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April 8, 2026
CALI Winners Awarded at 2026 Edna Nelson Banquet
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Excellence for the Future Awards recognize students with the highest grade in each course at Mizzou Law. These were awarded at the annual Edna Nelson Awards Banquet this April. Below are the CALI Award winners for the 2025 calendar year. A full list… Read More
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April 6, 2026
Harbingers of Peace: 25 Years of the LL.M. in Dispute Resolution
by Tanner O’Neal Riley In 1999, the University of Missouri School of Law established the first LL.M. in dispute resolution program in the United States. At a time when most graduate law degrees focused on tax, finance or intellectual property, Missouri charted a different path: training lawyers not just to litigate disputes, but to resolve them. The choice was radical. The program grew out of intellectual groundwork laid years earlier at the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, founded in 1984. Under leaders such as Len Riskin and later Professor John Lande, the center pushed legal education to confront…
March 26, 2026
Prof. Gouzoules publishes article in NYU Law Review Online
Professor Alexander Gouzoules has published a new article, “Teaching Evolution After Kennedy and Mahmoud,” in the New York University Law Review Online. In his article, Professor Gouzoules analyzes how the Supreme Court’s rapidly-changing doctrine on education and religious freedoms may empower opponents of the teaching of evolution. Read his article here.
March 25, 2026
Professor Rhodes Presents at Georgia Law Review Symposium
Professor Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes and his frequent co-author, Professor Howard M. Wasserman from the Florida International University College of Law, presented the luncheon address at the Georgia Law Review Symposium on Polarized Courts: The New Private Enforcement. Professor Rhodes and Wasserman were invited to discuss their series of five co-authored articles on exclusive private enforcement schemes. These schemes seek to stymie judicial review and to chill the exercise of constitutional rights by prohibiting government officials from enforcing a law that is constitutionally invalid or of dubious constitutional validity in favor of private civil actions brought by “any…
March 23, 2026
Mizzou Law students shine in international negotiation competition
Two teams of Mizzou Law students excelled at the recent National Black Law Students Association Nelson Mandela International Negotiation Competition. The team of Shyann Sampson and Josie Johnson finished in third place out of 20 teams from across the country, while Mackenzie White and Samiat Solebo finished in the quarterfinals.
March 18, 2026
Mizzou Law named to Justice & Opportunity Honor Roll
Mizzou Law has been named to the National Jurist’s preLaw Magazine Opportunity & Justice Honor Roll. Mizzou Law is one of only 41 law schools from across the country that earned at least an A- grade for their commitment to initiatives, partnerships or strategies that reflect the mission of expanding access to legal education. The Justice & Opportunity Honor Roll recognizes law schools for leadership in expanding access to legal education. National Jurist’s criteria places emphasis on the structures, policies and programs law schools support that create pathways into the legal profession. The Honor Roll reflects leadership across four primary…
March 17, 2026
Professor Shores Pelikan presents paper at Arkansas faculty exchange
Professor Lauren Shores Pelikan presented her latest paper, “Toddlers, Investors, and Tax Policy,” at a faculty exchange hosted by the University of Arkansas School of Law. The article, which is forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review, examines U.S. federal childcare tax incentives in light of private equity’s increasing investment in the childcare market. You can read the full paper on SSRN here.
March 17, 2026
Professor Crouch’s work cited in multiple Supreme Court filings
Professor Dennis Crouch, one of the foremost legal scholars in patent and intellectual property law, has been cited in four recent patent-related petitions to the United States Supreme Court: Lynk Labs v. Samsung (25-308) Both the petition and reply brief cite Professor Crouch’s analysis of the Federal Circuit’s temporal gymnastics with “printed publications” under § 311(b), as well as his empirical findings regarding the prevalence of 102(a)(2) “secret” prior art, cited in order to counter the USPTO claim that the issue has “limited practical importance.” Unfortunately, the Supreme Court denied Certiorari earlier in March. Newman v. Moore This…