbitration
Professor S.I. Strong has been asked to join an international Task Force on Gender Diversity and Discrimination in International Arbitration headed by Carolyn Lamm, former president of the American Bar Association. The task force will generate a number of initiatives to address discrimination and harassment in the area of international investment and commercial arbitration and will present its proposals in May 2020 at…